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Donors Trust Inc

Support charities & sponsor programs which alleviate, through education, research & private initiatives, society's most pervasive and radical needs, including those relating to social welfare, health, environment, economics, foreign relations, arts and culture.

$284M
Granted FY2024still arriving
919
Grants FY2024still arriving
49
States reached
$35M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$301MEducation$180MCivil Rights$158MPhilanthropy$153MCrime & Legal$68MInternational$60MArts & Culture$60MReligion$59MOther$0
02FY2024 · 919 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k115 grants · $815k
  • $10k–50k333 grants · $6.4M
  • $50k–250k282 grants · $30M
  • $250k+189 grants · $245M
$50,000
Median grant
49
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital$35,000,000
America First Legal Foundation$20,734,450
State Policy Network$7,000,128
Institute for Justice$6,999,880
Consumers' Research Inc$5,053,100
Texas A&M Foundation$5,000,000
Reason Foundation$4,987,225
Teneo Network Inc$4,433,000
Real Clear Foundation$4,150,000
GMU Foundation$3,750,000
Lucy Burns Institute$3,129,038
Foundation for Constitutional Freedom$2,975,000
Mackinac Center for Public Policy$2,885,200
Informing America Foundation$2,800,000
ACANI Inc$2,770,000
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 (FY20–24, $11.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Moms for America: $637k → 14%Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation: $200k → 7%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $140k → 11%Roots & Wings Foundation: $150k → 4%Polity: $120k → 10%Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation: $200k → 7%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $130k → 11%Roots & Wings Foundation: $150k → 4%Roots & Wings Foundation: $100k → 4%California Policy Center: $437k → 10%The Legalization Project: $300k → 10%California Policy Center: $307k → 10%The Legalization Project: $250k → 10%Empower Mississippi Foundation: $100k → 11%California Policy Center: $250k → 10%Human Coalition: $500k → 5%The Legalization Project: $210k → 10%Human Coalition: $500k → 5%Far Away Projects: $1.0M → 12%The Legalization Project: $278k → 10%Far Away Projects: $845k → 12%The Legalization Project: $96k → 10%Israeli-American Council: $100k → 14%The Legalization Project: $180k → 10%Harlem Children's Zone: $300k → 17%Edmund Burke Foundation: $300k → 14%Edmund Burke Foundation: $250k → 14%Communio Foundation: $520k → 6%Communio Foundation: $445k → 6%Communio Foundation: $435k → 6%Communio Foundation: $401k → 6%Communio Foundation: $401k → 6%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $301k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $250k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $201k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $186k → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Donors Trust Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Donors Trust 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0B · 676 repeat orgs$90M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

676 repeat relationships: 478 still active in FY2024, 198 since wound down; 213 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

676
345

Total granted

$1.0B
$69M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+6%

Still filing today

91%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • T8
    THE 85 FUND
    4× · 2020–2024 · $68M · revenue +156% · 74% of their budget
  • SP
    STATE POLICY NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $46M · revenue +26% · 56% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $38M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEGION OF CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25M
  • TH
    THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue +122%
  • PS
    PROPTER STRATEGIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · 89% of their budget
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
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
4
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
5
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
8
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
9
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
10
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

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11
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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12
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Accountability Foundation; the most unlike its peers is House of Yoga. 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

1096 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. 1096 of the 1,268 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.

