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Josiah Macy Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$125k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$8.4MHealth$5.4MPhilanthropy$582kEmployment$175kSocial Science$147kRecreation & Sports$100kScience & Tech$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $384k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.8M
$71,833
Median grant
21
States reached
$153M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION PC$125,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$125,000
THE BOARD TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$125,000
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$125,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LA$125,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$125,000
STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY$109,784
THE BOARD TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$105,559
DUKE UNIVERSITY$104,954
BROWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$99,999
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN KERN NATIONAL NETWORK$99,992
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$99,992
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DELAWARE UNIVERSITY AND ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $132k → 11%BOSTON COLLEGE: $125k → 7%HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $129k → 14%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $115k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $111k → 9%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $110k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $140k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $140k → 14%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $120k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $198k → 8%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $125k → 13%DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $138k → 10%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $131k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $133k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $133k → 9%THE BOARD TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $125k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $123k → 7%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $148k → 16%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF TH HOLY SPIRIT: $115k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LA: $125k → 14%NORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $125k → 6%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $140k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONS: $138k → 10%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $131k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $133k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $130k → 9%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $125k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $128k → 19%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $133k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $140k → 14%BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS: $131k → 9%MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $133k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $140k → 14%MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM CO JOSIAH MACY JR FOUNDATION: $126k → 17%MATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM CO JOSIAH MACY JR FOUNDATION: $121k → 17%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $117k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $115k → 22%ABIM FOUNDATION: $200k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200k → 17%ICHAN SCOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $189k → 17%ICAHN SCOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $132k → 17%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 8% of Josiah Macy Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Josiah Macy Jr Foundationlessmore 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 43 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
68

Total granted

$9.3M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

47%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $499k · revenue +15%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    3× · 2022–2024 · $438k · revenue +19%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2021–2025 · $366k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AF
    ABIM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $225k · revenue -29%
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • DH
    DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $138k
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
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Association of Medical Professionals With Hearing Losses. 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

79 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. 79 of the 145 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
53/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $529,339 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONMATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM CO JOSIAH MACY JR FOUNDATION: $427,289 · OtherMATCHING GIFTS PROGRAM CO JOSIAH MACY JR FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $314,122 · OtherICHAN SCOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $270,283 · Other+68 more: $5,824,627 · Other+68 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $498,931 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $438,083 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SIN…New York University: $366,498 · EducationNew York UniversityThe George Washington University: $325,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $293,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $280,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIADUKE UNIVERSITY: $279,789 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $248,100 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $229,958 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $225,587 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $199,692 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $168,556 · Education+30 more: $1,075,152 · Education+30 moreBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $300,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEA…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $299,997 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $261,220 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSP…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION PC: $250,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF A…ABIM FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthABIM FOUNDATIONBUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS: $195,000 · HealthBUILDING THE NE…HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $129,000 · HealthHEALTHPARTNERS …+14 more: $356,841 · Health+14 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $125,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $99,930 · Recreation & SportsROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROSALIND FRANKLIN SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 · Science & TechTHE NASW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Science & TechBELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,365,660Education$4,928,346Health$2,017,058Community Improvement$480,000Recreation & Sports$99,930Philanthropy$75,000Science & Tech$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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 budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $498,931 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $438,083 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $366,498 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $299,997 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $293,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $280,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $279,789 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $261,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION PC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $248,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $229,958 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $225,587 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABIM FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $199,692 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS: $195,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $168,556 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hastings Center Inc: $146,505 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION: $138,200 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $129,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCreighton University: $81,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $71,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $64,138 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION: $49,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC: $47,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION: $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARL J SHAPIRO INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH AT HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLatino Medical Student Association-Natio: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDADE COUNTY STREET RESPONSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE NASW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOME CENTERED CARE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION PC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ABIM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds The Hastings Center 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.

The Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Commonwealth FundThe Robert Wood Johns…Jewish Communal FundRenaissance Charitabl…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Commonwealth Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Josiah Macy Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Josiah Macy Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Dimensions Health Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report 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 145 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
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