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Nick's Kids Foundation Inc

The nick's kids foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and resources for deserving organizations throughout the state of alabama and southeast.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$1.1MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$773kHousing & Shelter$480kYouth Development$456kPhilanthropy$386kRecreation & Sports$125kReligion$101kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $906,625, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,518,033 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,611,408 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 $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SABAN CENTER$500,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMA$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA$45,000
WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK$26,000
TUSCALOOSA ACADEMY$25,000
RISE CENTER$20,000
HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC$15,000
BIG OAK RANCH$12,000
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI UNIVERSITY PARISH$12,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY$10,000
PHOENIX HOUSE$10,000
EMMANUEL CENTER INC$10,000
JEREMIAH CASTILLE FOUNDATION$10,000
TEAM FOCUS$10,000
WHATLEY HEALTH SERVICES INC$10,000
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, $646k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ALFRED WASHBURN CENTER: $5k → 16%BIG OAK RANCH: $12k → 13%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $55k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS RANCHES OF ALABAMA: $10k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%MERCY CHEFS INC: $25k → 20%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $41k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS RANCHES OF ALABAMA: $10k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $30k → 17%ALABAMA SHERIFFS YOUTH RANCHES: $10k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%BOYS & GIRLS RANCHES OF ALABAMA: $5k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 18%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $15k → 17%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $10k → 4%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $15k → 17%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $15k → 17%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $10k → 17%HIGH SOCKS FOR HOPE INC: $10k → 17%TUSCALOOSA COUNTY JUVENILLE DETENTION CTR: $175k → 17%FREEDOM RAIN INC: $25k → 16%TUSCALOOSA COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER: $10k → 17%TUSCALOOSA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER: $10k → 17%GHANA MINISTRIES: $5k → 17%TUSCALOOSA JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER: $5k → 17%EAGLES WINGS INC: $5k → 17%EAGLES WINGS INC: $5k → 17%EAGLES WINGS INC: $5k → 17%EAGLES WINGS INC: $5k → 17%TUSCALOOSA ONE PLACE: $12k → 17%SECRET MEALS FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN: $6k → 17%SECRET MEALS FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN: $5k → 17%THE ARC OF TUSCALOOSA: $5k → 17%THE ARC OF TUSCALOOSA: $5k → 17%THE ARC OF TUSCALOOSA: $5k → 17%THE ARC OF TUSCALOOSA: $5k → 17%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

NY
PA
MO
WV
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 54 repeat orgs$507k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
29

Total granted

$5.0M
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+30%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyReligionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • SC
    SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue ×57 · 26% of their budget
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $445k · revenue +303%
  • TC
    The Children's Hospital of Alabama
    9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TC
    TUSCALOOSA COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -48%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • RR
    RIVER REGION UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -14%
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
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
The Arc of Alabama Inc

The arc of alabama provides services to advocate and aid individuals with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.

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3
Voices for Alabama's Children

Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.

Arts & Culture
4
Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health
5
Aids Alabama Inc

Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
6
Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment
7
Rebuilding Together Central Alabama

Bringing volunteers and communities together to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners.

Community Improvement
8
Tennessee Children's Home Inc

Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…

Human Services
9
Agape of Central Alabama Inc

As a ministry of jesus christ, agape's mission is that vulnerable and orphaned children find permanency in safe, nurturing families.

Human Services
10
Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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11
Southeast Alabama Youth Services

Southeast alabama youth services, inc. is a non-profit organization that provides counseling and housing to troubled youth of southeast alabama.

Human Services
12
Tennessee Health Care Association

To maintain high standards for nursing homes in the state of tennessee and to seek the solutions to problems common to members of the association.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is The Joe Namath 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

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 93 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
61/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA: $445,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSABOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $266,890 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INCBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $234,340 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $119,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCETUSCALOOSA COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $79,065 · OtherTEAM FOCUS INC: $80,000 · Other+40 more: $822,385 · Other+40 moreSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,313,000 · Public BenefitSABAN CENTER FOUNDATIONTUSCALOOSA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTUSCALOOSA CHI…High Socks for Hope Inc: $191,000 · Human ServicesHigh Socks for…BIG OAK RANCH INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH …JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesJOHNNY MAC SOL…ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM RAIN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+8 more: $97,500 · Human Services+8 moreThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $400,000 · HealthThe Children's…CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $56,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HAR…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $48,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FO…THE V FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATI…THOMAS PLOTT FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 · HealthMAGIC MOMENTS: $32,000 · Health+6 more: $100,018 · Health+6 moreUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $140,000 · PhilanthropyWALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $50,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $45,000 · PhilanthropyDCH Foundation Inc: $81,320 · EducationFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationTUSCALOOSA ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationStillman College: $16,000 · EducationEMMANUEL CENTER INC: $80,000 · ReligionJEREMIAH CASTILLE FOUNDATION: $76,000 · ReligionMINISTRY FOR PRIESTLY SUPPORT: $10,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · Religion
Other$2,146,680Public Benefit$1,313,000Human Services$749,500Health$713,518Philanthropy$410,000Education$182,320Religion$171,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSABAN CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,313,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA: $445,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $400,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $266,890 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetTUSCALOOSA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 over 5y, 54% of budgetHigh Socks for Hope Inc: $191,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC: $140,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTUSCALOOSA COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $96,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDCH Foundation Inc: $81,320 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetJOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC: $80,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM FOCUS INC: $80,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetEMMANUEL CENTER INC: $80,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC: $79,065 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJEREMIAH CASTILLE FOUNDATION: $76,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC: $71,440 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGLENWOOD INC: $70,450 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTEMPORARY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $66,250 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetPHOENIX HOUSE INC: $66,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HARBOR INC: $56,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER REGION UNITED WAY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $48,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST AL: $44,250 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TUSCALOOSA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS PLOTT FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $32,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetChampions Community Foundation Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFREEDOM RAIN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTUSCALOOSA ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHOM INC OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY: $24,475 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetARTS' N AUTISM INC: $21,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Arc of Tuscaloosa: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BELL CENTER FOR EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLES' WINGS INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budget100 BLACK MEN GREATER MOBILE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES OF TUSCALOOSA COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKings Home Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWHATLEY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $19,018 over 3y, 0.2% 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 SABAN CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TUSCALOOSA ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds High Socks for Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds DCH Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM FOCUS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMMANUEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH CASTILLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds GLENWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds TEMPORARY EMERGENCY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WEST AL ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF TUSCALOOSA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS PLOTT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
  • Who funds Champions Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCALOOSA ACADEMY ↗

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.

Alabama Power Foundat…The Daniel Foundation…The Reese Phifer Jr M…Hill Crest Foundation…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Protective Life Found…The Community Foundat…Se Belcher Jr Private…The James I Harrison …Walker Area Community…Pete M Hanna Charitab…Dunn-French Foundation
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL56.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Reese Phifer Jr Memorial Attn Susan Cork · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Se Belcher Jr Private Foundation #3 · The James I Harrison Family Foundation · Walker Area Community Foundation Inc · Pete M Hanna Charitable Foundation · Dunn-French 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 Nick's Kids Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nick's Kids Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    27report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Nick's Kids Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Nick's Kids Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 93 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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