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Kessler Foundation Inc

Kessler Foundation advances rehabilitation research that leads to real-world solutions for people with disabilities, creating new possibilities for restoring function, promoting independence, and improving quality of life.

$204k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$8.5MHealth$1.8MEducation$1.2MHuman Services$652kRecreation & Sports$162kYouth Development$150kArts & Culture$148kPublic Safety & Disaster$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $194k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$321M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hudson Community Enterprise$35,000
VISIONS$35,000
The Arc of Camden County$35,000
Abilities Of Northwest Jersey Inc$35,000
Perlman Music Program$22,000
The Burd Group$21,500
The Impossible Dream$10,000
Fairleigh Dickinson University$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Challenged Athletes Inc: $20k → 11%Communication Service for the Deaf: $311k → 10%Advocacy Center of LA: $425k → 23%RESPECTABILITYUSA: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC: $45k → 10%Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County: $40k → 11%WORKFORCE MATTERS: $75k → 16%Alternatives Inc: $32k → 5%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC: $40k → 10%JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METRO WEST: $39k → 16%Association of University Centers on Disabilities: $51k → 8%arc of the us: $175k → 14%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC: $35k → 10%Community Options Inc: $40k → 11%Bancroft: $30k → 12%Association of University Centers on Disabilities: $25k → 8%Cheshire Home: $40k → 4%Childrens Aid and Family Services Inc: $10k → 7%Community Options Enterprises: $35k → 11%Association of University Centers on Disabilities: $25k → 8%Cheshire Home: $26k → 4%COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC: $30k → 10%Association of University Centers on Disability -n: $6k → 8%Cheshire Home: $25k → 4%Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County: $35k → 11%CHESHIRE HOME: $25k → 4%Center For Family Services: $30k → 12%Center for Family Services: $30k → 12%The Arc of Essex County Inc: $10k → 16%ARC of Middlesex County: $24k → 8%Center for Family Services: $25k → 12%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $40k → 16%VISIONSSERV FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $40k → 17%ARC of Middlesex County: $19k → 8%Center For Family Services: $25k → 12%VISIONSServices for the Blind and Visually Impair: $40k → 17%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $25k → 16%VISIONSServices for the Blind and Visually Impair: $40k → 17%VISIONS: $35k → 17%VISIONSSERV FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10k → 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

VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
SC
DC
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 19% of Kessler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Kessler 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 56 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
66

Total granted

$8.4M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEmploymentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • LA
    LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER
    2× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +16%
  • Cornell University
    2× · 2018–2022 · $385k · revenue +49%
  • CO
    CAREER OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $165k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • ES
    Easter Seals Serving DC MD VA Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $450k · revenue +67%
  • SU
    State University of Iowa
    one grant, 2017 · $450k
  • JH
    JEVS HUMAN SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $450k · revenue +51%
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
Abilities Center of Southern Nj Inc

Abilities solutions is a 501(c)(3), incorporated in 1963 in new jersey to provide employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and other barriers to full participation in the workforce. we achive our goals by partenering with…

Employment
2
Everas Community Services Inc

The mission of the agency is to provide innovative services that support independence and community inclusion. everas provides comprehensive, lifetime services that meet their potential for independence, and improve their quality of life.…

Human Services
3
Viability Inc

Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.

Employment
4
Spectrum for Living Development Inc

To enable individuals who have developmental and/or physical disabilities to have the opportunity to attain their highest level of skills, purpose and independence.

Human Services
5
Cape Abilities Inc

To serve individuals with disabilities by educating, counseling, providing residential, social, therapeutic and employment supports, so as to empower them to achieve meaningful and valued roles in society.

Human Services
6
Abilities Inc

Abilites Inc is a non-profit agency dedicated to facilitating integrated employment and full participation of persons with disabilities in their work and living communities. Employment is accomplished through direct service to youth and…

—
7
Department of Persons With Disabilities

We provide residential, vocational, social and spiritual programs for persons with developmental disabilities. we offer opportunities to become more active and valued members of society, and to participate fully in life with dignity and…

Human Services
8
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
9
North Jersey Friendship House Inc

To build the skills of individuals with varying abilities and developmental needs, by providing clinical treatment, community integration, vocational training and work opportunities in order to achieve and maintain productive lives.

—
10
Family Resource Network Inc

The family resource network (frn), mission is to provide a personalized, humancentric approach to helping families with disabilities find the right resources and support for every step of their journey.

Human Services
11
Lifeworks Incorporated

Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…

Human Services
12
New Jersey Institute for Disabilities Inc

New jersey institute for disabilities, inc. is dedicated to the provision of comprehensive, superior, multi-faceted programs of service to individuals with developmental and related disabilities and their families regardless of race,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Career Opportunity Development Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Legion Fugle Hummer Post 65. 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

