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Groundswell Fund

Groundswell Fund practices solidarity with u.s.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
130
Grants FY2025still arriving
33
States reached
$400k
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.

Civil Rights$35MHealth$14MHuman Services$10MPhilanthropy$5.7MCommunity Improvement$5.2MEnvironment$4.7MArts & Culture$3.1MPublic Benefit$2.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k123 grants · $11M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$75,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Proteus Fund$400,000
Tides Center$295,000
Bold Futures NM$255,000
Amalgamated Charitable Fo$250,000
Commonsense Childbirth Inc$225,000
Miami Workers Center$220,000
Movement Strategy Center$220,000
TAKE$207,000
Mujeres Unidas y Activas$205,000
Access Philanthropy Charities$170,000
DuBois Institute for Entrepre$170,000
Mama Sana Vibrant Woman$155,000
Social & Enviro Entrepreneurs$155,000
UTOPIA$155,000
Chicago Foundation for Women$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, $20.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Miss MajorAlex L Lee TGIJP: $727k → 10%The Afiya Center Inc: $177k → 14%Bold Futures NM: $261k → 14%Southern Birth Justice Networ: $141k → 12%TAKE: $315k → 16%The Afiya Center Inc: $155k → 14%Bold Futures NM: $255k → 14%Southern Birth Justice Networ: $136k → 12%TAKE: $286k → 16%Freedom Inc: $260k → 10%Bold Futures NM: $248k → 14%TAKE: $250k → 16%Freedom Inc: $193k → 10%El Pueblo Inc: $222k → 8%Bold Futures NM: $183k → 14%TAKE: $207k → 16%Freedom Inc: $158k → 10%El Pueblo Inc: $160k → 8%Young Women United: $169k → 14%TAKE: $135k → 16%Freedom Inc: $152k → 10%El Pueblo Inc: $148k → 8%The Afiya Center Inc: $243k → 14%Bold Futures NM: $166k → 14%Freedom Inc: $150k → 10%El Pueblo Inc: $145k → 8%Bold Futures NM: $138k → 14%Freedom Inc: $145k → 10%Tides Center: $295k → 10%The Afiya Center Inc: $150k → 14%Freedom Inc: $135k → 10%Tides Center: $209k → 10%The Afiya Center Inc: $145k → 14%URGE: $280k → 14%Sister Song Inc: $235k → 13%Sister Song Inc: $168k → 13%Sister Song Inc: $163k → 13%Sister Song Inc: $155k → 13%Southern Birth Justice Networ: $191k → 15%UTOPIA: $155k → 9%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $238k → 10%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $223k → 10%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $218k → 10%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $205k → 10%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $158k → 10%URGE: $285k → 14%URGE: $274k → 14%URGE: $199k → 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

AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93M · 230 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

230 repeat relationships: 117 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

230
210

Total granted

$93M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +327% · 31% of their budget
  • MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +21%
  • WW
    Women With A Vision
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +345%

Funded once

  • PU
    Power U Center for Social Change Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $148k
  • WI
    Windcall Institute
    one grant, 2024 · $143k
  • TN
    Transform Network Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $121k · revenue 0% · 29% of their budget
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Forward Together Action

FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION (FTA) is an national reproductive justice organization that ORGANIZES COMMUNITIES who experience reproductive oppression TO BUILD POWER. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of colorAnd…

Human Services
3
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
4
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
5
The Conversationalist
—
6
The Womxn Project

Through civic engagement, policy advancement and artivism, The Womxn Project takes action to secure reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and government transparency in Rhode Island.

Civil Rights
7
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
8
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
9
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
10
Our Voice Nuestra Voz

Our Voice Nuestra Voice is a nation-building organization, anchoring ancestry while building Black and Brown solidarity in New Orleans. We remember our shared culture and language, reconnect to the land, and organize our community around…

Human Services
11
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

—
12
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; the most unlike its peers is Urge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

418 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. 418 of the 463 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.

