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Erie Community Foundation

The ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
373
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$2.3M
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 2024.

Health$23MArts & Culture$18MEducation$18MReligion$17MPhilanthropy$14MHuman Services$13MCommunity Improvement$12MHousing & Shelter$8.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 373 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 373 grants below total $24,376,560, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,784,126 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,407,566 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k71 grants · $492k
  • $10k–50k191 grants · $4.4M
  • $50k–250k95 grants · $9.5M
  • $250k+16 grants · $10M
$23,789
Median grant
13
States reached
$386M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ERIE CITY MISSION$2,298,713
HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,285,678
UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY$1,222,047
THE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP$609,966
ERIE PHILHARMONIC$574,921
ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$550,859
MINORITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COALITION$500,000
EAST SIDE RENAISSANCE$451,356
ERIE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$382,336
FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION$354,554
ERIE INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC$340,303
MERCYHURST PREPARATORY SCHOOL$337,123
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$301,366
NEW HOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ERIE$290,276
JULIA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE$276,695
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 (FY17–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%SPRINGHILL SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $157k → 15%Springhill Senior Living Community: $122k → 15%SPRINGHILL SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $113k → 15%SPRINGHILL SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $113k → 15%SPRINGHILL SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $104k → 15%SPRINGHILL SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $103k → 15%SPRINGHILL SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY: $98k → 15%Springhill Senior Living Community: $97k → 15%EMMA'S FOOTPRINTS: $233k → 15%EMMA'S FOOTPRINTS: $82k → 15%EMMA'S FOOTPRINTS: $67k → 15%EMMA'S FOOTPRINTS: $68k → 15%SARAH A REED RETIREMENT CENTER: $50k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $83k → 15%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $59k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $56k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $54k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $52k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $178k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $117k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $97k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $91k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $74k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $73k → 15%A HAND UP ERIE: $51k → 15%The Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania: $166k → 15%THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $88k → 15%THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $71k → 15%THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $54k → 15%THE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA: $52k → 15%The Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania: $51k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER ERIE: $167k → 15%YMCA: $158k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER ERIE: $124k → 15%SAFENET: $112k → 15%SAFENET: $102k → 15%YMCA: $86k → 15%SAFENET: $85k → 15%YMCA: $80k → 15%YMCA: $74k → 15%SAFENET: $74k → 15%SAFENET: $73k → 15%YMCA: $66k → 15%GREATER ERIE COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE: $63k → 15%SAFENET: $63k → 15%SafeNet: $60k → 15%SafeNet: $56k → 15%YMCA: $55k → 15%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143M · 386 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

386 repeat relationships: 297 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

386
113

Total granted

$143M
$7.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UW
    United Way of Erie County
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +39% · 57% of their budget
  • HH
    HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +52% · 28% of their budget
  • CM
    CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +59% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

  • EC
    Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority
    one grant, 2017 · $4.2M
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue +27%
  • BF
    BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +151% · 72% 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
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

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2
East Erie County Emergency Medical Services Corporation

To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.

Community Improvement
3
Erie Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce

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4
United Way of Erie County Inc

To increase the organized capacity for people to care for one another.

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5
Erie Canalway Heritage Fund Inc

Erie canalway heritage fund, inc. works to preserve the extraordinary canal corridor heritage, to promote the corridor as a world class tourism destination, and to foster vibrant communities connected by the waterway.

Community Improvement
6
Erie Marsh Conservation Foundation
Environment
7
Erie Community College Foundation Inc

The Erie Community College Foundation raises funds for scholarships, capital projects, faculty enrichment programs and innovative educational and workforce development initiatives. The Foundation supports alumni and former students through…

Education
8
Northeastern Pennsylvania Health Care Foundation
Education
9
Cranberry Township Emergency Medical Service

To preserve life and promote health and safety in our community.

