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Ibm International Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Ibm International Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Ibm International Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 4154 organizations, $18M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4856 grants · $5.1M
- $10k–50k126 grants · $2.5M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $8.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $1,934,064 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS (DBA E4E RELIEF LLC) | $1,000,000 |
| FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,000,000 |
| THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $160,000 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $130,000 |
| MDRC | $125,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $120,367 |
| PUBLIC POLICY INSTITTUTE OF NEW YORK STATE INC | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC | $99,037 |
| LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND | $76,874 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $64,075 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $61,632 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $60,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $621k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 54% of Ibm International Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 11 since wound down; 1957 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- JWJA WORLDWIDE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $900k · revenue +11%
- AJAmerican Jesuits International Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $600k · revenue +532%
- CCCabrillo College Foundation2× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +287%
Funded once
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue -74%- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREAone grant, 2021 · $2.5M
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
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.
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Institute of Higher Learning
The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Merrimack college is a comprehensive, catholic augustinian institution of higher education.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tech Interactive. 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 50 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
1490 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. 1490 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds US INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds JA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds American Jesuits International Inc ↗
- Who funds USHER'S NEW LOOK INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK STATE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds International Association for Volunteer Effort ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Council of Independent Colleges · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Grant Thornton Foundation · Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Public Broadcasting Service · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Deloitte Foundation · Ernst & Young Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art
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 Ibm International Foundation 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.
- Work-Based Learning Alliance — 100% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Norwalk Acts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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.
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