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John P McGovern Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
244
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$19MArts & Culture$7.3MEducation$6.7MHuman Services$5.4MEnvironment$3.7MAnimals$2.4MHousing & Shelter$1.8MScience & Tech$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 244 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $166k
  • $10k–50k143 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $4.0M
  • $250k+8 grants · $17M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$138M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT-Health Science Center Medical School$10,000,000
University of Houston$2,000,000
Houston Zoo$1,500,000
Hermann Park Conservancy$1,000,000
Children's Museum$1,000,000
Hermann Park Conservancy$500,000
The Grand 1894 Opera House$300,000
Houston Museum of Natural Science$290,000
Houston Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Inc$225,000
Houston Museum of Natural Science$190,000
The Children's Museum$160,000
Hermann Park Conservancy$160,000
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science$150,000
New Hope Housing$150,000
New Hope Housing$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $52k → 20%Cal Farley's Boys Ranch: $50k → 20%Nehemiah Center Inc: $95k → 16%Nehemiah Center: $95k → 16%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES: $70k → 10%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $70k → 10%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $70k → 10%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $70k → 10%Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services: $70k → 10%SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 16%Spaulding for Children: $20k → 16%Spaulding for Children: $20k → 16%Spaulding for Children: $20k → 16%Spaulding for Children: $20k → 16%The YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $60k → 16%The YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $60k → 16%The YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $60k → 16%The YMCA of Greater Houston Area: $60k → 16%THE YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON AREA: $60k → 16%BakerRipley: $65k → 16%BakerRipley: $65k → 16%BakerRipley: $65k → 16%BakerRipley: $65k → 16%The Open Door Mission Foundation: $30k → 16%The Open Door Mission Foundation: $30k → 16%Covenant House - Texas: $192k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE - TEXAS: $96k → 16%Covenant House - Texas: $96k → 16%The Women's Home: $60k → 16%The Women's Home: $60k → 16%The Women's Home: $60k → 16%THE WOMEN'S HOME: $60k → 16%The Women's Home: $60k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $65k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $65k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $65k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $65k → 16%Houston Area Women's Center: $65k → 16%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $60k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $60k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $60k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $60k → 16%Community Family Centers: $95k → 16%COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS: $80k → 16%Community Family Centers: $80k → 16%Community Family Centers: $80k → 16%Community Family Centers: $80k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41M · 222 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

222 repeat relationships — 179 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

222
42

Total granted

$41M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+25%

Still filing today

65%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +105%
  • 1I
    1894 INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +30%
  • JP
    John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science
    5× · 2020–2024 · $850k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • HA
    Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library
    one grant, 2022 · $339k
  • SX
    Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • NC
    NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $65k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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2
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
3
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc

To completely restore Houston Freedmen's Town as a heritage district that provides America with its only Freedmen's Town.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
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
6
Houston Academy of Medicine

The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.

Education
7
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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8
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
9
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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10
Houston Arts Alliance

See Schedule OHouston Arts Alliance (HAA) is a local arts and culture organization whose principal work is implementing the City of Houston's vision, values, and goals for its arts grantmaking and civic art investments. HAA conducts work…

Arts & Culture
11
Houston MediaSource

Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…

Arts & Culture
12
Houston Bar Foundation

The Houston Bar Foundation supports programs that help provide legal representation to the indigent, promote community understanding of our legal system, and foster the administration of justice.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Hermann Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bach Society Houston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHouston Community EndowmentsHouston Parks and GardensDog and Cat RescueIndependent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Community Minis…Foster Care & Child AdvocacyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Grantmaking FoundationsPediatric and Specialty Hea…Affordable Housing Developm…Professional Trade Associat…Performing Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%1%<5yr17%1%5–10yr21%5%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr8%34%35–55yr8%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%1%<5yr17%0%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr8%43%35–55yr8%40%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/182
the rest of the field
19%
4,066/21,944

