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Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

The DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated exclusively to finding permanent homes for more than 150,000 children waiting in north america's foster care systems.

$32M
Granted FY2025still arriving
135
Grants FY2025still arriving
45
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$200MHealth$2.0MPhilanthropy$2.0MYouth Development$1.7MArts & Culture$1.5MCommunity Improvement$971kEducation$717kEmployment$645kOther$0
02FY2025 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k92 grants · $10M
  • $250k+30 grants · $21M
$95,000
Median grant
45
States reached
$117M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA INC$3,056,524
CARING FOR KIDS INC$2,116,250
RAISE THE FUTURE$2,060,348
MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$1,251,562
ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK INC$1,186,500
NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES$1,131,000
BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES OF GEORGIA$954,800
FRANKLIN COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES$557,800
CHILDREN'S HOME OF WYOMING CONFERENCE$550,000
GATEWAY-LONGVIEW INC$550,000
FOCUS ON YOUTH INC$528,600
HAMILTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF JOB AND FAMILY SERVICES$465,000
SJRC TEXAS$461,250
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH OF OHIO$456,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA$450,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $113.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $420k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME OF WYOMING CONFERENCE: $550k → 20%SJRC TEXAS: $461k → 7%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST: $560k → 11%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3.1M → 8%RAISE THE FUTURE: $2.1M → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $529k → 12%SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH OF OHIO: $448k → 13%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $1.1M → 16%SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH OF OHIO: $456k → 17%ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK INC: $1.2M → 18%GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST: $560k → 11%RAISE THE FUTURE: $3.0M → 8%RAISE THE FUTURE: $1.4M → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $525k → 12%SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH: $419k → 13%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $1.1M → 16%ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK INC: $922k → 18%AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS (AASK) - AZ: $419k → 11%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $440k → 14%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $2.0M → 8%FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $398k → 12%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $1.0M → 16%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $1.7M → 8%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $765k → 16%ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK INC: $1.0M → 18%RAISE THE FUTURE: $1.5M → 8%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $450k → 16%ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK INC: $905k → 18%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $2.5M → 9%THE ADOPTION EXCHANGE: $605k → 8%THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA INC: $3.1M → 16%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $427k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $900k → 9%PARSONS CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER: $440k → 14%THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA INC: $2.9M → 16%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $420k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $900k → 9%THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA INC: $2.1M → 16%CARING FOR KIDS INC: $2.1M → 13%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $420k → 16%THE VILLAGES OF INDIANA INC: $1.2M → 16%CARING FOR KIDS INC: $2.0M → 13%NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $415k → 16%CARING FOR KIDS INC: $1.4M → 13%CARING FOR KIDS INC: $1.2M → 13%CARING FOR KIDS INC: $600k → 13%CARING FOR KIDS INC: $488k → 13%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

AK
ME
VT
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WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207M · 175 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 121 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
24

Total granted

$207M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RT
    RAISE THE FUTURE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +169% · 37% of their budget
  • TV
    The Villages of Indiana Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +52%
  • CF
    CARING FOR KIDS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.0M · revenue +103% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    ARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $446k
  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $169k · revenue +48%
  • EF
    EMBRACE FAMILIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -96%
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.

1
Family & Children Services Inc

Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.

Human Services
2
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
3
Concern - Professional Services for Children Youth and Families

Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.

Human Services
4
Casey Family Programs
Philanthropy
5
Childnet Youth & Family Services

To provide safe homes, education and counseling to vulnerable children and families. the program philosophy reinforces personal responsibility and emphasizes the need for a strong family unit.

Human Services
6
Centers for Children and Families Inc

Centers for children & families, inc. exists to improve quality of life and strengthen the communities we serve through counseling, education and supportive services

Human Services
7
New Families Inc

Established to recruit, train, and provide extensive services to foster family homes so that children who were in, or might otherwise be placed in, residential treatment facilities can be placed and maintained in foster homes.provides…

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8
Family Focus Adoption Services

Family focus adoption services ("family focus") was founded in 1987 by a group of new york and new jersey adoptive parents, social workers, and other adoption advocates, out of the belef that every child who needs a permanent adoptive…

Human Services
9
Adoption Options

Adoption options is a non-profit,colorado corporation, dedicated to providing the state of colorado with a range of private, non-secretarian child placement services.

