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Inspire Brands Foundation Inc

At the inspire brands foundation, we exist to ignite and nourish change for good through strategic national and community partnerships.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
306
Grants FY2024still arriving
40
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$20MYouth Development$19MEducation$13MHuman Services$3.2MHealth$3.1MInternational$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 306 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 306 grants below total $10,994,393, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,791,344 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,796,951 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k113 grants · $784k
  • $10k–50k164 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.5M
$11,000
Median grant
40
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DonorsChooseorg$1,973,689
Share Our Strength$1,254,758
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$1,192,700
Folds of Honor Foundation$613,210
The Ron Clark Academy Inc$426,725
Boys & Girls Clubs of Bandera County$101,391
United Heroes League$101,000
City of Refuge Incorporated$100,097
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America$100,000
3DE National LLC$100,000
Cleveland Browns Foundation$90,000
Board of Education of the City of Decatur dba City$88,000
Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School Inc$84,000
The Giving Kitchen Initiative$84,000
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation$82,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sharing and Caring Hands: $49k → 11%Northwood Children's Home Society Inc dba Northwo: $22k → 15%Mel Blount Youth Home of Pennsylvania Inc: $25k → 12%PEACE Inc (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Onondaga: $30k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas: $30k → 9%Big Oak Ranch Inc: $38k → 13%Big Oak Ranch Inc: $28k → 18%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $31k → 8%YMCA of Catawba Valley Inc: $20k → 12%PACK People of Action Caring for Kids Inc: $35k → 16%Denver Rescue Mission: $23k → 12%Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc: $27k → 18%Midwest Food Bank: $94k → 11%Cunningham Children's Home: $34k → 19%PEACE Inc (BBBS of Onondaga County): $25k → 14%Midwest Food Bank NFP: $33k → 11%ALPHA House of Pinellas County: $22k → 12%Big Oak Ranch Inc: $26k → 18%Generous Life Foundation dba Memphis Dream Center: $20k → 17%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $30k → 8%PACK People of Action Caring for Kids Inc: $32k → 16%Midwest Food Bank NFP (Indiana): $85k → 16%Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc: $21k → 18%United Cerebral Palsy of Southern Arizona: $20k → 15%Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida I: $27k → 11%Big Oak Ranch Inc: $25k → 18%PACK People of Action Caring for Kids Inc: $31k → 16%Midwest Food Bank NFP (Indiana): $85k → 16%Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc: $21k → 18%Covenant House Florida (Ft Lauderdale): $73k → 13%PACK People of Action Caring for Kids Inc: $25k → 16%YMCA of Southern Nevada (Bill and Lillie Heinrich): $20k → 13%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee: $30k → 14%Blessings in a Backpack Inc: $57k → 15%Covenant House Florida: $38k → 13%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee: $28k → 14%Blessings in a Backpack Inc: $53k → 15%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee: $28k → 14%Blessings in a Backpack Inc: $35k → 15%Blessings in a Backpack Inc: $22k → 15%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee: $20k → 14%Alive Hospice Inc: $46k → 14%Alive Hospice Inc: $30k → 14%Bearings Bike Shop: $25k → 13%American Indian Cultural Center Foundation: $25k → 16%American Indian Cultural Center Foundation: $25k → 16%Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City Inc: $45k → 16%Urban League of Greater Oklahoma City Inc: $30k → 16%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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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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DC
HI
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GA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Inspire Brands Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Inspire Brands Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60M · 357 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

357 repeat relationships: 203 still active in FY2024, 154 since wound down; 101 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

357
288

Total granted

$60M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+20%

Still filing today

94%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +60%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +66%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    3× · 2018–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • RI
    RICHARDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $162k
  • PB
    PROJECT BACKBOARD
    one grant, 2022 · $108k · revenue -16%
  • JE
    Jordan Education Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $104k · revenue -25%
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
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
2
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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3
The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.

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4
Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Gorgonio Pass

To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Education
5
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
6
Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley

To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County

Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.

