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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE WYLDLIFE FUND$300,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC$300,000
VOX MEDIA LLC$285,283
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL INC$250,000
XERCES SOCIETY 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
INATURALIST$150,000
REWILD$150,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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
VT
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
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.
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 5% of BAND Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

BAND 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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +53% for those 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

+56%
+53%

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
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

  • 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%
  • OP
    OO PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +53%
  • GD
    GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -59%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 84 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
52/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 LLCNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $300,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $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 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 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 budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $775,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC: $775,000 over 4y, 47% 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 budgetFriends of Acadia: $420,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $420,000 over 6y, 7.5% 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 budgetREWILD: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 8.3% 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 budgetOO PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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 budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINATURALIST: $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $131,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds SYNCHRONICITY EARTH USA INC ↗
  • 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 Friends of Acadia ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN EPILEPSY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
  • Who funds REWILD ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PLANT CONSERVATION INC ↗
  • 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 OO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% 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, 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

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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 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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