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First Children's Finance

FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE (fcf) grows the supply and sustainability of high-quality child care by strengthening the business and financial foundations of the sector.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$16MCommunity Improvement$4.8MEducation$3.4MHealth$664kPhilanthropy$236kYouth Development$216kPublic Benefit$166kRecreation & Sports$161kOther$0
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 80 grants below total $1,078,881 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,569,357 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $490,476 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $212k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $816k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$11,924
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS$50,000
LANGLADE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,870
CALUMET COUNTY - CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL$25,608
UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC$25,431
MAUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,408
VILLAGE OF LA FARGE$24,431
WOOD COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT-WI$24,430
UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY$24,428
PITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM$22,875
STOCKBRIDGE MUNSEE COMMUNITY$20,000
SMALL WORLD LEARNING CENTER$20,000
JACKSON COUNTY CHILDCARE ALLIANCE (COOP CU)$20,000
KIDS COME 1ST$20,000
LITTLE TRENDERS$19,892
LATINO ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK$18,700
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER EAGAN: $20k → 6%FINLAND COMMUNITY NATURE CHILD CARE: $11k → 8%ALEXANDRIA AREA YMCA: $15k → 9%KIDS' CORNER CHILD CARE CENTER: $14k → 9%APPLE LANE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE CENTER: $16k → 10%DISCOVERY PLACE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $16k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH#1109862: $18k → 11%KIDS-R-IT: $20k → 11%LITTLE HUSKIES LEARNING CENTER#1116123: $13k → 9%A CHILD'S DELIGHT TOO INC: $11k → 11%EMPOWERING KIDS PERHAM: $15k → 9%YMCA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ROCHESTER: $36k → 9%WARROAD COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER: $12k → 10%UNDER THE RAINBOW EARLY EDUCATION CENTER: $18k → 9%TRACY KID'S WORLD: $10k → 11%PRECIOUS YEARS LEARNING CENTER: $18k → 11%JACKSON COUNTY CHILDCARE ALLIANCE (COOP CU): $20k → 11%LATINO ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK: $19k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING AND CHILD CARE: $12k → 11%LAKE HARRIET CHRISTIAN CHILDCARE CENTER: $18k → 11%YMCA EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTER EAGAN: $18k → 6%EARLY STEPS LEARNING FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%NORTHSIDE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 11%FRASER SCHOOL: $20k → 11%HEARTWOOD MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $13k → 11%UNITED WAY OF ST CROIX VALLEY: $75k → 5%CALUMET COUNTY - CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL: $75k → 7%JACKSON COUNTY CHILDCARE ALLIANCE (COOP CU): $75k → 13%LATINO ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK: $75k → 17%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $50k → 14%CALUMET COUNTY - CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL: $26k → 7%MIDDLEBURY CHILDREN'S COOPERATIVE: $50k → 9%Y EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM: $30k → 10%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $30k → 14%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA#802768: $18k → 11%QUARRY KIDS CHILD CARE CENTER: $18k → 12%ROBIN'S NEST CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $12k → 10%#NA: $36k → 11%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER - RANDOLPH: $22k → 10%ALBERT LEA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 12%PITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM: $23k → 12%YMCA DOROTHY DODDS SCHOOLAGE LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 11%YMCA DOROTHY DODDS SCHOOLAGE LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $18k → 14%BIG WONDER CHILD CARE: $13k → 14%COMMON ROOTS MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $15k → 14%WILDER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER#802688: $18k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 106 repeat orgs$21M to everyone else

106 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
1455

Total granted

$4.9M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

23%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LA
    Lake Area Discovery Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $102k · revenue +28%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $99k · revenue +16%
  • IC
    INDIANHEAD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $96k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • KC
    KUEHG CORP DBA KINDERCARE EDUCATION LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $338k
  • LO
    LITTLE ONE'S UNIVERSITY COLCHESTER INC CARYL JAQUES
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • CB
    CHRISTIAN BOWDISH
    one grant, 2024 · $86k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
MetroKids Daycare Center

Metrokids Preschool is a dynamic new school in St. Paul. We provide the highest quality preschool education, distinguished daycare amenities, and professional services for children in a warm, nurturing, and responsive environment. We are…

Human Services
2
Little Beginnings Child Development Ctr

Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…

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3
River Ridge Learning Center Inc

Rrlc offers exceptional childcare and early childhood learning to children attending its eclp allowing parents to obtain and focus on employment and granting them the peace of mind that their children are being well cared for.

Education
4
Monarch Preschool Inc

Monarch Preschool offers a unique play-based learning experience for your child. Play-based, child-led education supports social and emotional development, strengthens language and numeracy skills, and inspires a life-long love of learning.

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5
Rainbow Childcare of Monroe Inc

Rainbow Childcare Inc. is a not for profit child care agency committed to providing quality, affordable, learning-oriented child care to the greater Green County community. We serve the children enrolled at Rainbow Childcare, Inc. and…

Human Services
6
Good News Childrens Center Inc

Good news children's center provides quality childcare to southeast minnesota families, in a safe environment that promotes life-long learning through developmentally appropriate and active learning curriculum.

