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Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
At donor advised charitable giving, inc., our mission is to increase charitable giving in the united states by offering advantageous ways to give useful information and unbiased guidance.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64,697 grants below total $8,622,080,209 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,872,852,963 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,772,754 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14854 grants · $104M
- $10k–50k33690 grants · $714M
- $50k–250k12536 grants · $1.3B
- $250k+3617 grants · $6.5B
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $976,570,217 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $272,403,517 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $161,539,525 |
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $155,395,322 |
| 85 FUND | $148,300,000 |
| LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART | $93,000,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES | $89,665,347 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $62,403,766 |
| 50CAN INC | $58,981,430 |
| CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION | $54,611,500 |
| GLOBAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT | $53,948,094 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $49,296,424 |
| MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC | $47,215,290 |
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS | $46,642,412 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $40,859,706 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $260.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
1792 repeat relationships — 1728 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0B · revenue +64%- LMLUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART5× · 2017–2025 · $721M · revenue +41%
- T8THE 85 FUND4× · 2022–2025 · $591M · revenue +25% · 99% of their budget
Funded once
- WMWAIMEA MALAMA INCone grant, 2024 · $8.5M
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR BATON ROUGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $7.6M · revenue +170%
- EBENGINEERING BIOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUMone grant, 2022 · $7.0M · revenue -87% · 96% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.
Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is The Tech Interactive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1700 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1700 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART ↗
- Who funds THE 85 FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Schmidt Ocean Institute ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Elkind Family Foundation · The Feibusch Foundation · Penner Family Foundation Inc · D and R Fund · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · Waterproof Foundation Inc · Barlow Family Foundation · Cfleads · Otis & Elizabeth Chandler Foundation · Shearwater Foundation Inc · The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation · Altsheler-Durell Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.