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Better Place 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.

$883k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.4MCivil Rights$1.2MHuman Services$793kHealth$537kCommunity Improvement$528kYouth Development$500kEnvironment$390kInternational$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $505k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $297k
$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION$70,000
GIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN$64,000
CAHABA RIVER SOCIETY$62,500
EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA$50,000
YOUTH TOWERS INC$50,000
MCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC$45,000
SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$40,000
EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS$35,000
MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER$32,500
OASIS COUNSELING CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN$30,000
H3W INC$30,000
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND$25,000
HEARTS OF WHEELS$25,000
YMCA JUNIUS WARD JOHNSON MEMORIAL$22,500
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER$22,500
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, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LC & LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $10k → 9%EKVNV YEFOLECKVLKE: $55k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $35k → 18%RAHAB'S SISTERS: $3k → 12%EL PUEBLO INC: $13k → 8%DURHAM PROUD PROGRAM INC: $20k → 11%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $5k → 14%UNDER HIS WINGS INC: $20k → 12%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $33k → 18%EMBRACE ALABAMA KIDS: $30k → 18%EL PUEBLO INC: $13k → 8%DURHAM PROUD PROGRAM INC: $20k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 20%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%UNDER HIS WINGS INC: $20k → 12%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $33k → 18%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 20%UNDER HIS WINGS INC: $11k → 12%EKVNV YEFOLECKVLKE: $30k → 18%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $3k → 11%EKVNV YEFOLECKVLKE: $30k → 18%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $5k → 33%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $20k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $30k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $30k → 18%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $30k → 18%THE TENDER FOUNDATION: $8k → 13%THE TENDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE TENDER FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE TENDER FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%THE FOUNDRY MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $10k → 16%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $35k → 16%UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $30k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $5k → 16%FIRST LIGHT INC: $5k → 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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
KY
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 81 repeat orgs$810k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
70

Total granted

$6.0M
$603k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+21%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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

  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $369k · revenue +787%
  • AC
    ALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +293% · 65% of their budget
  • SV
    SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $321k · revenue +260%

Funded once

  • AA
    AIDS ALABAMA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +63%
  • PH
    PACK HEALTH LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • SL
    ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
3
Alabama Casa Network Inc

The mission of the alabama casa network, inc. is to equip and empower casa programs to advocate for all of alabama's abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
5
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
6
Legal Aid Society of Birmingham

The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.

Crime & Legal
7
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc

Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.

Environment
8
Legal Services Alabama Inc

Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.

Crime & Legal
9
Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin Inc

At community action coalition for south central wisconsin, inc. (cac) our mission is to transform our communities by fostering conditions where everyone can achieve social and economic security. cac exists to push back on poverty. our…

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10
Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.

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11
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
12
Advance Memphis

To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amanda Pair Foundation. 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

130 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. 130 of the 169 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/130
Grantees still filing
84/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERING: $257,500 · OtherTRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERINGOASIS COUNSELING CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $192,500 · OtherOASIS COUNSELING CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDRENEcumenical Ministries Inc: $145,000 · OtherREVERSE CYCLE OF INCARCERATIO: $125,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $110,500 · OtherGIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN: $211,500 · OtherGIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDRENYouth Towers: $225,000 · OtherYouth TowersHearts of Wheels: $112,500 · Other+97 more: $1,629,375 · Other+97 moreALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $355,000 · EducationALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE…SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $320,600 · EducationSPRING VALLEY SCHOOL F…MCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC: $242,500 · EducationMCRAE LEARNING CENTER …BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $160,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION F…THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $110,000 · EducationTHE A EDUCATION PARTNE…EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA: $50,000 · Education+7 more: $89,330 · Education+7 moreUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $220,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHO…EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $200,000 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEFOLE…THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER F…Under His Wings Inc: $51,000 · Human ServicesUnder His Wi…Durham PROUD Program: $40,000 · Human ServicesDurham PROUD…THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesEL PUEBLO INC: $25,000 · Human Services+11 more: $95,500 · Human Services+11 moreHigher Purpose Hub: $265,100 · Community ImprovementHigher Pur…MOVE GULF COAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $153,000 · Community ImprovementMOVE GULF …Cahaba River Society Inc: $105,000 · Community ImprovementCahaba Riv…HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $55,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC A…+3 more: $37,500 · Community Improvement+3 moreHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $369,300 · EnvironmentFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $17,500 · Environment+4 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentINDIANAPOLIS MONUMENTAL MARATHON INC: $70,000 · HealthEL FUTURO INC: $61,250 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA INC: $50,000 · HealthBuilding Peace Inc: $42,500 · HealthALABAMA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,100 · HealthMAGIC MOMENTS: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 · HealthTENNESSEE BREAST CANCER COALITION: $15,000 · HealthHOLCOMB MINISTRIES: $15,000 · HealthMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $15,000 · Health+6 more: $32,500 · HealthSHARED INTEREST INC: $190,000 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $155,000 · International+2 more: $5,100 · International
Other$3,008,875Education$1,327,430Human Services$736,500Community Improvement$615,600Environment$406,800Health$351,350International$350,100

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 budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $369,300 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $355,000 over 8y, 65% of budgetSPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $320,600 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetHigher Purpose Hub: $265,100 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetMCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC: $242,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetYouth Towers: $225,000 over 7y, 72% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $220,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN: $211,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $200,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSHARED INTEREST INC: $190,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $155,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEcumenical Ministries Inc: $145,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetHearts of Wheels: $112,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetTHE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc: $105,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetYOUTHSERVE INC: $95,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $81,225 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER: $80,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MONUMENTAL MARATHON INC: $70,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEL FUTURO INC: $61,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Birmingham Ministries: $55,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA: $55,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED: $55,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetUnder His Wings Inc: $51,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWIREGRASS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBuilding Peace Inc: $42,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDurham PROUD Program: $40,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA STEM EDUCATION INC: $24,830 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTENDER FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetALABAMA ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $20,100 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN CHILDREN'S MISSION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBESSEMER REDEVELOPMENT CORP: $17,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRESHWATER LAND TRUST: $17,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMARANATHAN FAMILY LEARNING CENTER & ACADEMY INC: $17,500 over 3y, 1.4% 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 HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALAQUEST COLLABORATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SPRING VALLEY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Higher Purpose Hub ↗
  • Who funds MCRAE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Youth Towers ↗
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds GIDEONS ARMY GRASSROOTS ARMY FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE ↗
  • Who funds SHARED INTEREST INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVE GULF COAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Ecumenical Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hearts of Wheels ↗
  • Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANAPOLIS MONUMENTAL MARATHON INC ↗
  • Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Birmingham Ministries ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC AND IMMIGRANT CENTER OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE UNITED ↗
  • Who funds Under His Wings Inc ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds WIREGRASS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AIDS ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds Building Peace Inc ↗
  • Who funds Durham PROUD Program ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER ↗

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 Community Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…Protective Life Found…Mike and Gillian Good…The Joseph S Bruno Ch…Hill Crest Foundation…Alabama Power Foundat…Susan Mott Webb Chari…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…Robert R Meyer Founda…Altecstyslinger Found…Dunn-French Foundation
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL69.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Dunn-French 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 Better Place Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Better Place Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc: 63% of income from government
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • Central Brevard Humane Society Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
36report 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

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How do I get to Better Place Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Better Place 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 169 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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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