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Builders Vision 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.

$97M
Granted FY2024still arriving
390
Grants FY2024still arriving
35
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$97MPhilanthropy$70MArts & Culture$36MFood & Nutrition$25MCommunity Improvement$23MAnimals$19MEducation$14MHealth$12MOther$0
02FY2024 · 390 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $584k
  • $50k–250k208 grants · $26M
  • $250k+137 grants · $71M
$150,000
Median grant
35
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chicago Community Foundation$4,000,000
ForeFront$3,000,000
CREO Family Office Syndicate$3,000,000
Rewiring America Inc$2,000,000
Walton Family Foundation$1,862,500
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization$1,000,000
Mission Edge San Diego$1,000,000
Elevate$1,000,000
Meridian Institute$1,000,000
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization$1,000,000
Everyday People for Change Inc$1,000,000
Maine Community Foundation Inc$1,000,000
The Minneapolis Foundation$1,000,000
Best Friends Animal Society$1,000,000
Common Market Philadelphia Inc$1,000,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Operation Warm Inc: $50k → 6%Common Market Philadelphia Inc: $1.0M → 22%Families Anchored in Total Harmony Inc: $150k → 15%Operation Warm Inc: $25k → 6%Common Market Philadelphia Inc: $500k → 22%Families Anchored in Total Harmony Inc: $150k → 15%Operation Warm Inc: $15k → 6%Common Market Philadelphia Inc: $445k → 22%Cascade County Council of the Society of St Vincent de Paul: $20k → 14%Operation Warm Inc: $8k → 6%COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $152k → 22%OPERATION WARM INC: $5k → 6%Faith in Indiana: $150k → 16%Community Action Network: $150k → 14%Faith in Indiana: $150k → 16%Community Action Network: $150k → 14%Tides Center: $150k → 10%Olivewood Gardens & Learning Center Inc: $5k → 11%Tides Center: $150k → 10%Urban School Food Alliance: $300k → 14%Mission Edge San Diego: $1.0M → 11%Mission Edge San Diego: $250k → 11%Mission Edge San Diego: $5k → 11%Mission Edge San Diego: $5k → 11%Chicago Architecture Biennial Inc: $200k → 14%Chicago Architecture Biennial Inc: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $15k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $5k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%mRelief: $291k → 14%The Night Ministry: $5k → 14%The Night Ministry: $5k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $25k → 14%Figueroa Wu Family Foundation: $100k → 14%Figueroa Wu Family Foundation: $61k → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $5k → 14%National Runaway Switchboard: $5k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $50k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $25k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center dba Northwest Center: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Builders Vision Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Builders Vision Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$249M · 304 repeat orgs$43M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

304 repeat relationships — 219 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 96 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

304
130

Total granted

$249M
$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

89%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WF
    Walton Family Foundation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $18M · revenue +44%
  • F
    FOREFRONT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +67% · 41% of their budget
  • CF
    CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +443% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Illinois
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue -8%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -21%
  • RC
    RECLAIMING CHICAGO NFP
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
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
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
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
6
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
7
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
8
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
9
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
10
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
11
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
12
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyAnimal Rescue and ShelterPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportUnited Way AffiliatesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Lgbtq+ Community SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Dance Arts OrganizationsPublic Library OperationsCommunity College Foundatio…Domestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.2%1/485
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,080

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

471 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 471 of the 551 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

