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Hess Foundation Inc

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.

$63M
Granted FY2024still arriving
141
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$100MHealth$67MEducation$52MSocial Science$36MInternational$12MReligion$11MRecreation & Sports$8.2MCommunity Improvement$5.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $939k
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $5.2M
  • $250k+26 grants · $57M
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$219M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$20,150,000
STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION$5,333,333
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$5,150,000
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA$5,000,000
LINCOLN CTR FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$4,350,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA$4,000,000
CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES$2,000,000
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE$1,600,000
CP 2023$1,500,000
PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE$1,150,000
MUSEUM ASSOCIATES$1,100,000
USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$1,000,000
EJS PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$550,000
KODE WITH KLOSSY INC$500,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON$500,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $250k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $250k → 6%KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $50k → 28%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $100k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $100k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $100k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $100k → 6%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $100k → 6%CHILDREN FIRST: $30k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST: $25k → 22%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $75k → 7%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%INGLIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $35k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1.1M → 22%PROJECT HOME: $600k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $450k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $250k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $150k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $150k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $150k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $125k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $25k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $45k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $30k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $30k → 22%FIRST UP: $30k → 22%FIRST UP: $30k → 22%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $100k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $50k → 17%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
VT
NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$264M · 202 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

202 repeat relationships: 99 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

202
117

Total granted

$264M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29M 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 & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $34M · revenue +14%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $19M · revenue +45%
  • PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +33%
  • SO
    STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M · revenue +9%
  • UN
    USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
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
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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2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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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
Wilson College

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

Education
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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10
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is NORTH10 Philadelphia. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 258 of the 365 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
255/258
Grantees still filing
189/258
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $40,575,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20,150,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINEMT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000,000 · OtherMT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERTHE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,160,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIAPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $9,250,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INCSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $6,225,000 · Other+91 more: $35,751,500 · Other+91 morePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $33,797,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $19,300,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING…PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $13,145,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIO…WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $7,666,023 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $4,410,000 · Arts & Culture+29 more: $14,408,000 · Arts & Culture+29 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $12,525,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE U…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $10,750,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERF…STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $6,526,333 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOU…HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $5,025,000 · EducationHEIGHTS PHILADELP…KING'S ACADEMY INC: $3,000,000 · EducationKING'S ACADEMY IN…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,010,000 · Education+16 more: $7,942,000 · Education+16 moreCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $8,010,000 · InternationalEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $1,250,000 · InternationalNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $815,000 · International+8 more: $1,400,500 · InternationalUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $6,000,000 · Recreation & SportsUSTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER INCORPORATED: $1,025,000 · Recreation & SportsRAYMOND AND MIRIAM KLEIN JCC (D/B/A KLEINLIFE): $450,000 · Recreation & SportsPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc: $445,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026: $320,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $210,000 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $2,445,000 · HealthJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $700,000 · HealthSOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE: $650,000 · HealthMaternity Care Coalition: $405,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $350,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $325,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $300,000 · Health+9 more: $1,030,000 · HealthPROJECT HOME: $3,030,000 · Human ServicesRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesINGLIS FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $400,000 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesChildren First PA: $215,000 · Human Services+6 more: $625,000 · Human Services
Other$142,111,500Arts & Culture$92,726,523Education$47,778,333International$11,475,500Recreation & Sports$8,450,000Health$7,205,000Human Services$6,045,000

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 budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $33,797,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $19,300,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $13,145,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $12,525,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $10,750,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,160,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $8,010,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $7,666,023 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $6,526,333 over 7y, 31% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC: $6,225,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $6,000,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA: $5,025,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $4,410,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $3,030,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetKING'S ACADEMY INC: $3,000,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $2,445,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,250,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,010,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $2,005,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $1,775,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS: $1,500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,490,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $1,342,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,330,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $1,250,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,050,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUSTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER INCORPORATED: $1,025,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $1,010,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $1,000,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetJACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPhilabundance: $990,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $950,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $906,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBABY2BABY: $860,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPlease Touch Museum: $850,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $815,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $805,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetElevate 215: $750,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $730,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $700,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDOUBLE EDGE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS INC: $691,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetSOCIETY OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE: $650,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $648,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $585,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $565,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORRISTOWN ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $560,000 over 6y, 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 PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds KING'S ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF CALDER GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds USTA NATIONAL TENNIS CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗

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 William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…Connelly FoundationHenry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Barra Foundation …The Neubauer Family F…The Pew Charitable Tr…United Way of Greater…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Daniel B and Flor…Jewish Federation of …
The William Penn FoundationPA68.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Neubauer Family Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Stone Soup Pdx: 20% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Double Edge Theatre Productions Inc: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
47report 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 365 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