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Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat at a glance

· Private foundation

Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$351k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
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 2025.

Human Services$940kEducation$374kFood & Nutrition$357kArts & Culture$340kCommunity Improvement$285kYouth Development$206kEmployment$199kHealth$195kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $276k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE$30,000
412 FOOD RESCUE INC$15,000
LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$15,000
ALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH$10,948
PA WOMEN WORK AN AFFILIATE OF THE$10,000
HELLO NEIGHBOR$10,000
EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH$10,000
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH$10,000
CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
WILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT CORP$10,000
ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY$10,000
GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES$10,000
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$10,000
FIRST STEP RECOVERY HOMES$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $990k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%Jewish Family and Children's SErvice: $10k → 22%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $12k → 11%Jewish Family and Children's SErvice: $10k → 22%GLADE RUN LUTHERAN SERVICES: $10k → 9%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $10k → 11%GLADE RUN FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%GLADE RUN FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 11%JFCS PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JFCS PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%FAMILYLINKS INC: $10k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%FAMILYLINKS INC: $10k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER: $15k → 11%CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWESTERN: $15k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWESTERN: $15k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $20k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $20k → 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $15k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORP: $15k → 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.
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.
$2.8M · 70 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
45

Total granted

$2.8M
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+2%

Still filing today

87%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +57%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • HI
    HAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • TR
    THREE RIVERS WORKFORCE INVESTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • TU
    THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CENTRAL
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
2
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
Pittsburgh Community Services Inc

Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
5
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
6
Pittsylvania County Community Action Inc

To increase awareness about poverty and to promote comprehensive approaches to eliminate conditions that cause poverty and improve the quality of life in communities throughout the service area.

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7
Prevention Point Pittsburgh

To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
8
Mercy Life Center Corporation

We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…

Health
9
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
10
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
11
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
12
Sustainable Pittsburgh

Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fineview Citizens Council. 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

93 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. 93 of the 118 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
66/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA SAN JOSE: $85,000 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSELIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $79,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INCHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATIONEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $70,000 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRYEMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesEMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INCTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTECHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENT: $55,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENTRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR: $35,000 · Human Services+19 more: $347,592 · Human Services+19 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $85,000 · OtherCARNEGIE INSTITUTETHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATIONTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $59,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIO…ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF: $45,000 · OtherPA WOMEN WORK AN AFFILIATE OF THE: $40,000 · OtherAngels Place Inc: $35,000 · OtherGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 · OtherNEW CENTURY CAREERS: $37,500 · Other+43 more: $570,275 · Other+43 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE IN…PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $59,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH …PRIME STAGE: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $99,608 · Food & NutritionGREATER PI…412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $85,000 · Food & Nutrition412 FOOD R…GROW PITTSBURGH: $77,315 · Food & NutritionGROW PITTS…Fishes & Loaves Cooperative Ministries: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFishes & L…COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $21,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY …READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $42,500 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $29,000 · EducationPropel Charter School-McKeesport: $22,502 · EducationWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $20,000 · EducationLITERACY PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EducationPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationASSET INC: $10,000 · EducationSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementWILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $67,000 · Community ImprovementThe Pittsburgh Project: $30,000 · Community ImprovementFOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $23,250 · Community ImprovementTRWIB INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $47,996 · HealthHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $35,000 · HealthEAST LIBERTY FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthNORTH SIDE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $10,127 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $10,000 · HealthFIRST STEP RECOVERY HOMES INC: $10,000 · HealthSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $8,000 · Health
Human Services$997,092Other$1,021,775Arts & Culture$322,500Food & Nutrition$307,923Education$221,502Community Improvement$220,250Health$136,123

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 budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $99,608 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $85,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $79,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH: $77,315 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $67,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $59,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $59,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENT: $55,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $50,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $47,996 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $42,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CENTURY CAREERS: $37,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR: $35,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAngels Place Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project: $30,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetComputer Reach: $30,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BRADLEY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCarnegie Library of Homestead: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFishes & Loaves Cooperative Ministries: $25,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERS PLACE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC: $23,589 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $23,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPropel Charter School-McKeesport: $22,502 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOSANNA HOUSE INC: $22,317 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH: $21,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetReading Ready Pittsburgh: $20,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds WILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WATSON INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY CENT ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds NEW CENTURY CAREERS ↗
  • Who funds HELLO NEIGHBOR ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds The Pittsburgh Project ↗
  • Who funds Computer Reach ↗
  • Who funds THE BRADLEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc ↗

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 Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The United Way of Sou…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Richard King Mellon F…The Grable FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…The Heinz EndowmentsMassey Charitable Tru…McCune Foundation Pnc…Allegheny FoundationThe Buhl Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA112.2× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Massey Charitable Trust · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Allegheny Foundation · The Buhl 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 Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    41report 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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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