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Midland Area Community Foundation

Our mission is to provide philanthropic leadership to strengthen our community by fostering collaboration and giving today and in the future.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
118
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$597k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$5.6MHealth$4.7MRecreation & Sports$4.6MEducation$4.5MHuman Services$3.7MEnvironment$3.7MYouth Development$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.6MOther$0
02FY2025 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 118 grants below total $4,975,522, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,227,434 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,251,912 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $193k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$15,616
Median grant
11
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$596,500
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY$531,540
LEELANAU CONSERVANCY$255,000
GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS$230,500
THE LITTLE FORKS CONSERVANCY$160,450
COUNTY OF MIDLAND$155,400
MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS$136,097
MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$122,312
LIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES$110,000
CHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER$105,216
THE LEGACY CENTER FOR COMM SUCCESS$93,249
ADOPTION OPTION INC$90,457
MIDLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS$89,638
AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE OF$89,300
MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUND$88,346
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEROES ON THE WATER: $25k → 5%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $51k → 14%NORTHEAST MI COMMUNITY SERV AGENCY: $34k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $30k → 18%SALVATION ARMY: $18k → 14%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $18k → 14%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $29k → 14%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $28k → 14%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 18%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $87k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $35k → 18%YMCA SAGINAW: $40k → 18%TONI AND TRISH HOUSE: $62k → 14%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF: $31k → 17%MID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS: $27k → 17%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $151k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $145k → 9%MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $134k → 9%MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $117k → 9%MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $110k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $103k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $81k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF: $75k → 9%INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIVING: $70k → 9%INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIVING: $63k → 9%INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIVING: $50k → 9%ADOPTION OPTION INC: $48k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $44k → 9%ADOPTION OPTION INC: $43k → 9%ADOPTION OPTION INC: $40k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $38k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF: $36k → 9%MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $35k → 9%ELEVATE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $32k → 9%INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIVING: $30k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF: $25k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF: $21k → 9%INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIVING: $20k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF: $19k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $19k → 9%ADOPTION OPTION INC: $90k → 9%ADOPTION OPTION INC: $61k → 9%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $45k → 9%COMMUNITY CONSTRUCT: $40k → 9%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $29k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND: $24k → 9%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
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 171 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

171 repeat relationships: 87 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171
127

Total granted

$37M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • MC
    Midland Center for the Arts Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +85%
  • GM
    GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +103%
  • MB
    MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN
    6× · 2017–2025 · $966k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +5%
  • MR
    MIDLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $126k · revenue -84% · 59% of their budget
  • HP
    HOMER PUBLIC SAFETY AND TRAINING
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
2
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

—
3
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—
4
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
5
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

—
7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
8
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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10
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
11
Michigan Farm Bureau

Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.

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12
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tri-Star Charitable 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

211 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. 211 of the 329 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.

18
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
206/211
Grantees still filing
135/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MIDLAND: $3,426,326 · OtherCITY OF MIDLANDUnited Way of Midland County: $2,195,654 · OtherUnited Way of Midland CountyCOUNTY OF MIDLAND: $2,184,768 · OtherCOUNTY OF MIDLANDMIDLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $820,438 · OtherMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $965,757 · Other+121 more: $14,991,684 · Other+121 moreCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $604,072 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL O…WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $503,767 · Human ServicesWEST MIDL…MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $455,536 · Human ServicesMIDLAND C…GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $357,100 · Human ServicesGREAT LAK…ADOPTION OPTION INC: $302,232 · Human ServicesADOPTION …Independent Community Living Inc: $232,400 · Human ServicesIndepende…Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc: $197,434 · Human ServicesFamily & …HIDDEN HARVEST: $159,500 · Human ServicesMID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $128,667 · Human Services+12 more: $593,345 · Human Services+12 moreMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,396,968 · HealthTEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK: $337,000 · HealthChildrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $229,601 · HealthLIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $198,008 · HealthMidland Ctr for Accessible Health Care: $120,000 · HealthGateway Healthcare: $95,823 · Health+10 more: $417,023 · HealthThe Little Forks Conservancy Inc: $1,609,210 · EnvironmentCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $653,538 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $326,291 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN AUDUBON SOCIETY: $115,922 · Environment+2 more: $66,600 · EnvironmentMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $1,845,692 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY: $222,500 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $163,000 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $90,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $304,759 · Arts & CultureGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $1,678,432 · Recreation & SportsMIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $230,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $162,317 · Recreation & SportsLegacy Center for Community Success: $726,323 · EducationCREATIVE SPIRIT CENTER INC: $201,381 · EducationMICHIGAN CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST AGREEMENT: $173,460 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationNATIONAL EXCHANGE CLUB FOUNDATION: $108,000 · EducationANDYS ANGELS: $100,000 · EducationSANTA CLAUS SCHOOL: $94,769 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $90,450 · EducationNorthwood University: $84,410 · EducationCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Education+5 more: $166,650 · Education
Other$24,584,627Human Services$3,534,053Health$2,794,423Environment$2,771,561Arts & Culture$2,625,951Recreation & Sports$2,070,749Education$1,965,443

