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Dodson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dodson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
88
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.0MHealth$2.7MFood & Nutrition$1.9MHuman Services$1.8MReligion$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MRecreation & Sports$721kAnimals$675kOther$0
02FY2025 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k56 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$25,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ITHACA SCHOOL DISTRICT$260,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$175,000
HOME OF THE MOTHER$100,000
GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS$100,000
WILKINSON CENTER$100,000
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE$100,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$100,000
LEE HEALTH FOUNDATIONKIDS MINDS MATTER$100,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$75,000
HAZELDON BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$75,000
ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEGUE$60,000
HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE$50,000
THE STEW POT$50,000
OVERLAKE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF THE DIVINE WILL: $25k → 16%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%BENEDICTINES OF DIVINE WILL: $25k → 10%BENEDICTINES OF DIVINE WILL: $25k → 14%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $25k → 17%BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF THE DIVINE WILL: $25k → 16%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $25k → 10%BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF THE DIVINE WILL: $25k → 10%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%BENEDICTINES OF DIVINE WILL: $25k → 10%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF THE DIVINE WILL: $25k → 10%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $75k → 14%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $50k → 14%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $30k → 10%ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $50k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $40k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $40k → 14%WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE: $35k → 14%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $25k → 15%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 14%YOUTH HAVEN: $30k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $30k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $30k → 10%HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $50k → 11%HAPPY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $50k → 11%HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $30k → 11%YOUTH HAVEN: $30k → 10%HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $30k → 11%HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE: $30k → 11%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS: $100k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS: $40k → 14%JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $50k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS: $40k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS: $40k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS: $40k → 14%GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND TEXAS: $35k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
OK
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 124 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
43

Total granted

$17M
$618k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+29%

Still filing today

65%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $633k 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 ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HO
    HOME OF THE MOTHER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $535k · revenue +174%
  • UF
    UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +57%
  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • LS
    LUTHERN SOCIAL SERVICES-CHOICES
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • CS
    College Success Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +93%
  • OH
    OAK HILLS SCHOOL DISTRICT DICK ROCHE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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3
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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4
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
5
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Luisa Piccarreta Center for the Divine Will. 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

120 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. 120 of the 187 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/120
Grantees still filing
87/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUIS-DODSON SCHOLARSHIP AT ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL: $918,500 · OtherLOUIS-DODSON SCHOLARSHIP AT ITHACA HIGH SCHOOLUS OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: $511,250 · OtherUS OLYMPIC COMMITTEENORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $395,000 · OtherCATHOLIC HOUSING SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $300,000 · Other+114 more: $6,480,000 · Other+114 moreST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $390,000 · Human ServicesST COLETTAS OF ILLI…GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC: $325,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITANS OF …WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesWHITE ROCK CENTER O…HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC: $290,000 · Human ServicesHAPPILY EVER AFTER …PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $225,000 · Human ServicesPADS TO HOPE DBA-JO…PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $225,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR OUR CO…Benedictine Daughters of Divine Will: $215,000 · Human ServicesBenedictine Daughte…YOUTH HAVEN INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVEN INCISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $158,750 · Human ServicesArt With a Heart Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC: $110,000 · Human Services+13 more: $610,000 · Human Services+13 moreUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 · EducationUW-STOUT FOUNDATI…WILKINSON CENTER: $405,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTERIndiana University Foundation: $350,000 · EducationIndiana Universit…PELOTONIA: $345,000 · EducationPELOTONIATHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $195,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY SC…PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM: $150,000 · EducationWyoming Catholic College: $145,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EducationTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $110,000 · Education+14 more: $515,000 · Education+14 moreHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $460,000 · HealthHAZELDEN B…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $415,000 · HealthCROHN'S & …OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $205,000 · HealthOVERLAKE H…Women's Accessible Medical Services PS: $110,000 · HealthWomen's Ac…FLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC: $105,000 · HealthFLORIDA LI…ASSOCIATION OF ST LAWRENCE - COMUNITA CENACOLO AMERICA INC: $95,000 · HealthASSOCIATIO…Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc: $70,000 · Health+5 more: $180,000 · Health+5 moreST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $456,500 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $230,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINE: $40,000 · Food & NutritionHOME OF THE MOTHER INC: $535,000 · ReligionHOUSE FOR PRIESTS OF DIVINE WILL: $65,000 · ReligionTHE LUISA PICCARRETA CENTER FOR THE DIVINE WILL: $30,000 · ReligionST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $220,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterCAFE OF LIFE INC: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$8,604,750Human Services$3,138,750Education$2,840,000Health$1,640,000Food & Nutrition$726,500Religion$630,000Housing & Shelter$560,000

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 budgetHOME OF THE MOTHER INC: $535,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $460,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $456,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $415,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $405,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $395,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $350,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPELOTONIA: $345,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC: $325,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetWHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC: $300,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC: $290,000 over 9y, 26% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $230,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME: $225,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $225,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBenedictine Daughters of Divine Will: $215,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetOVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $180,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $158,750 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetPONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM: $150,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWyoming Catholic College: $145,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $130,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $120,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE: $120,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $110,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS: $110,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetArt With a Heart Inc: $110,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC: $105,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $95,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSHARING LIFE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF ST LAWRENCE - COMUNITA CENACOLO AMERICA INC: $95,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetAVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVILLAGE THEATRE: $80,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $80,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 HOME OF THE MOTHER INC ↗
  • Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITANS OF GARLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITE ROCK CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds PADS TO HOPE DBA-JOURNEYS THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Benedictine Daughters of Divine Will ↗
  • Who funds OVERLAKE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK ↗
  • Who funds PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM ↗
  • Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗

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.

Collier Community Fou…Southwest Florida Com…The Richard M Schulze…Shadow Wood Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncThe United Way of Lee…American Express Foun…The United Way of Cen…Carol B Phelon Founda…The League Club IncAssociated Jewish Cha…The Chicago Community…
Collier Community Foundation IncFL25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · American Express Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Chicago Community Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Art With a Heart Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
33report 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 187 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 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
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$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