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Bender West 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.

$856k
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$1.1MPhilanthropy$895kEducation$628kHuman Services$566kHealth$496kCivil Rights$235kFood & Nutrition$194kAnimals$184kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $626k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISHCOLORADO$50,000
JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS$35,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER$33,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$30,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$30,000
COLORADO ACADEMY$25,000
WARREN VILLAGE INC$25,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$25,000
FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO$25,000
COBALT FOUNDATION$25,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF BNAI BRITH - MOUNTAIN ST$25,000
JEWISHCOLORADO$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$25,000
KABBALAH EXPERIENCE$20,000
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 (FY19–24, $537k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC: $2k → 10%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $10k → 6%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10k → 5%SHALOM PARK: $10k → 8%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 12%LATINA SAFEHOUSE INITIATIVE: $10k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $5k → 5%THERE WITH CARE: $5k → 12%JEFFCO PROSPERITY PARTNERS: $10k → 7%THERE WITH CARE: $5k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $5k → 12%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $5k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $5k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $5k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $33k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $30k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25k → 12%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $25k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE INC: $25k → 12%STRUGGLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $25k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $20k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $15k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $12k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $10k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5k → 12%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

WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
GA
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 11% of Bender West Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 77%.

Bender West Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 46 repeat orgs$668k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
45

Total granted

$3.1M
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+22%

Still filing today

76%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +76%
  • KE
    KABBALAH EXPERIENCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $192k · revenue +89% · 33% of their budget
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $177k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • MH
    MILE HIGH UNITED WAY (FISCAL SPONSOR OF GLOBAL LIV
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • TL
    The Life You Can Savegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF BNAI BRITH - MOUNTAIN
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
3
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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4
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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5
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
6
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
7
Colorado Nonprofit Association

Colorado nonprofit association strengthens colorado's nonprofits through education, connection and advocacy.

Community Improvement
8
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
9
The Denver Foundation

To inspire people and mobilize resources to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services
11
Colorado Fiscal Institute

To provide timely, credible and accessible analyses of fiscal and economic issues facing colorado to inform public policy debates and promote economic prosperity

Community Improvement
12
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mama Bird Doula Services. 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

96 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. 96 of the 115 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/96
Grantees still filing
62/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rose Community Foundation: $590,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community FoundationJEWISHColorado: $543,900 · PhilanthropyJEWISHColoradoASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $170,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $60,000 · PhilanthropyThe Life You Can Save: $50,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $76,800 · PhilanthropyCONGREGATION HEBREW EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE: $140,000 · OtherCONGREGATION HEBREW EDUCATIONAL ALLIANC…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF BNAI BRITH - MOUNTAIN ST: $130,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF BNAI BRITH - …CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE - COLORADO: $120,000 · OtherCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE - CO…MILE HIGH UNITED WAY (FISCAL SPONSOR OF GLOBAL LIV: $100,000 · OtherMILE HIGH UNITED WAY (FISCAL SPONSOR OF…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK: $90,000 · OtherRAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $120,000 · OtherRAMAH IN THE ROCKIESMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $110,280 · OtherMINDS MATTER COLORADO INCJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $105,000 · OtherJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASSTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $103,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC+49 more: $786,249 · Other+49 moreFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $185,000 · Human ServicesFLORENCE CRIT…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $177,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPAN…JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $33,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUN…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+13 more: $106,500 · Human Services+13 moreHEARTS & HORSES INC: $150,000 · HealthHEARTS & H…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $100,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WIS…LOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL: $51,000 · HealthLOTUS NETW…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $41,000 · HealthNATIONAL J…SMILING GOAT RANCH INC: $40,000 · HealthSMILING GO…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $25,000 · HealthROCKY MOUN…MOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthMOVEMBER F…+6 more: $28,800 · Health+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $230,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…COLORADO ACADEMY: $106,000 · EducationCOLORADO …COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCOLORADO …DELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Education+5 more: $25,300 · Education+5 moreKABBALAH EXPERIENCE: $191,600 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $48,000 · ReligionWEDONTWASTE INC: $102,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$1,490,700Other$1,804,529Human Services$596,500Health$460,800Education$433,300Religion$239,600Food & Nutrition$158,000

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 budgetRose Community Foundation: $590,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISHColorado: $543,900 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKABBALAH EXPERIENCE: $191,600 over 6y, 33% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO: $185,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $177,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTS & HORSES INC: $150,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetRAMAH IN THE ROCKIES: $120,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $110,280 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $106,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $103,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $102,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL: $51,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Life You Can Save: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $48,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILING GOAT RANCH INC: $40,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER: $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetA PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO CARING: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDELTA ETA BOULE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL ASPEN VALLEY CAMPAIGN: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSparkHope Automotive: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT PAVE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Women International: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHALOM PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 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 Rose Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KABBALAH EXPERIENCE ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS & HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds RAMAH IN THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROARING FORK ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COBALT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LOTUS NETWORK FKA INTL ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Life You Can Save ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILING GOAT RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CU BOULDER HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds A PRECIOUS CHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO CARING ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗

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.

Rose Community Founda…Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Mile High United Way …JEWISHColoradoWestern Union Foundat…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Janus Henderson F…Anschutz Family Found…Schlessman Foundation…Daniels Fund
Rose Community FoundationCO76.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · JEWISHColorado · Western Union Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Daniels Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 115 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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