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Harry and Zoe Poole Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$143k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$516kHuman Services$295kYouth Development$148kHealth$129kPhilanthropy$100kCrime & Legal$85kHousing & Shelter$52kFood & Nutrition$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
KEEN$8,000
DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES$7,500
REACH OUT AND READ VIRGINIA$5,000
THE CHILD & FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS$5,000
MEDICAL MISSION OF MERCY USA$5,000
BRITEPATHS$5,000
FALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDREN'S CENTER$5,000
SAFE SPOT$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SAFE SHORES$5,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT$5,000
THE SUNSHINE FOUNDATION$5,000
ARLINGTON THRIVE$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 6%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $3k → 7%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $3k → 7%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $3k → 7%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $3k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $3k → 7%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $2k → 8%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%ARLINGTON THRIVE: $3k → 7%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 6%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $8k → 6%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%THE NAPKIN NETWORK: $3k → 8%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%THE NAPKIN NETWORK: $3k → 8%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 6%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VA: $20k → 6%POZEZ JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VA: $10k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $5k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $4k → 6%FOOD FOR OTHERS: $3k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%TOUCHING HEART: $5k → 6%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Harry and Zoe Poole Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 53% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Harry and Zoe Poole Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 47 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+41%

Still filing today

77%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +72%
  • DF
    DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +31%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • RU
    RADFORD UNIVERSITY SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +6%
  • E
    EDU-FUTUROgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +244%

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.

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Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
2
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
3
Collaborative Solutions for Communities

To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.

Crime & Legal
4
The Children's Home Inc

Provides residential and community services to promote long-term well-being and success for young people and families who experience disruption in their lives.

Human Services
5
Family Lifeline

Family lifeline partners with families and individuals, delivering intensive home and community-based services to achieve an equitable, resilient community where families and individuals are connected, safe, and living a healthy,…

Human Services
6
Educare Dc

Educare dc's mission is to eliminate the opportunity gap for young children living in poverty and give them the skills necessary for success in kindergarten and beyond. we work at the intersection of practice, policy, and research to…

Human Services
7
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
8
Family Services Inc

To strengthen the well-being and development of families and individuals through professional human services programs, including therapy, counseling, education, special assistance, and advocacy.

Human Services
9
The Campagna Center Inc

The campagna center,inc. (the center), is a community-based nonprofit organization in alexandria, va. the center operates a variety of programs to address the needs of children, youth and families. the center provides early childhood…

Human Services
10
Northern Virginia Family Services Inc

The mission of northern virginia family service (nvfs) is "to empower individuals and families to improve their quality of life, and to promote community cooperation and support in responding to family needs." nvfs was established in 1924…

Human Services
11
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
12
Lutheran Family Services of Virginia Inc Dba Encircle

Encircle's mission is to express god's love by providing services and assistance to empower communities, families, and individuals in their journey to well-being. our goal is to make the world a more loving place.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Table Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casey Schulman Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr16%2%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
14%
5,400/39,095

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.

05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $225,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolog…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK …PARKMONT SCHOOL — $45,500 · EducationPARKMONT SCHOOLTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC — $38,500 · EducationTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS…SPACE OF HER OWN INC — $35,000 · EducationSPACE OF HER OWN INC+11 more — $39,500 · Education+11 moreDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $67,500 · OtherDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INCKEEN — $40,400 · OtherKEENJCCNV — $40,000 · OtherJCCNVREACH OUT AND READ VIRGINIA — $37,500 · OtherREACH OUT AND READ VIRGINIASOME INC — $31,500 · OtherSOME INCBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $27,500 · OtherBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INCMEDICAL MISSION OF MERCY USA — $27,500 · OtherMEDICAL MISSION OF MERCY USATEE OFF FOR TOTS INC — $25,000 · OtherTEE OFF FOR TOTS INCBRITEPATHS INC — $20,000 · OtherBRIGHT CENTER — $20,000 · OtherDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $18,000 · OtherTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $20,000 · Other+18 more — $88,200 · Other+18 moreUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY MIN…THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $43,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN FO…TOUCHING HEART — $35,000 · Human ServicesTOUCHING HEARTJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CEN…PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $20,000 · Human ServicesPRINCE GEORGE'S CHIL…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $19,500 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BA…Operation Warm Inc — $17,500 · Human ServicesOperation Warm IncARLINGTON THRIVE — $12,500 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR OTHERS INC — $11,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · PhilanthropyNAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyVolunteer Alexandria — $15,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentHEROES OF HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGood Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc — $43,500 · Housing & ShelterCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $22,000 · HealthCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $11,500 · Health
Education$453,500Other$463,100Human Services$258,500Philanthropy$100,000Youth Development$60,500Housing & Shelter$48,500Health$33,500

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $225,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $67,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPARKMONT SCHOOL — $45,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc — $43,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC — $38,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTOUCHING HEART — $35,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetSPACE OF HER OWN INC — $35,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetSOME INC — $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC — $27,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHEROES OF HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC — $22,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRITEPATHS INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK — $19,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Alexandria — $15,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetARLINGTON THRIVE — $12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER — $11,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDU-FUTURO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALEX POPECK NEVER BACK DOWN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Napkin Network — $5,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NOVA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCASA CHIRILAGUA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRIA TUTORING CONSORTIUM INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATE FAIRFAX — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY FUTURES — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASEY SCHULMAN FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKMONT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SUNSHINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Housing & Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TOUCHING HEART ↗
  • Who funds SPACE OF HER OWN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SAFE HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON TENNIS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEROES OF HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S CHILD RESOURCE CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds BRITEPATHS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
  • Who funds DEPAUL COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
  • Who funds Volunteer Alexandria ↗
  • Who funds ARLINGTON THRIVE ↗
  • Who funds CLOVERLEAF EQUINE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗

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…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…United Way of the Nat…Dominion Energy Chari…Act for AlexandriaGreater Washington Co…Philip L Graham Fund …The Harvey S Lowe Jr …The Jv Schiro Zavela …John Edward Fowler Me…Dimick Foundation Joh…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA43.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Act for Alexandria · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee

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 Harry and Zoe Poole 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc — 17% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Harry and Zoe Poole Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harry and Zoe Poole 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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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