Health
10
Community Action Commission of Erie Huron & Richland Counties Inc

To focus all available local, state, private and federal resources upon the goal of enabling low income families and low income individual of all ages to obtain the skills knowledge and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for…

Human Services
11
The Arc Erie County

The organization provides support and services for people withdisabilities and their families.

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12
Lake Erie Research Institute Inc

Promote and advance medical research & medical product development, predominately for the medical and academic communities in pennsylvania

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc; the most unlike its peers is Caring Foundation. 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

389 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. 389 of the 561 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.

68
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
102
Early backer (in before they grew)
374/389
Grantees still filing
250/389
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority: $4,188,058 · OtherErie County Gaming Revenue AuthorityCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE: $4,111,464 · OtherCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIEERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PA: $3,090,074 · OtherMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $2,889,505 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $2,604,747 · Other+118 more: $51,596,976 · Other+118 moreHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,018,794 · HealthHAMOT HEALTH …ERIE CANCER AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION dba - ERIE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $1,909,731 · HealthERIE CANCER A…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,597,439 · HealthSHRINERS HOSP…St Pauls Clinic Foundation Inc: $1,065,386 · HealthSt Pauls Clin…Women's Care Center of Erie County Inc: $761,349 · HealthJULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $700,966 · HealthERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $684,584 · HealthSAINT MARY'S HOME OF ERIE: $672,612 · Health+14 more: $2,766,806 · Health+14 moreExpERIEnce Children's Museum: $3,824,225 · Arts & CultureExpERIEnce Ch…Erie Philharmonic Inc: $3,152,969 · Arts & CultureErie Philharm…Erie County Historical Society: $2,012,822 · Arts & CultureErie County H…ERIE ART MUSEUM: $1,802,270 · Arts & CultureERIE ART MUSE…Flagship Niagara League: $1,507,373 · Arts & CultureFlagship Niag…THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ERIE: $1,365,626 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COUN…ERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,287,747 · Arts & CultureERIE CIVIC TH…PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $711,592 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,089,152 · Arts & Culture+5 moreUnited Way of Erie County: $12,108,080 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …THE GOODELL PROJECT INC: $1,013,196 · PhilanthropyTHE GOODELL…MEMBER TO MEMBER INC: $509,200 · Philanthropy+3 more: $896,978 · Philanthropy+3 moreTHE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP: $1,769,663 · Community ImprovementERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER AND GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: $1,766,343 · Community ImprovementERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,305,841 · Community ImprovementMINORITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COALITION: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementBAYFRONT NATO INC: $523,236 · Community ImprovementERIE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $459,605 · Community ImprovementSERVERIE: $428,614 · Community ImprovementBAYFRONT EAST SIDE TASKFORCE INC: $415,955 · Community ImprovementOUR WEST BAYFRONT INC: $349,146 · Community Improvement+5 more: $984,326 · Community ImprovementMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $3,715,455 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $931,769 · EducationERIE DAY SCHOOL INC: $797,815 · EducationERIE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $680,954 · EducationGANNON UNIVERSITY: $645,609 · EducationEAGLES NEST LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $535,529 · EducationEDINBORO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $452,288 · Education+6 more: $1,106,030 · EducationErie Zoological Society: $2,626,426 · AnimalsANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $819,505 · AnimalsNORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A ERIE HUMANE SOCIETY: $777,893 · AnimalsERIE AREA RABBIT SOCIETY & RESCUE (EARS) INC: $661,674 · AnimalsBecause You Care Inc: $524,419 · AnimalsORPHAN ANGELS CAT SANCTUARY: $466,808 · AnimalsTAMARACK WILDLIFE CENTER: $257,170 · Animals+2 more: $328,064 · Animals
Other$68,480,824Health$17,177,667Arts & Culture$16,753,776Philanthropy$14,527,454Community Improvement$9,002,729Education$8,865,449Animals$6,461,959

