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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $473k
- $250k+50 grants · $235M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CZ BIOHUB SF LLC | $60,000,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $29,600,000 |
| CZ BIOHUB CHICAGO LLC | $18,000,000 |
| CHAN ZUCKERBERG BIOHUB INC | $14,100,000 |
| CHAN ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED BIOLOGICAL IMAGING LLC | $12,236,199 |
| CZ BIOHUB NEW YORK LLC | $12,000,000 |
| CHAN ZUCKERBERG BIOHUB INC | $11,500,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $11,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $7,700,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $5,000,000 |
| RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC | $5,000,000 |
| THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION | $4,347,043 |
| THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON | $2,600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $2,500,000 |
| UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION | $2,469,958 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $24.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 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, 55% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 49% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
119 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CZCHAN ZUCKERBERG BIOHUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $383M · revenue +949% · 26% of their budget
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FUND5× · 2018–2022 · $54M · revenue +6% · 28% of their budget
- TPTHE PRIMARY SCHOOL - EAST PALO ALTO7× · 2017–2023 · $46M · revenue +53% · 88% of their budget
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2020 · $14M
- GLGRADIENT LEARNINGone grant, 2021 · $9.0M · revenue -61% · 29% of their budget
- PCPRIME COALITION INCone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
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.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Training and Research Associates and the most unlike its peers is Fresno Barrios Unidos. 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.
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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
172 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 172 of the 239 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 CHAN ZUCKERBERG BIOHUB INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY SCHOOL - EAST PALO ALTO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GRADIENT LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY SCHOOL BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN CELL ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRIMARY SCHOOL LAB ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · WK Kellogg Foundation · New Schools Fund · New Profit Inc · Skyline Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · New Venture Fund
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 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 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.
- Center for Collaborative Education Inc — 100% of income from government
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Addgene Inc — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
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.
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