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Drew Foundation at a glance

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Drew Foundation

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$8.1MEmployment$5.4MHealth$5.2MFood & Nutrition$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.3MInternational$880kHuman Services$860kRecreation & Sports$400kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $500k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.5M
$200,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REWORK TRAINING$1,432,000
THE SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE$1,000,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$600,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$500,000
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS$500,000
PENFED FOUNDATION$250,000
NXT MISSION$250,000
NORWICH UNIVERSITY$200,000
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$200,000
USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION$100,000
THE DONOVON AND BANK FOUNDATION$25,000
MYRIAD USA$20,000
YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY$20,000
ENVIRONMENTAL VOLUNTEERS INC$10,000
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (FY22–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEXAS FAMILY LIFE INC: $150k → 12%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
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.
$24M · 18 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$24M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-10%

Still filing today

78%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • SA
    SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +13%
  • RT
    REWORK TRAINING
    3× · 2023–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +25% · 95% of their budget
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOC
    one grant, 2024 · $275k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TF
    TEXAS FAMILY LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · 74% 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
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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2
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
6
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
7
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
8
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
9
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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

25 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. 25 of the 41 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $5,124,000 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGEREWORK TRAINING: $3,684,290 · EducationREWORK TRAININGSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $1,250,000 · EducationSentinels of Freedom Scholarship FoundationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $900,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTSNorwich University: $600,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationREWORK PROJECT: $1,676,000 · OtherREWORK PROJECTPENFED FOUNDATION: $1,250,000 · OtherPENFED FOUNDATIONALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $650,000 · OtherALL STARS HELPING KIDS I…USA TRACK AND FIELD FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherUSA TRACK AND FIELD FOUN…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOC: $275,000 · OtherNXT MISSION: $250,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION: $250,000 · Other+16 more: $836,000 · Other+16 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,630,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOU…THE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $850,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CANARY FUND DBA…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $2,500,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…+1 more: $49,000 · Food & NutritionBest Buddies International Inc: $500,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $380,000 · InternationalASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $180,000 · Public BenefitTHE DONOVAN & BANK FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Public BenefitEXTREME ADVENTURES LLC: $50,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS FAMILY LIFE: $150,000 · Human ServicesThe Outlet: $95,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $50,000 · Human Services
Education$11,578,290Other$5,587,000Philanthropy$4,480,000Food & Nutrition$2,549,000International$880,000Public Benefit$310,000Human Services$295,000

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 budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $5,124,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetREWORK TRAINING: $3,684,290 over 3y, 95% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $3,630,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $1,250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $900,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANARY FUND DBA CANARY FOUNDATION: $850,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $650,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetNorwich University: $600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $380,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $180,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS FAMILY LIFE: $150,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Outlet: $95,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHE DONOVAN & BANK FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetEXTREME ADVENTURES LLC: $50,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Illinois Foodbank Inc: $49,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $46,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKQED INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Drew Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drew Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 41 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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More from the funding graph

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