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Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$382k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $382k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Environment$1.9MFood & Nutrition$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$459kHuman Services$354kHousing & Shelter$179kAnimals$106kCrime & Legal$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $356k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center$20,000
CURRY SENIOR CENTER$20,000
Mid Klamath Watershed Council$20,000
PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION$20,000
1000 Friends of Oregon$20,000
San Jose Taiko Group Inc$16,500
Music Workshop$15,000
Takohachi Inc$15,000
Clakamas Women's Services$12,000
Greater Farallones Assoc$12,000
Meals on Wheels People$12,000
Portland Japanese Garden$12,000
Legal Assistance to the Elderly$11,000
Local Ecology Agriculture Fremont$10,500
Portland Chinatown History Foundati$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Share the Care Napa Valley: $10k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $10k → 10%ENGAGE INC: $5k → 14%Hood River Valley Adult Center: $13k → 10%Share the Care Napa Valley: $10k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $10k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $10k → 10%Hood River Valley Adult Center: $10k → 10%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $6k → 9%CENTER FOR ELDER'S INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $10k → 10%Hood River Valley Adult Center: $10k → 10%Clakamas Women's Services: $12k → 8%Hood River Valley Adult Center: $10k → 10%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5k → 8%CENTER FOR ELDERS' INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY: $5k → 12%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 10%Compass Family Services: $16k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 10%Friendly House Inc: $10k → 12%Friendly House Inc: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $8k → 12%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $6k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $2k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $1k → 10%Family Connections Centers: $20k → 10%YWCA SAN FRANCISCO & MARIN: $5k → 10%YWCA SAN FRANCISCO & MARIN: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT: $6k → 12%COMMUNITY FOR POSITIVE AGING: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY FOR POSITIVE AGING: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY FOR POSITIVE AGING: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY FOR POSITIVE AGING: $10k → 12%HOLLYWOOD SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%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.
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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 16% of Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 67 repeat orgs$497k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
49

Total granted

$3.5M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

88%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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

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EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & 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

  • MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +105%
  • PR
    POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +158%
  • TP
    The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated
    3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +443%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • CF
    COMPASS FAMILY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +93%
  • AC
    APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -46%
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.

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Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
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Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
3
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
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Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
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Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
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CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

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Sonoma Botanical Garden
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Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
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350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
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Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon; the most unlike its peers is Marine Applied Research and Exploration. 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

103 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. 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
75/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,050,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+64 more: $1,182,080 · Other+64 moreMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $1,553,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC+2 more: $16,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNI…PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EnvironmentLan Su Chinese Garden: $48,000 · EnvironmentJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $44,000 · EnvironmentKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER: $40,000 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $40,000 · EnvironmentMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $40,000 · EnvironmentNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentWILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSave The Bay: $17,500 · Environment+11 more: $83,500 · EnvironmentCURRY SENIOR CENTER: $58,000 · Human ServicesHollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $21,800 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $20,000 · Human ServicesShare the Care Napa Valley: $20,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $17,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $16,266 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $15,600 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ELDERS' INDEPENDENCE INC: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $38,000 · Human ServicesTakohachi Inc: $47,500 · Arts & CultureMusic Workshop: $43,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE: $37,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CHINATOWN HISTORY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $27,500 · Arts & CultureSan Jose Taiko Group Inc: $16,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Youth Symphony: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFILOLI CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBag and Baggage Productions: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Parallle: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $15,500 · Arts & CulturePOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $98,000 · AnimalsGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION: $42,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $7,500 · Animals
Other$2,232,080Food & Nutrition$1,569,000Philanthropy$1,000,000Environment$458,000Human Services$367,666Arts & Culture$288,500Animals$147,500

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 budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $1,553,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,050,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $98,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE: $58,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCURRY SENIOR CENTER: $58,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $52,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLan Su Chinese Garden: $48,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTakohachi Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetHollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging: $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $44,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMusic Workshop: $43,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $43,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT: $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION: $42,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE: $37,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $33,100 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $33,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSebastopol Area Senior Center: $31,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND CHINATOWN HISTORY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO VILLAGE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUpward Scholars: $28,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $27,640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST: $27,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $21,800 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLegal Assistance to the Elderly: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILD RIVERS LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetShare the Care Napa Valley: $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetOpenhouse: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Bay: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Jose Taiko Group Inc: $16,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $16,266 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Collins FoundationOR59.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Oregon Latino Health Coalition: 43% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Ethos Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Portland Playhouse: 11% of income from government
  • Music Workshop: 10% of income from government
  • Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging: 9% of income from government
  • Impact Nw: 8% of income from government
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Northwest Pilot Project: 6% of income from government
  • Age Us: 6% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest: 5% of income from government
  • The Contingent: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Portland Chinatown History Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
  • Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Takohachi Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives: 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
38report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Jw & Hm Goodman Family Charitable 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 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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