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Herndon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
138
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$16MArts & Culture$5.9MPhilanthropy$4.6MHuman Services$2.4MHealth$2.3MYouth Development$1.5MHousing & Shelter$864kFood & Nutrition$775kOther$0
02FY2024 · 138 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VMI FOUNDATION$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$584,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND CULTURE$250,000
RIVER ROAD CHURCH BAPTIST$125,000
J SARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$125,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND$75,000
HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT$50,000
MENTOR VIRGINIA$50,000
FEEDMORE$50,000
ACTS$50,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$50,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND$50,000
THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY FOUNDATION$50,000
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$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 (FY18–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LACKEY CLINIC: $75k → 5%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $20k → 6%HUMANKIND: $50k → 8%LACKEY CLINIC: $50k → 5%HUMANKIND: $50k → 8%LACKEY CLINIC: $50k → 5%HUMANKIND: $25k → 8%LACKEY CLINIC: $50k → 5%HUMANKIND: $20k → 8%LACKEY CLINIC: $25k → 5%LACKEY CLINIC: $25k → 5%HOMEWARD: $25k → 7%HOMEWARD: $25k → 7%HOMEWARD: $25k → 7%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%VIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $25k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 22%UMFS: $20k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 9%COMMONWEALTH CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $30k → 22%NEXTUP RVA: $50k → 9%NEXTUP RVA: $50k → 9%NEXTUP: $35k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $25k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $25k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $25k → 9%NEXTUP: $25k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $25k → 9%LITTLE HANDS VIRGINIA: $25k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $50k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $30k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $50k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $50k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $50k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $35k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $25k → 22%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

ME
NY
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 179 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

179 repeat relationships: 121 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
62

Total granted

$32M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+36%

Still filing today

76%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • VF
    VMI Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +11%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +12%
  • JR
    JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +48% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • VO
    VCU-SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    one grant, 2018 · $825k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AT HISTORIC TREDEGAR
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CW
    CIVIL WAR TRUST (AMERI BATTLEFIELD TRUST)
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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
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
2
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
3
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

—
4
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
5
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
6
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
7
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
8
New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education
9
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

—
10
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
11
Virginia Association of Museums

The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".

Arts & Culture
12
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges

To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; the most unlike its peers is Openspace Education. 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

178 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. 178 of the 256 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/178
Grantees still filing
141/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VMI Foundation: $5,767,025 · EducationVMI FoundationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $3,504,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,675,000 · EducationJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL F…VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 · EducationVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINE…Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $575,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $530,000 · Education+15 more: $2,087,500 · Education+15 moreSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA: $1,150,000 · OtherSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIAVCU-SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $825,000 · OtherVCU-SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY: $550,000 · Other+107 more: $8,174,400 · Other+107 moreVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA HI…THE RICHMOND BALLET: $375,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RICHMON…VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $370,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OP…American Battlefield Trust: $190,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Ba…VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $140,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $900,000 · Arts & Culture+14 morePETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesOLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $285,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $230,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINC: $230,000 · Human ServicesNEXTUP RVA: $195,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $180,000 · Human ServicesRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesVIRGINIA HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $115,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWARD: $95,000 · Human Services+20 more: $610,500 · Human ServicesFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $265,000 · HealthVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $235,000 · HealthThe Virginia Home: $155,000 · HealthTHE MCSHIN FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $65,000 · HealthSHELTERING ARMS FOUNDATION: $46,000 · HealthLEGAL INFORMATION NETWORK FOR CANCER: $40,000 · HealthPOSITIVE VIBE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND: $35,000 · Health+4 more: $78,000 · HealthBLUE SKY FUND: $285,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEGA MENTORS: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentJacob's Ladder Inc: $50,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $320,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $240,000 · Recreation & SportsVIRGINIA CAPITAL TRAIL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$15,188,525Other$10,699,400Arts & Culture$3,475,000Human Services$2,375,500Health$1,039,000Youth Development$660,500Recreation & Sports$615,000

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 budgetVMI Foundation: $5,767,025 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $3,504,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,675,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetVIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,500,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $1,050,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $575,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $530,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RICHMOND BALLET: $375,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $370,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUP RVA: $362,500 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $320,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $320,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER: $320,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG: $310,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $305,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetGREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC: $300,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $300,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetOLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $285,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBLUE SKY FUND: $285,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $280,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $245,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND: $240,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $240,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP: $240,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED: $235,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $230,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $230,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetVIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP: $230,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION: $210,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $210,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetGROUNDWORK RVA INC: $195,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetNEXTUP RVA: $195,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $190,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetELK HILL FARM INC: $190,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $190,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS: $180,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $175,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $160,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEmergency Shelter Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $140,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL VA INC: $135,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC: $130,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetCARITAS: $130,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UP RVA ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG ↗
  • Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT ASPIRATIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds OLIVET MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SKY FUND ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDWORK RVA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
  • Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…The Mary Morton Parso…The Pauley Family Fou…Robins FoundationVirginia Nonprofit Ho…Richmond Memorial Hea…Dominion Energy Chari…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Richard S Reynolds Fo…Tesco FoundationRobert G Cabell III a…Estes Foundation Co M…
The Community Foundation IncVA174.6× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robins Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
69report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Herndon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Herndon 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 256 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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