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Musk Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $94,367,057 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $474,325,312 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $379,958,255 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+40 grants · $93M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $25,000,000 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE HEALTHCARE | $7,157,000 |
| X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC | $5,450,000 |
| WINDWARD SCHOOL | $5,000,000 |
| AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000,000 |
| THE SETON FUND | $5,000,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $3,250,000 |
| DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION | $3,250,000 |
| THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC | $2,400,000 |
| CODEORG | $2,130,000 |
| SCROLL PRIZE INC | $2,084,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $2,000,000 |
| OPERATION BBQ RELIEF | $1,975,000 |
| HACK FOUNDATION | $1,810,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,500,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–24, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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
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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42M 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
- XPX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $121M · revenue +140% · 43% of their budget
- TFTHE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $55M · revenue +309% · 35% of their budget
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC3× · 2020–2023 · $20M · revenue +48% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $55M · revenue +74%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue +64%
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +40% · 33% of their budget
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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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…
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 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…
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…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Cameron County Education Initiative. 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 115 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 X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SEA TURTLE INC ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
- Who funds FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS CASES INC ↗
- Who funds SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds International FIRST Committee Associatio co Toohey Law Group ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Rio Grande Valley Philanthropic Foundation · Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation · Brownsville Foundation for Health and Education · Serafy Foundation · Raul Tijerina Jr Foundation · Share Our Strength · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Rotary Club of Brownsville Sunrise Texas USA Inc · Jules D Gosseaux Foundation Inc
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 Musk 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
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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