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Guilford Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$811k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$770kHealth$681kHousing & Shelter$521kHuman Services$495kEnvironment$380kPublic Benefit$238kAnimals$201kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $342k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$9,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$200,000
FAIRFIELD FOUNDATION$75,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY$50,000
TURNING POINT USA$50,000
STAND FOUNDATION$40,000
RITCHIE MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH$32,000
SEAL VETERAN'S FOUNDATION$30,000
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER$30,000
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM$25,000
BACK TO THE BIBLE$25,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM$25,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL$20,000
FAIR$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIG OAK RANCH: $10k → 13%VETERANS AND ATHLETES UNITED: $2k → 7%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $11k → 8%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10k → 4%VETERANS AND ATHLETES UNITED: $2k → 7%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%SEAL VETERAN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $7k → 13%BIG OAK RANCH: $3k → 13%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%SEAL VETERAN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $4k → 8%SEAL VETERAN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%SAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 8%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $30k → 8%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $20k → 8%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $5k → 8%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY: $5k → 8%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ND
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 61 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
68

Total granted

$5.1M
$541k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +76%
  • MR
    MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +7%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    8× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MS
    MARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +65%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +67%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMONDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
2
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
3
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
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
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
8
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education
11
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc

Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is The Agecroft Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Senior Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsLocal Food System Organizat…Community Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterDance Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr15%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr14%6%20–35yr15%36%35–55yr15%42%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/100
the rest of the field
13%
6,445/50,368

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 144 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
62/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KIRBY EPISCOPAL HOUSE — $500,000 · OtherKIRBY EPISCOPAL HOUSETURNING POINT USA INC — $199,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCPRAGER UNIVERSITY — $194,000 · OtherPRAGER UNIVERSITYFAIR — $130,000 · OtherFAIRSTAND FOUNDATION — $115,000 · OtherTHE STEWARD SCHOOL — $107,000 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC — $90,000 · Other+76 more — $972,000 · Other+76 moreHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $1,021,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $120,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATI…TIDEWATER ACADEMY — $96,000 · EducationTIDEWATER ACADEMYMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationMARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY — $50,000 · Education+12 more — $111,000 · Education+12 moreMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $315,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH…GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $153,750 · Arts & CultureGARTH NEWEL MU…Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureFairfield Foun…THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $56,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MORRIS MUS…THE RICHMOND BALLET — $40,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMOND B…THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $33,500 · Arts & CultureBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $255,000 · HealthBREAKTHROU…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $124,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-…PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $72,500 · HealthPROJECT HE…BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthBOB WOODRU…Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation — $35,000 · HealthChildren's…+2 more — $20,000 · HealthHARDING LAND TRUST — $147,000 · EnvironmentJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $120,000 · EnvironmentGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $77,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL TREES — $13,000 · Environment+8 more — $24,500 · EnvironmentSEAL Veterans Foundation — $75,000 · Human ServicesADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC — $42,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS — $27,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $84,000 · AnimalsRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $28,500 · AnimalsBATH ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 · AnimalsBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC — $24,500 · AnimalsTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $19,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,750 · Animals
Other$2,307,000Education$1,448,000Arts & Culture$723,750Health$566,500Environment$381,500Human Services$239,000Animals$183,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $1,021,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $315,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $255,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $199,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION — $153,750 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetHARDING LAND TRUST — $147,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $124,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $120,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE STEWARD SCHOOL — $107,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTIDEWATER ACADEMY — $96,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $84,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $77,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSEAL Veterans Foundation — $75,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetFairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $72,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC — $60,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $60,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC — $56,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRICHMOND POLICE FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBACK TO THE BIBLE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $43,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC — $42,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET — $40,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC — $30,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM — $29,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $28,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS SERVICE DOGS — $27,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBATH ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AGECROFT ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLUEPATH SERVICE DOGS INC — $24,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHATHAM HALL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STEWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TIDEWATER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Great Swamp Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds SEAL Veterans Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
  • Who funds ADULT CARE CENTER OF ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN SUTHERLAND KIRBY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds BACK TO THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Herndon FoundationFm Kirby Foundation I…Wilbur Moreland Haven…Robert G Cabell III a…Robins FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Virginia Sargeant Rey…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Tesco Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA41.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Tesco Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Guilford Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
  • The Morris Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Guilford Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Guilford 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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