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Life Sciences Research Foundation

To fund basic research in the biological sciences at various institutions.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$20MScience & Tech$8.7MHealth$1.3MRecreation & Sports$397k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $288k
$77,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$288,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$247,750
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$221,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$154,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$134,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$93,750
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$77,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$77,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$77,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO$77,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$77,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$77,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY$77,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN$77,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$77,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $705k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $221k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $650k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $325k → 10%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $154k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $184k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $211k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $182k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $134k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $248k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $606k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $154k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $496k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $312k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $169k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $201k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $180k → 9%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $225k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $535k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $473k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $229k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $181k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $139k → 9%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $225k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $486k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $345k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $210k → 10%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $221k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $418k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $304k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $202k → 10%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $135k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $402k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $277k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY: $201k → 10%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $372k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $221k → 8%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $366k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $211k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $201k → 8%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $288k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $211k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $201k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $495k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $437k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $257k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $201k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $201k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 40 repeat orgs$452k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
4

Total granted

$18M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+109%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +189%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $62k · revenue +41%
  • GI
    GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2024 · $34k
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK COLLEGE AT PURCHASE
    one grant, 2024 · $34k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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11
University of New Haven

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

Education
12
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University and the most unlike its peers is Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%64%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%61%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,510

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
36/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,257,750 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $3,178,075 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $2,297,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $1,756,510 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,360,250 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,329,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $1,140,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $841,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $836,754 · Education+22 more — $6,597,190 · Education+22 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $807,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSI…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $375,500 · OtherREGENTS OF T…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $340,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $336,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHIN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES — $246,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $227,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $225,000 · OtherREGENTS OF T…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $201,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF …ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA SANTA BARBARA — $186,000 · OtherASSOCIATED S…+6 more — $388,000 · Other+6 moreTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $619,250 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN — $356,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $261,000 · HealthLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED IN NEW ORLEANS FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE — $196,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $77,000 · HealthThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $642,062 · Science & TechCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — $500,000 · Science & TechDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER — $191,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University — $397,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$23,593,779Other$3,332,250Health$1,509,250Science & Tech$1,333,062Recreation & Sports$397,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $4,257,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $3,178,075 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $2,297,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $1,756,510 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,360,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,329,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $1,140,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $841,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $836,754 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $757,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $705,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $672,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $663,916 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $642,062 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $619,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION — $603,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetYale University — $582,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON — $500,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University — $397,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN — $356,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $336,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $325,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $317,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $261,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $258,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $201,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED IN NEW ORLEANS FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE — $196,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $191,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER — $191,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $191,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $186,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $149,774 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $77,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $62,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY LAB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED IN NEW ORLEANS FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE ↗
  • Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

President and Fellows…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: President and Fellows of Harvard College · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Life Sciences Research Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines