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Cerity Partners Foundation

Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
118
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$1.0M
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$6.9MEnvironment$6.1MInternational$5.0MPhilanthropy$4.5MArts & Culture$3.6MHealth$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 118 grants below total $3,737,740 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,355,722 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $617,982 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $213k
  • $10k–50k76 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $908k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$11,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,001,000
NORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$260,000
WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY$200,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$150,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$75,500
FESTIVAL OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$75,000
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION$75,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE$67,050
LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC$65,000
MAKER NEXUS$50,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY$50,000
MENLO SCHOOL$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$48,640
LAFAYETTE ORINDA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$45,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $100k → 9%UPBRING: $10k → 10%SHOES THAT FIT: $12k → 14%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $65k → 9%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $10k → 9%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $40k → 9%SACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $220k → 12%SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC: $10k → 9%CHILDRENS CABINET INC A CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE: $10k → 10%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $30k → 9%Breedlove Foods Inc: $10k → 17%CHILDRENS CABINET INC A CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE: $10k → 10%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $25k → 9%CHILDRENS CABINET INC A CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE: $8k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $15k → 9%LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $15k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $19k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 10%GOLDEN RULE REENTRY: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 10%CORPSAFRICA: $12k → 14%THE J F KAPNEK CHARITABLE TRUST: $10k → 9%Center for Domestic Peace: $13k → 8%VIVALON: $9k → 8%Berkeley Food & Housing Project: $540k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT: $24k → 10%VACLAV HAVEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT: $20k → 10%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $100k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $31k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%HOSPICE OF THE EAST BAY: $25k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $15k → 9%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $11k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $15k → 10%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $11k → 10%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%ASHBY VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10k → 10%ABOUT-FACE: $73k → 10%ABOUT-FACE: $40k → 10%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

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OR
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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of Cerity Partners 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. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Cerity Partners Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$27M · 173 repeat orgs$2.1M 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 +13% for the ones you funded once.

173 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 88 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

173
93

Total granted

$27M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+13%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $592k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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

  • WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +15%
  • Oregon State University Foundation
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +42%
  • UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • SD
    SACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $220k · revenue 0%
  • LE
    LUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +121%
  • Williams Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +36%

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
9
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
10
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
11
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is Wender Weis Foundation for Children. 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 College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsPregnancy Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development CentersFaith-Based Social ServicesSchool Parent OrganizationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsLocal History MuseumsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/318
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,660

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

288 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. 288 of the 318 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
283/288
Grantees still filing
188/288
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Oregon State University Foundation — $2,202,500 · EducationOregon State University F…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $1,705,690 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $590,000 · EducationALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $401,000 · Education+32 more — $2,971,080 · Education+32 moreUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES ENERGY …IMPACTASSETSINC — $1,619,848 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $882,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVESDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $757,005 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITA…CERITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $392,495 · PhilanthropyCERITY PARTNERS FOUND…MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $328,284 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $517,235 · Philanthropy+8 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,029,250 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMENLO SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOLSELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH — $359,700 · OtherJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust — $337,000 · Other+86 more — $5,434,899 · Other+86 moreWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $4,045,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES I…GIVE2ASIA — $500,000 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA+10 more — $716,465 · International+10 moreJames Toland Vocal Arts — $671,000 · Arts & CultureJames Tola…San Francisco Playhouse — $392,000 · Arts & CultureSan Franci…AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $244,550 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN C…SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $238,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCI…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $220,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCI…THE FESTIVAL OPERA ASSOCIATION INC — $205,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FESTIV…BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $182,500 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY R…SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $163,000 · Arts & CulturePeace Corps Foundation — $120,000 · Arts & CultureEAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY — $120,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $697,750 · Arts & Culture+14 moreInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $584,000 · Human ServicesLAMORINDA VILLAGE INC — $290,000 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $226,000 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — $220,000 · Human ServicesABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC — $112,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $108,750 · Human Services+9 more — $279,500 · Human ServicesCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area — $1,020,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $160,000 · HealthCrisis Support Services of Alameda County — $60,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $58,500 · Health+4 more — $113,000 · Health
Education$7,870,270Philanthropy$6,757,367Other$8,660,849International$5,261,465Arts & Culture$3,254,300Human Services$1,820,750Health$1,411,500

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $4,045,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $2,202,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,029,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $1,705,690 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $1,619,848 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area — $1,020,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $882,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $757,005 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJames Toland Vocal Arts — $671,000 over 8y, 61% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $590,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL — $500,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE2ASIA — $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $401,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCERITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $392,495 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSan Francisco Playhouse — $392,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetJohn Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust — $337,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $328,284 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLAMORINDA VILLAGE INC — $290,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCreighton University — $260,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $244,550 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $238,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services — $231,485 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $226,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY — $220,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FESTIVAL OPERA ASSOCIATION INC — $205,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $204,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOberlin College — $203,830 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER INC — $200,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WITTENBERG COLLEGE — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScientific Analysis Corporation — $195,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC — $186,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $182,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSQUASHDRIVE — $172,850 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetNAMI MARIN Inc — $170,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $163,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ORINDA CREEKS — $160,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetThe Dipsea Race Foundation — $156,000 over 7y, 48% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE — $155,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation — $155,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $149,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC — $146,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION — $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Leadership Foundation — $135,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetLafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation — $135,000 over 3y, 3.6% 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.

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…United Way of the Bay…Jewish Community Fede…The Bernard Osher Fou…Gordon E and Betty I …The William & Flora H…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…Sutter Bay HospitalsKoret Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA49.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Koret 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 Cerity Partners 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 · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lomakatsi Restoration Project — 100% of income from government
  • Golden Rule Reentry — 47% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Scienceworks Hands-On Museum — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
53report 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

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 Cerity Partners Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cerity Partners 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 318 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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