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Cyber Century Forum

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$68kHealth$40kArts & Culture$24kEducation$23k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS$25,000
SALT LAKE ARTS ACADEMY$20,000
WETA$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION: $1k → 17%INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $25k → 14%SALT LAKE ARTS ACADEMY: $20k → 8%WETA: $1k → 7%INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%THE HEALING PLACE: $20k → 15%MAINLY MOZART: $3k → 11%UTAH FILM CENTER: $20k → 8%BENIE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%BENIE FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%BENIE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%BENIE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%UCSD FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

3
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
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…

7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
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
9
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
10
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
11
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
12
Institute of International Finance

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benie 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BENIE FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 · OtherBENIE FOUNDATION INCTHE HEALING PLACE INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE HEALING PLACE INCLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $15,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGYIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $25,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE OF WO…INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,030 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $1,000 · InternationalUTAH FILM CENTER — $20,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERMainly Mozart Inc — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMainly Mozart IncGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSalt Lake Arts Academy — $20,000 · EducationSalt Lake Arts A…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOU…+1 more — $500 · Education
Other$80,500International$27,030Arts & Culture$23,500Education$23,000

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 budgetBENIE FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalt Lake Arts Academy — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMainly Mozart Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Catalyst FoundationUT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catalyst Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cyber Century Forum 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 17%
  • International Youth Foundation17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cyber Century Forum?

Find your warmest path to Cyber Century Forum through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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

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