Recreation & Sports
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc

To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the boys and girls clubs of greater st. louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in…

Youth Development
9
Boys & Girls Club of Dumplin Valley

Servie the youth of jefferson and cocke county through summer and after school programming to inspire and enable them to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
10
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Peoria Inc

To enable young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
11
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Michigan

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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12
Boys & Girls Clubs of East Alabama

To inspire all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Jes & Us - the Jack Elton Snyder Foundation. 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

675 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. 675 of the 753 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
148
Early backer (in before they grew)
660/675
Grantees still filing
452/675
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $13,482,362 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $1,870,057 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America+84 more: $11,038,533 · Other+84 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $9,079,079 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF A…+32 more: $2,679,513 · Youth Development+32 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG: $4,919,700 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $2,500,076 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUN…RON CLARK ACADEMY INC: $789,725 · EducationRON CLARK ACADEMY I…OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $366,304 · Education+12 more: $1,075,658 · Education+12 moreKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $505,200 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $274,600 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $263,403 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $205,804 · Food & NutritionThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $202,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING GEORGIA INC: $175,000 · Food & NutritionSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $162,000 · Food & NutritionFOODFINDERINC: $137,250 · Food & Nutrition+15 more: $942,205 · Food & NutritionJunior Achievement of Georgia: $1,948,308 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $160,150 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $106,800 · International+6 more: $328,300 · InternationalBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $308,213 · Human ServicesMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $305,810 · Human ServicesPack People of Action Caring for Kids: $156,400 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INC: $139,600 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $130,435 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $117,600 · Human ServicesPEOPLE'S EQUAL ACTION AND COMMUNITY EFFORT INC: $97,950 · Human ServicesNORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC: $93,700 · Human ServicesGENEROUS LIFE FOUNDATION D/B/A MEMPHIS DREAM CENTER: $84,600 · Human Services+14 more: $848,816 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION: $622,200 · PhilanthropyGenYOUTH Incorporated: $220,000 · PhilanthropyThe Stewart Foundation Inc: $178,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $170,100 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $144,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $133,657 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $55,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50,250 · Philanthropy
Other$26,390,952Youth Development$11,758,592Education$9,651,463Food & Nutrition$2,867,462International$2,543,558Human Services$2,403,124Philanthropy$1,648,207

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $13,482,362 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $9,079,079 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $4,919,700 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $2,500,076 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $1,948,308 over 3y, 27% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $1,870,057 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetRON CLARK ACADEMY INC: $789,725 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $677,700 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetCLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION: $622,200 over 7y, 12% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $505,200 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $446,200 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $404,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBESTPREP: $395,300 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $366,304 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $338,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $327,807 over 3y, 1.3% of budget3DE NATIONAL LLC: $312,140 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $308,213 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $305,810 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $290,466 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $286,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $274,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $263,403 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc: $248,900 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBoyer Children's Clinic: $233,200 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHORIZONS ATLANTA INC: $222,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $221,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated: $220,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $217,050 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetHOPE MISSIONS 360 INC: $208,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC: $205,804 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $202,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $198,516 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $198,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $196,390 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc: $190,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetI Am A Father 5K Inc: $181,000 over 7y, 83% of budgetThe Stewart Foundation Inc: $178,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $175,100 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $174,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $170,100 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $162,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts Western Oklahoma Inc: $160,417 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $160,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPack People of Action Caring for Kids: $156,400 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCROSSBRIDGE INC: $152,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $150,079 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMIRACLES FOR KIDS INC: $147,300 over 4y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
  • Who funds RON CLARK ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BESTPREP ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boyer Children's Clinic ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GenYOUTH Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MISSIONS 360 INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
  • Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds I Am A Father 5K Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Stewart Foundation Inc ↗

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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaGA113.8× affinity118 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Gap Foundation · The Papa John's Foundation Inc · The Jcpenney Foundation · Ezcorp Foundation · Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation 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 Inspire Brands Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inspire Brands Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • First Americans Museum Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
93report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 753 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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