· Private foundation
IKEA US Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $729k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STATE OF INDIANA | $935,373 |
| ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF NEW HAVEN | $450,000 |
| NEW HAVEN WORKS INC | $150,000 |
| NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC | $150,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC | $123,633 |
| NEW HAVEN FESTIVALS INC | $100,000 |
| GREATER BALTIMORE BLACK CHAMBER COMMERCE FOUNDATIO | $75,000 |
| PHILIPPINE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF OREGON | $75,000 |
| ATLANTA BLACK CHAMBERS FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF AUSTIN | $25,000 |
| POWER OF ONE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of IKEA US Community 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.
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.
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
Receive and administer gifts, grants and contributions. assist local & state government leaders in community development programs.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
The mission of the community foundation is to create positive and sustainable change in greater new haven by increasing the amount and enhancing the impact of community philathropy.
To improve connecticut's economy, thereby creating opportunities and improving the lives of all residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Atlanta Black Chambers Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES CORP OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH CORPORATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Area Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Economic Development Corporation of New Haven ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILIPPINE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BLACK CHAMBERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Power of One 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Yale University · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 IKEA US Community 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon — 86% of income from government
- New Haven Works Inc — 58% of income from government
- New Haven Festivals Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% 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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