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Brother's Brother Foundation

BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION helps bridge the gap between aid and sustainability by supporting localized programs and providing essential resources in the areas of healthcare, infrastructure, disaster response, and education (h.I.d.e.).

$106M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.5MHealth$541kEnvironment$194kInternational$145kEducation$136kHousing & Shelter$98kFood & Nutrition$91kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $873,878, the rows itemized in this filing. The $106,033,143 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,159,265 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $288k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $575k
$27,653
Median grant
11
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$100,000
LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK$70,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK$55,000
UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INV INC$50,000
UNIVERSAL COMM HEALTH CTR$50,000
IDEPSCA$50,000
PASADENA SENIOR CENTER$50,000
WESTSIDE FOOD BANK$50,000
FLINTRIDGE CENTER$50,000
VIDA MOBILE CLINIC$50,000
TEXSAR INC$45,000
LA FOOD BANK$30,000
MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC$27,653
LA PARKS FOUNDATION$25,000
ONE VOICE$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALLEN PLACE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%VITA NOVA INC: $25k → 11%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 9%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $25k → 29%VITA NOVA INC: $10k → 11%ALLEN PLACE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INV INC: $50k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%ONE VOICE: $25k → 14%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

VT
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IL
MI
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MA
OR
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PA
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CA
NE
KY
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VA
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AR
TN
NC
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GA
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Grants abroad, by region: $104M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$72M · 68% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

Sub-Saharan Africa$16M · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

East Asia and the Pacific$16M · 15% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

Russia and Neighboring States$477k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

South Asia$108k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

Middle East and North Africa$15k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

South America$14k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$10k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROVISION OF BOOKS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, MED. SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Brother's Brother Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brother's Brother Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% 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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$666k · 15 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
63

Total granted

$666k
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $821k 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
Food & NutritionHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MA
    MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $53k · revenue +14%
  • VN
    Vita Nova Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +21%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO
    2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARANSAS COUNTY ISD
    one grant, 2017 · $365k
  • TQ
    THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +20%
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +107%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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9
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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10
Philabundance

PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…

Food & Nutrition
11
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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12
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kane Community Development Foundation. 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

132 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/132
Grantees still filing
75/132
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARANSAS COUNTY ISD: $365,000 · OtherARANSAS COUNTY ISDPONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $152,458 · OtherPONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCThe Houston Food Bank: $150,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherLUIS GARRATON LLC HURRICANE DISASTER: $95,773 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $86,413 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF LEE COUNTY: $86,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR GOOD: $70,000 · Other+37 more: $849,937 · Other+37 moreTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 · HealthTHE QUEEN'S MEDICA…Universal Community Health Center: $50,000 · HealthUniversal Communit…VIDA MOBILE CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthVIDA MOBILE CLINICEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthAll Souls Counseling Center: $25,000 · HealthTHE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 · HealthYOUNG & HEALTHY: $25,000 · HealthOCEANA COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $25,000 · HealthWe Care Manatee Inc: $25,000 · Health+6 more: $60,500 · Health+6 moreWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FO…FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $45,600 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AME…FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $35,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK O…HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPI…FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AME…THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER …Bounty & Soul: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBounty & So…AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICA'S S…MANNA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD …SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…+7 more: $61,600 · Food & Nutrition+7 morePASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesVita Nova Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesALLEN PLACE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,100 · Human ServicesCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesOne Voice: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC: $48,824 · InternationalADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $39,000 · InternationalSolar Village Project Inc: $33,000 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $25,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · International+1 more: $5,184 · InternationalMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $56,160 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $52,653 · EducationPONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $33,100 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $10,000 · EducationKEEPERS OF THE FLAME FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationPASADENA HUMANE: $100,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Animals
Other$1,955,581Health$615,500Food & Nutrition$372,200Human Services$225,100International$221,008Education$166,913Animals$125,000

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 budgetTHE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $56,160 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $52,653 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversal Community Health Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFlintridge Center: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIDA MOBILE CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC: $48,824 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $45,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAESARA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $39,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVita Nova Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPONCE MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $33,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSolar Village Project Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLEN PLACE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,100 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMCR Health Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Souls Counseling Center: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ARH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOCEANA COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBounty & Soul: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBuncombe County Schools Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWe Care Manatee Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $25,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

American Cancer Society IncGA25.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Feeding America · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers · Global Links · Eden Hall Foundation · Americares Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation 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 Brother's Brother Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brother's Brother Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Vita Nova Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
  • Rad-Aid International Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mcr Health Inc: 7% of income from government
  • America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oceana Community Health Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
22report 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.

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 102 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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