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Good Ventures Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$307M
Granted FY2025still arriving
565
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$435MHealth$361MInternational$289MScience & Tech$239MPhilanthropy$142MSocial Science$95MAnimals$63MCommunity Improvement$58MOther$0
02FY2025 · 565 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $149k
  • $10k–50k120 grants · $3.3M
  • $50k–250k177 grants · $21M
  • $250k+235 grants · $282M
$153,881
Median grant
22
States reached
$10.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM INC$10,500,000
MALARIA CONSORTIUM$9,381,474
OPEN ROAD IMPACT INC$8,850,983
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH$8,328,964
80000 HOURS LTD$6,600,000
ALPENGLOW GROUP LTD$6,374,319
GDI-SOLUTIONS INC$5,339,190
CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD$4,703,785
INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC$4,391,492
ELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION$4,250,000
INSTITUT DE FORMULATION DES VACCINS (CH) LTD$3,804,570
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$3,746,247
TARA CLIMATE LTD$3,500,000
OPEN ROAD IMPACT INC$3,456,582
BLUEPRINT BIOSECURITY$3,250,000
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.

US giving: 67% of grant dollars ($1.3B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 33% that went abroad ($611M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $35.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $2.1M → 10%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $280k → 17%THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS: $100k → 8%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING INC: $550k → 14%FUND FOR THE GLOBAL FUND: $441k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $2.0M → 10%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $150k → 17%FUND FOR THE GLOBAL FUND: $221k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $1.6M → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $1.4M → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $828k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $541k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $335k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $54k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $19k → 10%RETHINK PRIORITIES: $13k → 10%AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $160k → 16%LEGAL PRIORITIES INC: $75k → 16%Tides Center: $4.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 10%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $1.0M → 17%TIDES CENTER: $950k → 10%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $500k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $750k → 10%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $500k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $750k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $450k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $450k → 10%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.5M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.4M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $710k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $161k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $150k → 14%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING INC: $550k → 17%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $1.1M → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $800k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $60k → 14%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 33% of all-years giving ($611M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$411M · 209 grants
Singapore$32M · 11 grants
Canada$28M · 27 grants
Germany$20M · 26 grants
Australia$15M · 27 grants
South Korea$12M · 7 grants
India$10M · 22 grants
Switzerland$8.4M · 16 grants
Denmark$8.3M · 7 grants
Netherlands$7.2M · 17 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Good Ventures Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Good Ventures Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5B · 405 repeat orgs$255M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

405 repeat relationships: 204 still active in FY2025, 201 since wound down; 216 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

405
363

Total granted

$1.5B
$143M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

24%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112M 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
EducationInternationalScience & TechAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $107M · revenue +35%
  • TA
    The Against Malaria Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $49M · revenue +29% · 35% of their budget
  • EV
    EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $40M · revenue +86% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • HI
    HORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12M · revenue +201%
  • TA
    THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue -71%
  • OP
    OPEN PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10M
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
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
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
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
5
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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

International
6
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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7
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
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
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
10
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
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Rachel's Hug-a-Bears. 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

246 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. 246 of the 1,002 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.

