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Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation at a glance

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Carol and Gene Ludwig Family 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.

$8.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$36MHealth$9.7MScience & Tech$3.2MPhilanthropy$1.8MSocial Science$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.4MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $251k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+6 grants · $6.1M
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$138M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE LAW SCHOOL$3,000,000
YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,433,333
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$450,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$445,580
GLADSTONE INSTITUTES$400,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$383,287
MIT PICOWER INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING AND MEMORY$210,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$200,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$200,000
CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$166,000
BOTTOM LINE$150,000
INOVA HEALTH SYSTEMS FOUNDATION$100,000
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK$100,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION$100,000
TEACH FOR ALL$100,000
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $25k → 12%United States Veterans Initiative: $20k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $15k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITATIVE: $10k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $17k → 14%United States Veterans Initiative: $10k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $10k → 14%UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $5k → 14%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $25k → 14%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $100k → 8%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $25k → 14%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%Safe Horizon: $10k → 17%Miriam's Kitchen: $15k → 14%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%SAFE HORIZON: $5k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $3k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $8k → 14%MARTHA'S VINYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%SAFE HORIZON: $3k → 17%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%SAFE HORIZON: $3k → 17%Miriam's Kitchen: $8k → 14%Safe Horizon: $3k → 17%Martha's Vineyard Community Services: $75k → 8%SAFE HORIZON: $3k → 17%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $8k → 8%EDUCARE: $2k → 14%EDUCARE: $1k → 14%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $50k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $40k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%PALISADES VILLAGE: $5k → 14%PALISADES VILLAGE: $5k → 14%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $5k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS: $3k → 17%NEW FUTURES: $30k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $10k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $10k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $10k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $10k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $5k → 14%New Futures: $45k → 14%New Futures: $40k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $40k → 14%CASA FOR CHILDREN OF DC: $25k → 14%CASA FOR CHILDREN OF DC: $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
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41M · 123 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

123 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
93

Total granted

$41M
$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

80%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $544k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • AF
    Advocates for Children of New York
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +77%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $992k · revenue +45%
  • KF
    KIPP FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $988k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • LI
    Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
  • WU
    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2021 · $618k
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $618k · revenue +6%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
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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3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc. 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

178 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. 178 of the 236 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/178
Grantees still filing
134/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Yale Law School: $12,366,000 · OtherYale Law SchoolHarvard Medical School: $4,178,181 · OtherHarvard Medical SchoolNATIONAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2,040,317 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY FOUNDATIONMIT PICOWER INST FOR LEARNING & MEMORY: $1,627,500 · OtherMIT PICOWER INSTITUTE FOR LEARN AND MEM: $1,583,400 · Other+112 more: $12,222,545 · Other+112 moreYale University: $6,803,250 · EducationYale UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,639,812 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…KIPP FOUNDATION: $987,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $880,933 · EducationKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $802,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $618,125 · Education+30 more: $3,806,532 · Education+30 moreUpstream USA Inc: $653,000 · HealthTHE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC: $600,000 · HealthETHOS DISCOVERY: $379,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $240,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Health+11 more: $106,300 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEW COLLEGE LTD: $700,000 · InternationalKellermann Foundation: $467,000 · InternationalVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $51,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 · International+7 more: $98,000 · InternationalNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,250,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $675,000 · Human ServicesNEW FUTURES: $200,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $90,000 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $80,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $70,000 · Human ServicesCASA for Children of the District of Columbia: $50,000 · Human Services+8 more: $123,500 · Human ServicesAdvocates for Children of New York: $1,020,568 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$34,017,943Education$18,538,902Health$2,078,300International$1,426,500Philanthropy$1,300,000Human Services$1,288,500Crime & Legal$1,040,568

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetYale University: $6,803,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,639,812 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $1,020,568 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $991,576 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION: $987,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $880,933 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $802,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEW COLLEGE LTD: $700,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $675,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $653,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $618,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC: $600,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOME INC: $581,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $525,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $500,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKellermann Foundation: $467,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetETHOS DISCOVERY: $379,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $315,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $285,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $250,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW FUTURES: $200,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCITYWORKS DC: $200,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $181,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $167,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $160,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $153,333 over 4y, 79% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $147,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $136,032 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $136,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $130,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $105,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $104,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEW COLLEGE LTD ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE LIEBER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Kellermann Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ETHOS DISCOVERY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark Charitable Foun…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Citybridge FoundationWorld Bank Community …The Ayco Charitable F…United Way of the Nat…Walter a Bloedorn Fou…Conrad N Hilton Found…Gates Foundation
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC37.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Citybridge Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Walter a Bloedorn Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gates 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 Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Stabilization Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • The Lieber Institute Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Hancock Shaker Village Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to Carol and Gene Ludwig Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carol and Gene Ludwig Family 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 236 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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