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Dekalb County Community Foundation

Our purpose is to serve donors in achieving their philanthropic objectives, to create and build a lasting source of revenue to benefit the residents of our community, and to provide leadership and resources in addressing community needs.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
119
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$225k
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 2024.

Human Services$3.2MEducation$3.2MArts & Culture$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MAnimals$966kOther$0
02FY2025 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 119 grants below total $4,018,554, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,077,749 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,059,195 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $246k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.4M
$14,372
Median grant
3
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKEN ACRES WILDLIFE CENTER$225,433
ROOTED FOR GOOD$180,113
TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY$170,764
KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA$149,670
HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALBE COUNTY INC$142,953
DEKALB COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$136,212
OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CE$121,440
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN$115,289
KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE - FOUNDATION$109,619
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB$109,490
KISHWAUKEE UNITED WAY$108,774
SAFE PASSAGES INC$107,460
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE$91,453
CITY OF DEKALB$90,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DEKALB COUN$88,395
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EQUINE DREAMS: $22k → 13%EQUINE DREAMS: $20k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $150k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $101k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $97k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $71k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $71k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $53k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $48k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $44k → 13%FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL: $40k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $37k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $26k → 13%KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $221k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $161k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $148k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CE: $132k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $130k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $128k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $128k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $126k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CENTER: $126k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT CE: $121k → 13%OAK CREST DEKALB AREA RETIREMENT: $120k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $107k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $97k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $94k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $93k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $45k → 13%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $36k → 13%DEKALB AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $36k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $35k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $34k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $34k → 13%PROEJCT HOPE: $30k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $27k → 13%PROEJCT HOPE: $25k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $24k → 13%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHIL: $24k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $23k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $23k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $21k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $21k → 13%DEKALB AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $20k → 13%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $19k → 13%4-C COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $19k → 13%SAFE PASSAGES INC: $19k → 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

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PA
NJ
CA
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DC
AL
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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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 160 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

160 repeat relationships: 105 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

160
76

Total granted

$24M
$836k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

56%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • DA
    DeKalb Area Retirement Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +39%
  • HH
    HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $976k · revenue +34%
  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $862k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • OM
    OLMSTEAD MEMORIAL MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue -64% · 51% of their budget
  • DC
    DEKALB COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • KT
    KINGSTON TOWNSHIP PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
2
Classical Music Chicago

Presenting free high-quality classical music performances and music education experiences in the Chicago metropolitan area for people of all ages and degrees of musical awareness so they can experience how music enriches life.

Arts & Culture
3
Cedille Chicago Nfp

Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Wind Symphony
Arts & Culture
5
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
6
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
7
Concordia University Chicago

Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…

Education
8
Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation

To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.

Public Benefit
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
11
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's mission as a professional orchestra is to utilize the universal expression of music to create profound, inspiring, and personal connections between the people and communities of Chicagos Southland.

Arts & Culture
12
The Chicago High School for the Arts

The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Jon. 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

136 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. 136 of the 254 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.

27
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/136
Grantees still filing
99/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $634,578 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $596,950 · OtherOAKEN ACRES WILDLIFE CENTER: $586,343 · OtherTAILS HUMANE SOCIETY: $508,160 · Other+150 more: $11,171,852 · Other+150 moreDeKalb Area Retirement Center: $1,159,496 · Human ServicesDeKalb Area Reti…SAFE PASSAGE INC: $862,058 · Human ServicesSAFE PASSAGE INCKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $573,317 · Human ServicesKISHWAUKEE FAMIL…CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC: $227,030 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS LEARNI…FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $224,217 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF JANE …COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $183,676 · Human Services+8 more: $412,053 · Human Services+8 moreKishwaukee United Way: $998,028 · PhilanthropyKishwaukee Un…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $706,774 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $621,029 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACT…ROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $329,913 · PhilanthropyROCHELLE AREA…BARB FOOD MART NFP: $291,190 · PhilanthropyBARB FOOD MAR…WATERMAN LIONS CLUB CHARITIES INCORPORATED: $106,877 · Philanthropy+1 more: $69,800 · PhilanthropyPRESERVATION OF EGYPTIAN THEATRE INC: $584,313 · Arts & CulturePRESERVAT…DeKalb County History Center: $470,018 · Arts & CultureDeKalb Co…ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $222,009 · Arts & CultureELLWOOD H…KVAL NFP: $157,820 · Arts & CultureKVAL NFPSTAGE COACH PLAYERS INC: $112,635 · Arts & CultureJoseph F Glidden Homestead and Historical Center: $110,880 · Arts & CultureHINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $109,858 · Arts & CultureDEKALB AREA AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $92,912 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $307,342 · Arts & Culture+9 moreHOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $975,882 · Housing & ShelterBarb City Manor Inc: $238,446 · Housing & ShelterOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC: $520,544 · EmploymentOPEN DOOR REHABILITATION CENTER: $224,244 · EmploymentFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $99,003 · EmploymentDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS: $673,574 · Community ImprovementDEKALB COUNTY NURSING HOME FOUNDATION IN: $145,951 · Community Improvement+1 more: $11,623 · Community Improvement
Other$13,497,883Human Services$3,641,847Philanthropy$3,123,611Arts & Culture$2,167,787Housing & Shelter$1,214,328Employment$843,791Community Improvement$831,148

