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Akamai Foundation Inc at a glance

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Akamai Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
118
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.8MPhilanthropy$1.9MYouth Development$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MInternational$1.3MScience & Tech$1.0MEmployment$785kArts & Culture$299kOther$0
02FY2024 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $176k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $904k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC$225,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC$129,640
FFWD$125,000
NPOWER NY INC$125,000
HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT$100,000
PER SCHOLAS INC$100,000
SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC$100,000
FAB FOUNDATION$100,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$75,000
DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL$75,000
AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION$57,000
BOSTON CARES INC$55,250
FUNDACJA MAMO PRACUJ$50,000
FUNDACJA INSTYTUT CYFROWEGO OBYWATELSTWA$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($1.9M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 11%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 11%DISABILITY BELONGS: $5k → 6%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $6k → 7%MILITARY MOBILITY: $2k → 11%RESPECTABILITY: $4k → 8%WE CARE CHARITY INC: $3k → 5%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $125k → 11%CHICKTECH: $40k → 12%RESPECTABILITY: $5k → 6%ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING: $4k → 7%WE CARE CHARITY INC: $3k → 5%CHICKTECH: $28k → 12%RESPECTABILITY: $5k → 6%CHICKTECH: $25k → 12%CHICKTECH: $10k → 12%CHICKTECH: $40k → 12%CORNERSTONES INC: $14k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC: $10k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC: $10k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC: $8k → 6%CORNERSTONES INC: $5k → 6%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 16%ELIZABETH PEABODY HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $8k → 16%ABUSED & HOMELESS CHILDRENS REFUGE: $3k → 6%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $3k → 16%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $150k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $85k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $85k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $25k → 17%MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICESINC: $10k → 16%MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICESINC: $10k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $20k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $15k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%ENROOT INC: $13k → 8%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $5k → 16%ENROOT INC: $5k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5k → 16%EAST END HOUSE INC: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($1.9M)

15 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Poland$916k · 33 grants
Costa Rica$468k · 14 grants
India$351k · 8 grants
Colombia$40k · 1 grant
Australia$24k · 2 grants
Israel$20k · 1 grant
Japan$20k · 1 grant
Spain$15k · 2 grants
France$15k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$15k · 1 grant
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Akamai Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Akamai Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.9M · 104 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
103

Total granted

$9.9M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+24%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $925k · revenue +73%
  • HG
    HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $590k · revenue +551%
  • EA
    EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $380k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SF
    SWASTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $83k · revenue -51%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $83k · revenue -45%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
2
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
6
Codeorg

Code.org is an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by young women and underrepresented groups. our vision is that every student in every school should have the…

Education
7
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
8
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…

Human Services
9
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
12
Girls in Stem
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asian Mental Health Collective Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

183 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 183 of the 245 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
183/183
Grantees still filing
116/183
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $925,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $590,000 · EducationHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECTUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $275,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND …Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $175,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of…ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION: $175,000 · EducationADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATI…IT WOMEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $109,000 · Education+24 more: $861,835 · Education+24 moreMATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $349,500 · OtherMATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INCFUNDACJA UNIWERSYTET DZIECI: $290,000 · OtherFUNDACJA UNIWERSYTET DZIECIIndividual grant recipient: $268,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOSTON CARES INC: $169,075 · OtherPER SCHOLAS INC: $300,000 · OtherPER SCHOLAS INCNPOWER INC: $350,000 · OtherNPOWER INCTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $232,000 · Other+98 more: $2,953,507 · Other+98 moreGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $1,266,897 · PhilanthropyGIVINGA FOUNDATIO…FFWD: $345,000 · PhilanthropyFFWDCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $320,441 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOU…+6 more: $123,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $379,640 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY A…GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $345,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO C…BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $195,000 · Human ServicesBROOKVIEW H…ChickTech: $143,000 · Human ServicesChickTechGLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE: $118,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL COMM…CORNERSTONES INC: $46,000 · Human Services+10 more: $140,000 · Human Services+10 moreSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $375,000 · Science & TechCenter for Excellence in Education: $175,000 · Science & TechTHE FAB FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Science & TechFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $45,000 · Science & Tech+3 more: $32,000 · Science & TechSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentInnovators for Purpose Inc: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentScientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls: $46,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc: $42,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $36,000 · Youth Development+9 more: $102,500 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $150,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $115,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $98,334 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $83,333 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $72,950 · InternationalAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $26,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $21,526 · International+8 more: $71,264 · International
Education$3,110,835Other$4,912,082Philanthropy$2,055,338Human Services$1,366,640Science & Tech$727,000Youth Development$726,500International$638,407

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $1,266,897 over 5y, 12% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $925,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT: $590,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $379,640 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNPOWER INC: $350,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $349,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $345,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFFWD: $345,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $320,441 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $232,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $195,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education: $175,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBOSTON CARES INC: $169,075 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $150,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetHack the Hood Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetDIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInnovators for Purpose Inc: $145,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetChickTech: $143,000 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetGLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE: $118,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIT WOMEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $109,000 over 6y, 83% of budgetPROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetCALCULUS PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTHE FAB FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC: $98,334 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLATINO STEM ALLIANCE: $95,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $86,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $83,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $83,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJR TECH INC: $82,500 over 4y, 40% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetResilient Coders Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $72,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSTEM FROM DANCE INC: $62,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCYBERTRUST MASSACHUSETTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN TECH INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetINTERISE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT TF: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
  • Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
  • Who funds MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
  • Who funds FFWD ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hack the Hood Inc ↗
  • Who funds DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds Innovators for Purpose Inc ↗
  • Who funds ChickTech ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds IT WOMEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALCULUS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LATINO STEM ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cambridge Savings Cha…Liberty Mutual Founda…Pwc Foundation IncAmerican Tower Corpor…Boston Scientific Fou…United Way Of Massach…Cambridge Community F…Analog Devices Founda…Amelia Peabody Founda…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA50.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Amelia Peabody Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Akamai Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Akamai Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 320%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc: 62% of income from government
  • National Council for the Traditional Arts: 53% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Kids in Tech Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Maverick Landing Community Services Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Groundwork Somerville Inc: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Complete Player Charity Ltd: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Girls On the Run Greater Boston: 4% of income from government
  • Youth Development Organization Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • East End House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
32get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Akamai Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Akamai Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 245 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home