· Private foundation
Munger Charitable Trust Number Eight
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $970k
- $250k+6 grants · $11M
Anchored by a single position — about 92% of reported assets are held in Berkshire Hath Cl A.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION | $5,805,594 |
| BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION EDUCATION FUND | $2,755,346 |
| EVERYBODY VOTES | $684,105 |
| RIGHT TO VOTE FOUNDATION | $681,393 |
| THE VOTER PROJECT FUND | $293,500 |
| RIGHT TO VOTE FOUNDATION | $282,996 |
| INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS | $205,510 |
| SOUTH ASIAN IMPACT FOUNDATION | $101,923 |
| THE VOTER PROJECT FUND | $100,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $100,000 |
| VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION | $99,657 |
| OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE | $99,551 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $99,352 |
| ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE | $98,738 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $65,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Munger Charitable Trust Number Eight’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.
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.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
Voter formation project's mission is to increase participation in local, state, and national elections through digital communication, experimentation, and knowledge-sharing.
Strengthen democracy for all voters by promoting the responsible use of technology in all elections.
Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
To sustain and support the prioritization of comprehensive voting rights and democracy reform legislation at all levels of government.
New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.
To support legal, political & administrative efforts to protect fair voting.
The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.
All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!
America Votes Education Fund is dedicated to expanding all voters' access to the ballot through a grantmaking program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Voter Project Fund and the most unlike its peers is Asian Community Development Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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
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 OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO VOTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PROJECT FUND ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS ↗
- Who funds South Asian Impact Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS AS SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hopewell Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Munger Charitable Trust Number Eight 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.
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.