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Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$829k
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCivil Rights$441kEnvironment$370kInternational$367kFood & Nutrition$294kHealth$198kEducation$180kHuman Services$148kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $226k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$360k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
MIRA COALITION$65,000
CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE$60,000
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL$60,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
WBUR$30,000
COMPANY ONE INC$27,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
TUPELO PRESS INC$15,000
HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION$15,000
FOS FEMINISTA$15,000
RAZOM INC$15,000
RED BULL THEATER INC$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
UNITED HELP UKRAINE$15,000
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 (FY20–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REGENERATE YOUR AUTHENTICATE NATURE INC: $5k → 11%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $15k → 31%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $12k → 11%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $10k → 31%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $8k → 11%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $6k → 11%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $5k → 11%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVE INC: $1k → 11%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $3k → 11%ON THE RISE INC: $10k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $3k → 11%LEE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $2k → 11%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROG: $5k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $3k → 8%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT: $6k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $10k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $10k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $5k → 16%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

ME
VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
MS
AL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 90 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

90 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
77

Total granted

$3.1M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +80%
  • COMPANY ONE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $138k · revenue +195%
  • BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • AB
    AMALGAMATED BANK AC OF FOODSHED CAPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • CC
    CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue -48%
  • GT
    GREATER THINGS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
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
8
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catalyst Inc; the most unlike its peers is Worcester Free Library. 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

153 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. 153 of the 196 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/153
Grantees still filing
100/153
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $320,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATIONCOMPANY ONE INC: $137,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPANY ONE INCBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $130,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANYTUPELO PRESS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTUPELO PRESS INCFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC: $37,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more: $301,700 · Arts & Culture+32 moreIndividual grant recipient: $126,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE JAR: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · Other+102 more: $1,090,500 · Other+102 moreInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $120,000 · EnvironmentInfact DBA C…Sustainable Harvest International: $65,000 · EnvironmentSustainable …Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $54,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Uta…RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST F…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $34,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FO…The Monadnock Conservancy: $25,000 · EnvironmentThe Monadnoc…SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE …EARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 · Environment+4 more: $34,500 · Environment+4 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $107,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $81,000 · InternationalINTERNATI…ENGENDERHEALTH INC: $39,000 · InternationalENGENDERH…RAZOM INC: $35,000 · InternationalRAZOM INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $22,000 · InternationalInternati…+8 more: $35,000 · International+8 moreMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $245,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $28,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $24,000 · Civil RightsUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $65,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $36,500 · Human ServicesON THE RISE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT RIGHT: $24,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $17,500 · Human Services+8 more: $22,000 · Human ServicesCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC: $115,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,041,200Other$1,446,500Environment$417,500International$319,000Civil Rights$297,000Human Services$266,000Food & Nutrition$131,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $245,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOMPANY ONE INC: $137,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $130,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC: $115,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $107,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $81,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $65,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTUPELO PRESS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $55,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $54,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC: $37,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS: $36,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST: $34,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetON THE RISE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Public Affairs: $29,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDURHAM CRISIS RESPONSE CENTER: $28,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $28,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $26,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetARTS ALIVE INC: $25,200 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Monadnock Conservancy: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT RIGHT: $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNon-Event Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRUTLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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 JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPANY ONE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
  • Who funds CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
  • Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
  • Who funds TUPELO PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS ↗
  • Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Public Affairs ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM CRISIS RESPONSE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
  • Who funds JOURNALISM DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 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.

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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 Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Lgbtq Senior Housing Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Project Against Violent Encounters: 100% of income from government
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Project Right: 71% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Transcultural Exchange: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Affordable Homeownership Foundation Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project: 6% of income from government
  • Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Tupelo Press Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Central Square Theater Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Company One Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get 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.
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Find your warmest path to Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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 196 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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