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

168 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. 168 of the 274 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/168
Grantees still filing
129/168
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UT-Health Science Center Medical School — $10,000,000 · OtherUT-Health Science Center Medical SchoolUniversity of Houston — $2,665,000 · OtherUniversity of Houston1894 INC — $1,500,000 · Other+106 more — $17,370,318 · Other+106 moreCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $1,800,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S M…Houston Museum of Natural Science — $1,077,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Muse…John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science — $850,000 · Arts & CultureJohn P McGov…Houston Symphony Society — $385,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Symp…+18 more — $1,794,000 · Arts & Culture+18 moreHermann Park Conservancy — $2,200,000 · EnvironmentHermann P…Memorial Park Conservancy Inc — $375,000 · EnvironmentMemorial …Galveston Bay Foundation Inc — $300,000 · EnvironmentGalveston…The Houston Audubon Society — $275,000 · EnvironmentThe Houst…GALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY — $200,000 · EnvironmentHouston Arboretum & Nature Center — $155,000 · Environment+12 more — $765,500 · Environment+12 moreCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $445,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $384,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES — $350,000 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women's Center — $325,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $310,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $310,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $300,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipley — $260,000 · Human ServicesNehemiah Center Inc — $190,000 · Human Services+11 more — $656,500 · Human ServicesThe Council on Recovery — $655,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH INC — $625,000 · HealthTHE MENS CENTER INCORPORATED — $310,000 · HealthMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc — $200,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC — $100,000 · HealthTHE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GALVESTON — $85,000 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADDICTION MEDICINE — $85,000 · Health+7 more — $270,000 · HealthBaylor College of Medicine — $753,000 · EducationHOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $460,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $200,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $175,000 · EducationThe Brookwood Community Inc — $150,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC — $100,000 · EducationGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc — $100,000 · EducationARCHWAY ACADEMY — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $110,000 · EducationHouston Zoo Inc — $1,773,500 · AnimalsGULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY INC — $220,000 · Animals+3 more — $130,000 · Animals
Other$31,535,318Arts & Culture$5,906,500Environment$4,270,500Human Services$3,530,500Health$2,330,000Education$2,148,000Animals$2,123,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $2,200,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $1,800,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc — $1,773,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budget1894 INC — $1,500,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $1,077,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJohn P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science — $850,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $753,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc — $750,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe Council on Recovery — $655,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH INC — $625,000 over 5y, 80% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION — $515,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $460,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC — $445,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Symphony Society — $385,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $384,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $375,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES — $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $325,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S HOME — $310,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MENS CENTER INCORPORATED — $310,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area — $310,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JESSE TREE INC — $300,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGalveston Bay Foundation Inc — $300,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Houston Audubon Society — $275,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBakerRipley — $260,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO DE CORAZON — $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGULF COAST BIRD OBSERVATORY INC — $220,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetHOUSTON LIVESTOCK SHOW AND RODEO INC — $215,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGALVESTON ISLAND TREE CONSERVANCY — $200,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc — $200,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNehemiah Center Inc — $190,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCENIKOR FOUNDATION — $190,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc — $180,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston — $175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPARK — $175,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetART LEAGUE OF HOUSTON — $175,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetLawndale Art & Performance Center — $175,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $165,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHouston Arboretum & Nature Center — $155,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heritage Education Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 5y, 29% of budget
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 Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds 1894 INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds New Hope Housing Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE MENS CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
  • Who funds THE JESSE TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Galveston Bay Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds BakerRipley ↗

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.

The Brown Foundation …Albert & Ethel Herzst…Strake FoundationHouston Endowment IncGreater Houston Commu…The Elkins FoundationMD Anderson FoundationThe Methodist HospitalVivian L Smith Founda…Harris & Eliza Kempne…Harry S & Isabel C Ca…Shell USA Company Fou…
The Brown Foundation IncTX105.2× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Brown Foundation Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Shell USA Company 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 John P McGovern 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • American Society of Addiction Medicine — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to John P McGovern Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John P McGovern 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 274 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home