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Bainum Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
114
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15MInternational$11MHuman Services$8.7MHealth$3.7MCommunity Improvement$3.0MCivil Rights$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.3MYouth Development$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $6.5M
  • $250k+20 grants · $9.1M
$100,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$753M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PINE FORGE ACADEMY$1,000,000
EDUCARE DC$930,000
DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN$800,000
BRYNMOR EARLY EDUCATION & PRESCHOOL$650,000
Individual grant recipient$550,000
ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION CENTRAL FLORIDA$550,000
TOLEDO DAY NURSERY$550,000
PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC$500,000
DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE$400,000
START EARLY$350,000
OPERATION CHILD CARE PROJECT$338,000
COMMUNITY COALITION OF SUSSEX VIRGINIA$325,000
DC EARLY LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC$320,000
PATH$295,776
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $55k → 8%THINK SMALL: $150k → 14%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $550k → 18%CHERRY HILL STRONG INC: $100k → 6%UMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND: $50k → 8%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $250k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $100k → 13%TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $550k → 18%UMMEED CHILD DEVELOPMENT FUND: $25k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $75k → 13%Homeless Children's Playtime Project: $25k → 14%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $56k → 13%A HOME WITHIN: $25k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $25k → 14%Lighthouse Central Florida Inc: $56k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $50k → 13%Pathways LA: $40k → 14%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $50k → 13%ART WITH A HEART: $50k → 19%LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA: $50k → 13%Open Arms Perinatal Services: $40k → 9%MILITARY FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK: $200k → 7%NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 8%ART WITH A HEART INC: $25k → 19%HELP A MOTHER OUT: $30k → 10%Compass Family Service: $55k → 10%Para Los Ninos: $25k → 14%EDUCARE DC: $930k → 14%Open Arms Perinatal Services: $36k → 9%Compass Family Services: $55k → 10%EDUCARE DC: $650k → 14%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $30k → 9%Compass Family Service: $55k → 10%EDUCARE DC: $50k → 14%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $30k → 9%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 10%Open Arms Perinatal Services: $30k → 9%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 10%Reginald S Lourie Center For Infants And Young Children: $318k → 8%BELOVED COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $100k → 19%REGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN: $71k → 8%UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION (UPO): $50k → 14%Lighthouse Central Florida: $50k → 13%Lighthouse Central Florida: $50k → 13%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $800k → 14%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $800k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%SOUTHEAST CHILDREN'S FUND INC: $36k → 14%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

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Bainum Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bainum Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 137 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

137 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
177

Total granted

$40M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

82%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • BD
    BOSTON DREAM ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +165% · 87% of their budget
  • P
    PATH
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +18%
  • ED
    EDUCARE DC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • HG
    HOME GROWN
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • 4F
    4P FOODS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • US
    UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
8
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia. 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

280 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 280 of the 373 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)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
276/280
Grantees still filing
177/280
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRYNMOR EARLY EDUCATION & PRESCHOOL: $2,000,000 · OtherBRYNMOR EARLY EDUCATION & PRESCHOOLGEORGIA CUMBERLAND ACADEMY: $1,900,000 · OtherGEORGIA CUMBERLAND ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $1,100,000 · OtherPINE FORGE ACADEMY: $1,000,000 · Other+96 more: $14,984,597 · Other+96 moreBOSTON DREAM ACADEMY: $2,100,000 · EducationBOSTON DREAM ACADEM…National Association For Family Child Care: $1,210,000 · EducationNational Associatio…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $729,954 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGGLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US: $605,000 · EducationGLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR…DC Early Learning Collaborative Inc: $595,000 · EducationDC Early Learning C…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · Education+29 more: $3,187,544 · Education+29 morePATH: $1,924,542 · InternationalPATHInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,510,150 · InternationalInternational Re…AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $934,414 · InternationalAGA KHAN FOUNDAT…Save The Children Federation Inc: $700,102 · InternationalSave The Childre…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $625,270 · InternationalUNITED STATES FU…BRAC USA INC: $600,000 · InternationalBRAC USA INCI-ACT: $493,317 · InternationalI-ACTOneSky: $450,000 · InternationalOneSkyFIRELIGHT FOUNDATION: $322,210 · International+2 more: $225,000 · InternationalEDUCARE DC: $1,630,000 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DCDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $1,600,000 · Human ServicesDC ACTION FOR CH…TOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $1,100,000 · Human ServicesTOLEDO DAY NURSE…LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $536,110 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE CENTR…REGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $388,277 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $265,555 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $265,000 · Human ServicesFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $250,000 · Human Services+22 more: $1,388,550 · Human Services+22 moreAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $500,000 · HealthFlorida Keys Healthy Start Coalition: $300,555 · HealthLincoln: $232,500 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $105,555 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 · Health+5 more: $235,000 · HealthDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $800,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION CHILD CARE PROJECT: $488,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $480,000 · Community ImprovementLIFT ORLANDO INC: $476,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $250,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $75,000 · Community ImprovementGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $1,300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $250,000 · Arts & CultureIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $115,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $85,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$20,984,597Education$8,802,498International$7,785,005Human Services$7,423,492Health$2,573,610Community Improvement$2,569,000Arts & Culture$1,850,000

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 budgetBOSTON DREAM ACADEMY: $2,100,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetPATH: $1,924,542 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCARE DC: $1,630,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $1,600,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,510,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $1,300,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetNational Association For Family Child Care: $1,210,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $1,100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTOLEDO DAY NURSERY: $1,100,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $934,414 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $800,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $729,954 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $700,102 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $625,270 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US: $605,000 over 7y, 67% of budgetDREAMING OUT LOUD INC: $600,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $600,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDC Early Learning Collaborative Inc: $595,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $536,110 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC: $510,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetI-ACT: $493,317 over 3y, 22% of budgetOPERATION CHILD CARE PROJECT: $488,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $480,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetLIFT ORLANDO INC: $476,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOneSky: $450,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetREGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $388,277 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $375,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTART EARLY: $350,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLETCHER ACADEMY INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFIRELIGHT FOUNDATION: $322,210 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetONEAMERICA: $305,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetFlorida Keys Healthy Start Coalition: $300,555 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $292,555 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $275,395 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $265,555 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $265,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS: $260,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE VENETOULIS INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $250,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $250,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $250,000 over 2y, 1.4% 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 BOSTON DREAM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds EDUCARE DC ↗
  • Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds National Association For Family Child Care ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOLEDO DAY NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds AGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA ↗
  • Who funds DC FISCAL POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US ↗
  • Who funds DREAMING OUT LOUD INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
  • Who funds DC Early Learning Collaborative Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
  • Who funds I-ACT ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION CHILD CARE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFT ORLANDO INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OneSky ↗
  • Who funds REGINALD S LOURIE CENTER FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION 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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC57× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Gates Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · WK Kellogg Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc

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 Bainum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bainum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Reginald S Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children Inc: 45% of income from government
  • The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Pro Bono Counseling Project Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Beloved Community Services Corporation: 3% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 373 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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