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· Public charity

Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc

The KFC Foundation fulfills its mission through programs that provide scholarships and educational support, hardship assistance during times of crisis, personal development opportunities, and investments that strengthen local communities.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$10k
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 2024.

Human Services$530kHealth$390kEducation$290kAnimals$260kYouth Development$260kHousing & Shelter$130kFood & Nutrition$120kArts & Culture$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 64 grants below total $640,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,575,006 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,935,006 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Big Sunday$10,000
Friends of Open Door Youth Services Inc$10,000
JASON Learning$10,000
ABC Hopes Inc$10,000
Hope Center Indy$10,000
Soldiers Point Texas$10,000
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend$10,000
Feed the Second Line$10,000
SoulMedic Media Group Inc dba RemedyLIVE$10,000
The Center for Autism Education$10,000
Fredericksburg Christian Health Center$10,000
Bridge Builder Communities International$10,000
PORT Group Homes$10,000
Ryans House for Youth$10,000
Safe Voices$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Angel Heart Pajama Project: $10k → 15%Heartland Hope Mission: $10k → 12%Giraffe Laugh Inc: $10k → 8%Alexandra House Inc: $10k → 7%Great Falls Rescue Mission: $10k → 14%Two Top Mountain Adaptive Sports Foundation: $10k → 9%YWCA Northcentral PA: $10k → 12%Lauras House: $10k → 10%Mercy Retirement and Care Center: $10k → 10%My Friends House Inc: $10k → 14%Family and Childrens Association: $10k → 6%Latina Sisters Support: $10k → 7%Sparc Inc: $10k → 9%Columbia County Sanctuary Movement: $10k → 11%MANUELIT0 NAVAJO CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 32%City Care: $10k → 16%Changed Lives Ministry Inc: $10k → 9%Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington: $10k → 14%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS INC: $10k → 12%Arc Broward: $10k → 13%Resilience: $10k → 8%The Avenue Family Network DBA Caring Connection: $10k → 15%Pegasus Springs TRC: $10k → 18%KC Healthy Kids: $10k → 16%The Milwaukee LGBT Community Center: $10k → 17%Treehouse Therapies: $10k → 10%Connecticut Institute for the Blind dba Oak Hill: $10k → 11%The Robertson County Senior Center: $10k → 9%Wears Valley Ranch: $10k → 12%ASMT Inc (Autism Tennessee): $10k → 14%Ridin' High Inc: $10k → 15%Irene Wortham Center: $10k → 12%Onslow Womens Center Inc: $10k → 12%SAFE Inc aka Southern Alamance Family Empowerment: $10k → 13%Called to Care Inc: $10k → 17%Safehouse Denver Inc: $10k → 12%Lutheran Community Services: $10k → 13%Ryans House for Youth: $10k → 7%Youth Services System Inc: $10k → 15%Family Promise Mat-Su: $10k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $10k → 10%Safe Harbor Family Crisis Center: $10k → 15%Rape and Abuse Crisis Center of Fargo Moorhead: $10k → 12%Beyond Boundaries: $10k → 22%Bennington Project Independence Inc: $10k → 11%Feed the Second Line: $10k → 23%Buckhorn Child and Family Services: $10k → 27%Next Step Domestic Violence Project: $10k → 11%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

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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 25% of Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inclessmore 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.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 4 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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250

Total granted

$80k
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k 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
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • AH
    ABC Hopes Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • PH
    PET HELPERS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CF
    COC FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CE
    COLONY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • OV
    ONSLOW VICTIMS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +50%
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
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
2
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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3
Domestic Violence Intervention Services

See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…

Human Services
4
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
5
Rod's House

Rod's house builds authentic connections with young people, supports them in feeling respected and secure in who they are, empowers them to reach their full potential, and positively connects them to the community. rod's house envisions an…

Housing & Shelter
6
The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services
7
Clackamas Women's Services

Breaking the isolation of domestic and sexual violence.

