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Ibis Group

Empower students with the knowledge and skills to become literate, engaged, and contributing members of their communities.

$12M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
45%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$400,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$78M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Ibis Group funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$11M71%
FY202311$8.6M45%
FY20227$1.8M86%
FY20194$152k100%
FY20181$17kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$17MArts & Culture$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.0MCivil Rights$650kEnvironment$650kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$27kEmployment$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Suny New Paltz Foundation Inc$8,370,000217%
Academy in Manayunk$3,000,00018%
Johns Hopkins University$1,500,00010%
Utah Film Center$1,150,00026%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$700,00020%
Project Unite Inc$650,000231%
Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$650,00024%
Oo Project$650,000115%
Standardswork Inc$615,000413%
The Museum of Language Arts Inc$600,000110%
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All grantees of Ibis Group by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Suny New Paltz Foundation Inc$8,370,000217%
Academy in Manayunk$3,000,00018%
Johns Hopkins University$1,500,00010%
Utah Film Center$1,150,00026%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$700,00020%
Project Unite Inc$650,000231%
Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$650,00024%
Oo Project$650,000115%
Standardswork Inc$615,000413%
The Museum of Language Arts Inc$600,000110%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$461,3761n/a
The 74 Media Inc$400,000113%
University of Maryland College Park$350,0001n/a
Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning$350,00025%
Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children$325,000251%
Suny Impact Foundation Inc$300,00012%
Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center$300,00015%
Readworksinc$250,000113%
Learning Policy Institute$250,00011%
The Albert Shanker Institute$200,000210%
International Dyslexia Association Inc$176,80026%
Our Dyslexic Children Inc$100,000164%
Fairvote$50,00011%
Sja Foundation$50,00013%
Lsu Foundation$25,00010%
San Joaquin a Plus Inc$25,00011%
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools$16,64010%
Large Unit District Association$10,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

Ibis Group supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSuny New Paltz Foundation Inc: $8,370,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAcademy in Manayunk: $3,000,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Film Center: $1,150,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMinnesota Public Radio American Public Media: $700,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetProject Unite Inc: $650,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetFoundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $650,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOo Project: $650,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetStandardswork Inc: $615,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetThe Museum of Language Arts Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetThe 74 Media Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCollaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning: $350,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetDyslexia Alliance for Black Children: $325,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetSuny Impact Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMuhammad Ali Museum and Education Center: $300,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetReadworksinc: $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLearning Policy Institute: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Albert Shanker Institute: $200,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetInternational Dyslexia Association Inc: $176,800 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetOur Dyslexic Children Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetFairvote: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSja Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLsu Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Joaquin a Plus Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNational Alliance for Public Charter Schools: $16,640 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLarge Unit District Association: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Gates FoundationWA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Ibis Group

How much does Ibis Group give?
Ibis Group reported 18 grants totaling $11,666,476 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Ibis Group fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Arts & Culture (12%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are Ibis Group's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Suny New Paltz Foundation Inc ($8.4M), Academy in Manayunk ($3.0M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.5M).
Does Ibis Group fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ibis Group?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Walton Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Ibis Group based?
Ibis Group is based in DC.

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 29 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.

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