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· Public charity

International City Management Association Retirement Corporation

The corporation serves to lessen the burdens of state and local governments and their agencies and instrumentalities by administering qualified and deferred compensation retirement plans, thereby helping individual municipal employees build financial security.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$21MEmployment$4.8MEducation$149kHousing & Shelter$56kSocial Science$45kFood & Nutrition$35kHealth$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,849
Median grant
1
States reached
$704M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIRIAM'S KITCHEN$12,849
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $14k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $13k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 7 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$26M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+48%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4.8M · revenue +9% · 98% of their budget
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $120k · revenue +26%
  • MR
    Missionsquare Retirement Memorial Scholarship Fund
    2× · 2019–2020 · $74k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +46%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +48%
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
2
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
5
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
6
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
7
Project Milk Mission

Project milk mission is at the forefront of a vital mission - reducing infant mortality rates by championing breastfeeding, with a special focus on supporting low-income african american mothers. through comprehensive services spanning the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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9
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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10
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
11
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
12
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miriam's Kitchen; the most unlike its peers is Missionsquare Foundation. 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

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Missionsquare Foundation: $21,000,000 · PhilanthropyMissionsquare FoundationTHE CENTER FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE INC: $4,815,355 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR STATE…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $119,668 · EducationMissionsquare Retirement Memorial Scholarship Fund: $73,880 · EducationMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $36,349 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesFeeding America: $35,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,500 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$21,000,000Other$4,815,355Education$193,548Human Services$51,349Food & Nutrition$35,000International$25,000Health$15,500Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMissionsquare Foundation: $21,000,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE INC: $4,815,355 over 4y, 98% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $119,668 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $36,349 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY METRO MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International City Management Association Retirement Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International City Management Association Retirement Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 11 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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