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Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee

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.

$166k
Granted FY2025still arriving
90
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$314kEducation$283kArts & Culture$241kPhilanthropy$197kReligion$142kHealth$39kFood & Nutrition$26kHuman Services$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k84 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$28,000
HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$20,000
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY$10,000
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC ED FOUNDATION$10,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$10,000
APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB$10,000
SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES$8,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$6,000
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ASSOCIATION$6,000
PLOUGHSHARES FUND$4,000
NMSS$2,500
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FDN$2,400
NO KID HUNGRY$2,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE$2,000
NATHANIEL BOWDITCH SOCIETY$2,000
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $20k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $3k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $2k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 137 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

137 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
36

Total granted

$1.6M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+30%

Still filing today

59%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +32%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +106%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • FP
    FIRST PARISH LINCOLN
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • CM
    COASTAL MAINE BOTANIC GARDEN
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
4
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
5
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
6
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
11
United States Naval Institute

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

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12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Aflac Foundation Inc. 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

102 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. 102 of the 186 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/102
Grantees still filing
75/102
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $194,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT: $180,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFTU U URBAN MINISTRY: $130,000 · OtherU U URBAN MINISTRYPHILLPS ACADEMY: $66,500 · OtherPHILLPS ACADEMYBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC ED FOUNDATION: $45,800 · Other+109 more: $321,350 · Other+109 moreAppalachian Mountain Club: $83,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain C…Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $76,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage T…SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $47,420 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEE…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUND…NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $24,000 · EnvironmentNATIVE PLANT TRUST INCNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Environment+14 more: $52,550 · Environment+14 moreBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $64,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMP…PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESS…ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $17,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA ST…BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $11,800 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRI…HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $8,250 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $7,500 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $7,200 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $25,975 · Arts & Culture+12 moreWilliams College: $57,000 · EducationWilliams C…CONCORD ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationCONCORD AC…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $31,500 · EducationNEW ENGLAN…TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES O…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…+6 more: $13,714 · Education+6 moreTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $9,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $12,400 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,200 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,400 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $3,200 · HealthMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $1,750 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $1,650 · HealthUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $3,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $2,750 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $2,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $1,400 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,050 · InternationalMercy Corps: $750 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $750 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $600 · International+2 more: $500 · International
Other$937,700Environment$337,970Arts & Culture$172,725Education$162,214Human Services$42,800Health$31,600International$13,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $83,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $76,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC: $47,420 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $31,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $12,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $11,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $8,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSwans Island Educational Society: $7,750 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetCAMDEN CONFERENCE: $7,700 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $7,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia: $6,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $6,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $5,150 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $5,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC: $4,900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetA FAR CRY INC: $4,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMANOMET INC: $3,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $3,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWayland Historical Society Inc: $3,150 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $2,900 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN: $2,750 over 8y, 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 Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds Swans Island Educational Society ↗
  • Who funds CAMDEN CONFERENCE ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Fidelity FoundationMaine Community Found…The Hamilton Company …Ibm International Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…Stevenson Family Char…American Tower Corpor…The Loring Wolcott & …The Ausolus TrustRichard K Lubin Famil…
Boston Foundation IncMA46.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · The Ausolus Trust · Richard K Lubin Family 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 Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project: 6% of income from government
  • Radius Ensemble Incorporated: 5% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Orion Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
9report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee 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 186 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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