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 budgetUnited Way of Erie County: $12,108,080 over 8y, 57% of budgetHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,018,794 over 8y, 28% of budgetCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE: $4,111,464 over 8y, 49% of budgetExpERIEnce Children's Museum: $3,824,225 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY: $3,715,455 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetErie Philharmonic Inc: $3,152,969 over 8y, 26% of budgetMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $2,889,505 over 8y, 98% of budgetErie Zoological Society: $2,626,426 over 8y, 12% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $2,604,747 over 8y, 23% of budgetErie County Historical Society: $2,012,822 over 8y, 21% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC: $1,941,136 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetERIE CANCER AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION dba - ERIE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $1,909,731 over 4y, 95% of budgetERIE ART MUSEUM: $1,802,270 over 8y, 48% of budgetTHE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP: $1,769,663 over 7y, 59% of budgetERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER AND GROWTH PARTNERSHIP: $1,766,343 over 7y, 55% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,597,439 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFlagship Niagara League: $1,507,373 over 8y, 26% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF ERIE: $1,365,626 over 8y, 27% of budgetERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,305,841 over 8y, 16% of budgetERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $1,287,747 over 8y, 18% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $1,217,421 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REGIONAL CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,151,516 over 2y, 36% of budgetSt Pauls Clinic Foundation Inc: $1,065,386 over 8y, 33% of budgetErie United Methodist Alliance: $1,054,998 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE GOODELL PROJECT INC: $1,013,196 over 8y, 59% of budgetErie Independence House Inc: $1,005,708 over 8y, 12% of budgetMINORITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COALITION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP INC: $988,656 over 8y, 23% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $931,769 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetASBURY ATLANTIC INC: $906,125 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEAST SIDE RENAISSANCE INC: $851,356 over 3y, 61% of budgetANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $819,505 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ERIE: $811,187 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMaria House Project: $809,816 over 8y, 34% of budgetERIE DAY SCHOOL INC: $797,815 over 8y, 21% of budgetNORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HUMANE SOCIETY D/B/A ERIE HUMANE SOCIETY: $777,893 over 8y, 10% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Corry Pennsylvania: $769,589 over 8y, 17% of budgetWomen's Care Center of Erie County Inc: $761,349 over 8y, 19% of budgetFRENCH CREEK VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $744,227 over 8y, 17% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $711,592 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetJULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $700,966 over 5y, 26% of budgetDR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC: $690,862 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $684,584 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetERIE CENTER FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $680,954 over 6y, 12% of budgetSAINT MARY'S HOME OF ERIE: $672,612 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetERIE AREA RABBIT SOCIETY & RESCUE (EARS) INC: $661,674 over 8y, 65% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $645,609 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSisters of St Joseph Neighborhood Network: $633,594 over 8y, 16% 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 United Way of Erie County ↗
  • Who funds HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
  • Who funds ExpERIEnce Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Erie Philharmonic Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Erie Zoological Society ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Erie County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC ↗
  • Who funds ERIE CANCER AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION dba - ERIE CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ERIE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE NONPROFIT PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds ERIE REGIONAL CHAMBER AND GROWTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Flagship Niagara League ↗
  • Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ERIE ↗
  • Who funds ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds THE REGIONAL CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Pauls Clinic Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Erie United Methodist Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE GOODELL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Erie Independence House Inc ↗
  • Who funds MINORITY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY ATLANTIC 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.

Wabtec FoundationUnited Way of Erie Co…M J Surgala TrHamot Health Foundati…Northwest Charitable …The Britton Family Fo…Second Harvest Food B…Kern Family Foundatio…Merwin FoundationCharles a Dailey Foun…Greater Erie Economic…The Arts Council of E…
Wabtec FoundationPA123.3× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wabtec Foundation · United Way of Erie County · M J Surgala Tr · Hamot Health Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Nw Pa Inc · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Merwin Foundation · Charles a Dailey Foundation · Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation · The Arts Council of Erie

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 Erie Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erie Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Asbury Atlantic Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
64report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 561 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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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