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Altecstyslinger Foundation at a glance

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Altecstyslinger Foundation

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.

$8.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
197
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$19MCommunity Improvement$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.6MHealth$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.7MSocial Science$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHuman Services$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 197 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k126 grants · $285k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $693k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+10 grants · $6.3M
$5,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$143M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$1,271,000
UAB$1,010,500
SAINT BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
PROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC$645,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$349,500
ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$300,000
SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$250,000
CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE CENTER$250,000
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$250,000
UNITED WAY CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN$200,000
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP & TUITION SERVICES INC$145,000
GRACE HOUSE$105,000
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION$100,000
ST JOSEPH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$100,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $5k → 12%THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK: $7k → 13%ROCKET GIVING FUND: $5k → 21%GREATER ROANOKE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD: $2k → 8%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%WARM HEARTH FOUNDATION: $4k → 21%JOAN ROSE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%RISE UP FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%MADE 4 ME INC: $6k → 8%MADE 4 ME INC: $5k → 8%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY: $10k → 13%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%M-POWER MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS: $2k → 7%LOVELADY CENTER: $25k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $25k → 16%THE LOVELADY CENTER: $10k → 16%RENEW BIRMINGHAM: $10k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%UNLESS U: $25k → 16%GRACE KLEIN COMMUNITY: $2k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $253k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $2k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%HEART GALLERY ALABAMA: $5k → 16%HEART GALLERY ALABAMA: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%HEART GALLERY ALABAMA: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $5k → 16%HEART GALLERY OF ALABAMA INC: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%HEART GALLERY ALABAMA: $5k → 16%GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INCORPORATED: $5k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $75k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $50k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $50k → 16%ROTARY CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM: $15k → 16%BIRMINGHAM TALKS: $8k → 16%SMALL MAGIC: $8k → 16%PROSPER FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%ALABAMA ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFITS: $2k → 16%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

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CO
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OK
LA
AL
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 223 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

223 repeat relationships: 117 still active in FY2024, 106 since wound down; 76 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

223
335

Total granted

$33M
$6.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+16%

Still filing today

64%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +3%
  • CD
    COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $885k · revenue +32%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $845k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • PB
    PROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC - BIRMINGHAM PROMISE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $879k
  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
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
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education
4
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
5
The University Foundation

The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.

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6
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
7
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
8
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
9
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

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10
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
11
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
12
Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Salesforce Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

339 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. 339 of the 644 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
332/339
Grantees still filing
227/339
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UAB: $6,011,000 · OtherUABUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $3,421,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESSSAINT BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $2,000,000 · OtherSAINT BERNARD PREPARATORY SCHOOLPROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC: $1,705,000 · OtherPROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLCPROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC - BIRMINGHAM PROMISE: $1,500,000 · OtherPROSPER BIRMINGHAM LLC - BIRMINGHAM PROMISE+132 more: $13,416,363 · Other+132 moreSouthern Methodist University: $3,000,000 · EducationSouthern Methodis…COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC: $1,000,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNER…I3 ACADEMY: $350,000 · EducationI3 ACADEMYTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · Education+16 more: $1,273,024 · Education+16 moreUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $845,434 · PhilanthropyMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $212,025 · PhilanthropyJOURNEY FORWARD INC: $550,000 · HealthASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthSMILE-A-MILE: $91,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $90,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $73,604 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $52,182 · Health+6 more: $190,500 · HealthRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $562,200 · Arts & CultureHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureVOICES for Alabama's Children: $65,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $800,000 · Social ScienceTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $256,500 · Human ServicesSMALL MAGIC: $190,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,400 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesThe Hope Institute: $60,000 · Human Services+8 more: $152,500 · Human Services
Other$28,053,363Education$6,173,024Philanthropy$1,957,459Health$1,347,286Arts & Culture$1,057,200Social Science$800,000Human Services$779,400

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 budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC: $885,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $845,434 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $800,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC: $562,200 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJOURNEY FORWARD INC: $550,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetI3 ACADEMY: $350,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $306,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetA G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $305,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $280,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $256,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $250,706 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $205,200 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $200,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE RESTORATION ACADEMY: $200,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSMALL MAGIC: $190,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetALABAMA WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $120,175 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInnovation Depot Inc: $102,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetSALESFORCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetUGA HOCKEY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetPCCA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSamford University: $95,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $95,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSMILE-A-MILE: $91,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUAB ATHLETICS FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE DOWNTOWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK ↗
  • Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY CRISTO REY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗

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.

Protective Life Found…The Daniel Foundation…Hill Crest Foundation…The Community Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Robert R Meyer Founda…Mike and Gillian Good…Alabama Power Foundat…Dunn-French FoundationThe Maynard Nexsen Fo…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…
Protective Life FoundationAL155.8× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Dunn-French Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable 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 Altecstyslinger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Altecstyslinger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Journey Forward Inc: 20% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 644 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 unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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