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Carol Bernick 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.

$451k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$490kArts & Culture$364kPhilanthropy$326kRecreation & Sports$304kHuman Services$230kCommunity Improvement$168kAnimals$114kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM$100,000
BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL$95,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$50,000
OAK PARK TEMPLE$26,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY$20,000
JEWISH UNITED FUNDJEWISH FEDERATION$15,000
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS$10,000
BEAT THE STREETS - CHICAGO$10,000
ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION WEST FLORIDA$10,000
WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$6,000
THE KAREN DOVE CABRAL FOUNDATION$5,000
BLUE GAVEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$5,000
METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL$5,000
SEMPER FI AMERICAS FUND$5,000
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, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IMPACT ONE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%California Youth Services: $2k → 10%BELMONT CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $2k → 6%LIVE LIKE JAKE: $17k → 11%THE SYLAS PROJECT: $500 → 13%LAZARUS HOUSE: $5k → 8%MERCY CHEFS: $1k → 20%IMPACT ONE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%California Youth Services: $2k → 10%LIVE LIKE JAKE: $10k → 11%CALIFORNIA YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%LIVE LIKE JAKE: $10k → 11%MY CUP OF TEA: $1k → 17%LAZARUS HOUSE: $1k → 8%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%LIVE LIKE JAKE: $5k → 11%Youth Services Network: $1k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%The Live Like Jake Foundation: $4k → 11%American Red Cross: $20k → 14%LIVE LIKE JAKE: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%Live Like Jake: $900 → 11%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%CLUB OF HEARTS: $3k → 14%MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%GOLDIE B FLOBERG CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 7%WESTCHESTER FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 14%The Night Ministry: $5k → 14%Erie Neighborhood House: $5k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $8k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5k → 14%Little Brothers - Friends Of The Elderly: $5k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5k → 14%Sarah's Inn: $5k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES IL: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AID: $1k → 14%HOPE & FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%HOPE & FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%HOPE & FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%Safe Families for Children: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $12k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $12k → 14%Opportunity Knocks: $10k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $10k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $10k → 14%Opportunity Knocks: $10k → 14%OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: $10k → 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

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 124 repeat orgs$891k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
188

Total granted

$3.3M
$806k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    4× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +72%
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $126k · revenue +41%
  • BS
    Big Shoulders Fund
    6× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +12%
  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +65%
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
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
2
Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
3
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
4
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
5
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
6
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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7
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
8
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
9
Thrive Chicago Nfp

Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.

Human Services
10
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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11
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.

Education
12
The Chicago Scholars Foundation

Chicago scholars is transforming the leadership landscape of our city by resolving the fundamental barriers to success for academically driven, first generation college students from under-resourced communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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

207 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. 207 of the 337 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)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
203/207
Grantees still filing
161/207
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL: $367,500 · OtherBROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOLILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $205,000 · OtherILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $133,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONUS OLYMPIC AND PARAOLYMPIC FOUNDATION: $91,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $89,850 · OtherFRIENDS OF PRENTICE: $82,800 · OtherMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $95,000 · OtherRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $110,000 · Other+115 more: $1,176,325 · Other+115 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $470,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF…Big Shoulders Fund: $114,650 · EducationBig Shoulders Fund+19 more: $188,200 · Education+19 moreOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED: $74,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 · Human ServicesLIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC: $47,900 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $25,000 · Human ServicesMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $18,000 · Human Services+12 more: $46,700 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $125,500 · Recreation & SportsLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $29,000 · Recreation & SportsWrestle Like a Girl Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsLEMONT BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL CLUB: $6,750 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $30,900 · PhilanthropyChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropySCHERRER CARES INC: $9,500 · PhilanthropyENCHANTED BACKPACK: $8,200 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 · HealthRILEY CHEER GUILD INC: $25,000 · HealthA CURE FOR ROBERT INC: $20,000 · HealthBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $16,700 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $8,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,500 · Health+9 more: $34,450 · HealthNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureReal Men Charities: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROCK CENTRAL INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,350,475Education$773,350Human Services$292,600Recreation & Sports$193,750Philanthropy$166,100Health$163,150Arts & Culture$140,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $470,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $125,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $114,650 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $110,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $95,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRENTICE: $82,800 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED: $74,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetNEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION: $72,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC: $47,900 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $42,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Chicago Network Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetThe Committee of 200: $31,125 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $30,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $29,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOFF THE STREET CLUB: $26,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS: $25,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRILEY CHEER GUILD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWrestle Like a Girl Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $20,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOODCHAIN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetA CURE FOR ROBERT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGeneva Lake Water Safety Committee Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $16,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $15,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEN BLANCHARD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO AREA ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION LEAGUE: $10,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Blackhawks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOLDEN APPLE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PRENTICE ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE LIKE JAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Chicago Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Committee of 200 ↗
  • Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OFF THE STREET CLUB ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds RILEY CHEER GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds Wrestle Like a Girl Inc ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗

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.

Lavin Family Foundati…Robert R McCormick Fo…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Patrick G and Shirley…United Way of Metropo…The Robert Thomas Bob…Imc Chicago Charitabl…The Canning FoundationEnchanted BackpackArie and Ida Crown Me…Circle of Service Fou…
Lavin Family FoundationIL76.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lavin Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service 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 Bernick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carol Bernick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Bernick Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Carol Bernick 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 337 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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