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Headwaters Foundation for Justice

HEADWATERS FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE (the foundation) is a community foundation whose mission is to amplify the power of community to advance equity and justice.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$473k
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$2.7MArts & Culture$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.7MEmployment$1.6MHealth$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $3,757,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,925,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,200 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 $10k7 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $442k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LA LUCHA$473,000
DREAM OF WILD HEALTH$416,000
INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA$370,000
GREATER MINNESOTA WORKER CENTER$360,000
OUR JUSTICE$170,000
TIWAHE FOUNDATION$125,000
NEW NATIVE THEATRE$115,000
RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTER OF MINNESOTA (ROC-MN) CO TAKEACTION MN ED$85,000
AYADA LEADS$85,000
BLACK IMMIGRANT COLLECTIVE CO ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES$81,250
MIGIZI COMMUNICATIONS INC$70,000
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$56,250
LITTLE EARTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION$54,000
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TASK FORCE$53,000
AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER$50,000
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, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ENITAN STORY: $10k → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $50k → 11%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $50k → 11%TRI-COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM INC (TRI-CAP): $10k → 11%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $40k → 14%SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INDEPENDENT LIVING ENTERPRISES AND SERVICES: $10k → 15%ADALAH JUSTICE PROJECT CO TIDES CENTER: $10k → 12%COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY OF NEW WEST JACKSON: $50k → 23%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 11%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $40k → 11%GET FIT ITASCA: $10k → 11%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $16k → 14%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $25k → 11%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $16k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $50k → 14%DAKOTA WICOHAN: $15k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $85k → 11%BODY WISDOM: $20k → 10%PREVENTION HEALTH CARE AGENCY DBA ISUROON: $11k → 11%BODY WISDOM: $15k → 10%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE: $15k → 11%EAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE: $45k → 11%EAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE: $24k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $26k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $26k → 14%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $15k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $18k → 14%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $105k → 11%MN8: $16k → 14%AYADA LEADS: $75k → 11%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $70k → 11%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $50k → 11%AYADA LEADS: $30k → 11%WOMEN ORGANIZING WOMEN NETWORK: $20k → 11%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $16k → 11%PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA: $22k → 11%LA ASAMBLEA DE DERECHOS CIVILES: $20k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%PUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA: $15k → 11%AL MAA'UUN: $15k → 11%MANFORWARD: $12k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%PREVENTION HEALTH CARE AGENCY DBA ISUROON: $30k → 11%TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $19k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $15k → 11%UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $20k → 11%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
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 127 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

127 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
117

Total granted

$15M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+23%

Still filing today

94%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • IU
    INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +344% · 29% of their budget
  • CD
    CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +227%
  • DO
    Dream of Wild Health
    8× · 2017–2024 · $683k · revenue +476%

Funded once

  • BT
    BLACK TABLE ARTS
    one grant, 2021 · $105k
  • WB
    WEST BROADWAY BUSINESS AND AREA COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • MB
    Minnesota Black Collective Foundation
    2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue -60%
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
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

—
3
Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal provides immigrants and communities of color with free, fair, and responsive journalism that shows everyone the way to a more equitable Minnesota.

Education
4
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
5
Nexus Community Partners

We co-create more liberated communities by strengthening leaders, cultivating community wealth and stewarding the just distribution of resources.

Philanthropy
6
African American Leadership Forum

The Organization's mission is to create a radical future for Black Minnesotans by advancing Black-Centered policies and solutions that actualize true liberation.

Education
7
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
8
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
9
Wonderlust Productions

Wonderlust Productions is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary arts ensemble that illuminates a community's story through performance, mixing community members from across generations, ethnicities, and perspectives, alongside an ensemble of…

Arts & Culture
10
Minnesota African Womens Association

TO Promote the health and well being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the twin City area through research, education ,advocacy and programming

Human Services
11
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

—
12
Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault

The Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault is a statewide coalition driving transformative culture change to address sexual violence through advocacy, prevention, racial justice, and systems change. We envision a world free of sexual…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is MN8; the most unlike its peers is The Tank Ltd. 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

