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Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies at a glance

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Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies

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.

$36M
Granted FY2024still arriving
186
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$2.5M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$32MEnvironment$19MEducation$17MPhilanthropy$14MHuman Services$12MCrime & Legal$12MHealth$10MCivil Rights$9.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 186 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $986k
  • $50k–250k76 grants · $7.2M
  • $250k+38 grants · $28M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$258M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$2,500,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$2,250,000
Individual grant recipient$2,100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$2,100,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY - STATE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND$2,000,000
COMPASSION AND CHOICES$1,000,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY$1,000,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$1,000,000
HOPEWELL FUND$1,000,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
EARTHJUSTICE$1,000,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$1,000,000
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$800,000
PRO PUBLICA$800,000
WINDWARD FUND$600,000
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 (FY20–24, $9.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $100k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $150k → 6%THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC: $130k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $225k → 28%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $300k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $100k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES: $115k → 6%BRONXWORKS INC: $150k → 28%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $100k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%BRONXWORKS INC: $50k → 28%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $250k → 14%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $100k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SAN DIEGO: $250k → 11%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $100k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $100k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $100k → 14%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE INC: $50k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $384k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $238k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $200k → 20%SAFE HORIZON INC: $125k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $75k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $75k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $500k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $500k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $500k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $500k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $500k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $337k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $75k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $200k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $200k → 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

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$148M · 199 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

199 repeat relationships: 159 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

199
60

Total granted

$148M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

78%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.8M · revenue +40%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +1%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PS
    PHILHAMRMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M
  • MF
    MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NYC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • NP
    NEO PHILANTHROPY - PROJECT A
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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4
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
5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
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
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Soulardarity. 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

208 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. 208 of the 286 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
207/208
Grantees still filing
148/208
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEO PHILANTHROPY - STATE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND: $6,000,000 · OtherNEO PHILANTHROPY - STATE INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDCOMPASSION AND CHOICES: $6,000,000 · OtherCOMPASSION AND CHOICESCOOPER UNION: $3,010,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,450,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC+101 more: $50,175,878 · Other+101 moreFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $5,925,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE HI…PRO PUBLICA INC: $1,950,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,753,500 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Con…SAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD: $1,364,000 · Arts & CultureSAG HARBOR CINEMA…THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,325,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BROOKLYN INST…FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,254,400 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100,000 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $925,000 · Arts & Culture+30 more: $8,613,600 · Arts & Culture+30 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESO…EARTHJUSTICE: $4,600,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,500,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,400,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNE…WINDWARD FUND: $1,100,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUN…+3 more: $350,000 · EnvironmentTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $8,500,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEF…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,400,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVE…FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC: $795,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF…ROCKING THE BOAT INC: $620,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP: $515,000 · Education+13 more: $1,759,250 · Education+13 moreEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $2,500,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New York: $1,950,000 · Crime & LegalNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,150,000 · Crime & LegalSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $950,000 · Crime & LegalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,760,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $400,000 · Health+4 more: $850,000 · HealthTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $1,233,810 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $750,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $450,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC: $425,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN NEED: $425,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $400,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $350,000 · Human Services+9 more: $1,710,000 · Human Services
Other$72,635,878Arts & Culture$24,210,500Environment$16,950,000Education$14,589,250Crime & Legal$11,550,000Health$10,010,000Human Services$9,618,810

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,760,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $8,500,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $5,925,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $4,600,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,500,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $2,500,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $2,250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $2,200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $2,000,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMake the Road New York: $1,950,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $1,950,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,753,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,400,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD: $1,364,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,325,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,254,400 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $1,233,810 over 5y, 12% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,150,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION: $950,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $925,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $875,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC: $795,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetWORKFORCE PROFESSIONALS TRAINING INSTITUTE: $780,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $750,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $750,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $750,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $650,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $620,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $575,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC: $560,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $550,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $550,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $550,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBA INC: $525,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗

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.

The Ford FoundationThe New York Communit…Pinkerton FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Jewish Communal FundOpen Society InstituteBrooklyn Community Fo…Altman FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Booth Ferris Foundati…Ag Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY53.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Open Society Institute · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Altman Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Ag 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 Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald a Pels Charitable Trust Utd 8/18/92 C/O Pkf O'Connor Davies. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
57report 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 286 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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