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Gates Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.3B
Granted FY2024still arriving
4,974
Grants FY2024still arriving
44
States reached
$351M
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.

International$16.8BHealth$11.1BEducation$6.8BFood & Nutrition$3.2BScience & Tech$1.5BPhilanthropy$1.2BCommunity Improvement$410MSocial Science$308MOther$0
02FY2024 · 4974 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k151 grants · $4.0M
  • $50k–250k1153 grants · $166M
  • $250k+3644 grants · $6.1B
$500,000
Median grant
44
States reached
$78.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GAVI ALLIANCE$350,500,000
GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA THE$283,358,799
GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$276,581,817
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THE$120,500,000
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION$64,987,518
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION$52,000,000
PATH$41,020,752
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT$37,900,000
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF$35,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$34,964,595
AGRA$32,500,000
HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND$31,500,000
COALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONS$30,000,000
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION$28,173,997
AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT$20,495,533
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.

US giving: 55% of grant dollars ($23.5B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 45% that went abroad ($19.4B) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $123.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC THE: $19.3M → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INC: $7.3M → 7%FUND FOR THE GLOBAL FUND: $5.0M → 10%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $12.4M → 14%FUND FOR THE GLOBAL FUND: $4.8M → 10%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC THE: $6.4M → 14%FUND FOR THE GLOBAL FUND: $4.1M → 10%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC THE: $6.2M → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $5.3M → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC THE: $5.2M → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC THE: $5.1M → 14%TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC THE: $4.9M → 14%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $5.7M → 17%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $5.1M → 17%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $4.0M → 17%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $5.1M → 17%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $5.9M → 14%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $4.5M → 14%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE: $6.5M → 9%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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VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 45% of all-years giving ($19.4B)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
Switzerland$7.3B · 1151 grants
United Kingdom$2.1B · 2035 grants
India$1.1B · 1334 grants
Kenya$949M · 693 grants
Nigeria$765M · 638 grants
South Africa$682M · 841 grants
Pakistan$656M · 290 grants
Canada$489M · 450 grants
France$362M · 303 grants
China$297M · 550 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.
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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 6% of Gates Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gates Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 45% 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37.5B · 1734 repeat orgs$1.3B to everyone else

1734 repeat relationships: 1146 still active in FY2024, 588 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1734
175

Total granted

$37.5B
$1.1B

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+39%

Still filing today

35%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185M 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
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2B · revenue +76% · 31% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $978M · revenue +46% · 90% of their budget
  • CH
    CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $482M · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • GF
    GLOBAL FUND FIGHT AIDS TB MALARIA
    one grant, 2017 · $101M
  • IB
    INTL BANK RECONSTRUCTION AND DEV
    one grant, 2017 · $94M
  • CA
    COOPERATIVE ASSIST RELIEF EVRYWHERE
    one grant, 2017 · $44M
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.

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Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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5
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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6
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
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
11
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
12
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family 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

670 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. 670 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.

260
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
654/670
Grantees still filing
451/670
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GAVI ALLIANCE: $2,824,688,844 · OtherGAVI ALLIANCEWORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $2,728,679,177 · OtherWORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATIONGLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA THE: $1,789,186,861 · OtherGLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA THEINTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT: $763,291,616 · Other+119 more: $8,471,976,499 · Other+119 moreUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,249,754,307 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FO…PATH: $1,168,716,344 · InternationalPATHTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $796,435,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION…CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $481,772,655 · InternationalCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS…INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC: $208,396,537 · International+21 more: $1,374,186,112 · International+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $977,936,776 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $447,707,234 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS…Emory University: $242,016,210 · EducationEmory Univers…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $210,182,431 · EducationPresident and…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $154,113,575 · EducationCornell University: $149,734,395 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $121,657,260 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $118,460,733 · Education+18 more: $1,044,245,588 · Education+18 moreGATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $905,806,439 · HealthGLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR TB DRUG DEVELOPMENT INC: $174,501,239 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $168,081,390 · HealthEHEALTH AFRICA: $122,940,924 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $96,248,745 · Health+9 more: $349,433,707 · HealthROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,953,049 · PhilanthropyTHE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $86,200,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $81,486,339 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: $41,983,901 · PhilanthropyCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $37,270,169 · PhilanthropyCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC: $34,000,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR IMPACT EVALUATION INC: $32,334,482 · PhilanthropyNEW VENTURE FUND: $326,603,397 · EnvironmentTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $105,727,181 · Human ServicesAIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $63,807,563 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $53,631,522 · Human Services
Other$16,577,822,997International$5,279,260,955Education$3,466,054,202Health$1,817,012,444Philanthropy$414,227,940Environment$326,603,397Human Services$223,166,266

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 budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,249,754,307 over 8y, 31% of budgetPATH: $1,168,716,344 over 8y, 54% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $977,936,776 over 8y, 90% of budgetGATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $905,806,439 over 8y, 45% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $796,435,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $481,772,655 over 8y, 36% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $447,707,234 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $326,603,397 over 8y, 11% of budgetEmory University: $242,016,210 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $210,182,431 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC: $208,396,537 over 8y, 49% of budgetGLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR TB DRUG DEVELOPMENT INC: $174,501,239 over 8y, 51% of budgetJSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $170,626,137 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $168,081,390 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $162,021,538 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $160,874,876 over 8y, 11% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $157,993,985 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $154,113,575 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University: $149,734,395 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $149,562,809 over 8y, 25% of budgetEHEALTH AFRICA: $122,940,924 over 7y, 95% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $121,657,260 over 8y, 69% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $121,232,425 over 8y, 14% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $120,008,815 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $118,460,733 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $118,228,959 over 8y, 31% of budgetThe ONE Campaign: $110,535,000 over 8y, 86% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $109,856,658 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $107,333,171 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $105,727,181 over 8y, 32% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $105,488,685 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,953,049 over 8y, 13% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $96,248,745 over 7y, 30% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $92,091,374 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $86,200,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $85,870,207 over 8y, 47% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $84,506,953 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $81,486,339 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $78,681,339 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $78,629,751 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $76,827,467 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $71,005,444 over 8y, 14% of budgetDKT INTERNATIONAL INC: $70,915,538 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetRESULTS FOR DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $70,430,328 over 8y, 63% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $68,900,283 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetRESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $64,068,878 over 8y, 30% of budgetAIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $63,807,563 over 8y, 87% of budgetVILLAGEREACH: $59,342,012 over 8y, 56% 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR TB DRUG DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EHEALTH AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Carnegie Corporation …Raikes FoundationMedina FoundationThe William & Flora H…Michael & Susan Dell …Lumina Foundation for…Walton Family Foundat…Overdeck Family Found…Stolte Family Foundat…Chan Zuckerberg Initi…New Profit IncCharles and Helen Sch…
Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNY133.3× affinity158 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carnegie Corporation of New York · Raikes Foundation · Medina Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Stolte Family Foundation · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation · New Profit Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab 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 Gates Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gates 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 11%
  • Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Management Sciences for Health Inc: 67% of income from government
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Achievement Network Ltd: 1% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Zearn: 0% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Avenir Health Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
23report 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 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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