108 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. 108 of the 125 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
79/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1,012,053 · OtherUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRERUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $675,731 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYST OF VERMONT DIV OF VOCATIONAL REHAB H2 C SOUTH: $550,000 · OtherST OF VERMONT DIV OF VOCATIONAL REHAB H2 C SOUTHUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $499,199 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSState University of Iowa: $450,000 · OtherState University of IowaJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $450,000 · OtherJEVS HUMAN SERVICESNEW ENGLAND BUSINESS ASSOCIATES INC: $380,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND BUSINESS ASSOCIATES INC+54 more: $2,650,074 · Other+54 moreDISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $425,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS …Communication Service For The Deaf Inc: $310,603 · Human ServicesCommunication Serv…THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $175,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE UNI…VISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $165,000 · Human ServicesVISIONSSERVICES FO…COMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC: $150,280 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACCESS U…ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES: $135,089 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION OF UNI…CHESHIRE HOME INC: $116,416 · Human ServicesCHESHIRE HOME INCJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $113,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH VOCATIONAL …CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $110,000 · Human ServicesFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $75,000 · Human Services+11 more: $303,286 · Human Services+11 moreEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $450,000 · HealthEaster Seals …AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $300,000 · HealthAUTISM ALLIAN…CAREER OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $165,000 · HealthCAREER OPPORT…ADLER APHASIA CENTER: $80,000 · HealthADLER APHASIA…OCCUPATIONAL CENTER OF UNION COUNTY INC: $65,000 · HealthMARBLEJAM KIDS INC: $57,000 · HealthSHORE CLUBHOUSE INC: $50,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Health+11 more: $278,000 · Health+11 moreCornell University: $385,000 · EducationCornell U…MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationMONTCLAIR…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $139,200 · EducationRUTGERS U…CAUCUS EDUCATIONAL CORP: $105,000 · EducationCAUCUS ED…DISABILITY LEAD: $100,000 · EducationDISABILIT…COLLIER SERVICES - SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $62,689 · EducationCOLLIER S…GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Education+7 more: $127,500 · Education+7 moreLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $500,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ARC OCEAN COUNTY CHAPTER INC: $76,058 · Housing & ShelterABILITIES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC: $158,000 · EmploymentHUDSON COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES INC: $120,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT: $101,944 · EmploymentTHE CENTER FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION INC: $72,000 · EmploymentEMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC: $40,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER NEW YORK & NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $35,000 · EmploymentJERSEY CAPE DIAGNOSTIC TRAINING & OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $35,000 · EmploymentThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $500,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$6,667,057Human Services$2,079,174Health$1,495,000Education$1,109,389Housing & Shelter$576,058Employment$561,944Food & Nutrition$500,000

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 National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $500,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEaster Seals Serving DC MD VA Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $450,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $425,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCornell University: $385,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunication Service For The Deaf Inc: $310,603 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $175,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCAREER OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON CENTER FOR INTERNSHIPS & ACADEMIC SEMINARS: $160,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $159,084 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetABILITIES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY INC: $158,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS UNLIMITED INC: $150,280 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBlessed Ministries Inc: $145,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $139,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY CENTERS ON DISABILITIES: $135,089 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHABCORE INC: $132,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUDSON COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHESHIRE HOME INC: $116,416 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $113,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAUCUS EDUCATIONAL CORP: $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT: $101,944 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHRM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDISABILITY LEAD: $100,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $95,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Arc of Cape May County Inc: $91,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPORTLIGHT STRATEGIES INC: $90,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetPRINCETON CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetADLER APHASIA CENTER: $80,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFamily Resource Associates Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ARC OCEAN COUNTY CHAPTER INC: $76,058 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION INC: $72,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $72,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY: $71,521 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCAMDEN CITY GARDEN CLUB INC: $67,500 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetThe Arc of Union County Inc: $67,211 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEDCAP REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $66,907 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCCUPATIONAL CENTER OF UNION COUNTY INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGI Go Fund Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCOLLIER SERVICES - SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $62,689 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF ATLANTIC COUNTY INC: $59,351 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

Oceanfirst FoundationInvestors Foundation …Columbia Bank Foundat…Community Foundation …Citizens Philanthropi…The Hyde and Watson F…The Provident Bank Fo…The Jay and Linda Gru…New Jersey Natural Ga…Td Charitable Foundat…The Healthcare Founda…Catholic Human Servic…
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ61.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey Inc · Catholic Human Services 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 Kessler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kessler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Employment Horizons Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Center for Family Services: 73% of income from government
  • Community Health Law Project Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Prevention Resources Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Habcore Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Association of University Centers On Disabilities: 34% of income from government
  • Oaks Integrated Care Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Serving Dc Md Va Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Easter Seals New Jersey Inc: 28% of income from government
  • New England Business Associates Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Career Opportunity Development Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Abilities of Northwest Jersey Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Eva's Village Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Hudson Community Enterprises Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Community Access Unlimited Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Adler Aphasia Center: 12% of income from government
  • Resources for Independent Living Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Advancing Opportunities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Shore Clubhouse Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Family Resource Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Cheshire Home Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Opportunity Project Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Community Options Enterprises Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service of Metrowest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Alternatives Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Arc of Camden County Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Collier Services - Sisters of the Good Shepherd: 3% of income from government
  • The Arc of Cape May County Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Count Basie Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Children's Aid and Family Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Georgian Court University: 1% of income from government
  • The Arc of Essex County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Reeves - Reed Arboretum: 1% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pillar Care Continuum: 1% of income from government
  • Marblejam Kids Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Community Options Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Two River Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Arc of Atlantic County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Centrastate Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 125 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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