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Nelsons Family Foundation

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.

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$260kEducation$228kReligion$113kHealth$58kPhilanthropy$25kRecreation & Sports$17kScience & Tech$16kCivil Rights$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY SCHOOL$20,000
Individual grant recipient$18,600
HARVARD HILLEL$12,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$9,508
CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE$5,650
VASSAR COLLEGE$5,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING HOSPITAL$5,000
AMERICANS FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID$5,000
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$3,600
NEW WORLD SYMPHONY$3,500
GALLIM DANCE$2,500
FRIENDS OF CATS & DOGS FOUNDATION$2,500
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE$2,400
MOMA-MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD HILLEL: $13k → 8%WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND: $5k → 12%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $5k → 17%NEW WORLD SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%CONTEMPORARY ARTS COUNCIL: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY CARE FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 12%KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $5k → 10%HARVARD HILLEL: $12k → 8%WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND: $5k → 12%VASSAR COLLEGE: $5k → 9%NEW WORLD SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%ELIZABETH'S SMILE: $5k → 9%KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $5k → 10%HARVARD HILLEL: $12k → 8%VASSAR COLLEGE: $5k → 9%MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE: $5k → 17%MOUNTAIN VALLEY TREATMENT CENTER: $15k → 10%HARVARD HILLEL: $10k → 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%TEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $8k → 9%AMERICA NEEDS YOU: $10k → 17%CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $6k → 17%TOWN SCHOOL: $6k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $18k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $17k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $16k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $13k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $12k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $11k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $11k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $10k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $8k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $8k → 17%WEIL CORNELL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $34k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $24k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $19k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $19k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $15k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $14k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $14k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNOGOGUE: $13k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $13k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
VT
NH
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NV
OH
PA
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CT
RI
CA
TN
NC
DC
AL
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$769k · 57 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
50

Total granted

$769k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HF
    HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +93%
  • EC
    ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +35%
  • NW
    NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MV
    Moosilauke Visions Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +441%
  • WC
    WEIL CORNELL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • CA
    CONTEMPORARY ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
6
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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7
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
8
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
9
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
10
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust and the most unlike its peers is Gallim Dance Company 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Dance Arts OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/71
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,689

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 122 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/68
Grantees still filing
48/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $151,887 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $103,328 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERATRINITY SCHOOL — $66,200 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOL+74 more — $240,422 · Other+74 moreETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $40,300 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIEL…NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $31,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY I…Williams College — $18,250 · EducationWilliams CollegeAMERICA NEEDS YOU — $16,500 · EducationAMERICA NEEDS YOUTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…THE MIQUON SCHOOL — $11,750 · EducationTHE MIQUON SCHOOLKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationKIMBALL UNION ACADEM…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,000 · EducationPresident and Fellow…+7 more — $19,000 · Education+7 moreMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $25,900 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEW…BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $13,080 · Arts & CultureBALLET THEATR…MIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $11,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI CITY BA…MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THE…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $9,900 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN …ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $9,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT TH…GALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureGALLIM DANCE …AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $5,400 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $4,800 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $8,815 · Arts & Culture+7 moreHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $60,400 · ReligionMoosilauke Visions Inc — $15,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $5,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $8,235 · PhilanthropyHENRIK LUNDQVIST FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500 · EnvironmentSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentWARREN LAND TRUST INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $1,000 · Environment
Other$561,837Education$168,800Arts & Culture$109,395Religion$60,400Health$32,500Philanthropy$10,235Environment$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $60,400 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL — $40,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC — $31,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $25,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $18,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $18,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU — $16,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMoosilauke Visions Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOWN SCHOOL INC — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $13,080 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIQUON SCHOOL — $11,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $9,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $8,235 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC — $5,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE WARAMAUG ASSOCIATION INC — $3,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY — $2,522 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cats and Dogs Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD OAKS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRIK LUNDQVIST FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA NEEDS YOU ↗
  • Who funds Moosilauke Visions Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TOWN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MIQUON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GALLIM DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ADELPHI UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…FjcThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Jewish Communal FundNY16.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Fjc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Nelsons Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 122 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines