· Public charity
Ibis Group
Empower students with the knowledge and skills to become literate, engaged, and contributing members of their communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+14 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AIM INSTITUTE OF LEARNING AND RESEARCH | $3,000,000 |
| SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC | $2,000,000 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $1,500,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC | $700,000 |
| THE OO PROJECT INC | $650,000 |
| PLANET WORLD | $600,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $500,000 |
| RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $461,376 |
| THE 74 MEDIA INC | $400,000 |
| UTAH FILM CENTER | $400,000 |
| MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $350,000 |
| MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC | $300,000 |
| SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| STANDARDS WORK INC | $250,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC | $150,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SNSUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +105%
- UFUTAH FILM CENTER2× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- RREADWORKSINCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +43%
- LPLearning Policy Instituteone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -48%
- ODOUR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · 64% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
The learning first alliance, a partnership of leading education associations representing more than 10 million members, supports improved student learning in america's public schools by engaging individual and organizational expertise,…
Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the most unlike its peers is Standardswork Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds OO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds STANDARDSWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE 74 MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
- Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds SJA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN A PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Large Unit District Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · College Board · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · The Wallace Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · WK Kellogg Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ibis Group funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Standardswork Inc — 53% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.