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Democracy Fund 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.

$49M
Granted FY2024still arriving
237
Grants FY2024still arriving
32
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$101MPhilanthropy$67MArts & Culture$46MCivil Rights$36MEducation$35MInternational$9.1MSocial Science$8.7MCrime & Legal$6.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 237 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $317k
  • $50k–250k167 grants · $24M
  • $250k+55 grants · $25M
$165,000
Median grant
32
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Venture Fund$1,500,000
Solutions Project Inc$1,500,000
Borealis Philanthropy$1,020,000
JustFundUs$934,000
Hopewell Fund$750,000
The Project on Government Oversight Inc$750,000
New Venture Fund$720,000
Free Press$700,000
Democracy Forward Foundation$700,000
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law$600,000
People's Action Institute$560,000
Proteus Fund Inc$550,000
Partnership for Public Service Inc$525,000
Center for Media Justice$500,000
State Leadership Project$500,000
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 (FY18–24, $8.4M) 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%Hope CommUnity Center Inc: $250k → 13%Welcoming America Inc: $300k → 14%State Power Fund: $400k → 12%Instituto Lab LLC: $150k → 11%Ayni Institute Inc: $300k → 16%Hope CommUnity Center Inc: $250k → 13%Welcoming America Inc: $250k → 14%We the Veterans Foundation: $175k → 6%Ayni Institute Inc: $250k → 16%Welcoming America Inc: $250k → 14%We the Veterans Foundation: $100k → 6%Welcoming America Inc: $200k → 14%Welcoming America Inc: $200k → 14%Welcoming America Inc: $150k → 14%National Partnership for New Americans: $100k → 14%Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans: $200k → 11%Translash Media Inc: $150k → 20%National Partnership for New Americans: $100k → 14%ACCESS: $150k → 21%National Partnership for New Americans: $100k → 14%National Partnership for New Americans: $100k → 14%National Partnership for New Americans: $100k → 14%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $250k → 10%National Partnership for New Americans: $100k → 14%ACCESS: $100k → 21%Kairos Fellowship Inc: $600k → 17%Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services Access: $100k → 21%Tides Center: $300k → 10%Kairos Fellowship Inc: $350k → 17%Tides Center: $100k → 10%Translash Media Inc: $150k → 17%Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project Inc: $125k → 17%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc: $125k → 17%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc: $125k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project: $200k → 17%Documented Ltd: $150k → 17%Documented Ltd: $150k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $100k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project: $100k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $100k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project: $100k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project: $100k → 17%More in Common: $400k → 17%More in Common Inc: $150k → 17%More in Common Inc: $150k → 17%Take The Lead Inc: $75k → 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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NH
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NY
MA
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IN
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MO
KY
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AZ
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TN
NC
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.
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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 8% of Democracy Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Democracy Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$246M · 275 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

275 repeat relationships: 142 still active in FY2024, 133 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

275
123

Total granted

$246M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+12%

Still filing today

89%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M 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
EducationCivil RightsArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +191%
  • PO
    PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +17%
  • BP
    BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Center for Investigative Report
    one grant, 2017 · $1.8M
  • TL
    THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF
    one grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue +4%
  • RC
    Reporters Committee Freedom of the
    one grant, 2017 · $400k
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
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
2
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
The National Bureau of Asian Research

Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…

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6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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8
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
9
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
10
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
11
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
12
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Field Foundation of Illinois. 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

398 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. 398 of the 463 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.

36
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
386/398
Grantees still filing
263/398
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEO Philanthropy Inc: $8,015,307 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy I…PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $6,800,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNM…BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $4,375,000 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN POLICY …THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $4,140,000 · Public BenefitTHE CENTER FOR PUB…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $3,220,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCA…ISSUE ONE: $2,580,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONECENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE: $1,910,000 · Public Benefit+18 more: $15,879,750 · Public Benefit+18 morePROTEUS FUND INC: $3,835,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INCGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,550,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVER…INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $3,245,733 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR NON…New York University: $2,746,240 · EducationNew York Universi…R STREET INSTITUTE: $2,305,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,107,076 · EducationMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,090,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $2,000,000 · EducationONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION: $1,565,000 · Education+25 more: $18,533,029 · Education+25 moreBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $4,820,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILA…AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $4,500,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURN…FREE PRESS: $3,900,000 · Arts & CultureFREE PRESSPRO PUBLICA INC: $3,700,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA IN…AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE INC: $2,175,230 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRESS…ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,915,000 · Arts & CultureRobert C Maynard Institute for Journalism Education: $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureCITY BUREAU NFP: $1,660,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $1,480,000 · Arts & CultureBUSINESS FORWARD FOUNDATION: $1,355,000 · Arts & CultureNEWS REVENUE HUB INC: $1,280,000 · Arts & CultureBold Impact: $1,275,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $6,777,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $10,320,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOU…HOPEWELL FUND: $4,390,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLIN…SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,860,000 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMM…JUSTFUNDUS: $1,824,000 · PhilanthropyJUSTFUNDUSCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $1,765,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,610,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $1,575,000 · PhilanthropyRose Community Foundation: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyPillars Fund: $1,350,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $3,120,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $3,190,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $3,000,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $3,825,000 · Other+71 more: $66,674,549 · Other+71 morePROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $4,150,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DE…DEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $3,375,000 · Civil RightsDEMOCRACY …NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $2,000,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL I…The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $1,835,000 · Civil RightsThe Center…AMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC: $1,242,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CIVIC DESIGN INC: $1,224,000 · Civil RightsMUCKROCK FOUNDATION INC: $1,120,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES: $1,075,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $987,500 · Civil Rights+17 more: $10,318,239 · Civil Rights+17 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $18,953,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Project Inc: $1,500,000 · Environment+1 more: $400,000 · Environment
Public Benefit$46,920,057Education$43,977,078Arts & Culture$36,637,730Philanthropy$33,314,000Other$76,689,549Civil Rights$27,326,739Environment$20,853,000

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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $18,953,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $10,320,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $8,015,307 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $6,800,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $4,820,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $4,500,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $4,390,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $4,375,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $4,150,000 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $4,140,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetFREE PRESS: $3,900,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $3,835,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $3,825,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $3,700,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,550,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC: $3,375,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS: $3,245,733 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $3,220,000 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $3,190,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,860,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,746,240 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISSUE ONE: $2,580,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $2,435,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES: $2,425,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $2,375,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $2,320,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $2,305,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $2,245,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE INC: $2,175,230 over 5y, 10% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,107,076 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,090,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $2,000,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $2,000,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,915,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE: $1,910,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $1,853,400 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetTHE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: $1,850,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $1,835,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetJUSTFUNDUS: $1,824,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRobert C Maynard Institute for Journalism Education: $1,800,000 over 7y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $1,765,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCITY BUREAU NFP: $1,660,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,610,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $1,575,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION: $1,565,000 over 5y, 12% 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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds R STREET INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRESS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE ↗
  • Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
  • Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗

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.

Foundation to Promote…The Ford FoundationThe William & Flora H…John D and Catherine …New Venture FundJohn S and James L Kn…NEO Philanthropy IncRockefeller Brothers …Amalgamated Charitabl…Wellspring Philanthro…Carnegie Corporation …Proteus Fund Inc
Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNY114.5× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · New Venture Fund · John S and James L Knight Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Proteus Fund Inc

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope Community Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 463 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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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