· Private foundation
Motorola Solutions Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k112 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k71 grants · $6.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Online Giving Foundation | $1,543,843 |
| Police Executive Research Forum | $500,000 |
| National Fallen Firefighters Foundation | $335,000 |
| For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) | $267,750 |
| Movement Forward | $265,000 |
| UK Online Giving Foundation | $234,275 |
| International Assn of Fire Chiefs Inc | $200,000 |
| Organizacin de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educacin la Ciencia y la Cul | $185,000 |
| Blue Help Inc | $170,000 |
| Concerns of Police Survivors | $160,000 |
| Sponsor a young adult to go through the NPower program Pathways to Prosper | $155,000 |
| Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation | $150,000 |
| The 100 Club of Illinois | $150,000 |
| Home Fire | $145,000 |
| International Association of Chiefs of Police Incorporated | $140,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 79% of grant dollars ($70M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($18M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Beyond the US — 21% of all-years giving ($18M)
39 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Motorola Solutions Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
776 repeat relationships — 169 still active in FY2025, 607 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PEPOLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM7× · 2019–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +24%
- NFNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +12%
- MIMOVEMENTFORWARD INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +152% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- ODOrganizacion De Estados Iberoamericanos Para La Educacinone grant, 2019 · $397k
- NSNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- YOYMCA Of The USAone grant, 2020 · $201k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pat Mac's Pack Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1261 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. 1261 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE EXECUTIVE RESEARCH FORUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENTFORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST HELP INC ↗
- Who funds THE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FOUNDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SYNCERE ↗
- Who funds AnnieCannons Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EXPLORATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALCULATED GENIUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO TECH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CODE IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CIVIC FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODE PLATOON NFP ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Cme Group Community Foundation F/K/A Nymex Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Dr Scholl Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Circle of Service 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 Motorola Solutions 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Denise Amber Lee Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- 911DER Women Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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