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Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust at a glance

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Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
81
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$10k
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.

Education$161kArts & Culture$120kEnvironment$88kHuman Services$62kHealth$53kInternational$42kAnimals$28kCivil Rights$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k80 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$750
Median grant
17
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILARITY FOR CHARITY$10,000
YWCA RICHMOND$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$3,000
LEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND INC$3,000
MODEL ALLIANCE$3,000
SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE$3,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$2,600
ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$2,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$2,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$2,000
EQUUS EFFECT$2,000
KCRW FOUNDATION INC$1,500
PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC$1,500
UNITED WAY INC$1,500
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$1,200
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 (FY17–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $500 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $500 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $500 → 10%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $250 → 20%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $500 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $500 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $250 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $250 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $500 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $250 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $250 → 8%THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $250 → 10%YWCA RICHMOND: $5k → 22%FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $250 → 8%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $1k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $500 → 14%MIXTECA ORGANIZATION INC: $500 → 20%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $2k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $500 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $900 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $750 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $750 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $200 → 17%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
VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
HI
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$690k · 115 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
39

Total granted

$690k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

84%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • TV
    The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated
    6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +16%
  • YR
    YWCA RICHMOND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +190%
  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHIMER COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • SF
    Storefront for Community Design
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -47%
  • IC
    INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -21%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
7
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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8
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Viridis Institute. 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

141 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. 141 of the 168 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
139/141
Grantees still filing
98/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated: $51,000 · OtherThe Virginia Foundation for Architecture Inco…THE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $11,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $13,500 · Other+85 more: $226,550 · Other+85 moreSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $27,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $25,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOU…THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $18,000 · EducationTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF R…ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · EducationORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION I…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,600 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $14,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Mi…CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $12,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMU…Pitzer College: $9,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · Education+10 more: $17,150 · Education+10 moreCLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS: $11,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE FIR…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $9,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RES…GREENPEACE FUND INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE …NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $6,750 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PA…EARTHJUSTICE: $6,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTIC…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $5,250 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF …ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT…THE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $4,000 · Environment+7 more: $11,000 · Environment+7 moreYWCA RICHMOND: $45,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHM…PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $8,600 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BE…THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID…FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…THE ARC FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY INC: $3,500 · Human Services+4 more: $2,750 · Human ServicesTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $17,050 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $11,000 · HealthHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC: $10,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $5,750 · HealthOUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER: $3,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,900 · Health+6 more: $4,300 · HealthHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $9,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,200 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,250 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $4,500 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MIDDLE EAST: $3,750 · InternationalFONKOZE USA INC: $3,600 · InternationalTHE LAMBI FUND OF HAITI: $2,750 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,250 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · International+3 more: $2,500 · InternationalTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $4,600 · AnimalsTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $3,900 · AnimalsCOMMUNICATION ALLIANCE TO NETWORK THOROGHBRED EX-RACEHORSES: $3,400 · AnimalsWILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $3,300 · AnimalsPHILADELPHIA URBAN RIDING ACADEMY: $2,400 · Animals+5 more: $3,750 · Animals
Other$302,050Education$180,450Environment$75,500Human Services$68,850Health$54,500International$41,300Animals$31,850

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 budgetThe Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated: $51,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $25,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $17,050 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS: $11,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHIMER COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPitzer College: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $8,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $6,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $6,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOLD STONE HOUSE OF BROOKLYN: $5,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $4,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $4,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDEATH PENALTY FOCUS: $4,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MATENWA INC: $4,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OJAI VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetStorefront for Community Design: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION: $3,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MIDDLE EAST: $3,750 over 5y, 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 The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHIMER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HILARITY FOR CHARITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Pitzer College ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗

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.

David & Sylvia Weisz …Santa Barbara Foundat…The Community Foundat…ImpactassetsincLiberty Hill Foundati…Otis & Bettina Chandl…Monimos FoundationHHL FoundationTesco FoundationRobins FoundationCalifornia Community …The Annenberg Foundat…
David & Sylvia Weisz FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Otis & Bettina Chandler Foundation · Monimos Foundation · HHL Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robins Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg 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 Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Owensville Primary Care Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Arundel Rivers Federation Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Construct Inc: 4% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
33report 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 168 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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