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Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
149
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$28MHealth$23MReligion$10MRecreation & Sports$6.4MPhilanthropy$4.7MFood & Nutrition$2.5MArts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k95 grants · $280k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.8M
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION$2,500,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,268,900
JEFFERSON PARISH$1,000,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$525,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC$500,000
ARCHBISHOP RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL$500,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$500,000
Individual grant recipient$300,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$250,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA$250,000
NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL MISSION SERVICES INC$250,000
NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC$225,000
NOTRE DAME SEMINARY$220,000
SHEPHERDING HOPE FOUNDATION$200,000
NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $5k → 16%Bridge House: $1k → 12%Cherish Times Two: $5k → 16%GAITWAY THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $3k → 19%GIVING HOPE NOLA: $3k → 23%Giving Hope: $500 → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $200k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $200k → 23%Clover NOLA Inc: $200k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $200k → 23%The Life of a Single Mom: $3k → 19%Clover NOLA Inc (Formerly Kingsley House Inc): $200k → 23%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 23%JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE INC: $4k → 15%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $3k → 23%RAPHAEL VILLAGE: $3k → 23%Raphael Village: $1k → 23%MERCY ENDEAVORS: $1k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL MISSION SERVICES INC: $250k → 15%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $10k → 23%THE GLEASON INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 23%THE GLEASON INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 23%LOUISIANA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE: $5k → 23%LAKEVIEW SHEPHERD CENTER: $3k → 23%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $50k → 23%The Pro Bono Project: $5k → 23%Team Gleason Foundation: $100k → 23%THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC: $3k → 23%PRO BONO PROJECT: $2k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 23%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

NH
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.
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 12% of Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 72%.

Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73M · 96 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 90 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
131

Total granted

$73M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+7%

Still filing today

53%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyCommunity 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

  • OC
    OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +101%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    4× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +72%
  • TG
    TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +308% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • GT
    GAYLE & TOM BENSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • UO
    University of the Incarnate Word
    one grant, 2017 · $1.2M · revenue +17%
  • OM
    OBLATE MISSIONS
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
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
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education
3
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
4
Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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7
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…

Health
8
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…

Community Improvement
9
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
10
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
11
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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12
Lsu Alumni Association

The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Stabiler 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

163 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. 163 of the 322 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
162/163
Grantees still filing
88/163
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OSHNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $8,120,000 · OtherOSHNER CLINIC FOUNDATIONPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: $6,000,000 · OtherPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMEBROTHER MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL: $4,002,800 · OtherBROTHER MARTIN HIGH SCHOOLJESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $4,000,000 · OtherJESUIT HIGH SCHOOLCatholic Community Foundation: $3,648,100 · OtherCatholic Community FoundationNOTRE DAME SEMINARY OF NEW ORLEANS: $3,217,050 · OtherNOTRE DAME SEMINARY OF NEW ORLEANSST MARY'S DOMINICAN SCHOOL: $3,000,000 · OtherST MARY'S DOMINICAN SCHOOLARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $2,886,578 · OtherARCHBISHOP RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL: $2,500,000 · OtherGAYLE & TOM BENSON CANCER CENTER: $2,000,000 · Other+124 more: $16,414,916 · Other+124 moreOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $12,300,000 · HealthOCHSNER CLINIC …+7 more: $118,118 · HealthTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,600,000 · EducationTHE ADMINIS…XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,500,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIV…University of the Incarnate Word: $1,200,000 · EducationUniversity …JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationJESUIT HIGH…OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $1,000,000 · EducationOBLATE SCHO…ST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationST ALOYSIUS…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $400,000 · Education+8 more: $798,000 · Education+8 moreTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $2,150,000 · Human ServicesCLOVER NOLA INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS MEDICAL MISSION SERVICES INC: $250,000 · Human Services+7 more: $156,500 · Human ServicesTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,975,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $355,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $275,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $202,500 · PhilanthropySHEPHERDING HOPE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $242,500 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $3,000,000 · Food & NutritionTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $507,499 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $112,500 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $222,240 · Arts & Culture
Other$55,789,444Health$12,418,118Education$9,498,000Human Services$3,556,500Philanthropy$3,500,000Food & Nutrition$3,000,000Arts & Culture$2,107,239

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $12,300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $3,000,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $2,150,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,975,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of the Incarnate Word: $1,200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCLOVER NOLA INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetSTUART HALL: $1,000,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $507,499 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $355,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $202,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $202,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDING HOPE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $112,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGalileo Foundation US Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE EMERGE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGOVERNOR'S MANSION PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS GULF COAST & LOUISIANA INC: $38,618 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew Orleans Ballet Association: $27,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCroatian American Society: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSamaritan's Feet International: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds University of the Incarnate Word ↗
  • Who funds JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
  • Who funds OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds ST ALOYSIUS CENTURY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STUART HALL ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS 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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baptist Community Min…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Goldring Family Found…The Almar Foundationd…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Patrick F Taylor Foun…Ochsner Clinic Founda…Louise H Moffett Fami…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Lauricella Land Compa…Oscar J Tolmas Charit…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA75.8× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Lauricella Land Company Foundation · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust

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 Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    32report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 322 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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