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Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95M
Granted FY2024still arriving
364
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$20M
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.

Education$224MEmployment$139MPhilanthropy$137MCommunity Improvement$126MArts & Culture$22MHuman Services$19MPublic Benefit$16MSocial Science$16MOther$0
02FY2024 · 364 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k108 grants · $406k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k157 grants · $19M
  • $250k+55 grants · $75M
$75,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT JOBS KC$20,475,583
GREAT JOBS KC$9,634,064
SCHOOL SMART KC INC$5,000,000
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC$4,646,698
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000,000
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000,000
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC$2,896,698
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES$2,750,000
THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$2,600,000
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE$2,095,188
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES$2,000,000
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK INC$1,200,000
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER$1,134,935
HOLY ROSARY CREDIT UNION$1,000,000
KANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC$1,000,000
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 (FY17–24, $18.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Start Small Think Big Inc: $150k → 28%Womens Economic Self-Sufficiency Team Corp: $237k → 14%Support Kansas City Inc: $245k → 5%Womens Economic Self-Sufficiency Team Corp: $192k → 14%Support Kansas City Inc: $165k → 5%Neighborhood Development Center: $250k → 14%Support Kansas City Inc: $165k → 5%ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $180k → 12%Neighborhood Development Center: $250k → 14%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $476k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $400k → 17%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $300k → 5%Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans: $152k → 23%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $250k → 5%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $325k → 16%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $200k → 5%The Family Conservancy: $274k → 16%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $195k → 5%The Family Conservancy: $240k → 16%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $195k → 5%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $200k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $200k → 16%The Family Conservancy: $200k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $200k → 16%The Family Conservancy: $175k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%AVENUE OF LIFE INC: $150k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%Start Small Think Big Inc: $150k → 17%Data Quality Campaign: $313k → 14%RED TAIL ACADEMY INC: $200k → 5%GREATER KC LINC INC: $250k → 15%MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION INC: $220k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $177k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $177k → 15%PAWSPERITY INC: $250k → 15%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $185k → 15%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $180k → 15%SISTERS IN CHRIST: $200k → 15%United Inner City Services: $240k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $200k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $200k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $200k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $250k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $175k → 15%Urban League of Kansas City Missouri: $260k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $250k → 15%UNCOVER KC: $175k → 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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 76%.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundationlessmore 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$578M · 693 repeat orgs$37M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

693 repeat relationships: 246 still active in FY2024, 447 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

693
374

Total granted

$578M
$27M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.9M 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
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • GJ
    GREAT JOBS KC INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $121M · revenue ×12 · 95% of their budget
  • EM
    EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $39M · revenue +56% · 31% of their budget
  • NL
    NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • D
    DREAMSPRING
    one grant, 2023 · $4.3M · revenue -40% · 29% of their budget
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University Office of Sponsored
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • BO
    Board of Trustees of the
    one grant, 2020 · $809k
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.

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Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
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
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
9
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
10
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Muriel Mcbrien Kauffman Family Foundation. 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

768 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. 768 of the 1,136 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.

