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Foundation to Promote Open Society

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$482M
Granted FY2024still arriving
738
Grants FY2024still arriving
26
States reached
$45M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.1BInternational$530MCivil Rights$451MPublic Benefit$432MEducation$277MCommunity Improvement$189MArts & Culture$143MCrime & Legal$113MOther$0
02FY2024 · 738 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $827k
  • $50k–250k284 grants · $39M
  • $250k+424 grants · $442M
$260,000
Median grant
26
States reached
$10.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION LONDON$44,927,239
SOROS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND$25,000,000
BARD COLLEGE$20,000,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$20,000,000
ROMA FOUNDATION FOR EUROPE$15,602,337
CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY$15,000,000
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION LONDON$8,072,761
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED$5,200,000
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SCIENCES$3,810,000
OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION FOR ALBANIA$3,347,000
CIVIL SOCIETY FOUNDATION$3,209,940
UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHA$3,000,000
FONDATION CONNAISSANCE ET LIBERTE$3,000,000
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE$3,000,000
IDEAS INNOVACION INFRAESTRUCTURAS E INDUSTRIALIZ$2,998,800
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.

US giving: 72% of grant dollars ($3.4B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($1.3B) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $39.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%Casa San Jose: $500k → 11%Haitian Bridge Alliance: $500k → 11%More in Common: $1.5M → 17%Austin Justice Coalition: $765k → 10%HMONG AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $1.0M → 17%Welcoming America Inc: $600k → 14%STATE POWER FUND: $500k → 12%Austin Justice Coalition: $765k → 10%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERV: $1.5M → 21%Hmong American Women's Association: $1.0M → 17%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $2.0M → 10%More in Common: $750k → 17%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $900k → 10%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERV: $500k → 21%More in Common: $500k → 17%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $500k → 10%TRANSLASH MEDIA INC: $400k → 20%TRANSLASH MEDIA INC: $400k → 20%POSSIBILITY LABS: $4.4M → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $2.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%CHOOSE LOVE INC: $1.0M → 17%Tides Center: $600k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $475k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $500k → 10%Tides Center: $475k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $410k → 10%Tides Center: $400k → 10%CHOOSE LOVE INC: $425k → 17%TRANSPARENTEM: $1.3M → 17%Transparentem: $1.3M → 17%Transparentem: $1.3M → 17%The Engine Room Inc: $770k → 17%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $2.0M → 14%VOW For Girls Inc: $500k → 17%VOW For Girls Inc: $500k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $1.1M → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $575k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $500k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Project: $500k → 17%VOW FOR GIRLS INC: $500k → 17%VOW FOR GIRLS INC: $500k → 17%VOW FOR GIRLS INC: $500k → 17%RES PUBLICA INC: $1.5M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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WI
MI
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MD
DE
AZ
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DC
HI
OK
LA
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Beyond the US: 28% of all-years giving ($1.3B)

113 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$324M · 258 grants
Brazil$83M · 293 grants
Belgium$66M · 141 grants
Colombia$50M · 220 grants
Germany$47M · 112 grants
Switzerland$47M · 99 grants
South Africa$45M · 111 grants
Senegal$43M · 15 grants
Haiti$38M · 19 grants
Mexico$34M · 151 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Foundation to Promote Open Society’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 50%.

Foundation to Promote Open Societylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2B · 1203 repeat orgs$2.1B to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

1203 repeat relationships: 357 still active in FY2024, 846 since wound down; 149 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1203
601

Total granted

$2.2B
$2.0B

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

42%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BARD COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $49M · revenue +151%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $28M · revenue +27%
  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • OS
    OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8B · revenue -60%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS
    one grant, 2023 · $6.4M · revenue +15%
  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $4.7M · revenue -38%
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
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
4
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
12
Global Network Initiative Inc

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technology (ict) sector.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; the most unlike its peers is The Arsenault Family Foundation Inc. 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

804 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. 804 of the 2,000 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.

171
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
141
Early backer (in before they grew)
787/804
Grantees still filing
457/804
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE: $1,800,000,000 · PhilanthropyOPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTESOROS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $103,487,301 · Philanthropy+10 more: $147,984,925 · Philanthropy+10 moreOPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION LONDON: $230,501,057 · OtherOPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION LONDONOPEN SOCIETY INITIATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA: $39,781,323 · OtherFondation Connaissance et Liberte: $34,724,540 · Other+118 more: $671,533,497 · Other+118 moreTHE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY: $100,051,579 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $32,730,966 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $17,820,712 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $16,066,728 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $12,348,089 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,125,000 · InternationalNATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE: $9,650,000 · International+16 more: $71,380,202 · InternationalBARD COLLEGE: $48,730,487 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $8,992,700 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,247,386 · EducationNew York University: $5,802,809 · EducationETHIOPIA EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC: $4,500,000 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $4,216,800 · EducationWAY TO RISE: $3,750,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $3,560,000 · Education+7 more: $19,155,892 · EducationNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $11,250,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $11,230,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $9,250,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $8,700,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,750,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $4,700,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $4,697,000 · Civil RightsTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC: $4,500,000 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $4,450,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $4,000,000 · Civil RightsBYP100 Education Fund: $3,814,900 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES: $3,050,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $9,850,442 · Civil RightsNEW VENTURE FUND: $51,308,100 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $5,762,265 · EnvironmentC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $5,639,040 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $4,550,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $3,800,000 · EnvironmentBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $21,500,000 · Arts & CultureEQUIS INSTITUTE: $15,108,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS: $6,387,708 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $6,000,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,027,500 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $3,475,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $2,543,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $2,250,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,051,472,226Other$976,540,417International$270,173,276Education$104,956,074Civil Rights$84,242,342Environment$71,059,405Arts & Culture$62,291,208

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOROS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $103,487,301 over 4y, 78% of budgetTHE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY: $100,051,579 over 5y, 25% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $51,308,100 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $48,730,487 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $35,339,596 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $33,443,642 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $32,730,966 over 4y, 79% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $28,275,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $28,244,785 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $21,500,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $21,220,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $20,000,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $17,820,712 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $16,066,728 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetEQUIS INSTITUTE: $15,108,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $12,965,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $12,687,037 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $12,348,089 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $12,230,047 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $11,250,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $11,230,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetNAMATI INC: $10,870,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $10,125,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE: $9,650,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $9,250,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $8,992,700 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $8,700,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetAVINA AMERICAS INC: $8,648,176 over 5y, 60% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $8,207,946 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP SECRETARIAT: $7,816,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $6,740,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $6,638,275 over 5y, 12% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $6,460,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $6,450,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS: $6,387,708 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $6,247,386 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $6,120,000 over 5y, 93% of budgetSundance Institute: $6,000,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $5,964,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetNew York University: $5,802,809 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $5,762,265 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetThe ONE Campaign: $5,750,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $5,639,040 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $5,275,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $5,200,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $5,027,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $4,750,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $4,700,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SOROS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
  • Who funds EQUIS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NAMATI INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Wellspring Philanthro…Open Society InstituteThe Ford FoundationDemocracy Fund IncRockefeller Brothers …NEO Philanthropy IncWallace Global Fund IIAlliance for Open Soc…Amalgamated Charitabl…Proteus Fund IncOmidyar Network Fund …New Venture Fund
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund IncNY157.9× affinity155 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Open Society Institute · The Ford Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Wallace Global Fund II · Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · New Venture Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
40report 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.
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How do I get to Foundation to Promote Open Society?

Find your warmest path to Foundation to Promote Open Society through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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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