Human Services
10
Children's Friend and Service

The mission of children's friend and service (the organization) is to be the innovative leader in improving the well-being and healthy development of rhode island's most vulnerable young children. they accomplish this by providing flexible…

Human Services
11
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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12
Family Services Inc

To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Strong Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Adoptee Mentoring Society. 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

166 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 166 of the 213 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/166
Grantees still filing
120/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAISE THE FUTURE: $15,655,405 · Human ServicesRAISE THE FUTUREThe Villages of Indiana Inc: $9,940,678 · Human ServicesThe Villages of Indiana IncCARING FOR KIDS INC: $9,018,970 · Human ServicesCARING FOR KIDS INCChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $7,332,264 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina IncNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $6,177,475 · Human ServicesADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $5,608,900 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $4,492,000 · Human Services+88 more: $66,275,229 · Human Services+88 moreCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY: $9,193,500 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5,046,308 · OtherBETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICESHAMILTON COUNTY - BOARD OF ELECTIONS: $4,849,279 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY - BOARD OF ELECTIONSALCOHOL DRUG AND MENTAL HEALTH BOARD OF: $3,202,300 · OtherMICHIGAN DEP OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $3,197,500 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY MONTGOMERY COUNTY: $2,806,215 · OtherSUMMIT COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES: $2,793,295 · OtherLOUISIANA DEPT OF CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $2,715,000 · Other+76 more: $41,241,912 · Other+76 moreCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $1,771,701 · HealthCHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC: $636,300 · HealthTrauma Free World: $470,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES INC: $420,000 · HealthYELLOWSTONE BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $295,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY BASED CARE OF BREVARD INC: $175,000 · HealthLakeview Center Inc: $157,500 · Health+1 more: $100,000 · HealthGATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $1,900,000 · PhilanthropyGENERATIONS UNITED INC: $370,000 · PhilanthropyWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $1,322,500 · EducationEastern Washington University Foundation: $420,000 · EducationVOICE FOR ADOPTION: $107,000 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationFAMILY EQUALITY: $76,600 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Education+2 more: $89,949 · EducationMISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,389,900 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WY INC: $645,000 · Employment
Human Services$124,500,921Other$75,045,309Health$4,025,501Philanthropy$2,270,000Education$2,181,049Arts & Culture$1,414,900Employment$645,000

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 budgetRAISE THE FUTURE: $15,655,405 over 9y, 37% of budgetThe Villages of Indiana Inc: $9,940,678 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS INC: $9,018,970 over 9y, 31% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $7,332,264 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES: $6,177,475 over 9y, 38% of budgetADOPT AMERICA NETWORK: $5,608,900 over 9y, 39% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $4,492,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $2,581,000 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetAID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA: $2,310,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC: $2,239,400 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetPARSONS CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER: $2,197,900 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC: $2,125,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC: $2,117,462 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $2,067,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $1,988,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF WYOMING CONFERENCE: $1,975,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetGATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION: $1,900,000 over 7y, 47% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $1,818,600 over 4y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC: $1,771,701 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetHope for Youth Inc: $1,615,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Methodist Family Services of Virginia: $1,559,160 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetKLINGBERG COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,520,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetADOPTION RHODE ISLAND: $1,440,000 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $1,390,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetMISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,389,900 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetSpaulding for Children: $1,387,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetLund Family Center Inc: $1,374,500 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetSPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $1,325,000 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetWOODFORDS FAMILY SERVICES: $1,322,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetHILLSIDE FOUNDATION: $1,310,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $1,306,950 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $1,290,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDNET INC: $1,290,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities North Dakota: $1,290,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,290,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FAMILY SERVICES: $1,254,666 over 8y, 19% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF POUGHKEEPSIE INC: $1,175,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $1,156,616 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc: $1,095,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $1,066,616 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER FOR YOUTH: $1,050,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCITRUS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $1,010,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $995,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $970,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC: $904,100 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILIES RISING: $833,000 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetOne Hope United - Florida Region: $809,600 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetADOPTION CENTER OF DELAWARE VALLEY: $804,750 over 7y, 81% 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.

  • Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds The Villages of Indiana Inc ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO ADOPTION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds AID TO ADOPTION OF SPECIAL KIDS AASK ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds PARSONS CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GROWING HOME SOUTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF WYOMING CONFERENCE ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY-LONGVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope for Youth Inc ↗
  • Who funds United Methodist Family Services of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds KLINGBERG COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADOPTION RHODE ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Ticket to Dream Found…Casey Family ProgramsHearts to Homes Furni…Annie E Casey Foundat…Redlich Horwitz Found…Oneohio Recovery Foun…Tickets for Kids Foun…Ohio Assoc Cnty Behav…Mother Cabrini Health…Ohio Children's Allia…Interact for HealthWorkforce Professiona…
Ticket to Dream FoundationCA37.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ticket to Dream Foundation · Casey Family Programs · Hearts to Homes Furnishings Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Redlich Horwitz Foundation · Oneohio Recovery Foundation Inc · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Ohio Assoc Cnty Behavioral Hlth Auth Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Ohio Children's Alliance · Interact for Health · Workforce Professionals Training Institute

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 Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Lund Family Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc: 23% of income from government
  • FosterClub Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • The Contingent: 5% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon: 3% of income from government
  • Citrus Health Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lakeview Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Children's Aid and Family Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Family Support Services of North Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Camelot Community Care Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 213 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 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
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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