Human Services
8
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany house services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
9
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
10
Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
11
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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12
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home of the Innocents Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wild Souls Alliances. 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

277 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 277 of the 316 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)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
276/277
Grantees still filing
145/277
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+78 more: $800,000 · Other+78 more+45 more: $450,000 · Human Services+45 moreABC Hopes Inc: $20,000 · HealthABC Hopes IncEASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · HealthECHOING HOPE RANCH: $10,000 · HealthRIVERSIDE AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 · HealthSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthLIFESKILLS INC: $10,000 · HealthBETANCES HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 · HealthMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFREDERICKSBURG CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · HealthRESILIENT RETREAT INC: $10,000 · HealthWALTS WALTZ: $10,000 · HealthTURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $10,000 · HealthCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $10,000 · HealthEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC: $10,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $10,000 · HealthNO WRONG DOOR FOR SUPPORT AND RECOVERY: $10,000 · HealthLIVE LIKE MADISON INC: $10,000 · HealthHarrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthCRIME VICTIM CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · HealthRunway to Hope Inc: $10,000 · HealthIDENTIFY YOUR DREAM CORPORATION: $10,000 · HealthCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY: $10,000 · HealthPET HELPERS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsPET HELPE…KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY …SECOND CHANCE 4 PETS NETWORK INC: $10,000 · AnimalsSECOND CH…REZDAWG RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsREZDAWG R…WICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE: $10,000 · AnimalsWICHITA A…UNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $10,000 · AnimalsUNDERDOG …FRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON INC: $10,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS O…PROTECTORS OF ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsPROTECTOR…PEOPLE FOR PETS MAGIC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsPEOPLE FO…CHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER: $10,000 · AnimalsCHINTIMIN…WORLD HERITAGE ANIMAL GENOMIC RESOURCES: $10,000 · AnimalsWORLD HER…FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL VILLAGE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS O…HAWKINS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsHAWKINS C…Lost Our Home Pet Foundation: $10,000 · AnimalsLost Our …PARTNERS FOR PETS HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · AnimalsPARTNERS …ARK ASSOCIATION TO RESCUE KRITTERS: $10,000 · AnimalsARK ASSOC…ST FRANCIS SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · AnimalsST FRANCI…CENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationANSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · EducationDRUMGOOLE FAMILY INITIATIVES INC: $10,000 · EducationSeniors on a Mission Inc: $10,000 · EducationBOYS HOME INC: $10,000 · EducationKCEOC COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · EducationCARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationBOOLEAN GIRL INC: $10,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationCREEKSIDE CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI INC: $10,000 · EducationLife Learning Academy: $10,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationI Would Rather Be Reading: $10,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOHNSON COUNTY YOUTH COALITION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN LAS VEGAS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Leaders of America: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF BROWNSVILLE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFT YOUTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF OPEN DOOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY BIKE WORKS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOYFUL READERS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT COOL BREEZE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN OF GRACE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOPE DEALERS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBrevard Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterStarve Poverty International: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$800,000Human Services$450,000Health$250,000Animals$180,000Education$140,000Youth Development$140,000Housing & Shelter$100,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABC Hopes Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPET HELPERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT COOL BREEZE: $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetKENAN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONSLOW VICTIMS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetECHOING HOPE RANCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRTC INDUSTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND CHANCE 4 PETS NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetRIVERSIDE AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBig Sunday: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFESKILLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDIN HIGH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHANGED LIVES MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAFEHOUSE DENVER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA AUTISM UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS SUPPORTING ARMED SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetBETANCES HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSeniors on a Mission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMADISON AREA REHABILITATION CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF GRACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREZDAWG RESCUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE URBAN MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEARS VALLEY RANCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARC BROWARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MANATEE LAGOON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKCEOC COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 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.

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.

John a and Margaret P…Petco LovePpl FoundationNora Roberts Foundati…United Way of the Gre…Air Products Foundati…Humane World for Anim…The Nordson Corporati…The Whas Crusade for …Honorable Order of Ke…The Gap FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…
John a and Margaret Post FoundationPA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Petco Love · Ppl Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Gap Foundation · St Louis Community 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 Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Bennington Project Independence Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Resilient Retreat Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
70report 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 316 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 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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