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Big Tent Project Fund

Educatingthepubliconcurrenteventsandissuessuchashealthcare,tax,energy,andeducationpolicy.

$7.0M
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
8
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$750,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$2,950,000
States reached, FY2020
5
Total assets, FY2020
$69k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Big Tent Project Fund

How much does Big Tent Project Fund give?
Big Tent Project Fund reported 8 grants totaling $7,025,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Big Tent Project Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Public Benefit (72%), Civil Rights (18%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are Big Tent Project Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Center Action Now ($3.0M), The Third Way Foundation Inc ($1.3M), National Conference on Citizenship ($750k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Big Tent Project Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Big Tent Project Fund based?
Big Tent Project Fund is based in DE.

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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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