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Freedom Together Foundation

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.

$470M
Granted FY2024still arriving
595
Grants FY2024still arriving
38
States reached
$14M
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.

Environment$456MPhilanthropy$432MCivil Rights$360MEducation$298MHealth$232MHuman Services$190MCommunity Improvement$167MPublic Benefit$154MOther$0
02FY2024 · 595 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k94 grants · $12M
  • $250k+445 grants · $457M
$500,000
Median grant
38
States reached
$3.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC$14,000,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$12,500,000
VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT$8,000,000
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$8,000,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE$7,000,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE$6,500,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$6,250,000
WINDWARD FUND$6,150,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,550,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$5,000,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS$5,000,000
BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC$5,000,000
BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE$5,000,000
FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE$5,000,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$5,000,000
02The need
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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, $201.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%STATE POWER FUND: $2.1M → 19%CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH INC: $1.1M → 10%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1.6M → 14%CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH INC: $1.1M → 10%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1.4M → 14%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $1.0M → 20%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1.3M → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.6M → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.3M → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.3M → 10%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $2.4M → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.1M → 10%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $2.0M → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.1M → 10%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSNS OF THE USA: $1.0M → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.1M → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.0M → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $1.0M → 10%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.3M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $16.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $16.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $14.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $14.0M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 14%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 14%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 14%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $7.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $5.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $4.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $4.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $3.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $3.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $3.5M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $3.1M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $3.0M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $2.6M → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $2.0M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $1.8M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $1.4M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $16.0M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $1.4M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $16.0M → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $1.2M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $10.0M → 17%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS 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

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CA
CO
NE
MO
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DE
AZ
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NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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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 Freedom Together Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 27%.

Freedom Together 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0B · 445 repeat orgs$81M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

445 repeat relationships: 317 still active in FY2024, 128 since wound down; 98 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

445
183

Total granted

$2.0B
$40M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

93%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41M 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
EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • BM
    BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $104M · revenue +677%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $52M · revenue +134%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $51M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • GP
    GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue -88%
  • GIVEDIRECTLY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -32%
  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -25% · 29% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
7
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
8
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
10
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
11
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; the most unlike its peers is Shift Fka Aaron & Martha Schecter Private 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

716 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. 716 of the 761 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.

50
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
115
Early backer (in before they grew)
705/716
Grantees still filing
427/716
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VENTURE FUND: $83,850,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDWINDWARD FUND: $55,300,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDElevate Energy: $33,150,000 · EnvironmentElevate EnergyTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $29,642,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC…EARTHJUSTICE: $20,500,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION: $14,500,000 · Environment+30 more: $175,727,700 · Environment+30 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $56,140,000 · EducationMassachusetts …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $48,519,203 · EducationPresident and …The New School: $23,131,000 · EducationThe New SchoolTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,366,843 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES O…NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $16,450,000 · EducationNATIONAL LEAGU…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $15,750,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLE…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,500,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $10,000,000 · Education+15 more: $82,612,500 · Education+15 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,900,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AME…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $46,454,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy IncCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $25,549,000 · Other+81 more: $618,349,165 · Other+81 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $101,990,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER …Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $47,781,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated …TIDES FOUNDATION: $19,925,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $16,540,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FO…BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $16,000,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC…+10 more: $46,730,000 · Philanthropy+10 moreTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $52,348,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGES…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $46,500,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT ST…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $37,850,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR …PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $10,725,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $10,250,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,950,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $8,400,400 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $8,200,000 · Community Improvement+9 more: $43,986,921 · Community Improvement+9 moreBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $104,345,400 · Human ServicesBLUE MERI…HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $52,280,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CH…IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $9,500,000 · Human ServicesLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $8,000,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $7,483,500 · Human Services+4 more: $18,987,210 · Human Services+4 moreCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $34,830,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $26,543,200 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $12,600,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $11,075,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $10,900,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES: $10,300,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $10,150,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $8,950,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $8,700,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $8,250,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $7,250,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $18,600,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$412,669,700Education$285,469,546Other$741,252,165Philanthropy$248,966,000Community Improvement$227,210,321Human Services$200,596,110Civil Rights$168,148,200

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 budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $104,345,400 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $101,990,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $83,850,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $56,140,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $55,300,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $52,348,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $52,280,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,900,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $48,519,203 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $47,781,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $46,500,000 over 8y, 32% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $46,454,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $37,850,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $34,830,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetElevate Energy: $33,150,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $29,642,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $26,543,200 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $25,549,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetThe New School: $23,131,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $22,366,843 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $20,950,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $20,500,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $19,925,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $19,478,550 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $19,000,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $16,540,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $16,450,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $16,000,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $15,750,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC: $14,900,000 over 8y, 54% of budgetNATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION: $14,500,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $14,008,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $14,000,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $13,400,000 over 8y, 47% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $12,600,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $12,560,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $12,000,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $11,750,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $11,625,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $11,075,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $11,000,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $10,900,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $10,725,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $10,500,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $10,300,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $10,250,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL POLICY: $10,215,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $10,150,000 over 8y, 16% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds Elevate Energy ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds The New School ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL 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.

Surdna Foundation IncThe Kresge FoundationUnited States Energy …Amalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundThe Nathan Cummings F…The Ford FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Foundation to Promote…New Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncRockefeller Family Fu…
Surdna Foundation IncNY106.2× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Surdna Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • National Center for Healthy Housing Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Housing Partnership Network Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
  • New Ecology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • National Consumer Law Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 761 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home