197
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
223
Early backer (in before they grew)
1068/1096
Grantees still filing
674/1096
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,156,000 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVER…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $18,767,500 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIVER…REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $17,337,000 · EducationREAL CLEAR FOUNDATI…Texas A&M Foundation: $15,000,000 · EducationTexas A&M Foundatio…THE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC: $14,080,000 · EducationTHE GREEN LIGHT PRO…THE REASON FOUNDATION: $11,099,130 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATI…PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $8,550,000 · EducationAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $6,950,000 · Education+35 more: $74,308,790 · Education+35 moreDECHOMAI ASSET TRUST: $100,650,000 · PhilanthropyDECHOMAI ASSET…BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $12,990,840 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IMPACT…Teneo Network Inc: $11,743,350 · PhilanthropyTeneo Network …THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $5,587,450 · Philanthropy+7 more: $14,343,620 · Philanthropy+7 moreCONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC: $28,383,100 · Public BenefitCONSUMERS' RES…LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $15,998,438 · Public BenefitLUCY BURNS INS…FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $10,891,850 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR…MACKINAC CENTER: $10,385,200 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTE…INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 · Public BenefitINFORMING AMER…YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $6,817,635 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $6,805,870 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR COMMON SENSE IN SCIENCE: $4,970,000 · Public Benefit+23 more: $52,549,087 · Public Benefit+23 moreLEGION OF CHRIST INC: $25,000,000 · OtherLEGION OF CHRIST INCTHE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $15,825,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $14,986,000 · OtherTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $38,000,000 · OtherTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CEN…COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $14,515,000 · Other+75 more: $226,292,311 · Other+75 moreSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $46,352,675 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY…INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $17,149,985 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FO…HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $11,784,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS…Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $6,508,200 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $5,598,538 · Civil RightsDecriminalize Sex Work: $5,586,000 · Civil RightsGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $4,825,000 · Civil RightsWYOMING LIBERTY GROUP: $4,700,000 · Civil Rights+12 more: $23,421,204 · Civil Rights+12 moreTHE 85 FUND: $67,997,856 · Crime & LegalTHE 85 FUN…America First Legal Foundation: $24,630,774 · Crime & LegalAmerica Fi…Pacific Legal Foundation: $6,340,486 · Crime & LegalPacific Le…+4 more: $5,319,600 · Crime & LegalACANI INC: $14,685,000 · InternationalCERTELL INC: $11,429,500 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $10,244,654 · InternationalCERGE-EI FOUNDATION: $8,850,000 · InternationalAFSNC INC: $5,050,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $3,237,518 · InternationalCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $2,844,019 · International+1 more: $1,152,500 · International
Education$191,248,420Philanthropy$145,315,260Public Benefit$144,801,180Other$334,618,311Civil Rights$125,925,602Crime & Legal$104,288,716International$57,493,191

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 budgetDECHOMAI ASSET TRUST: $100,650,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE 85 FUND: $67,997,856 over 4y, 74% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $46,352,675 over 5y, 56% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $38,000,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC: $28,383,100 over 5y, 93% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,156,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetAmerica First Legal Foundation: $24,630,774 over 4y, 67% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $18,767,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $17,337,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $17,149,985 over 5y, 14% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $15,998,438 over 5y, 46% of budgetTHE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $15,825,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $15,000,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $14,986,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetACANI INC: $14,685,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $14,515,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC: $14,080,000 over 4y, 88% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $12,990,840 over 3y, 12% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $11,784,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetTeneo Network Inc: $11,743,350 over 3y, 60% of budgetCERTELL INC: $11,429,500 over 5y, 73% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $11,099,130 over 5y, 34% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC: $10,891,850 over 5y, 20% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $10,385,200 over 5y, 25% of budgetMIDDLE EAST FORUM: $10,244,654 over 5y, 60% of budgetDISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $10,149,300 over 5y, 25% of budgetOREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE: $9,439,611 over 5y, 97% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY: $9,275,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetAmericans for Public Trust: $9,119,500 over 5y, 100% of budgetCERGE-EI FOUNDATION: $8,850,000 over 5y, 77% of budgetPASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC: $8,550,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetINFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION: $8,000,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $7,983,550 over 5y, 31% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $7,708,800 over 2y, 100% of budgetAMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT: $6,950,000 over 5y, 86% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION: $6,817,635 over 5y, 71% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $6,805,870 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $6,508,200 over 5y, 14% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $6,340,486 over 5y, 12% of budgetWITH ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $6,325,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $6,216,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION: $6,177,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS INITIATIVE INC: $5,650,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $5,598,538 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $5,587,450 over 5y, 14% of budgetDecriminalize Sex Work: $5,586,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetAFSNC INC: $5,050,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5,031,430 over 5y, 9.0% 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 DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE 85 FUND ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds America First Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds ACANI INC ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds THE GREEN LIGHT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Teneo Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds CERTELL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
  • Who funds Americans for Public Trust ↗
  • Who funds CERGE-EI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PASSAGES AMERICA ISRAEL INC ↗
  • Who funds INFORMING AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗

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.

Bradley Impact Fund I…The Lynde and Harry B…Sarah Scaife Foundati…State Policy NetworkThe Searle Freedom Tr…Adolph Coors Foundati…Atlas Economic Resear…Diana Davis Spencer F…The Dunn FoundationThe Roe FoundationCharles Koch InstituteThomas W Smith Founda…
Bradley Impact Fund IncWI153.4× affinity139 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · State Policy Network · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · The Roe Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Thomas W Smith Foundation 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 Donors Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donors Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Aging With Dignity Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
9report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Donors Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to Donors Trust Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 1268 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home