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Greater Houston Community Foundation

The mission of the GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (ghcf) is expanding philanthropic impact by connecting donors to the causes they care about, providing excellent stewardship of assets entrusted to us, and convening resources to address important community needs.

$254M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,724
Grants FY2024still arriving
48
States reached
$10M
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.

Philanthropy$410MHealth$251MEducation$247MReligion$142MHuman Services$116MArts & Culture$101MYouth Development$63MHousing & Shelter$63MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1724 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1,724 grants below total $232,335,130, the rows itemized in this filing. The $253,805,619 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,470,489 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k264 grants · $1.8M
  • $10k–50k821 grants · $16M
  • $50k–250k455 grants · $48M
  • $250k+184 grants · $166M
$25,000
Median grant
48
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$10,026,050
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$8,964,257
ST JOHNS SCHOOL$7,082,000
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC$6,719,247
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$5,963,392
ALPHA USA$4,559,304
IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$4,090,000
HUGHEN CENTER INC$3,875,000
THE KINKAID SCHOOL INC$3,322,017
BROOKLYN ORG$3,175,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION$3,045,989
FRIENDS OF RAISING THE VILLAGE INCORPORATED$3,000,000
THE IRVIN M SHLENKER SCHOOL OF CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$2,712,700
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN$2,682,785
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION$2,553,000
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 (FY17–24, $53.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOLLAR FOR PORTLAND: $400k → 9%PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP INC: $425k → 7%SKYS THE LIMIT FUND: $500k → 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $350k → 8%SEWA International Inc: $398k → 10%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $350k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - TEXAS: $500k → 10%THE NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $450k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $375k → 17%Free Indeed Community Works CDC: $900k → 16%LIFEWORKS: $500k → 10%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $513k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $347k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $989k → 16%Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council: $750k → 16%HOUSTONS AMAZING PLACE INC: $612k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $581k → 16%Jewish Family Service of Houston: $536k → 16%Jewish Family Service of Houston: $500k → 16%Jewish Family Service of Houston: $357k → 16%Jewish Family Service of Houston: $344k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $451k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $408k → 16%YMCA OF THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $1.3M → 16%The Furniture Bank: $750k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $1.4M → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $598k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $400k → 16%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston: $360k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $346k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $591k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $373k → 16%COLLABORATIVE FOR CHILDREN: $339k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $1.4M → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $1.4M → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $1.3M → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $1.3M → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $950k → 16%MEMORIAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $582k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $475k → 16%Furniture Bank: $1.5M → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $350k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $3.8M → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $950k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $722k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $500k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $423k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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KY
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AR
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HI
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GA
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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 13% of Greater Houston Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 63%.

Greater Houston Community 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.
$1.2B · 1528 repeat orgs$242M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

1528 repeat relationships: 995 still active in FY2024, 533 since wound down; 115 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1528
285

Total granted

$1.2B
$225M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+7%

Still filing today

82%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $29M · revenue +59%
  • United Way of Greater Houston
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +5%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • WP
    WOODNEXT PHILANTHROPIES
    one grant, 2022 · $170M · revenue -97% · 77% of their budget
  • RF
    Rupani Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    one grant, 2018 · $1.8M · revenue -11%
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
TrueWorks Houston

To see well-formed people create well-formed ventures and transform our city.

Religion
2
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
3
Glasstire

Glasstire is an online magazine for visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
4
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To provide professional investment management and related services for the funds under management and control of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.

Education
5
Baylor Research Institute

Faith based medical research organization bringing innovative treatment to patients through basic science, clinical trials, and health care effectiveness and quality of care research.

Health
6
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
7
Texas Bar Foundation

The Foundation solicits charitable contributions and provides funding to enhance the rule of law and the system of justice in Texas.

Crime & Legal
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource provides public access cable television programming for the City of Houston.

Arts & Culture
10
American Civil Liberties Union

To champion individual rights under a charter granted by the ACLU (National Affiliate).

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11
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities.

Community Improvement
12
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers-

Faith based hospitals providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to the greater Austin, Texas metropolitan service area and the surrounding communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Both Ends Believing Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Basilica Landmark. 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

1697 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. 1697 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.

