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Council on Foundations Inc

The Council on Foundations fosters an environment where philanthropy can thrive and cultivates a community of diverse and skilled philanthropic professionals and organizations who lead with integrity, serve as ethical stewards and advocate for progress.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$279kCommunity Improvement$50kFood & Nutrition$50kSocial Science$50kPublic Benefit$30kCrime & Legal$20k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $20,805 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,770 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITYGIVING: $16k → 11%THE ARRAY ALLIANCE: $20k → 8%ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES: $50k → 17%BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $25k → 10%PHILANTHROPY COLORADO: $22k → 7%BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $30k → 10%GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES: $30k → 14%KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $25k → 10%THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE INC: $50k → 14%KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $20k → 10%INDEPENDENT SECTOR INC: $50k → 14%Kansas Association of Community Foundation: $15k → 10%BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $30k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $20k → 14%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.

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.

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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Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Institute of International Finance

To support financial industry in prudently managing risks and to foster global financial stability.

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National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
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Council on Foundations Inc

The Council on Foundations fosters an environment where philanthropy can thrive and cultivates a community of diverse and skilled philanthropic professionals and organizations who lead with integrity, serve as ethical stewards and advocate…

Philanthropy
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Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
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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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10
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
12
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independent Sector and the most unlike its peers is The Brookings Institution. 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

13 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.

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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Kansas Association of Community Foundations — $115,000 · PhilanthropyKansas Association of Community FoundationsINDEPENDENT SECTOR — $50,000 · PhilanthropyINDEPENDENT SECTORTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLEPHILANTHROPY COLORADO — $22,250 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY COLORADOSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $20,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community FoundationCOMMUNITYGIVING — $15,913 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVING+1 more — $5,805 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC — $50,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF BL…Bread For The World Inc — $25,000 · OtherBread For The Wor…THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES — $30,000 · InternationalTHE GERMAN MA…Bread for the World Institute — $25,000 · InternationalBread for the…THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $50,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKIN…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Education
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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKansas Association of Community Foundations — $115,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT SECTOR — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBread For The World Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBread for the World Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY COLORADO — $22,250 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING — $15,913 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCFLEADS — $5,805 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 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
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Cfleads — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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