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BAND 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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Environment$16MAnimals$8.5MArts & Culture$3.5MEducation$3.0MHealth$2.1MInternational$1.2MScience & Tech$935kFood & Nutrition$675kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.8M
$133,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$148M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC$500,000
AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$350,000
GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION$350,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC$300,000
THE WYLDLIFE FUND$300,000
VOX MEDIA LLC$285,283
XERCES SOCIETY INC$250,000
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL INC$250,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC$250,000
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC$202,013
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GGP$200,000
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$175,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC$166,240
REWILD$150,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$150,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND: $300k → 22%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES GGP: $200k → 10%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $254k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $350k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC: $196k → 9%XERCES SOCIETY INC: $250k → 12%AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY: $200k → 14%THE WYLDLIFE FUND: $300k → 9%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $1.0M → 10%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $210k → 11%GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND: $285k → 22%XERCES SOCIETY INC: $250k → 12%THE WYLDLIFE FUND: $250k → 9%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $500k → 10%FRIENDS OF ACADIA: $210k → 11%SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $175k → 9%XERCES SOCIETY INC: $240k → 12%THE WYLDLIFE FUND: $250k → 9%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $500k → 10%SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $175k → 9%XERCES SOCIETY INC: $235k → 12%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $335k → 10%SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $175k → 9%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $335k → 10%SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $175k → 9%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $335k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $300k → 10%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $256k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $300k → 10%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $200k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $300k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $255k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $250k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $250k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $250k → 10%AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC: $202k → 17%SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $175k → 17%SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $225k → 17%SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $175k → 17%OO PROJECT: $250k → 14%GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION: $350k → 14%GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%VOX MEDIA LLC: $265k → 14%GUARDIAN ORG FOUNDATION: $300k → 14%VOX MEDIA LLC: $254k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of BAND Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

BAND Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$33M · 56 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
20

Total granted

$33M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+49%

Still filing today

80%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MI
    MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +80%
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +253%
  • GF
    GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +248% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $256k · revenue +77%
  • GD
    GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -59%
  • OP
    OO PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +53%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Int'l Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources - Us

Iucn-us fund builds bridges between us donors and iucn by catalyzing, accelerating, funding and promoting iucn's work - conserving nature and natural resources in the united states and throughout the world.

Environment
4
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
5
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
6
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
7
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
10
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
11
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oceans Forward. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%18%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
50/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC — $4,616,000 · EnvironmentMALIASILI INITIATIVES INCMANOMET INC — $1,250,000 · EnvironmentMANOMET INCSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC — $775,000 · EnvironmentSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INCMONGABAY ORG CORP — $755,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORPAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $745,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INCWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $650,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE OSA — $530,000 · Environment+19 more — $3,479,067 · Environment+19 moreWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $2,755,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION…XERCES SOCIETY INC — $975,000 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INCSUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $925,000 · AnimalsSUSTAINABLE FISHERIES…THE WYLDLIFE FUND — $800,000 · AnimalsTHE WYLDLIFE FUNDWILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $420,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE GUARDIANSREWILD — $300,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy — $250,000 · Animals+3 more — $420,500 · Animals+3 moreBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $1,500,000 · OtherBAT CONSERVATION INTERNA…INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR EPILEPSY — $800,605 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR…GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND — $585,000 · OtherGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CO…VOX MEDIA LLC — $561,593 · OtherVOX MEDIA LLCVOX MEDIA LLC — $518,832 · OtherVOX MEDIA LLCYALE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $285,000 · OtherTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC — $263,810 · OtherFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC — $675,000 · OtherFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REP…+19 more — $2,104,985 · Other+19 moreGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION — $2,050,000 · Arts & CultureGUARDIANOR…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $775,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $410,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIA…Buffalo Bill Memorial Association — $150,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,952,000 · EducationAUSTIN PE…AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $624,857 · EducationAMERICANS…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $256,200 · EducationUNIVERSIT…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $160,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $128,000 · Education+1 more — $52,000 · EducationEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $640,500 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) — $337,178 · InternationalROW GLOBAL HEALTH — $159,000 · InternationalAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY — $350,000 · HealthCHILD NEUROLOGY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $172,500 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $157,339 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $131,500 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $75,000 · Health
Environment$12,800,067Animals$6,845,500Other$7,894,825Arts & Culture$3,485,000Education$3,173,557International$1,136,678Health$886,339

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMALIASILI INITIATIVES INC — $4,616,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $2,755,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION — $2,050,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,952,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL — $1,500,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMANOMET INC — $1,250,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC — $975,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $925,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetTHE WYLDLIFE FUND — $800,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC — $775,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $775,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP — $755,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $745,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC — $675,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $650,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $640,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $624,857 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OSA — $530,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $425,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $420,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $420,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $410,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY — $350,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) — $337,178 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC — $300,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetREWILD — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $300,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE OZARK CHINQUAPIN FOUNDATION — $270,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC — $263,810 over 3y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $256,200 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $255,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOO PROJECT — $250,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $212,338 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNatureServe — $202,067 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWIND RIVER TRIBAL BUFFALO INITIATIVE — $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $195,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD NEUROLOGY EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $172,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $164,820 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSAHARA CONSERVATION FUND — $162,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $160,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROW GLOBAL HEALTH — $159,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy — $157,339 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association — $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetINATURALIST — $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $131,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds MANOMET INC
  • Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE WYLDLIFE FUND
  • Who funds SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
  • Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC
  • Who funds FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
  • Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OSA
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WILDLIFE GUARDIANS
  • Who funds Friends of Acadia
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY
  • Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC
  • Who funds REWILD
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS
  • Who funds THE OZARK CHINQUAPIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
  • Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
  • Who funds OO PROJECT

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community TrustIL26.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Geographic Society · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Tides Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization BAND Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc60% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America22% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc22% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to BAND Foundation?

Find your warmest path to BAND Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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