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Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated

To preserve the natural systems on which all life depends.

$52M
Granted FY2025still arriving
151
Grants FY2025still arriving
34
States reached
$932k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$110MEducation$15MPhilanthropy$9.3MPublic Benefit$4.6MHealth$4.4MCommunity Improvement$3.5MScience & Tech$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 151 grants below total $7,853,797, the rows itemized in this filing. The $51,557,871 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,704,074 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k96 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
34
States reached
$520M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$931,793
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC$300,000
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTORS ALLIANCE INC$220,000
CERES INC$205,000
PLANET REIMAGINED INC$200,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$192,500
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND$192,223
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$168,839
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$158,971
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$152,543
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY (THE)$145,675
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION$142,145
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$137,721
AFRICAN AMERICAN MAYORS ASSOC$132,500
DEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE$125,000
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 (FY17–25, $6.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Make the Road States Inc: $25k → 20%Naeva: $85k → 14%Moore Impact Inc dba Moore Philanthropy: $25k → 12%Ohio Healthy Homes Network: $6k → 15%Coastal Communities Consulting Inc: $18k → 15%Make the Road States Inc: $20k → 20%Naeva: $65k → 14%Moore Impact Inc: $25k → 12%Coastal Communities Consulting Inc: $10k → 15%Naeva: $65k → 14%Coastal Communities Consulting Inc: $10k → 15%NAEVA: $35k → 14%Immigrant Social Services Inc: $100k → 17%North Carolina Justice Center: $8k → 8%Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc: $3.8M → 17%Tides Center: $16k → 10%Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc: $762k → 17%Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc: $754k → 17%Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc: $423k → 17%Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator Inc: $408k → 17%Hispanic Access Foundation: $83k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $45k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $25k → 14%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $10k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $10k → 14%Hispanic Access Foundation: $25k → 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
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $9.7M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$2.9M · 30% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: Forests · Clean Air Science · Fisheries & Oceans

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.3M · 23% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: Corporate Engagement · methane · Justice and Equity

South Asia$2.1M · 22% · 17 grants

Stated purpose: METHANE · Fisheries & Oceans · Region India

East Asia and the Pacific$933k · 10% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: Oil & Gas Pollution · methane · COMMUNICATIONS

Sub-Saharan Africa$730k · 8% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: FORESTS · METHANE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$677k · 7% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: methane · CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT · Fisheries

Central America and the Caribbean$76k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RECREATIONAL FISHING · FORESTS · CLEAN ENERGY

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$122M · 301 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

301 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2025, 197 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

301
259

Total granted

$122M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • The Partnership Project Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +35%
  • Cornell University
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +59%
  • OI
    OPENET INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +204% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • CM
    Carbon Mapper Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $804k · revenue -49%
  • HH
    HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $570k · revenue -62%
  • CA
    Climate Advisers Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $528k
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
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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2
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
3
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
4
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Science & Environmental Health Network

In service to communities, the earth and future generations, the science and environmental health network forges science, ethics, and law into tools for action.

Environment
7
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
10
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
11
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
12
Seec Institute Inc

Convene congress, leading climate and environmental advocates, the private sector, and other experts to facilitate more formal and regular connections between interested parties and stakeholders to secure the biggest climate and clean…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Concerned Citizens of St John. 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

501 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. 501 of the 619 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.