107
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
206
Early backer (in before they grew)
729/768
Grantees still filing
519/768
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT JOBS KC INC: $120,623,785 · EducationGREAT JOBS KC INCEWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC: $38,511,400 · EducationEWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INCSCHOOL SMART KC INC: $14,950,000 · EducationSCHOOL SMART KC INC+47 more: $68,960,248 · Education+47 moreKAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC: $46,772,352 · OtherKAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INCTHE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $25,955,115 · OtherTHE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY …SKILLED KC TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $7,750,801 · Other+90 more: $93,996,534 · Other+90 moreGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $111,847,151 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Com…REAL ESTATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,484,121 · PhilanthropyREAL ESTATE CHARITABLE …+5 more: $5,735,556 · PhilanthropyALTCAP: $6,750,000 · Community ImprovementPIPELINE INC: $5,401,687 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING: $4,300,000 · Community ImprovementFORWARD CITIES INC: $4,196,621 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $2,605,224 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $1,936,674 · Community ImprovementINTERISE INC: $1,859,577 · Community Improvement+10 more: $7,291,755 · Community ImprovementTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $2,328,650 · Human ServicesSupport Kansas City Inc: $1,578,502 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $1,225,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $1,133,530 · Human ServicesGREATER KC LINC INC: $990,000 · Human ServicesLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $935,635 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $908,320 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO: $857,420 · Human ServicesGrace United Community Ministries Inc: $852,800 · Human ServicesKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC: $823,680 · Human ServicesKIDS WIN MISSOURI: $786,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $650,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $647,982 · Human ServicesWhatsoever Community Center In: $572,332 · Human ServicesCREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $571,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,011,525 · Human ServicesUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $2,863,183 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,285,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $2,015,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $1,622,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $1,184,020 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $1,165,000 · Arts & CultureBlack Innovation Alliance: $825,000 · Arts & CultureBEACON MEDIA INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $580,000 · Arts & CultureHATCH: $532,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $5,755,259 · Social ScienceNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $2,701,071 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,740,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $1,370,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $1,039,305 · Social Science
Education$243,045,433Other$174,474,802Philanthropy$128,066,828Community Improvement$34,341,538Human Services$15,872,876Arts & Culture$14,322,203Social Science$12,605,635

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 budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC: $120,623,785 over 8y, 95% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $111,847,151 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetKAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC: $46,772,352 over 8y, 100% of budgetEWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC: $38,511,400 over 8y, 31% of budgetSCHOOL SMART KC INC: $14,950,000 over 5y, 63% of budgetREAL ESTATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,484,121 over 2y, 73% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $8,011,899 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetSKILLED KC TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $7,750,801 over 4y, 100% of budgetALTCAP: $6,750,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $5,755,259 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPIPELINE INC: $5,401,687 over 8y, 88% of budgetGLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK: $5,178,620 over 5y, 17% of budgetREAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC: $5,124,138 over 1y, 77% of budgetTHE EDUCATOR ACADEMY INC: $4,941,025 over 5y, 51% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $4,300,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK: $4,274,995 over 5y, 100% of budgetFORWARD CITIES INC: $4,196,621 over 6y, 51% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $3,801,224 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetBIOSTL: $3,767,025 over 8y, 12% of budgetHOLY ROSARY CREDIT UNION: $3,300,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $2,863,183 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC: $2,701,071 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $2,605,224 over 7y, 35% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,486,180 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $2,328,650 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $2,285,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION: $2,128,750 over 8y, 46% of budgetTHE LEAN LAB INC LEAN LAB EDUCATION: $2,082,740 over 6y, 65% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $2,015,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $2,000,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $1,995,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $1,936,674 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY: $1,900,675 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetINTERISE INC: $1,859,577 over 3y, 27% of budgetACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA: $1,830,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,740,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVILCAP INC: $1,732,400 over 3y, 19% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,717,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTNTP INC: $1,683,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,669,065 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $1,622,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $1,620,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,581,328 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSupport Kansas City Inc: $1,578,502 over 8y, 18% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $1,578,010 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,489,012 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $1,445,000 over 8y, 5.5% 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 GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KAUFFMAN SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
  • Who funds REAL ESTATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SKILLED KC TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALTCAP ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PIPELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds REAL WORLD INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATOR ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds DREAMSPRING ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD CITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIOSTL ↗
  • Who funds HOLY ROSARY CREDIT UNION ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LEAN LAB INC LEAN LAB EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds INTERISE 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.

Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Jackson County Commun…The H & R Block Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Francis Family Fo…The Sherman Family Fo…Greater Kansas City C…The Kansas City Royal…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Shumaker Family F…William T Kemper Foun…
Health Forward FoundationMO172.3× affinity122 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
60report 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 1136 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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