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Laughing Gull 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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
127
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$8.3MEducation$6.6MCrime & Legal$5.2MPhilanthropy$2.5MYouth Development$2.2MEnvironment$2.1MHealth$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 127 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k71 grants · $5.0M
$50,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY$160,000
NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP$150,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY$150,000
EQUALITY VIRGINIA$125,000
EQUALITY NC FOUNDATION$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$105,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY$100,000
APPALACHIAN VOICES$100,000
TAPROOT EARTH$100,000
CENTER FOR HEIRS' PROP PRESERVATIO$100,000
FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$100,000
OPERATION RESTORATION$100,000
TIME OUT YOUTH$90,000
FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES$90,000
ALLIANCE FOR HIGHER ED IN PRISON$90,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEXAS PRIDE IMPACTS FUND: $20k → 14%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE'S SOCIETY: $25k → 17%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $35k → 33%OUTMEMPHIS: $6k → 17%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION OF: $50k → 20%CENTER FOR EARTH BASED HEALING: $25k → 20%CITY DIBS: $50k → 19%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE'S SOCIETY: $10k → 17%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $6k → 33%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION OF: $50k → 20%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $110k → 10%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION OF: $50k → 20%TAKE RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 16%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100k → 10%TAKE RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 16%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $80k → 11%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $80k → 11%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $80k → 11%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $78k → 11%THE SMILE TRUST INC: $25k → 15%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $70k → 11%OPERATION RESTORATION: $100k → 23%THE SMILE TRUST: $10k → 15%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $60k → 11%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100k → 10%THE FIRST 72: $25k → 23%TRANZMISSION: $50k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $35k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $35k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $35k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $35k → 12%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $30k → 11%TRANZMISSION: $25k → 12%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $25k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $30k → 11%TRANZMISSION: $15k → 12%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $5k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $10k → 11%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $5k → 10%TRANZMISSION: $3k → 12%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $2k → 11%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $2k → 11%TRANZMISSION: $2k → 12%PRO CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OR
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 121 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

121 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
69

Total granted

$32M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CF
    Campaign For Southern Equality
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +275%
  • OR
    OPERATION RESTORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $945k · revenue +46%
  • FF
    FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $920k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUSTICE40 ACCELERATOR
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • GC
    GULF COAST CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • SB
    Side By Side
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +6%
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
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
2
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
3
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
4
Southern Center for Human Rights

The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…

Civil Rights
5
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
6
Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.

Civil Rights
7
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
8
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
9
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
10
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
11
North Carolina Aids Action Network

The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…

Health
12
Eqtx Equality Texas dba Equality Texas

EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Federation Institute; the most unlike its peers is Richmond Memorial Health Foundation. 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

134 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. 134 of the 230 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
132/134
Grantees still filing
84/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $995,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+114 more: $17,158,378 · Other+114 moreCampaign For Southern Equality: $1,290,925 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southe…FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $920,000 · Civil RightsFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN…SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $909,500 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNERS ON NEW …EQUALITY NC: $616,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY NCEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $580,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY VIRGINIA I…LGBT CENTER OF RALEIGH INC: $450,000 · Civil RightsLGBT CENTER OF RALE…POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $225,000 · Civil RightsYOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC: $213,750 · Civil Rights+11 more: $678,800 · Civil Rights+11 moreLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $635,232 · EducationLIFE UNIVERSI…Nationz Foundation: $474,075 · EducationNationz Found…AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $426,150 · EducationAUBURN UNIVER…CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $303,400 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVE…GUILFORD COLLEGE: $264,800 · EducationGUILFORD COLL…The Education Trust Inc: $250,000 · EducationThe Education…GEORGIA COALITION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $241,100 · EducationGEORGIA COALI…WARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $228,800 · EducationWARREN WILSON…STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $216,900 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $211,800 · EducationTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $195,850 · EducationCOMMON GOOD ATLANTA: $160,000 · Education+11 more: $657,100 · Education+11 moreOPERATION RESTORATION: $945,400 · Human ServicesOPERATION…Freedom Center for Social Justice: $780,000 · Human ServicesFreedom C…The LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc: $521,150 · Human ServicesThe LGBTQ…TRANZMISSION INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesTRANZMISS…Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help: $150,000 · Human Services+8 more: $251,000 · Human Services+8 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $313,651 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $304,650 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementSowega Rising: $150,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementHorizons Foundation: $140,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE DESCENDANTS PROJECT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $330,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $276,000 · Crime & LegalRESILIENCE EDUCATION: $221,700 · Crime & LegalFlorida Justice Center Inc: $145,000 · Crime & LegalFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $90,000 · Crime & Legal+6 more: $116,500 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND: $285,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $275,000 · EnvironmentSoutheast Climate & Energy Network: $245,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Earth: $200,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $50,000 · Environment+3 more: $53,000 · Environment
Other$18,154,278Civil Rights$5,883,975Education$4,265,207Human Services$2,882,550Community Improvement$1,398,301Crime & Legal$1,179,200Environment$1,158,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $1,290,925 over 8y, 22% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $945,400 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $920,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $909,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFreedom Center for Social Justice: $780,000 over 8y, 32% of budgetLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $635,232 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY NC: $616,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $580,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $575,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc: $521,150 over 8y, 25% of budgetTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC: $484,500 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $480,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetNationz Foundation: $474,075 over 7y, 11% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE VA INC: $466,650 over 7y, 18% of budgetTime Out Youth Inc: $459,650 over 6y, 11% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $450,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetLGBT CENTER OF RALEIGH INC: $450,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $450,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $426,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $330,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $313,651 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $304,650 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $303,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $295,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND: $285,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT: $276,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES: $275,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $264,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSoutheast Climate & Energy Network: $245,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetGEORGIA COALITION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $241,100 over 4y, 52% of budgetTRANZMISSION INC: $235,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $228,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $225,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $225,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRESILIENCE EDUCATION: $221,700 over 4y, 21% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $216,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC: $213,750 over 6y, 23% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $211,800 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTaproot Earth: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec: $200,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $195,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY NC FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $160,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMON GOOD ATLANTA: $160,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $155,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetLGBT LIFE CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION RESTORATION ↗
  • Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Center for Social Justice ↗
  • Who funds LIFE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY NC ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY VIRGINIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds The LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Nationz Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIDE BY SIDE VA INC ↗
  • Who funds Time Out Youth Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY ↗
  • Who funds LGBT CENTER OF RALEIGH INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
  • Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncBorealis PhilanthropyWellspring Philanthro…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Windward FundTides FoundationTides CenterProteus Fund IncCommon Counsel Founda…Groundswell Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC68.2× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · Tides Center · Proteus Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Groundswell Fund

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 Laughing Gull Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laughing Gull Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • National Black Justice Coalition Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Justice Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
25report 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 230 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home