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Fthree Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
102
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$4.7MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$1.2MEnvironment$346kYouth Development$335kInternational$317kPhilanthropy$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k64 grants · $246k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.2M
$5,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KQED INC$100,000
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING$100,000
MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP$100,000
MAPLIGHT$85,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$85,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER$75,000
ISSUE ONE$60,000
PROTEUS FUND$60,000
VOTING RIGHTS LAB -SD FOUNDATION$50,000
MI FAMILIA VOTA EDUCATION FUND$50,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$50,000
CALMATTERS$50,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT$50,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$50,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH: $5k → 14%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $10k → 24%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $3k → 24%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL: $3k → 16%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL: $3k → 16%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $5k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $3k → 8%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
MT
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NY
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OR
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PA
NJ
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RI
CA
CO
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KY
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GA
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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.7M · 126 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

126 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
30

Total granted

$9.7M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+62%

Still filing today

81%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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
EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • M
    MapLight
    8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +62%
  • ISSUE ONE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +105%
  • I
    IGNITE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • R
    REVEAL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • TL
    THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPFgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +81%
  • SF
    SD Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +104%

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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
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
3
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
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
6
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
7
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Impact Funders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportCancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportElementary Literacy TutoringDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Pregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/158
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,407

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

156 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. 156 of the 189 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/156
Grantees still filing
101/156
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROTEUS FUND INC — $495,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INCIGNITE — $415,000 · EducationIGNITETHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $400,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT …THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $255,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $250,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER F…ICIVICS INC — $175,000 · EducationICIVICS INCEDUCATION PIONEERS — $150,000 · EducationEDUCATION PIONEERSDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $125,000 · EducationMARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP — $110,000 · Education+13 more — $164,500 · Education+13 moreMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $415,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCIONCalMatters — $400,000 · Civil RightsCalMattersROCK THE VOTE — $375,000 · Civil RightsROCK THE VOTEPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $250,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PRO…VOTEORG — $140,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORGNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $87,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES — $75,000 · Civil Rights+11 more — $345,000 · Civil Rights+11 moreThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $400,000 · OtherThe Center for Investigative…CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING — $350,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REP…YOUTH RADIO — $285,000 · OtherYOUTH RADIOREVEAL — $100,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $175,000 · OtherTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER IN…+90 more — $1,468,000 · Other+90 moreMapLight — $530,000 · Public BenefitMapLightISSUE ONE — $480,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONETHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $210,000 · Public BenefitTHE CENTER FOR …STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $205,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY…RepresentUs Education Fund — $60,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $7,000 · Public BenefitKQED INC — $800,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUB…CITY BUREAU NFP — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $122,500 · Arts & Culture+8 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $50,000 · EnvironmentOne Hundred Miles Inc — $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $40,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $31,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST — $25,500 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER — $25,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CONSERVATION DBA CENTER FOR LARGE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentAmah Mutsun Land Trust — $25,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentUrban Tilth — $20,000 · EnvironmentSave The Bay — $14,000 · Environment+9 more — $64,000 · EnvironmentROOT CAPITAL INC — $40,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $40,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $40,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $40,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $40,000 · InternationalTilting Futures Incorporated — $36,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $35,000 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INC — $30,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $25,000 · International+5 more — $28,500 · International
Education$2,539,500Civil Rights$2,087,500Other$2,778,000Public Benefit$1,492,000Arts & Culture$1,222,500Environment$404,500International$354,500

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 budgetKQED INC — $800,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMapLight — $530,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $495,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetISSUE ONE — $480,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetIGNITE — $415,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $415,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCalMatters — $400,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $400,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc — $400,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetROCK THE VOTE — $375,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetYOUTH RADIO — $285,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $255,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $250,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $210,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $205,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICIVICS INC — $175,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS — $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVOTEORG — $140,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $125,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP — $110,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $87,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES — $75,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREDRESS MOVEMENT — $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCITY BUREAU NFP — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDEMOCRACY WORKS INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $44,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc — $40,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWIRE CARES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $40,000 over 8y, 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.

  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds MapLight ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds MI FAMILIA EN ACCION ↗
  • Who funds CalMatters ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH RADIO ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
  • Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
  • Who funds VOTEORG ↗
  • Who funds DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES ↗
  • Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds REDRESS MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds CITY BUREAU NFP ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationThe William & Flora H…Jewish Community Fede…Amalgamated Charitabl…Crankstart FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…John D and Catherine …Democracy Fund Inc
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA39.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Crankstart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc

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 Fthree Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology — 14% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Root Capital Inc — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The American Society for Cell Biology — 4% of income from government
  • American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc — 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
39report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fthree Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fthree Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 189 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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State money flows
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