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Kunes Family 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
269
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$293k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$8.3MYouth Development$1.5MEducation$1.2MHealth$943kFood & Nutrition$912kHuman Services$805kCommunity Improvement$598kPhilanthropy$528kOther$0
02FY2024 · 269 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k213 grants · $382k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $737k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $554k
$1,300
Median grant
18
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC$293,228
HEROES OF FAITH MINISTRIES INTL$261,000
ETERNAL WORD MINISTRIES CORPORATION$206,000
COMPUTER SKILLS AND TRAINING CENTER INC$155,000
LIGHTHOUSE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH$128,644
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION$100,000
THE WOODSON CENTER$100,000
LONNIE JARVIS MINISTRIES$89,500
BLAZING TREES$88,137
CHRISTIAN LIFE CHURCH$88,020
JACK HARRIS MINISTRIES INC DBA GLOBAL MESSENGER SERVICE$79,000
GOSPEL MINISTRIES$74,000
COMMUNITY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH$50,984
DELAVAN ARAM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
IMPACT MINISTRIES$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOLDEN HOUSE: $1k → 10%THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $1k → 11%SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC: $500 → 12%JAMIESON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 16%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA INC: $2k → 9%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $1k → 12%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA INC: $2k → 9%MY TEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 10%CURING KIDS CANCER INC: $1k → 14%MY TEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 10%BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN: $550 → 9%THE GREAT RIVER OUTREACH: $3k → 13%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA INC: $2k → 9%TEAM TRIUMPH: $5k → 10%THE GREAT RIVER OUTREACH: $3k → 13%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $3k → 13%VETERANS OUTREACH OF WISCONSIN: $1k → 10%FIRST LOVE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $2k → 15%KISSES FROM KEEGAN & FRIENDS: $12k → 10%STATELINE FAMILY YMCA: $600 → 10%KISSES FROM KEEGAN & FRIENDS: $750 → 10%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 13%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $11k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 14%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 13%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $1k → 13%QUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $600 → 13%SANTA CAUSE INC: $25k → 10%SANTA CAUSE: $7k → 10%SANTA CAUSE: $5k → 10%SANTA CAUSE INC: $5k → 10%SANTA CAUSE: $5k → 10%SANTA CAUSE INC: $5k → 10%SANTA CAUSE: $2k → 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 10%LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE: $28k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE: $28k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE: $15k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE INC: $13k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE INC: $10k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE INC: $8k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE: $5k → 10%AGAPE HOUSE INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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MN
IL
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IA
IN
OH
CA
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CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
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TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 292 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

292 repeat relationships: 145 still active in FY2024, 147 since wound down; 120 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

292
509

Total granted

$14M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

39%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & 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

  • TM
    TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $843k · revenue +60%
  • WC
    WOODSON CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $407k · revenue +655%
  • PW
    Piney Woods School
    2× · 2022–2023 · $238k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • LG
    LAKE GENEVA CAMPS & CONFERENCES
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • BT
    BLAZING TREES
    one grant, 2022 · $73k
  • GM
    GOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue -23%
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
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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2
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

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3
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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4
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
5
Lad Lake Inc

The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.

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6
Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy
7
Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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8
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
9
Northwoods Inc of Wisconsin

Service for disabled adults

Human Services
10
Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc

Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…

Crime & Legal
11
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
12
Pro-Life Wisconsin Inc

Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Stoughton Resettlement Assistance Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

297 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. 297 of the 928 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)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
283/297
Grantees still filing
186/297
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKELAND COMMUNITY CHURCH: $926,567 · OtherLAKELAND COMMUNITY CHURCHETERNAL WORD MINISTRIES CORPORATION: $884,999 · OtherETERNAL WORD MINISTRIES CORPORATIONTIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC: $843,228 · OtherTIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INCUMOJA (TRADE IN HUNGER): $799,500 · OtherUMOJA (TRADE IN HUNGER)HEROES OF FAITH MINISTRIES INTL: $674,000 · OtherHEROES OF FAITH MINISTRIES INTLLIGHTHOUSE FULL GOSPEL CHURCH: $654,704 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE FULL GOSPEL CHURCHGOSPEL MINISTRIES: $511,500 · OtherETERNAL WORD: $435,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN LIFE CHURCH: $404,446 · Other+142 more: $5,703,154 · Other+142 moreDELAVAN ARAM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationPiney Woods School: $238,000 · EducationFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $177,219 · EducationYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $51,309 · EducationELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $43,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION: $31,890 · EducationHannibal LaGrange University: $29,904 · Education+3 more: $39,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL: $301,000 · ReligionBLAZING TREES: $179,667 · ReligionGOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $84,500 · ReligionGOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $65,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60,200 · ReligionLIVING HOPE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $40,000 · Religion+5 more: $70,300 · ReligionMAYO CLINIC: $300,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $82,515 · HealthNEW DAY WOMEN'S CLINIC INC: $46,000 · HealthTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Health+3 more: $26,605 · HealthWOODSON CENTER: $406,791 · Community ImprovementWALWORTH COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $26,239 · Community Improvement+2 more: $18,500 · Community ImprovementIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDRENS WORLD IMPACT INC: $56,800 · PhilanthropyGENEVA NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC DAWN MALL: $40,000 · PhilanthropyGAVERS COMMUNITY CANCER FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $30,050 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $30,000 · PhilanthropyWILDWOOD HILLS INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $20,353 · PhilanthropyAGAPE HOUSE INC: $111,965 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $100,500 · Human ServicesSanta Cause Inc: $54,000 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $39,000 · Human ServicesMYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC: $14,400 · Human ServicesKISSES FROM FRIENDS INC: $12,500 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$11,837,098Education$860,822Religion$800,667Health$475,120Community Improvement$451,530Philanthropy$432,203Human Services$339,365

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 budgetTIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC: $843,228 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER: $406,791 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetComputer Skills & Training Center Inc: $372,853 over 4y, 44% of budgetLEADERSHIP RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL: $301,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDELAVAN ARAM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetPiney Woods School: $238,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES: $236,347 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetIMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLAZING TREES: $179,667 over 3y, 16% of budgetFAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $177,219 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $153,400 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAGAPE HOUSE INC: $111,965 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetTHE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC: $108,302 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $100,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $84,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $82,515 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSILVER BIRCH RANCH INC & AFFILIATE: $80,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $65,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $60,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS WORLD IMPACT INC: $56,800 over 5y, 21% of budgetDELAVAN-DARIEN SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $56,474 over 2y, 86% of budgetSanta Cause Inc: $54,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $51,309 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTREE HOUSE CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $51,130 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $51,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DAY WOMEN'S CLINIC INC: $46,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetELIM CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $43,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGENEVA NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC DAWN MALL: $40,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLIVING HOPE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $40,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetGAVERS COMMUNITY CANCER FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $39,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE AND TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION INC: $38,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING-ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION: $31,890 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $30,050 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHannibal LaGrange University: $29,904 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $28,250 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $26,239 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetVIP SERVICES INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCI: $19,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION INC: $16,649 over 1y, 56% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TIMBER-LEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Computer Skills & Training Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DELAVAN ARAM PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLAZING TREES ↗
  • Who funds FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AGAPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TIME IS NOW TO HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOSPEL MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John & Linda Anderson Charitable FoundationIL44× affinity20 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Walworth County · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Keefe Foundation Inc · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Michelmann 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 Kunes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kunes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kunes Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kunes Family 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 928 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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