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 budgetDeKalb Area Retirement Center: $1,159,496 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetKishwaukee United Way: $998,028 over 9y, 52% of budgetHOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $975,882 over 9y, 10% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $862,058 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS: $673,574 over 8y, 16% of budgetKISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $634,578 over 9y, 7.3% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS: $621,029 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $596,950 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetOAKEN ACRES WILDLIFE CENTER: $586,343 over 8y, 31% of budgetPRESERVATION OF EGYPTIAN THEATRE INC: $584,313 over 9y, 10% of budgetKISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA: $573,317 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC: $520,544 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTAILS HUMANE SOCIETY: $508,160 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetDeKalb County History Center: $470,018 over 9y, 18% of budgetKISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $430,377 over 9y, 57% of budgetCASA DeKalb County Inc: $379,812 over 9y, 13% of budgetROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $329,913 over 4y, 31% of budgetTANZANIA DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT NFP: $313,213 over 9y, 48% of budgetBARB FOOD MART NFP: $291,190 over 9y, 34% of budgetADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $275,488 over 9y, 11% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC: $266,897 over 9y, 15% of budgetBarb City Manor Inc: $238,446 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DEKALB COUNTY: $234,833 over 6y, 50% of budgetCHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC: $227,030 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $225,390 over 9y, 39% of budgetOPEN DOOR REHABILITATION CENTER: $224,244 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $224,217 over 8y, 32% of budgetELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $222,009 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetELDER CARE SERVICES OF DEKALB COUNTY INC: $212,576 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetWE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER: $207,744 over 7y, 16% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL: $189,991 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC: $183,676 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNETWORK OF NATIONS INCORPORATED: $179,589 over 9y, 43% of budgetFOX VALLEY OLDER ADULT SERVICES: $169,361 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetKVAL NFP: $157,820 over 9y, 41% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY NURSING HOME FOUNDATION IN: $145,951 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetDeKalb Education Foundation: $137,513 over 9y, 62% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $136,601 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP: $132,815 over 8y, 17% of budgetSTAGE COACH PLAYERS INC: $112,635 over 8y, 40% of budgetJoseph F Glidden Homestead and Historical Center: $110,880 over 7y, 40% of budgetWalcamp Outdoor Ministries Inc: $110,125 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHINCKLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $109,858 over 8y, 20% of budgetWATERMAN LIONS CLUB CHARITIES INCORPORATED: $106,877 over 7y, 54% of budgetDEKALB COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $100,528 over 6y, 59% of budgetDeKalb Area Womens Center: $100,418 over 7y, 79% of budgetNEIGHBORS HOUSE NFP: $100,018 over 9y, 23% of budgetFARMWORKER AND LANDSCAPER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $99,003 over 5y, 2.5% 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 DeKalb Area Retirement Center ↗
  • Who funds Kishwaukee United Way ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OAKEN ACRES WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVATION OF EGYPTIAN THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds TAILS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DeKalb County History Center ↗
  • Who funds KISHWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds CASA DeKalb County Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCHELLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT NFP ↗
  • Who funds BARB FOOD MART NFP ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTURE WORKS OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds DEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Barb City Manor Inc ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DEKALB COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SYCAMORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JANE ADENY MEMORIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ELDER CARE SERVICES OF DEKALB COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗

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.

Ideal Industries Foun…Northwestern Memorial…Douglas C & Lynn M Ro…Northern Illinois Foo…Sycamore Charities In…Nebraska Community Fo…Me Stevens-Acct A-Chu…George E& Betty Bdutt…Northwestern Memorial…Community Foundation …The Bersted FoundationKishwaukee United Way
Ideal Industries FoundationIL64.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ideal Industries Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Douglas C & Lynn M Roberts Family Foundation · Northern Illinois Food Bank · Sycamore Charities Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Nebraska Community Foundation · Me Stevens-Acct A-Church Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · George E& Betty Bdutton Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley · The Bersted Foundation · Kishwaukee United Way

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 254 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