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Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust

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.

$670k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$941kYouth Development$486kArts & Culture$378kRecreation & Sports$326kFood & Nutrition$257kReligion$178kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $473k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGSPIRIT INC$65,000
SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$50,000
WEST HOUSTON YOUNG LIFE$31,875
BO'S PLACE$25,000
SPECTRUM LINX FOUNDATION INC$25,000
LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM$20,000
KIDS' MEALS INC$20,000
YOUNG LIFE - LONEHOLLOW RANCH$20,000
Individual grant recipient$19,375
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH$17,500
CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS$16,875
PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET$15,000
COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS$15,000
SERENITY RETREAT FOR HEALING AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES: $10k → 10%MORGAN'S INCLUSION INITIATIVE: $10k → 16%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $20k → 16%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $18k → 20%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $13k → 20%NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN & FAMILY: $15k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $13k → 20%NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $50k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%NewDay Services For Children & Families: $40k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%NewDay Services For Children & Families: $30k → 11%NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $30k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%NewDay Services For Children & Families: $29k → 11%NewDay Services For Children & Families: $23k → 11%NEHEMIAH CENTER INC: $10k → 16%NewDay Services For Children & Families: $15k → 11%NewDay Services For Children & Families: $15k → 11%BRIDGEYEAR: $15k → 16%BRIDGEYEAR: $10k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $15k → 16%BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $10k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $15k → 16%San Antonio Threads: $10k → 16%HOUSTON'S AMAZING PLACE INC: $10k → 16%Covenant House Texas: $20k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $15k → 16%Covenant House Texas: $15k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $15k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $15k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $13k → 16%STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $13k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR LITTLE FEET: $15k → 16%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $15k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $15k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $45k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $31k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $30k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $25k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $20k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $15k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $15k → 16%KIDS' MEALS INC: $15k → 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

IL
OR
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 76 repeat orgs$547k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
42

Total granted

$4.6M
$431k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+2%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $233k · revenue +39%
  • KM
    KIDS' MEALS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +579%
  • SI
    SpringSpirit Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • BT
    BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -7%
  • YL
    YOUTH LIFE - LONEHOLLOW RANCH
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Breakthrough Houston

The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.

Education
3
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
4
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
7
Fostering Family

Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.

Community Improvement
8
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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9
Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc

Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Housing & Shelter
10
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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11
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
12
The Arc of Harris County

To promote wellness, enriching the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis 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

97 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. 97 of the 129 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/97
Grantees still filing
62/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Spring Spirit Baseball: $106,200 · OtherThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $105,000 · OtherAmazing Place: $95,000 · OtherCAMP ALLEN CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER: $95,000 · OtherSUNSHINE COTTAGE SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherRISE SCHOOL OF HOUSTON: $89,000 · OtherCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $81,875 · OtherSocial Motion Inc: $75,000 · OtherSpringSpirit Inc: $203,000 · OtherSpringSpirit IncBELONG BAKERY: $81,200 · OtherSerenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal: $83,000 · Other+48 more: $986,275 · Other+48 moreNEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $246,700 · Human ServicesNEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN …KIDS' MEALS INC: $221,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INCDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $95,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTERNehemiah Center Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesNehemiah Center IncTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOMEBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesSTEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $68,000 · Human ServicesPathways for Little Feet: $65,000 · Human ServicesHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $60,000 · Human Services+19 more: $297,000 · Human Services+19 moreBYNUM SCHOOL: $137,000 · EducationBYNUM SCHOO…SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $133,000 · EducationSPRING BRAN…Small Steps Nurturing Center: $80,000 · EducationSmall Steps…The Brookwood Community Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Brookwo…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $40,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES…YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $35,000 · EducationYELLOWSTONE…SPECTRUM LINX FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+5 more: $40,875 · Education+5 moreTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureBo's Place: $98,000 · Arts & CultureMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $75,000 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight Museum: $45,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Arts Alliance: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTexas Children's Hospital: $160,000 · HealthHOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE: $40,000 · HealthTIRR Foundation: $35,000 · HealthNick Finnegan Counseling Center Foundation: $27,500 · HealthHOUSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $20,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $15,000 · Health+5 more: $41,000 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $232,875 · Youth DevelopmentCamp For All Foundation: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTONEY CREEK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $15,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation: $60,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Pi Beta Phi Foundation: $55,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,090,550Human Services$1,342,700Education$540,875Arts & Culture$363,000Health$338,500Youth Development$322,875Philanthropy$237,000

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 budgetNEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $246,700 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $232,875 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $221,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $203,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $137,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $133,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $105,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBo's Place: $98,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $95,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSerenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal: $83,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC: $81,875 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBELONG BAKERY: $81,200 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME: $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center: $80,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSocial Motion Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMCNAY ART MUSEUM: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLifeHouse of Houston Inc: $68,700 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSTEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS: $68,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetPathways for Little Feet: $65,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION: $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $60,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHouston's Amazing Place Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Pi Beta Phi Foundation: $55,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON ACHIEVEMENT PLACE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTIRR Foundation: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNick Finnegan Counseling Center Foundation: $27,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBE AN ANGEL FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAdaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGEYEAR: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 NEWDAY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SPRING BRANCH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Bo's Place ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Serenity Retreat for Healing and Spiritual Renewal ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
  • Who funds BELONG BAKERY ↗
  • Who funds Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
  • Who funds Social Motion Inc ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCNAY ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds LifeHouse of Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds STEEL MAGNOLIA MOMS ↗
  • Who funds Pathways for Little Feet ↗
  • Who funds THE WORKFAITH CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds The Periwinkle Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Houston's Amazing Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Houston Pi Beta Phi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationHarry S & Isabel C Ca…The Brown Foundation …The William Stamps Fa…The Elkins FoundationMD Anderson FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Charity Guild of Cath…Houston Endowment IncThe John M O'Quinn Fo…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX82.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · The John M O'Quinn Foundation

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 Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack H & William M Light Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 129 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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