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Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

$925M
Granted FY2025still arriving
338
Grants FY2025still arriving
52
States reached
$5.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$341MHealth$226MEducation$151MFood & Nutrition$36MYouth Development$9.3MRecreation & Sports$5.4MEnvironment$3.0MSocial Science$2.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 338 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 338 grants below total $126,740,262, the rows itemized in this filing. The $925,439,427 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $798,699,165 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k98 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k110 grants · $14M
  • $250k+108 grants · $110M
$96,937
Median grant
52
States reached
$19.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr$5,662,436
Columbia University$4,528,279
University of Illinois$3,377,591
Johns Hopkins University$3,118,394
Regents Univ of California Los Angeles$3,061,949
The Research Foundation of SUNY$2,946,593
Yale University$2,827,780
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$2,811,192
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$2,627,221
DUKE UNIVERSITY$2,597,658
Regents of the University of California$2,540,089
Stanford University$2,251,168
Rutgers State Uni of NJ$2,096,794
University of Massachusetts Amherst$1,962,448
University of Pittsburgh$1,917,279
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Beneficent Technology Inc: $198k → 8%Resources for Independent Living: $69k → 11%Resources for Independent Living: $67k → 11%Resources for Independent Living: $65k → 11%Rensselaer County Chapter NYSARC Inc: $181k → 11%New Markets Lab: $135k → 14%Rensselaer County Chapter NYSARC Inc: $79k → 11%Rensselaer County Chapter NYSARC Inc: $78k → 11%Rensselaer County Chapter NYSARC Inc: $66k → 11%Resources for Children wSpecial Need Inc: $525k → 17%Resources for Children with Special Needs: $393k → 17%Resources for Children wSpecial Need Inc: $351k → 17%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $230k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $153k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $153k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $108k → 14%LIFESPAN OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $104k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GERONTOLOGY I: $64k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GERONTOLOGY I: $64k → 17%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $185M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $180M to organizations and $5.4M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$165M · 89% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Electrical/Electronic & Communications Engineering

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$7.7M · 4% · 36 grants · 131 people

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences · Research-Civil Engineering

Sub-Saharan Africa$2.9M · 2% · 18 grants · 11 people

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Law · Research-Agricultural SCI & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

South America$2.9M · 2% · 9 grants · 28 people

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Health Sciences · Research-Geological & Earth Sciences

South Asia$2.0M · 1% · 12 grants · 8 people

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Life Sciences & AGRICULTURAL SVCS · Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Central America and the Caribbean$1.9M · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Agricultural Sciences

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.3M · 1% · 14 grants · 7 people

Stated purpose: Medical Research Services · Research-Health Sciences · Research-Law

East Asia and the Pacific$912k · 0% · 2 grants · 40 people

Stated purpose: Research-Agricultural Sciences · Research-Biological & Biomedical Sciences · Student Travel Grant/Fellowship

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$688M · 460 repeat orgs$9.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

460 repeat relationships: 276 still active in FY2025, 184 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

460
105

Total granted

$688M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35M · revenue +121%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +64%
  • RA
    RUTGERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $14M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +77% · 31% of their budget
  • TA
    Texas A & M University
    one grant, 2023 · $732k
  • EI
    ENGENDERHEALTH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $427k · revenue +1%
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
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
7
Manhattanville University

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

Education
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
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
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
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
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Highstead 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

347 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. 347 of the 628 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
338/347
Grantees still filing
257/347
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $13,791,123 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $12,495,120 · Other+112 more: $313,540,796 · Other+112 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $19,625,895 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $18,732,417 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $16,176,156 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STA…RUTGERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $14,321,497 · EducationRUTGERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $12,435,641 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $12,083,204 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $11,872,201 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $11,267,585 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $11,031,709 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,545,420 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $9,125,039 · EducationNew York University: $8,665,860 · Education+34 more: $97,664,904 · Education+34 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $35,299,984 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-…THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8,401,840 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RES…GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $5,997,538 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RE…NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $5,784,862 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME…NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $5,670,175 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIET…HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $5,312,502 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,157,950 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $3,904,699 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $3,501,207 · Health+18 more: $23,759,398 · Health+18 moreBOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC: $11,112,108 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3,655,061 · Science & TechINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $1,086,581 · Science & TechFlorida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc: $1,042,134 · Science & TechDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $901,968 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $671,708 · Science & Tech+2 more: $1,061,693 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $6,113,751 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,486,045 · Community ImprovementCENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE AGRICULTURA TROPICAL: $2,082,850 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $1,629,149 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INC: $427,181 · International
Other$339,827,039Education$253,547,528Health$102,790,155Science & Tech$19,531,253Recreation & Sports$6,113,751Community Improvement$4,486,045International$4,139,180

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $35,299,984 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $19,625,895 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $18,732,417 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $16,176,156 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $12,435,641 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $12,083,204 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $11,872,201 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $11,267,585 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC: $11,112,108 over 9y, 11% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $11,031,709 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,545,420 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $9,125,039 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $8,665,860 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $8,401,840 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $8,350,845 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $8,342,643 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $7,418,111 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,126,907 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,113,751 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $6,092,564 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $5,997,538 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $5,784,862 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $5,766,392 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $5,670,175 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $5,479,290 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,157,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $4,841,559 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $4,486,045 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $4,463,158 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $4,089,677 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $3,904,699 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,889,153 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $3,842,447 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY: $3,799,933 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $3,679,868 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3,655,061 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $3,501,207 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,411,456 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $3,401,677 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $3,243,583 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,205,821 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $3,141,489 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,782,107 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,672,072 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $2,551,862 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,241,796 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,233,755 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,163,406 over 7y, 0.0% 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 MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗

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.

The Trustees of Colum…Yale UniversityJohns Hopkins Univers…University of Pittsbu…Washington UniversityVanderbilt University…Trustees of Boston Un…American Chemical Soc…Emory UniversityThe George Washington…Mayo ClinicThe Children's Hospit…
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY92.8× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · University of Pittsburgh · Washington University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Trustees of Boston University · American Chemical Society · Emory University · The George Washington University · Mayo Clinic · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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 Cornell University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornell University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% 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
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • American Fisheries Society: 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report 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.

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 628 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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