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Bernard G and Nancy J Berkman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Bernard G and Nancy J Berkman 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.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$51k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$254kPhilanthropy$167kScience & Tech$106kEducation$73kInternational$66kHuman Services$50kRecreation & Sports$28kCivil Rights$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k55 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$500
Median grant
13
States reached
$822k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEWTON-WELLESLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$50,500
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$15,000
BABSON COLLEGE - SCHOLARSHIP FUND$6,500
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$5,000
ADL-ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$4,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$3,600
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,500
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$3,100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON$3,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMOHOMA SOCIETY$3,000
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR$2,500
JEWISH BIG BROTHER & SISTER ASSOCIATION$2,000
THE V FOUNDATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGES: $100 → 8%BOYS TOWN: $200 → 12%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $5k → 10%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGES: $100 → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $200 → 10%NEW ENGLAND VILLAGES: $100 → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $200 → 10%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $100 → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $250 → 17%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $200 → 10%BRAILLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $100 → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $250 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $250 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $100 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $100 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $100 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $100 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $100 → 17%NEWBRIDGE ON THE CHARLES: $100 → 7%JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 17%JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 17%JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 17%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $500 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $500 → 8%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $500 → 8%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $100 → 8%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $100 → 8%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $100 → 8%SPRINGWELL (TRAVELING MEALS OF NEWTON): $100 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 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
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$592k · 113 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
35

Total granted

$592k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+42%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +32%
  • HS
    HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +139%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • IT
    ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +41%
  • IS
    IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +10%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR A SAFER WEBgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +755%
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
9
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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10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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12
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Princess Anne Courthouse Vrs and Fd. 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

79 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. 79 of the 154 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
68/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWTON-WELLESLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $85,500 · OtherNEWTON-WELLESLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONNEWTON-WELLESLY HOSPITAL: $76,000 · OtherNEWTON-WELLESLY HOSPITALMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $42,900 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALBABSON COLLEGE - SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $41,600 · OtherBABSON COLLEGE - SCHOLARSHIP FUNDISRAEL TENNIS CENTER: $26,000 · OtherISRAEL TENNIS CENTERJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $21,600 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR: $21,500 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $17,400 · Other+94 more: $117,740 · Other+94 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $155,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philant…Hebrew Senior Life Inc: $7,700 · Philanthropy+3 more: $4,800 · PhilanthropyISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalISRAEL TEN…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,500 · InternationalWORLD CENT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,400 · InternationalMEDECINS S…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,400 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…+6 more: $4,000 · InternationalChildren's Hospital Corporation: $15,200 · HealthChildren'…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $11,400 · HealthDana-Farb…THE V FOUNDATION: $10,900 · HealthTHE V FOU…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,400 · HealthBLOOD CAN…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $6,300 · HealthTHE SHRIN…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $4,750 · HealthBETH ISRA…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $4,700 · HealthMAKE-A-WI…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,800 · Health+9 more: $4,600 · Health+9 moreHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $3,500 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $1,800 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · Education+2 more: $150 · EducationSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,600 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $1,900 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL INC: $1,900 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1,250 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $600 · Human Services+6 more: $1,300 · Human Services2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,100 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $4,400 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $600 · Housing & Shelter
Other$450,240Philanthropy$167,500International$77,300Health$70,050Education$26,450Human Services$12,550Housing & Shelter$10,100

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $155,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $21,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $15,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $11,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $10,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $7,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $6,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $4,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $4,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME AGAIN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $2,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR A SAFER WEB: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $1,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $1,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END HOUSE CAMP INC: $700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH GUILD FOR THE BLIND: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF MANASOTA INC: $400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% 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 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…The Tillie Jennie & H…Joseph and Rae Gann C…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Bushrod H Campbell & …The New England Patri…Arbella Insurance Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA21.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bernard G and Nancy J Berkman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard G and Nancy J Berkman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • New England Village Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • St Patrick's Manor Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home