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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$3.0M
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$17MArts & Culture$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.0MCivil Rights$650kEnvironment$650kPublic Benefit$50kHealth$27kEmployment$15k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+14 grants · $11M
$400,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC$300,000
MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC$300,000
STANDARDS WORK INC$250,000
INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC$150,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STANDARDS WORK INC: $250k → 7%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $500k → 14%AIM INSTITUTE OF LEARNING AND RESEARCH: $3.0M → 7%LEARNING POLICY INSTITUTE: $250k → 8%SAN JOAQUIN A PLUS INC: $25k → 12%PROJECT UNITE INC: $400k → 14%DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN: $300k → 9%SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION: $3.7M → 16%THE 74 MEDIA INC: $400k → 17%PLANET WORLD: $600k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $400k → 19%THE RIGHT TO READ: $550k → 8%OUR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN INC: $100k → 15%COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING (CASEL): $250k → 14%RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $461k → 8%LSU FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%FAIR VOTE: $50k → 8%INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC: $150k → 11%THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 19%MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $300k → 15%STANDARDSWORK INC: $250k → 7%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $200k → 14%PROJECT UNITE INC: $250k → 14%DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN: $25k → 9%SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC: $2.7M → 16%SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $300k → 17%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS: $17k → 14%EXCELINED: $250k → 19%UTAH FILM CENTER: $400k → 8%COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $100k → 14%ST JOSEPHS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION: $27k → 11%MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $350k → 19%STANDARDS WORK INC: $100k → 7%SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC: $2.0M → 16%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $700k → 17%THE ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUTE: $150k → 14%UTAH FILM CENTER: $200k → 8%LARGE UNIT DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%SJA FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%STANDARDWORK INC: $15k → 7%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $300k → 17%THE ALBERT SHANKER INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%THE OO PROJECT INC: $650k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 10 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$13M
$677k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsReligionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SN
    SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +105%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • R
    READWORKSINCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +43%
  • LP
    Learning Policy Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -48%
  • OD
    OUR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · 64% of their budget
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
2
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

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…

Education
3
Learning First Alliance

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,…

Arts & Culture
4
Leading Educators Inc

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.

Education
5
American Law Institute

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
7
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

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…

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8
Long Island University

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.

—
9
Association of American Law Schools Inc

The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.

Education
10
The Peak School

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…

Education
11
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
12
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 29 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INC: $8,370,000 · OtherSUNY NEW PALTZ FOUNDATION INCSTANDARDSWORK INC: $615,000 · OtherSTANDARDSWORK INCRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $461,376 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $350,000 · Other+2 more: $376,800 · OtherACADEMY IN MANAYUNK: $3,000,000 · EducationACADEMY IN MANAYUNKJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,500,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $650,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDU…DYSLEXIA ALLIANCE FOR BLACK CHILDREN: $325,000 · EducationSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationREADWORKSINC: $250,000 · EducationLearning Policy Institute: $250,000 · Education+5 more: $176,640 · EducationUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,150,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTE…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $700,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLI…THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF L…THE 74 MEDIA INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 74 MEDIA IN…MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $300,000 · Arts & CultureMUHAMMAD ALI MU…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT UNITE INC: $650,000 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTE: $50,000 · Civil RightsOO PROJECT: $650,000 · EnvironmentCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentSJA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Religion
Other$10,173,176Education$6,451,640Arts & Culture$3,150,000Philanthropy$1,000,000Civil Rights$700,000Environment$650,000Youth Development$350,000Religion$50,000

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 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

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 FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Walton Family Foundat…College BoardThe Bloomberg Family …The Wallace FoundationCharter Fund Inc D/B/…Carnegie Corporation …WK Kellogg FoundationJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ibis Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ibis Group. 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 53%
  • Standardswork Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 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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More from the funding graph

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