200
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
399
Early backer (in before they grew)
1651/1697
Grantees still filing
1171/1697
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOODNEXT PHILANTHROPIES: $170,000,000 · OtherWOODNEXT PHILANTHROPIESLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $20,052,250 · OtherYOUNG LIFE: $29,076,674 · OtherYOUNG LIFE+88 more: $318,023,201 · Other+88 moreNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $67,719,276 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARI…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $43,876,103 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARIT…United Way of Greater Houston: $27,436,446 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greate…The Alaska Community Foundation: $18,582,874 · PhilanthropyThe Alaska Community…IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $9,142,775 · Philanthropy+17 more: $55,000,205 · Philanthropy+17 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $97,944,119 · HealthTHE METHODIST …Texas Children's Hospital: $15,878,793 · HealthTexas Children…Memorial Hermann Foundation: $5,340,963 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,300,119 · Health+14 more: $33,617,652 · Health+14 moreTexas A&M Foundation: $27,350,840 · EducationTexas A&M …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,671,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY…The Kinkaid School Inc: $10,312,460 · EducationThe Kinkai…Baylor College of Medicine: $7,191,070 · EducationBaylor Col…William Marsh Rice University: $5,554,475 · Education+21 more: $48,115,326 · Education+21 moreBakerRipley: $19,618,659 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistance Ministries: $8,860,961 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $7,980,918 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $7,742,833 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $3,232,610 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $2,914,161 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $2,733,435 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,650,000 · Human Services+12 more: $22,134,810 · Human ServicesTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $13,064,785 · Arts & CultureHOPE MEDIA GROUP: $8,323,374 · Arts & CultureWARREN WILDLIFE GALLERY: $6,600,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony Society: $6,510,753 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,357,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science: $6,158,059 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $5,146,127 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation Inc: $4,670,615 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE MINDS CARE: $3,717,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT: $2,715,680 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet Foundation: $2,712,321 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $6,183,038 · Arts & CultureGlorieta 20 Inc: $10,963,825 · ReligionPULSE OUTREACH: $10,755,000 · ReligionAlpha USA: $7,161,304 · ReligionKanakuk Ministries: $3,380,000 · ReligionBlack Diamond Camps: $2,890,000 · ReligionEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $2,162,106 · ReligionMY BROTHER'S KEEPER OUTREACH CENTER: $1,832,615 · ReligionAGATE HOUSING & SERVICES INC: $1,800,000 · ReligionChristian Thinkers Society Inc: $1,503,322 · Religion
Other$537,152,125Philanthropy$221,757,679Health$158,081,646Education$119,195,371Human Services$77,868,387Arts & Culture$72,159,252Religion$42,448,172

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 budgetWOODNEXT PHILANTHROPIES: $170,000,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $97,944,119 over 8y, 49% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $67,719,276 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $43,876,103 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $29,076,674 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $27,436,446 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $27,350,840 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,671,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $20,052,250 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetBakerRipley: $19,618,659 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation: $18,582,874 over 5y, 26% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $15,878,793 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $13,064,785 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetSHELTER PROVIDERS OF HOUSTON INC: $12,915,409 over 7y, 77% of budgetGlorieta 20 Inc: $10,963,825 over 8y, 22% of budgetPULSE OUTREACH: $10,755,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetSt John's School: $10,720,820 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetAvenue Community Development Corporation: $10,610,506 over 4y, 47% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County: $10,383,600 over 8y, 89% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc: $10,312,460 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $9,142,775 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHouston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston: $9,105,991 over 5y, 18% of budgetGREATER LAKE CITY ALLIANCE: $8,950,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries: $8,860,961 over 7y, 26% of budgetCAROLINA CREEK CHRISTIAN CAMPS: $8,790,094 over 8y, 33% of budgetHOPE MEDIA GROUP: $8,323,374 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $7,980,918 over 8y, 43% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $7,886,620 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area: $7,742,833 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $7,191,070 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha USA: $7,161,304 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,137,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $6,719,247 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARREN WILDLIFE GALLERY: $6,600,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $6,510,753 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $6,387,752 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,357,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $6,250,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $6,158,059 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $5,554,475 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Parks Board: $5,529,771 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $5,456,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,351,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,349,164 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $5,340,963 over 8y, 10% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,300,119 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSTON PETSET: $5,298,373 over 8y, 79% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc: $5,146,127 over 8y, 3.4% 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 WOODNEXT PHILANTHROPIES ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗
  • Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER PROVIDERS OF HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Glorieta 20 Inc ↗
  • Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds Avenue Community Development Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Coalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County ↗
  • Who funds The Kinkaid School Inc ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LAKE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Assistance Ministries ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA CREEK CHRISTIAN CAMPS ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MEDIA GROUP ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Alpha USA ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN WILDLIFE GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗

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 Elkins FoundationAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Vivian L Smith Founda…MD Anderson FoundationThe Methodist HospitalHouston Endowment IncStrake FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Baxter Trust Co Priva…The John M O'Quinn Fo…United Way of Greater…
The Elkins FoundationTX113× affinity126 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Houston Endowment Inc · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%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%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
45report 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.

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