48
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
239/246
Grantees still filing
135/246
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MALARIA CONSORTIUM: $170,668,949 · OtherMALARIA CONSORTIUMEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION: $50,334,866 · OtherEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATIONCHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD: $31,443,830 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $29,679,126 · Other+115 more: $580,221,808 · Other+115 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $107,015,295 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $39,770,933 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES O…EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $39,706,095 · EducationEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUN…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,475,129 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $29,863,541 · EducationMassachusetts Institute…The Imperial College Foundation Inc: $16,000,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $14,288,376 · Education+18 more: $84,018,330 · Education+18 moreHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $35,404,955 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $28,749,665 · InternationalThe End Fund Inc: $11,000,000 · InternationalALIMA USA INC: $7,976,522 · InternationalPATH: $7,294,917 · InternationalEVIDENCE ACTION: $6,277,895 · InternationalCenter for a New American Security Inc: $4,816,709 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC: $4,391,492 · International+7 more: $21,806,827 · InternationalThe Against Malaria Foundation: $48,731,000 · HealthSIGHTSAVERS INC: $15,360,100 · HealthArc Research Institute: $12,000,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $9,380,777 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $6,720,000 · HealthCENTER FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY: $4,666,140 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $4,439,400 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $4,425,000 · Health+3 more: $4,932,123 · HealthGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $34,224,181 · PhilanthropyELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION: $12,750,000 · PhilanthropyHORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE: $11,837,990 · PhilanthropyOPEN PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $7,217,544 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND: $5,399,790 · PhilanthropyGDI-SOLUTIONS INC: $5,339,190 · PhilanthropyMALARIA NO MORE FUND: $3,400,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $6,777,000 · PhilanthropyOpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc: $30,000,000 · Science & TechREDWOOD RESEARCH GROUP INC: $11,790,000 · Science & TechCenter for AI Safety Inc: $11,052,288 · Science & TechMATS RESEARCH INC: $4,558,450 · Science & TechSECUREBIO INC: $3,557,937 · Science & TechCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · Science & TechCENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION LTD: $3,000,000 · Science & TechFUTURE HOUSE INC: $2,946,250 · Science & TechMIRROR BIOLOGY DIALOGUES FUND: $2,725,000 · Science & Tech+5 more: $8,396,575 · Science & TechThe Rand Corporation: $44,500,001 · Public BenefitTHE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC: $10,324,603 · Public BenefitFORECASTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $6,121,650 · Public BenefitCENTRE FOR THE GOVERNANCE OF AI INC: $2,995,207 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $2,300,000 · Public Benefit
Other$862,348,579Education$361,137,699International$127,718,982Health$110,654,540Philanthropy$96,945,695Science & Tech$81,026,500Public Benefit$66,241,461

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 budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $107,015,295 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $48,731,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $44,500,001 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $39,770,933 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $39,706,095 over 6y, 41% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $35,404,955 over 6y, 12% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,475,129 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc: $30,000,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $29,863,541 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $28,749,665 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Imperial College Foundation Inc: $16,000,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $15,850,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetSIGHTSAVERS INC: $15,360,100 over 3y, 69% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $14,288,376 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION: $12,750,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetArc Research Institute: $12,000,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $11,930,100 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,819,299 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD RESEARCH GROUP INC: $11,790,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetCenter for AI Safety Inc: $11,052,288 over 2y, 57% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $11,000,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $10,092,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetOPEN PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $10,000,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $9,380,777 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRethink Priorities: $8,861,793 over 3y, 24% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $8,500,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetALIMA USA INC: $7,976,522 over 3y, 44% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,826,152 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,762,305 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPATH: $7,294,917 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: $7,219,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $7,217,544 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $7,200,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $6,906,946 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $6,277,895 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetFORECASTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $6,121,650 over 3y, 95% of budgetCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $5,991,797 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,931,359 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $5,399,790 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $4,816,709 over 3y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR APPLIED RATIONALITY: $4,666,140 over 5y, 37% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $4,439,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $4,425,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC: $4,391,492 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,385,480 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNew York University: $4,316,420 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FOOD PARTNERS INC: $4,192,397 over 4y, 55% of budget1DAY SOONER INC: $4,100,000 over 3y, 58% 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds The Imperial College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELEANOR CROOK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Open Road Impact Inc ↗
  • Who funds Arc Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for AI Safety Inc ↗
  • Who funds The End Fund 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.

Effective Ventures Fo…Founders Pledge IncSilicon Valley Commun…Open Philanthropy Act…Humane America Animal…Gates FoundationRethink CharityThe Clear FundEvery OrgThe William & Flora H…Rsf Social Finance IncTipping Point Private…
Effective Ventures Foundation USA IncCA88.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Founders Pledge Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Open Philanthropy Action Fund · Humane America Animal Foundation · Gates Foundation · Rethink Charity · The Clear Fund · Every Org · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tipping Point Private 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 Good Ventures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Good Ventures Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%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%
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Veterans Education and Research Association of Northern New England Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Igem Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
20report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Good Ventures Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Good Ventures 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 1002 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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