277 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
94
Early backer (in before they grew)
263/277
Grantees still filing
167/277
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dream of Wild Health: $683,000 · OtherDream of Wild HealthMIGIZI Communications Inc: $310,000 · OtherTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $357,750 · OtherCenter for Third World Organizing: $351,800 · Other+115 more: $6,615,344 · Other+115 moreMANIDOO OGITIGAAN: $235,500 · Arts & CultureMANIDOO OGITIG…Native American Community Development Institute: $228,500 · Arts & CultureNative America…Coalition of Asian American Leaders: $210,000 · Arts & CultureCoalition of A…DAKHOTA IAPI OKHODAKICHIYE: $181,000 · Arts & CultureDAKHOTA IAPI O…Indigenous Roots: $135,000 · Arts & CultureIndigenous Roo…GRASSROOTS INDIGENOUS MULTIMEDIA: $131,000 · Arts & CultureGRASSROOTS IND…NEW NATIVE THEATRE: $115,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AWOOD CENTER: $106,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP: $96,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more: $832,014 · Arts & Culture+22 moreCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $1,125,750 · EmploymentCENTRO DE …GREATER MINNESOTA WORKER CENTER: $397,250 · EmploymentGREATER MI…VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $193,500 · EmploymentVOICES FOR…NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $266,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE GOV…AYADA LEADS: $220,000 · Human ServicesAYADA LEAD…THE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $212,500 · Human ServicesTHE TIWAHE…DAKOTA WICOHAN: $176,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTA WIC…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $100,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MI…Foster Advocates: $76,000 · Human ServicesEAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE: $69,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $68,820 · Human ServicesPUEBLOS DE LUCHA Y ESPERANZA MINNESOTA: $67,000 · Human ServicesIsuroon: $58,000 · Human ServicesLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $56,000 · Human Services+14 more: $275,800 · Human Services+14 moreINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $1,144,500 · Housing & ShelterAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $47,500 · Housing & ShelterACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $457,750 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $410,000 · PhilanthropyMinnesota Black Collective Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS: $98,000 · PhilanthropyRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $80,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFamily Tree Inc: $629,500 · HealthOUR JUSTICE: $206,500 · HealthMEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING: $126,000 · HealthAMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $106,000 · Health+6 more: $138,820 · Health
Other$8,317,894Arts & Culture$2,270,014Employment$1,716,500Human Services$1,645,120Housing & Shelter$1,402,000Philanthropy$1,260,750Health$1,206,820

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE: $1,144,500 over 8y, 29% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA: $1,125,750 over 9y, 12% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $683,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetFamily Tree Inc: $629,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $457,750 over 8y, 16% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $410,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA WORKER CENTER: $397,250 over 3y, 17% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $357,750 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $351,800 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc: $310,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $273,500 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetNATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $266,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetREVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR: $263,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMANIDOO OGITIGAAN: $235,500 over 7y, 24% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute: $228,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetAYADA LEADS: $220,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetTHE TIWAHE FOUNDATION: $212,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetCoalition of Asian American Leaders: $210,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetOUR JUSTICE: $206,500 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $193,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSEAD PROJECT: $181,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetDAKHOTA IAPI OKHODAKICHIYE: $181,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetDAKOTA WICOHAN: $176,000 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetAFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN: $170,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $160,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA: $154,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION: $135,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetIndigenous Roots: $135,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $132,500 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetGRASSROOTS INDIGENOUS MULTIMEDIA: $131,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetMEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING: $126,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER: $116,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE EARTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC: $115,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNIIBI CENTER: $115,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetNEW NATIVE THEATRE: $115,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Fields Retreat and Learning Center: $111,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCROSSINGBARRIERS: $111,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetFrogtown Neighborhood Association: $110,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT: $107,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER SCHOOL INC: $106,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetNATIVE SUN COMMUNITY POWER DEVELOPMENT: $106,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE AWOOD CENTER: $106,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetNORTHWEST INDIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER NWICDC: $106,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIGENOUS BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $106,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 4y, 2.1% 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 INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA ↗
  • Who funds Dream of Wild Health ↗
  • Who funds Family Tree Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNESOTA WORKER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Center for Third World Organizing ↗
  • Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
  • Who funds OUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds REVIVING THE ISLAMIC SISTERHOOD FOR ↗
  • Who funds MANIDOO OGITIGAAN ↗
  • Who funds Native American Community Development Institute ↗
  • Who funds AYADA LEADS ↗
  • Who funds THE TIWAHE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Coalition of Asian American Leaders ↗
  • Who funds OUR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SEAD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DAKHOTA IAPI OKHODAKICHIYE ↗
  • Who funds DAKOTA WICOHAN ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN CAREER EDUCATION & RESOURCES IN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CITIZENS ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Indigenous Roots ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS INDIGENOUS MULTIMEDIA ↗
  • Who funds MEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING ↗
  • Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE EARTH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NIIBI CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW NATIVE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds The Fields Retreat and Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds CROSSINGBARRIERS ↗
  • Who funds Frogtown Neighborhood Association ↗

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.

Propel NonprofitsThe McKnight Foundati…Fr Bigelow FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Women's Foundation of…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMinnesota Humanities …YouthpriseTarget FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Pohlad Family Foundat…
Propel NonprofitsMN143.5× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Propel Nonprofits · The McKnight Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Women's Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Humanities Center · Youthprise · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Pohlad Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Headwaters Foundation for Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Headwaters Foundation for Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Postpartum Support International: 43% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
74report 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 266 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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