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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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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.

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

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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…

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; 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 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

Catalyst FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • International Youth Foundation: 17% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 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-PF 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home