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 budgetUnited Way of Midland County: $2,195,654 over 9y, 10% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $1,845,692 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $1,678,432 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetThe Little Forks Conservancy Inc: $1,609,210 over 9y, 55% of budgetMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,396,968 over 8y, 13% of budgetMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $965,757 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetLegacy Center for Community Success: $726,323 over 9y, 16% of budgetCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $653,538 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $608,072 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $604,072 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $527,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMidland County Habitat for Humanity: $507,842 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetHELPS INTERNATIONAL: $505,759 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $503,767 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetReaching Our Community Kids: $494,470 over 9y, 19% of budgetMidland's Open Door: $463,078 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetMIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $455,536 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $420,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLAND AREA HOMES INC: $403,452 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetReece Endeavor of Midland: $378,685 over 9y, 21% of budgetGREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $357,100 over 6y, 21% of budgetTEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK: $337,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Arc of Midland: $334,646 over 9y, 15% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $326,291 over 3y, 13% of budgetMidland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Services: $313,881 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetADOPTION OPTION INC: $302,232 over 8y, 2.5% of budget211 Northeast Michigan: $285,747 over 4y, 52% of budgetCLEVELAND MANOR II INC: $247,730 over 4y, 14% of budgetARNOLD CENTER INC: $244,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetIndependent Community Living Inc: $232,400 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $230,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetChildrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $229,601 over 4y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY: $222,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCREATIVE SPIRIT CENTER INC: $201,381 over 6y, 23% of budgetLIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $198,008 over 3y, 15% of budgetFamily & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc: $197,434 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetHumane Society of Midland County: $192,576 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetMIDLAND KING'S DAUGHTERS HOME: $182,525 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMICHIGAN CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST AGREEMENT: $173,460 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE OF MIDLAND COUNTY: $166,150 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $163,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST: $159,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidland County Food Assistance Network: $140,362 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetMIDLAND COMMUNITY FORMER OFFFENDER ADVOCADY & REHABILITATION: $131,400 over 7y, 19% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $130,184 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMID MICHIGAN BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $128,667 over 6y, 15% of budgetMIDLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $125,900 over 1y, 59% 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 United Way of Midland County ↗
  • Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Little Forks Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN ↗
  • Who funds Legacy Center for Community Success ↗
  • Who funds CHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Midland County Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds HELPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Reaching Our Community Kids ↗
  • Who funds Midland's Open Door ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND AREA HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds Reece Endeavor of Midland ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
  • Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Midland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Services ↗
  • Who funds ADOPTION OPTION INC ↗
  • Who funds 211 Northeast Michigan ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MANOR II INC ↗
  • Who funds ARNOLD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Independent Community Living Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗

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.

The Patricia and Davi…The Charles J Strosac…The Herbert H & Grace…Rollin M Gerstacker F…Bay Area Community Fo…Harry a and Margaret …United Way of Midland…Bierlein Companies Fo…Saginaw Community Fou…Consumers Energy Foun…Alden and Vada Dow Fu…Dow Company Foundation
The Patricia and David Kepler FoundationDE91.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way of Midland County · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Dow Company 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 Midland Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Midland Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Oregon Council for the Humanities: 55% of income from government
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Chemeketa Community College Foundation: 22% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 329 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

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

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The regranting layer
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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