Human Services
7
Love to Grow On

To provide learning opportunities, values, and encouragement to children & parents through our early childhood proagram. we serve infants through school-age children in a full day, year round program. our facility uses creative and…

Human Services
8
Childrens Garden Early Learning Center Inc

The Children's Garden Early Learning Center is designed to meet the early care and educational needs for children ages 6 weeks through their 8th birthday. Serving up to 70 children on a full or part time basis through Early Head Start,…

Human Services
9
Northpoint Cooperative Preschool

The general philosophy of Northpoint Cooperative Preschool is that we all learn together - adults and children alike. Guided by our qualified, caring, and endlessly imaginative teachers, co-op parents create an environment of learning and…

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10
Lexington Playcare Center Inc

LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…

Human Services
11
Learning Junction Childrens Center

Provide full or part-time child care for children ages 6 weeks to 6 years

Human Services
12
Giggles & Grace Early Learning Center

Giggles & grace early learning center, inc., with community, parents and teachers, is committed to providing a safe, nurturing christian environment emphasizing the total development of each child; spiritual, intellectual, emotional,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldrich Memorial Nursery School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lakeside Early Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsUnited Way AffiliatesYmca Youth DevelopmentHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsYouth Development CentersChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Developmental Disabilities …Environmental Conservation …Senior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%6%<5yr12%11%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%4%<5yr12%13%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr18%28%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.1%1/1,550
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/37,439

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 1,606 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/144
Grantees still filing
64/144
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW HORIZON CHILD CARE INC — $462,313 · OtherNEW HORIZON CHILD CARE INCKUEHG CORP DBA KINDERCARE EDUCATION LLC — $338,191 · Other+159 more — $6,331,012 · Other+159 moreCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN — $100,608 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $99,440 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS…JACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON CO…Latino Ent Network of SEW Inc — $93,700 · Human ServicesLatino Ent…CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesCRAFTSBURY…UNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY…Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesMary Johns…YMCA of the Northern Sky — $49,063 · Human ServicesYMCA of th…UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC — $36,465 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $30,000 · Human Services+7 more — $151,282 · Human Services+7 moreLANGLADE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $100,870 · Community ImprovementDRIFTLESS DEVELOPMENT INC — $100,714 · Community ImprovementLATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF DANE COUNTY INC — $86,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS LAKESHORE INC — $85,700 · Community ImprovementGROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,000 · Community ImprovementTRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $71,367 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $37,500 · Community ImprovementLake Area Discovery Center — $101,823 · EducationTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $75,000 · EducationAlburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated — $60,000 · EducationLIL SUNSHINE CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $58,140 · EducationMYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC — $50,000 · EducationMACDONALD MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $38,000 · EducationRed Clover Childrens Center Inc — $25,000 · EducationTRINITY PRESCHOOL INC — $20,850 · EducationANEW DIMENSION CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER — $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP — $20,000 · EducationST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $100,431 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $85,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WATERTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $84,857 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · Health
Other$7,131,516Human Services$860,558Community Improvement$557,151Education$488,813Philanthropy$185,431Health$134,857

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLake Area Discovery Center — $101,823 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLANGLADE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $100,870 over 2y, 17% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC — $100,714 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetDRIFTLESS DEVELOPMENT INC — $100,714 over 3y, 21% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN — $100,608 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $100,431 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $99,440 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC — $99,428 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINDIANHEAD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $95,714 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC — $95,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetLatino Ent Network of SEW Inc — $93,700 over 2y, 24% of budgetLATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF DANE COUNTY INC — $86,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPROGRESS LAKESHORE INC — $85,700 over 2y, 21% of budgetSAUK PRAIRIE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $85,653 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $85,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGREATER WATERTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $84,857 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetOtter Creek Child Center Inc — $75,800 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $75,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $75,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $71,367 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated — $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMary Johnson Children's Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSTARKSBORO COOP PRESCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYMCA of the Northern Sky — $49,063 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMACDONALD MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $38,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC — $36,465 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY NURSERY SCHOOLS INC — $30,718 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOM EARLY LEARNING — $26,392 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRed Clover Childrens Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC — $24,716 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetRutland County Parent Child Center Inc — $22,875 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOrange County Parent Child Center Inc — $22,015 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRINITY PRESCHOOL INC — $20,850 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetANEW DIMENSION CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS-R-IT INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOTTER SCHOOLS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY STEPS LEARNING FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFRASER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Think SmallMinnesota Child Care …Let's Grow Kids IncFirst Children's Fina…Building Bright Futur…Vt Association for th…Hiawatha Education Fo…The Sheltering Arms F…Catholic Schools Cent…Medica FoundationSouthern Minnesota In…The Sauer Family Foun…
Think SmallMN112.4× affinity159 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Think Small · Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network · Let's Grow Kids Inc · First Children's Finance Group · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · Vt Association for the Education of Young Children · Hiawatha Education Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) · Medica Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization First Children's Finance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Myers Prouty Children's Campuses Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Creative Preschool Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Saplings Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Red Clover Childrens Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Otter Creek Child Center Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Starksboro Coop Preschool Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Overlake Day School Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Treehouse Childrens School Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1606 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines