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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 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, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 80 grants below total $1,078,881, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,569,357 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $490,476 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 $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
JACKSON COUNTY CHILDCARE ALLIANCE (COOP CU)$20,000
STOCKBRIDGE MUNSEE COMMUNITY$20,000
SMALL WORLD LEARNING CENTER$20,000
KIDS COME 1ST$20,000
LITTLE TRENDERS$19,892
LATINO ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORK$18,700
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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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 +61%

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
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
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
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
4
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
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
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.

—
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
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
10
Saint Peter Community Childcare Center

Childcare services for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school age children

Human Services
11
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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12
Denton City-County Day School

Denton City County Day School provides quality, affordable childcareto families in Denton County. Our mission is to provide qualitypre-kindergarten education and loving care to children ages 2 through 5 years. Our vision is that all DCCDS…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldrich Memorial Nursery School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 1,606 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/144
Grantees still filing
65/144
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HORIZON CHILD CARE INC: $462,313 · OtherNEW HORIZON CHILD CARE INCKUEHG CORP DBA KINDERCARE EDUCATION LLC: $338,191 · Other+162 more: $6,391,012 · Other+162 moreCHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN: $100,608 · Human ServicesCHILD CAR…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $99,440 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…JACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesJACKSON C…Latino Ent Network of SEW Inc: $93,700 · Human ServicesLatino En…CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCRAFTSBUR…UNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WA…Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesMary John…YMCA of the Northern Sky: $49,063 · Human ServicesYMCA of t…UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC: $36,465 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $30,000 · Human Services+4 more: $91,282 · Human Services+4 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 · EducationMorning Glory Montessori: $20,000 · EducationANEW DIMENSION CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $20,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP: $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$7,191,516Human Services$800,558Community Improvement$557,151Education$488,813Philanthropy$185,431Health$134,857

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 budgetLake Area Discovery Center: $101,823 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLANGLADE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,870 over 2y, 17% of budgetDRIFTLESS DEVELOPMENT INC: $100,714 over 3y, 21% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC: $100,714 over 3y, 4.6% 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 budgetGROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetUNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTHE PLAYING FIELD INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHMONG INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $75,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $71,367 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAlburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated: $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSTARKSBORO COOP PRESCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMary Johnson Children's Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetMorning Glory Montessori: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOTTER SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRASER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANEW DIMENSION CHILD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 Lake Area Discovery Center ↗
  • Who funds LANGLADE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DRIFTLESS DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL IN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANHEAD COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CHILD CARE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Latino Ent Network of SEW Inc ↗
  • Who funds LATINO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROGRESS LAKESHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAUK PRAIRIE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WATERTOWN COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds Otter Creek Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds GROW NORTH REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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 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

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 First Children's Finance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Children's Finance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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 1606 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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