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$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$495kEducation$440kScience & Tech$106kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$474M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NEW SCHOOL: $50k → 17%US PIRG EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE GROUP NW WASHINGTON: $6k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 8%DELTA INTERFAITH: $6k → 42%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%US PIRG EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 8%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%US PIRG EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 8%US PIRG EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY: $10k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $80k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $80k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $80k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $80k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$910k · 4 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against -61% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$910k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
-61%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterReligionOther
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

  • CF
    Consumer Federation of America
    4× · 2017–2020 · $395k · revenue +237%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $315k · revenue +49%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TN
    The New School
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • WN
    WIKIMEDIA NEW YORK CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +727% · 29% of their budget
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
New York Public Interest Research Group Inc

The new york public interest research group nypirg, new york state's largest studentdirected research and civic engagement organization, is uniquely designed to provideexperiential learning and civic engagement opportunities for college…

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2
Washington Monthly Institute

Dedicated to increasing public knowledge through washington monthly magazine and website www.washingtonmonthly.com published since 1969, the print magazine is the country's most important watchdog of american government, focusing on what's…

Social Science
3
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
4
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
7
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
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
12
Association of American Universities Inc

Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery. our u.s. member universities earn the majority of competitively…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Consumer Federation of America: $395,000 · Public BenefitConsumer Federation of AmericaUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 · Public BenefitUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATIO…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $315,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNew York University: $100,000 · EducationNew York UniversityThe New School: $50,000 · EducationThe New SchoolWIKIMEDIA NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50,000 · OtherTECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE GROUP FOR NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $6,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterDELTA INTERFAITH: $6,000 · Religion
Public Benefit$495,000Education$490,000Other$56,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Religion$6,000

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 budgetConsumer Federation of America: $395,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $315,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe New School: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA NEW YORK CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AUTO SAFETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDELTA INTERFAITH: $6,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE GROUP FOR NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Consumer Reports Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Consumer Reports Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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