30
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
142
Early backer (in before they grew)
394/418
Grantees still filing
240/418
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOLD FUTURES NM: $1,594,485 · Human ServicesBOLD FUTURES NMMujeres Unidas y Activas: $1,438,000 · Human ServicesMujeres Unidas y Activa…FREEDOM INC: $1,292,550 · Human ServicesFREEDOM INCTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $1,225,980 · Human ServicesTransgender Advocates K…Miss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP: $1,206,556 · Human ServicesMiss Major and Alexande…EL PUEBLO INC: $1,185,479 · Human ServicesEL PUEBLO INCURGE: $1,152,429 · Human ServicesURGESISTERSONG INC: $1,146,750 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INCTHE AFIYA CENTER: $1,101,100 · Human ServicesTHE AFIYA CENTERTIDES CENTER: $1,008,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $975,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $902,250 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $773,800 · Human Services+21 more: $5,445,700 · Human Services+21 moreCOMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC: $2,517,050 · HealthCOMMONSENSE CHILDBIR…NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $1,792,929 · HealthNATIONAL LATINA INST…COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $1,714,800 · HealthCOLORADO ORGANIZATIO…Women With A Vision: $1,671,479 · HealthWomen With A VisionBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $1,256,050 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELL…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $1,133,050 · HealthASIAN HEALTH SERVICE…Forward Together: $880,500 · HealthVibrant Woman Mama Sana: $864,250 · HealthBREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE: $749,250 · HealthNational Women's Health Network: $600,000 · Health+18 more: $4,657,050 · Health+18 moreNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $1,623,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASIAN PAC…MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $1,275,000 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FOR …NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $1,265,050 · Civil RightsNEW VOICES PITTSBU…Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $954,500 · Civil RightsCommittee Against …SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $952,500 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNERS ON NEW…THE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $942,500 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSLATIN COA…MOTHERING JUSTICE: $910,050 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICETransgender Law Center: $640,000 · Civil RightsBYP100 Education Fund: $629,500 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $621,000 · Civil Rights+24 more: $6,155,252 · Civil Rights+24 moreCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $1,365,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENAlternate RootsInc: $1,006,550 · OtherELEPHANT CIRCLE: $957,000 · OtherMiami Workers Center Inc: $1,523,724 · OtherMiami Workers Center IncKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $1,247,050 · Other+67 more: $18,705,110 · Other+67 moreHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,203,103 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDE…NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $1,094,750 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $1,067,550 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AN…ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $1,065,050 · EnvironmentALASKA CO…ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $931,529 · EnvironmentACCESS RE…COMING CLEAN INC: $900,000 · EnvironmentCOMING CL…WOMEN'S VOICES FOR THE EARTH: $631,000 · EnvironmentWOMEN'S V…Got Green: $494,200 · EnvironmentGot GreenNEW VENTURE FUND: $408,500 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION: $342,700 · Environment+2 more: $375,000 · EnvironmentMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $1,857,900 · Community ImprovementCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA: $947,550 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $882,700 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $745,200 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $720,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC: $476,500 · Community ImprovementWestern Native Voice Inc: $315,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE: $276,750 · Community Improvement+4 more: $519,500 · Community ImprovementPROTEUS FUND INC: $1,566,000 · EducationACT for Women and Girls: $1,161,050 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $565,200 · EducationDUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $486,000 · EducationUnited for Respect Education Fund: $392,000 · EducationBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $272,000 · EducationSISTERREACH: $185,000 · Education+1 more: $135,000 · Education
Human Services$20,449,079Health$17,836,408Civil Rights$15,968,352Other$24,804,434Environment$8,513,382Community Improvement$6,741,100Education$4,762,250

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 budgetCOMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC: $2,517,050 over 9y, 31% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $1,857,900 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $1,792,929 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $1,714,800 over 9y, 14% of budgetWomen With A Vision: $1,671,479 over 9y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $1,623,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM: $1,594,485 over 9y, 13% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $1,566,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMiami Workers Center Inc: $1,523,724 over 9y, 20% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $1,438,000 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $1,365,000 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetFREEDOM INC: $1,292,550 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $1,275,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $1,265,050 over 9y, 13% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $1,256,050 over 9y, 17% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $1,247,050 over 9y, 15% of budgetTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $1,225,980 over 6y, 17% of budgetMiss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP: $1,206,556 over 5y, 17% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,203,103 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC: $1,185,479 over 9y, 18% of budgetACT for Women and Girls: $1,161,050 over 8y, 31% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $1,146,750 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $1,133,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER: $1,101,100 over 9y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $1,094,750 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $1,067,550 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $1,065,050 over 7y, 21% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,008,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlternate RootsInc: $1,006,550 over 7y, 16% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $975,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetELEPHANT CIRCLE: $957,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $954,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $952,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA: $947,550 over 8y, 37% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $942,500 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST: $931,529 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE: $910,050 over 7y, 49% of budgetSOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $902,250 over 9y, 63% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC: $900,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $882,700 over 9y, 17% of budgetForward Together: $880,500 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetVibrant Woman Mama Sana: $864,250 over 8y, 14% of budgetWashington Community Action Network: $788,550 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $773,800 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetBREATH OF MY HEART BIRTH PLACE: $749,250 over 9y, 31% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $745,200 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetILLINOIS CAUCUS FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH INC: $734,600 over 9y, 36% of budgetDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $720,000 over 9y, 9.5% 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 COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Women With A Vision ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM ↗
  • Who funds BOLD FUTURES NM ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Miami Workers Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
  • Who funds KHMER GIRLS IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering ↗
  • Who funds Miss Major and Alexander L Lees TGIJP ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
  • Who funds ACT for Women and Girls ↗
  • Who funds URGE ↗
  • Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE AFIYA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Alternate RootsInc ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEPHANT CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE CARE - SOUTHEAST ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERING JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds COMING CLEAN 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.

Ms Foundation for Wom…Borealis PhilanthropyProteus Fund IncAmalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncCommon Counsel Founda…Solidaire Network IncWellspring Philanthro…The Susan Thompson Bu…Women Donors NetworkTides FoundationTides Center
Ms Foundation for Women IncNY171.8× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Proteus Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Women Donors Network · Tides Foundation · Tides Center

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 Groundswell Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Groundswell Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
57report 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 463 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 2025, released 2025. 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