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David Bohnett Foundation at a glance

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David Bohnett Foundation

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.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
167
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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 2024.

Arts & Culture$15MEducation$9.4MCivil Rights$4.8MPublic Benefit$4.3MCommunity Improvement$3.4MHealth$3.0MScience & Tech$1.3MSocial Science$961kOther$0
02FY2024 · 167 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k107 grants · $225k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $822k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE BIDEN HALL$400,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$252,907
Individual grant recipient$228,800
LGBTQ VICTORY INSTITUTE$167,748
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$165,722
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT INC$80,000
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW UCLA FOUNDATION$80,000
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE$50,000
USC DANA AND DAVID DORNSIFE COLLEGE OF LETTERS ARTS AND SCIENCES$50,000
CENTERLINK$50,000
WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$50,000
KCRW FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $311k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE: $22k → 13%EMPOWER MISSOURI: $1k → 10%PROMO FUND: $1k → 21%MILWAUKEE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $9k → 17%UTAH PRIDE CENTER: $8k → 8%TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 14%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $9k → 10%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $300 → 22%VIET RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1k → 10%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE: $16k → 13%ENCIRCLE: $500 → 8%TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 14%VIET RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY: $1k → 10%VIET RAINBOW OF ORANGE COUNTY: $350 → 10%CENTER ON HALSTED: $2k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $1k → 14%SEXUAL MINORITY YOUTH ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $250 → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT (IRAP): $35k → 17%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 14%METRO DC COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $14k → 14%CBE-PRIDE: $1k → 14%METRO DC COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $3k → 17%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $500 → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT (IRAP): $35k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT (IRAP): $30k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT (IRAP): $30k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT (IRAP): $25k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $1k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $500 → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $100 → 14%VISTA DEL MAR: $1k → 14%PRIDE AND PROMOTE OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1k → 14%PRIDE AND PROMOTE OF LOS ANGELES INC: $1k → 14%LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY GARDEN COUNCIL: $5k → 14%MEND: $5k → 14%MEND: $901 → 14%HAVEN SERVICES: $3k → 14%HAVEN SERVICES: $2k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 14%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
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OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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CO
MO
WV
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MD
DE
AZ
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NC
DC
OK
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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.
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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 17% of David Bohnett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 25%.

David Bohnett Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 51% 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 176 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

176 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

176
199

Total granted

$38M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+33%

Still filing today

65%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • LA
    LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +172%
  • MA
    MUSEUM ASSOCIATES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +89%
  • LV
    LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC VILLAGE OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -21%
  • GW
    GENSPACE WALLIS ANNENBERG LEGACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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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Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
2
Glaad Inc

Founded forty years ago, glaad is the world's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ("lgbtq") media advocacy organization promoting and ensuring fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and issues across all…

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3
Equality California

To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.

Civil Rights
4
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network Dba Gsa Network

To empower and train LGBTQ students and young people to organize and advocate for safe schools and healthy communities.

Civil Rights
5
National Lesbian and Gay Law Foundation

To promote activities that will enable lgbtq+ and allied attorneys to become more proficient in their profession; to provide education and networking opportunities through conferences and programs for lgbtq+ and ally legal professionals;…

Civil Rights
6
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
7
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
8
San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Inc

San diego lesbian gay bisexual transgender pride, inc. is a non-profit volunteer-led human rights and arts & culture organization. its mission is to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender…

Civil Rights
9
National Lesbian and Gay Law Association

Nlgbtq+ bar association's purpose is to promote justice in and through the legal profession for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community (referred to collectively as the community) and its allies, and to provide a means to…

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10
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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11
Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
12
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc

The transgender legal defense and education fund is committed to ending discrimination based on gender identity and expression, and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. 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

261 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. 261 of the 418 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)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
251/261
Grantees still filing
179/261
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $6,738,000 · OtherLA PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC VILLAGE: $4,001,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC VILLAGEIndividual grant recipient: $1,641,697 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $1,228,062 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $1,120,731 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE BIDEN HALL: $1,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA USC VILLAGE OFFICE OF GIFT PLANNING: $1,000,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $977,419 · Other+128 more: $7,423,214 · Other+128 moreLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $4,150,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHAR…MUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATESKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $1,160,154 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin M…WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $290,750 · Arts & Culture+16 more: $512,126 · Arts & Culture+16 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,066,950 · EducationUNIVERSITY…+8 more: $204,495 · EducationLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc: $1,298,717 · Civil RightsLGBTQ Vic…MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $771,500 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT …CENTERLINK INC: $378,576 · Civil RightsCENTERLIN…HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $295,642 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIG…LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $140,250 · Civil RightsIMMIGRATION EQUALITY: $135,175 · Civil RightsGUNSDOWN INC: $129,492 · Civil Rights+13 more: $546,319 · Civil Rights+13 moreTHE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,002,500 · Community Improvement+4 more: $103,025 · Community ImprovementBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $137,700 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $135,000 · Crime & LegalVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $100,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $41,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $304,311 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $24,567 · PhilanthropySoaring Spirits International: $13,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$25,130,623Arts & Culture$7,913,030Education$4,271,445Civil Rights$3,695,671Community Improvement$3,105,525Crime & Legal$424,200Philanthropy$399,878

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $4,150,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4,066,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $1,800,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLGBTQ Victory Institute Inc: $1,298,717 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC: $1,228,062 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $1,160,154 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $1,120,731 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $771,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetCENTERLINK INC: $378,576 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $310,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $304,311 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $295,642 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $290,750 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $209,250 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $179,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BIDEN FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $140,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $137,700 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetIMMIGRATION EQUALITY: $135,175 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGUNSDOWN INC: $129,492 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND: $116,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCICLAVIA INC: $115,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetEducational Fund to Stop Gun Violence: $110,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGlobal Impact: $102,781 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $100,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $95,030 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $95,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPFLAG: $81,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTORYCORPS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOUTFEST: $77,786 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern California Streets Initiative: $76,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetNational Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance Inc dba NQAPIA: $66,233 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $65,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC: $57,822 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRYD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $41,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGETTY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA: $40,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds THE KENNEDY-WARREN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds LGBTQ Victory Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CENTERLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BIDEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRATION EQUALITY ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUNSDOWN INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CICLAVIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗

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.

Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Wellne…Centerlink IncThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…The California Endowm…California Community …Weingart FoundationHorizons FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rosalinde and Art…
Liberty Hill FoundationCA46.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Centerlink Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The California Endowment · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Horizons Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert 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 David Bohnett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Bohnett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Pride Center of Vermont Inc: 37% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Centerlink Inc: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
68report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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

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How do I get to David Bohnett Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David Bohnett Foundation 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 418 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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