28
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
148
Early backer (in before they grew)
485/501
Grantees still filing
347/501
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $39,296,219 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUNDThe Partnership Project Inc: $4,228,333 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Inc+57 more: $22,715,327 · Environment+57 moreBureau of Reclamation: $2,500,000 · OtherBureau of ReclamationState of Arizona: $2,411,983 · OtherState of ArizonaCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,820,831 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $1,595,750 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,224,748 · Other+87 more: $25,724,435 · Other+87 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,074,794 · EducationPresident a…Cornell University: $2,773,242 · EducationCornell Uni…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $937,071 · EducationTHE TRUSTEE…William Marsh Rice University: $870,399 · EducationWilliam Mar…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $687,993 · EducationCommunity College Partners Program: $654,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $583,143 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $574,909 · EducationYale University: $555,076 · Education+15 more: $3,658,926 · Education+15 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $7,869,686 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLE…TIDES FOUNDATION: $4,272,700 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUN…HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $570,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $120,000 · PhilanthropyEMERGENT FOREST FINANCE ACCELERATOR INC: $6,195,762 · Human ServicesNAEVA: $305,000 · Human Services+1 more: $220,500 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT: $655,000 · Public BenefitGROUND WATER RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $595,625 · Public BenefitTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $500,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $447,500 · Public BenefitTAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE: $310,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $255,190 · Public BenefitEarthworks: $188,235 · Public BenefitAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $867,500 · Community ImprovementSEAFOOD HARVESTERS OF AMERICA EDUCATION: $230,000 · Community ImprovementArizona Forward Association: $218,000 · Community ImprovementGREEN BUSINESS CERTIFICATION INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementMUJERES DE ISLAS INC: $198,504 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC: $190,333 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $160,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $132,350 · Community ImprovementCATALYST MIAMI INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC: $115,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESSNOW COLORADO EDUCATION: $115,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$66,239,879Other$35,277,747Education$14,369,553Philanthropy$12,832,386Human Services$6,721,262Public Benefit$2,951,550Community Improvement$2,546,687

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $39,296,219 over 7y, 39% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $7,869,686 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMERGENT FOREST FINANCE ACCELERATOR INC: $6,195,762 over 5y, 24% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $4,272,700 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $4,228,333 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,074,794 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,773,242 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPENET INC: $1,792,995 over 2y, 40% of budgetCERES INC: $1,762,500 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetResources for the Future Inc: $1,661,143 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetCLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST: $1,405,094 over 3y, 39% of budgetClean Air Council: $1,381,500 over 9y, 12% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $1,046,400 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $995,839 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $937,071 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS UTILITY BOARD: $924,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $870,399 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAfrican American Mayors Assocation: $867,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $844,186 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $830,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCarbon Mapper Inc: $804,018 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $743,861 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $687,993 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $670,017 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetENVIRONMENT TEXAS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC: $659,300 over 6y, 34% of budgetAMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT: $655,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCommunity College Partners Program: $654,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetGROUND WATER RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $595,625 over 7y, 54% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $588,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $583,143 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $574,909 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $570,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetYale University: $555,076 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL: $555,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $510,768 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetPRIORITIES USA: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $500,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $497,382 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $477,724 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $447,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON: $445,200 over 5y, 29% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $431,094 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $430,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Leaders Network: $410,500 over 9y, 43% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $400,096 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION: $400,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCatholic Climate Covenant: $389,900 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $376,630 over 4y, 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENT FOREST FINANCE ACCELERATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Partnership Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds OPENET INC ↗
  • Who funds CERES INC ↗
  • Who funds Resources for the Future Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE ADVISERS TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Clean Air Council ↗
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds African American Mayors Assocation ↗
  • Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carbon Mapper Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENT TEXAS RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SECURITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Community College Partners Program ↗
  • Who funds GROUND WATER RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗

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.

United States Energy …The Energy FoundationResources Legacy FundThe Partnership Proje…Natural Resources Def…Windward FundWestern Conservation …Climateworks Foundati…Rockefeller Family Fu…Environmental Defense…The Wilderness SocietySolutions Project Inc
United States Energy FoundationCA152.4× affinity131 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The Partnership Project Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Windward Fund · Western Conservation Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Environmental Defense Action Fund · The Wilderness Society · Solutions Project 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 Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Defensores De La Cuenca: 100% of income from government
  • Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • National Center for Healthy Housing Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Clinton Hill Community Action Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 619 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 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
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