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Dalio Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51M
Granted FY2024still arriving
214
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$6.9M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$22MPhilanthropy$17MHealth$15MScience & Tech$13MCommunity Improvement$7.7MHuman Services$3.9MInternational$3.9MYouth Development$3.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 214 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k89 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k65 grants · $6.4M
  • $250k+41 grants · $43M
$45,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$1.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TISBEST PHILANTHROPY$6,901,200
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$5,000,000
SAINT ANDREWS SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC$3,000,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$3,000,000
GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC$2,250,000
CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC$2,000,000
DAVID LYNCH FDN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE$1,025,000
SCRATCH FOUNDATION$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$1,000,000
DOMUS KIDS INC$1,000,000
GRAMEEN AMERICA INC$1,000,000
OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC$1,000,000
COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE INC$1,000,000
NIA TERO FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INC$1,000,000
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.

US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($92M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($11M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DESDAS GRATE INC: $10k → 9%SILVER BAY ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE AND TRAINING: $250k → 10%BUDDYS SECOND CHANCE RESCUE INC: $8k → 13%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $1.0M → 11%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $125k → 23%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $25k → 26%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $25k → 10%FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PALM BEACH: $25k → 11%MARIAN CENTER SCHOOL AND SERVICES: $1k → 15%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $29k → 11%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $25k → 14%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $25k → 10%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%NEW STORY INC: $500k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $25k → 10%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $10k → 11%UNITED METHODIST CITY SOCIETY: $25k → 17%NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER: $25k → 12%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $10k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE INC: $10k → 11%THE CARVER INC: $450k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $25k → 9%TEDDY MALONEY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $50k → 9%BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE INC: $50k → 17%ASIA INITIATIVES: $10k → 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

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Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($11M)

5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
China$8.4M · 4 grants
Mexico$1.4M · 7 grants
United Arab Emirates$831k · 1 grant
Indonesia$406k · 1 grant
Canada$15k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Dalio Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dalio Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43M · 32 repeat orgs$43M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 155 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
109

Total granted

$43M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+30%

Still filing today

91%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $11M · revenue +35%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +8%
  • CR
    CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +36% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • BD
    BEIJING DALIO PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $8.4M
  • TH
    THE HENRY M PAULSON JR INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -59% · 76% of their budget
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $595k
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.

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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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2
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
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
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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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Manhattanville University

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

Education
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New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu. 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

270 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. 270 of the 310 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
266/270
Grantees still filing
157/270
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $3,020,000 · EducationSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOO…CONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC: $2,134,903 · EducationCONNECTICUT RISE NET…GIRLTREK INCORPORATED: $2,000,000 · EducationGIRLTREK INCORPORATE…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,642,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER…SAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $1,569,116 · EducationSAINT ANN'S SCHOOLUniversity of New Haven: $1,010,000 · EducationUniversity of New Ha…+29 more: $3,401,418 · Education+29 moreBEIJING DALIO PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION: $8,370,000 · OtherBEIJING DALIO PUBLIC WELFARE FOUND…DOMUS KIDS INC: $1,095,625 · OtherOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $1,049,250 · OtherNIA TERO FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 · OtherCOMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $1,202,350 · Other+100 more: $17,091,153 · Other+100 moreWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $10,875,000 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANO…WATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $2,338,598 · Science & TechWATERFORD INSTITU…Scratch Foundation: $1,000,000 · Science & TechScratch Foundatio…+5 more: $1,024,674 · Science & Tech+5 moreTISBEST PHILANTHROPY: $6,901,200 · PhilanthropyTISBEST PHILANT…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,025,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHI…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,155,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUN…DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $1,140,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH FOU…AVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $970,340 · Philanthropy+8 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $8,333,333 · HealthNEW YORK-P…+11 more: $1,315,000 · Health+11 moreGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $2,250,000 · Community ImprovementGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $2,100,000 · Community ImprovementTED FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $277,600 · Community ImprovementTICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE: $250,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $2,250,000 · InternationalTHE HENRY M PAULSON JR INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $500,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $200,000 · International+14 more: $988,000 · International
Education$18,077,437Other$30,158,378Science & Tech$15,238,272Philanthropy$13,691,540Health$9,648,333Community Improvement$7,027,600International$5,938,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $10,875,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $8,333,333 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTISBEST PHILANTHROPY: $6,901,200 over 1y, 74% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,025,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC: $3,020,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWATERFORD INSTITUTE INC: $2,338,598 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $2,250,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $2,250,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT RISE NETWORK INC: $2,134,903 over 2y, 30% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $2,100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGIRLTREK INCORPORATED: $2,000,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetTHE HENRY M PAULSON JR INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetTED FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,642,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANN'S SCHOOL: $1,569,116 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNIA TERO FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetCOMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $1,202,350 over 1y, 23% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,155,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $1,140,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC: $1,095,625 over 2y, 10% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $1,049,250 over 1y, 10% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $1,010,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScratch Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetConnecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention Inc: $926,420 over 1y, 31% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAVATAR ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $487,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $450,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $450,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $400,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIOSPHERE FOUNDATION FORMERLY PLANETARY CORAL REEF FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 80% of budgetLA SCUOLA D ITALIA-GUGLIELMO MARCONI: $350,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $277,600 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE YEARS PROJECT INC: $275,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTICONDEROGA REVILTALIZATION ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGAMES FOR CHANGE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 5.7% 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.

Dalio Family Fund IncCT174.7× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dalio Family Fund Inc · Tisbest Philanthropy · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The New York Community Trust · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Sun Scholars Inc: 87% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Catalyst Ct Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc: 21% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
  • Compass Youth Collaborative: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Connecticut Violence Intervention & Prevention Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut Rise Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dalio Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dalio Foundation Inc 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 310 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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