56
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
96
Early backer (in before they grew)
466/471
Grantees still filing
283/471
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Walton Family Foundation Inc — $17,862,500 · PhilanthropyWalton Family Foundatio…FOREFRONT — $12,280,000 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONTROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $9,883,333 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROP…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $6,134,250 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDAT…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyMeridian Institute — $2,794,052 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc — $2,500,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $3,233,334 · Philanthropy+3 moreCREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC — $9,595,550 · EnvironmentCREO FAMILY OFFICE SYN…RARE — $4,051,216 · EnvironmentRAREElevate Energy — $2,500,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $2,450,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,348,029 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND — $2,325,000 · EnvironmentSECORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,091,774 · EnvironmentREWIRING AMERICA — $2,000,000 · Environment+35 more — $26,057,152 · Environment+35 moreCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $11,700,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $6,244,494 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $5,444,250 · OtherLittle Village Environmental Justice …+82 more — $67,768,188 · Other+82 moreCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $10,000,000 · Arts & CultureCrystal Bri…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK …PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE — $2,185,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDI…SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $1,900,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD…RACING MAGPIE — $1,230,000 · Arts & CultureThe National Public Housing Museum — $1,225,000 · Arts & CultureLatinos Progresando — $1,200,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists Inc — $1,035,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Cultural Innovation — $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $5,991,594 · Arts & Culture+11 moreBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $9,478,315 · AnimalsHUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $1,012,113 · AnimalsSPAYARKANSAS — $987,721 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $750,000 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $595,395 · Animals+6 more — $2,815,000 · AnimalsINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $3,005,000 · Community ImprovementEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC — $2,300,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORSPACE — $1,069,216 · Community ImprovementURBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION — $950,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION — $925,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $899,600 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC — $680,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $600,000 · Community ImprovementMINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP — $600,000 · Community ImprovementStronger America Through Seafood Inc — $597,680 · Community ImprovementHOPE VILLAGE REVITALIZATION — $505,000 · Community ImprovementIFF — $505,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DESK CHICAGO — $500,500 · Community Improvement+2 more — $805,000 · Community ImprovementFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,817,964 · EducationIsland Institute — $1,793,515 · EducationACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,320,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $848,920 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $825,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $668,203 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $600,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $600,000 · EducationCHEF ANN FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationBLACK WOMEN IN ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND MARINE SCIENCE INC — $597,500 · EducationUniversity of Maine Foundation — $579,248 · EducationKYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS — $500,000 · EducationDakota Rural Action — $485,000 · Education+3 more — $1,263,845 · Education
Philanthropy$57,687,469Environment$53,418,721Other$91,156,932Arts & Culture$28,766,594Animals$15,638,544Community Improvement$13,941,996Education$13,499,195

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWalton Family Foundation Inc — $17,862,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFOREFRONT — $12,280,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetCrystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc — $10,000,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $9,883,333 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC — $9,595,550 over 7y, 39% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $9,478,315 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $6,244,494 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $6,134,250 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetLittle Village Environmental Justice Org — $5,444,250 over 4y, 55% of budgetRARE — $4,051,216 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK — $3,005,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $3,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,817,964 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMeridian Institute — $2,794,052 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $2,500,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $2,500,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetElevate Energy — $2,500,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $2,450,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,348,029 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $2,325,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC — $2,300,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE — $2,185,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetCOMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC — $2,096,575 over 3y, 20% of budgetSECORE INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,091,774 over 6y, 46% of budgetREWIRING AMERICA — $2,000,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $1,900,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetIsland Institute — $1,793,515 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,745,546 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL ENTERPRISES INC — $1,632,334 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetPERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE — $1,503,260 over 3y, 19% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC — $1,500,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIG MARSH — $1,400,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $1,372,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA — $1,325,700 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,320,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO — $1,260,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetILLINOIS ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL EDUCATION — $1,252,164 over 3y, 18% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM — $1,250,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetRACING MAGPIE — $1,230,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetThe National Public Housing Museum — $1,225,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetFRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $1,200,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLatinos Progresando — $1,200,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER — $1,170,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWESTSIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY — $1,137,695 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetEcoWorks — $1,114,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND — $1,088,530 over 4y, 19% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Walton Family Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds CREO FAMILY OFFICE SYNDICATE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Little Village Environmental Justice Org ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds Elevate Energy ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds EVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
  • Who funds SECORE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds REWIRING AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Island Institute ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
  • Who funds PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG MARSH ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds PRACTICAL FARMERS OF IOWA ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Field Foundation of I…The Joyce FoundationPolk Bros Foundation …ForefrontJohn D and Catherine …Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Lumpkin Family Fo…The Chicago Community…Gaylord and Dorothy D…Walder FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL106× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · The Joyce Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Forefront · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Walder Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Builders Vision Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition — 3% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Builders Vision Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Builders Vision 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 551 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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