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· Public charity
Council on Foundations Inc
To support philanthropy to be a trusted partner in advancing the greater good.
$45k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Philanthropy$279kInternational$55kSocial Science$50kEducation$20kOther$75k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
marshall
2023
strengthen
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Kansas Association of Community Foundation$15,000
- CFLeads$5,805
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 91% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Boston Architectural College
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
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2
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education
3
Institute of International Finance
To support financial industry in prudently managing risks and to foster global financial stability.
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4
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
5
Afp Foundation for Philanthropy
Our mission is to advance philanthropic investment and impact in the nonprofit sector.we accomplish this by:- serving as a catalyst for the nonprofit sector to address the sector's greatest issues - acting as a convener between the…
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6
Berggruen Institute
Education
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy
International
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public
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…
Social Science
9
The Roosevelt Institute
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
Education
10
Institute of International Bankers
The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…
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Fielding Graduate University
Fielding provides doctoral, master's and graduate-level certificate programs in the fields of educational leadership, organization development, and psychology.
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12
The Annenberg Foundation
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Independent Sector. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$278,968Other$75,000International$55,000Social Science$50,000Education$20,000
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 Kansas Association of Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT SECTOR INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES ↗
- Who funds BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY COLORADO ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ARRAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds CFLeads ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation Council on Foundations Inc 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
- Cfleads — 0% of 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 · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Kansas Association of Community Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~292 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 850738639 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Kansas Association of Community Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 292 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Council on Foundations Inc?
Find your warmest path to Council on Foundations Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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