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Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Recreation & Sports$4.8MEducation$3.6MSocial Science$3.2MHealth$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.5MHuman Services$510kArts & Culture$290kEmployment$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $723k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
$22,500
Median grant
20
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$750,000
TRUENU$750,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$635,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$280,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$250,000
URBAN PEAK$250,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$150,000
DOE FUND INC$100,000
ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
YALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT$100,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$100,000
THE BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION$100,000
THE AVERY COONLEY SCHOOL$100,000
FOUNDATION AT NJ INSITITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100,000
YEAR UP INC$75,000
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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%THE LEMON TREE TRUST: $10k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $10k → 14%THE LEMON TREE TRUST: $10k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $10k → 14%THE LEMON TREE TRUST: $10k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $10k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $10k → 14%SWIPE OUT HUNGER: $10k → 14%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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MT
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IL
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NY
MA
IA
OH
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NJ
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CA
CO
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VA
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NC
SC
DC
GA
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FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Karin Bain and John Kukral Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 52 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
32

Total granted

$16M
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+5%

Still filing today

83%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $909k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • Northwestern University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +41%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +47%
  • Cornell University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +172%
  • 5I
    5280FIRE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TM
    THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +62%

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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
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
4
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
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
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
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
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
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

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

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg and the most unlike its peers is Navy League of the united states. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Development ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/84
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,481

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.

05the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 105 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/83
Grantees still filing
54/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Northwestern University — $3,832,751 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern University+2 more — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCornell University — $2,220,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $400,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS A…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $250,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGEYEAR UP INC — $250,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC+8 more — $207,500 · Education+8 moreAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $3,050,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE I…THE ULI FOUNDATION — $170,000 · Social ScienceROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 · HealthROGERS MEMO…BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUF…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $350,000 · HealthNATIONAL JE…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $200,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PR…DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation — $101,856 · HealthDAWG Nation…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $85,000 · Health+8 more — $125,000 · Health+8 moreAvery Coonley School — $390,000 · OtherAvery Coonley Schoo…URBAN PEAK — $250,000 · OtherURBAN PEAKWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE — $150,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT — $150,000 · OtherFARESTART (CATALYST KITCHENS) — $125,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $155,000 · OtherCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $210,000 · OtherCIA OFFICERS MEMORI…NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC — $125,000 · Other+59 more — $1,393,750 · Other+59 moreTHE DOE FUND INC — $525,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN PEAK DENVER — $510,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTRUENU — $800,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $11,900 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$3,847,751Education$3,327,500Social Science$3,220,000Health$1,786,856Other$2,948,750Housing & Shelter$1,185,000Philanthropy$811,900

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 budgetNorthwestern University — $3,832,751 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $3,050,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCornell University — $2,220,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUENU — $800,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $550,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $525,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN PEAK DENVER — $510,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $400,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAvery Coonley School — $390,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC — $125,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDAWG Nation Hockey Foundation — $101,856 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetFOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSWIPE OUT HUNGER — $50,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ST FRANCIS CENTER — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $38,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNature For Justice — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNavy League of the united states — $30,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetTHE LEMON TREE TRUST — $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuides Trust Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOUSING ON MERIT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARCH TO THE TOP - AFRICA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHIAS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds TRUENU ↗
  • Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Avery Coonley School ↗
  • Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION AT NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SWIPE OUT HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds THE ST FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Rose Community Founda…The Chicago Community…National Philanthropi…Kenneth Kendal King F…Caring for Denver Fou…Colorado Gives Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY21.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Rose Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Karin Bain and John Kukral 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 105 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.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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