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Ibm International Foundation at a glance

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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.

$18M
Granted FY2020
5,005
Grants FY2020
51
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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: 4159 organizations, $18M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4159
’20
39
’21
2
’22
9
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$34MEmployment$8.1MInternational$6.8MEducation$6.2MArts & Culture$2.3MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$566kCommunity Improvement$471kOther$0
02FY2020 · 5005 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4856 grants · $5.1M
  • $10k–50k126 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $8.9M
$350
Median grant
51
States reached
$358M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION$60,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF THE EAST BAY: $2k → 9%UNITED HOSPICE OF ROCKLAND: $3k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $99k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2k → 17%MENNONITE HOME OF ALBANY INC: $3k → 13%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 24%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $1k → 8%CHILTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 4%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $3k → 10%USHERS NEW LOOK INC: $500k → 13%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

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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of Ibm International Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ibm International Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 18 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1957

Total granted

$9.5M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+34%

Still filing today

44%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JW
    JA WORLDWIDE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $900k · revenue +11%
  • AJ
    American Jesuits International Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $600k · revenue +532%
  • CC
    Cabrillo College Foundation
    2× · 2020–2023 · $28k · revenue +287%

Funded once

  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5.0M · revenue -74%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA
    one grant, 2021 · $2.5M
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
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
Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Colby-Sawyer College

Institute of Higher Learning

Education
4
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.

Education
5
New England College

An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.

Education
6
Merrimack College

Merrimack college is a comprehensive, catholic augustinian institution of higher education.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

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…

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9
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.

Education
10
Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education
11
Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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12
The Collegiate School

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

1491 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. 1491 of the 2,000 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
287
Early backer (in before they grew)
1471/1491
Grantees still filing
1244/1491
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,880,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $14,565,563 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND+3 more: $1,075,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA: $2,500,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION F…JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC - PTECH: $1,269,000 · OtherJOBS FOR THE FUTURE IN…THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SC…COMPTIA TECH CAREER ACADEMY (CTCA): $1,000,000 · OtherCOMPTIA TECH CAREER AC…JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC -SKILLBUILD: $870,000 · OtherJOBS FOR THE FUTURE IN…STRADA COLLABORATIVE INC DBA INSIDE TRACK: $510,185 · OtherSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND C: $400,000 · Other+90 more: $3,922,336 · Other+90 moreUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · InternationalUNITED NATI…American Jesuits International Inc: $599,646 · InternationalAmerican Je…+1 more: $30,000 · InternationalJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $3,410,182 · EmploymentMDRC: $125,000 · EmploymentJA WORLDWIDE INC: $900,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $130,000 · Education+71 more: $1,561,613 · EducationUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $283,042 · Arts & CultureUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $99,037 · Human Services
Philanthropy$31,520,563Other$11,471,521International$5,629,646Employment$3,535,182Education$2,591,613Arts & Culture$1,283,042Human Services$599,037

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,880,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $14,565,563 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $3,410,182 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJA WORLDWIDE INC: $900,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Jesuits International Inc: $599,646 over 2y, 21% of budgetUSHER'S NEW LOOK INC: $500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $275,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $160,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK STATE INC: $135,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $130,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Association for Volunteer Effort: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $99,037 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $89,449 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $83,905 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $76,874 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $76,149 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $71,926 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $64,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $61,632 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $56,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORK-BASED LEARNING ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $47,563 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $38,773 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $37,296 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $36,377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PEACE ACADEMY: $35,700 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $35,366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $35,232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $33,957 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $32,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $31,652 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $30,342 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUNDACION MANOS DEL SUR INC: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $28,898 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $28,199 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $27,508 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $26,203 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $25,552 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $25,405 over 1y, 0.0% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Council of Independen…Lettie Pate Whitehead…The Shubert Foundatio…Grant Thornton Founda…Greater Washington Ed…Land Trust Alliance I…Public Broadcasting S…Fields Pond Foundatio…The Dickson Foundatio…Deloitte FoundationErnst & Young Foundat…Terra Foundation for …
Council of Independent CollegesDC66.5× affinity73 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ibm International Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ibm International Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
29report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ibm International Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ibm International Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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