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North Fund

The NORTH FUND partners with committed community leaders to help make our country a more just, fair, and equitable place to live, work, and raise families.(cont.

$34M
Granted FY2024still arriving
70
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$5.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Civil Rights$110MPublic Benefit$15MEnvironment$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHealth$751kPhilanthropy$500kEmployment$150kHuman Services$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $291k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+32 grants · $30M
$200,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUR COMMUNITY PAC$5,700,000
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND$5,291,332
REWIRING AMERICA INC$2,400,000
GLOBAL IMPACT SOCIAL WELFARE FUND$1,671,484
RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND$1,250,000
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND$1,250,000
ADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC$1,250,000
MAKE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST$1,245,000
WESTERN ORGANIZATION RESOURCE COUNCIL$995,000
OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE$750,000
NEW LEFT ACCELERATOR$700,000
KEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION$700,000
HUMANITY FORWARD$650,000
GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND$600,000
DIRT ROAD ORGANIZING$530,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES: $225k → 9%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $25k → 14%A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $65k → 8%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $600k → 14%CASA IN ACTION INC: $50k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $100k → 11%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $500k → 16%MIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES: $100k → 9%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $250k → 14%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $500k → 16%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $250k → 14%ACCELERATE ACTION INC: $250k → 16%FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION: $150k → 10%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $150k → 14%FORWARD TOGETHER: $75k → 10%EMERGE ACTION FUND: $250k → 10%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $25k → 17%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $50k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $400k → 14%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

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NH
WA
MT
MN
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NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
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WV
VA
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DC
LA
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GA
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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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$59M · 70 repeat orgs$51M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
106

Total granted

$59M
$38M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

93%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • RF
    RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +284% · 74% of their budget
  • WI
    WORKMONEY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3.4M · revenue +441%
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6.7M · revenue ×89
  • NA
    New Approach Montana
    one grant, 2020 · $4.7M · 69% of their budget
  • CF
    COLORADO FAMILIES FIRST
    one grant, 2020 · $4.4M · 53% of their budget

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.

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Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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3
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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4
Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights
5
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
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Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
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Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
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Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
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Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
10
RepresentUs

RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…

Public Benefit
11
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faith in Public Life Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Yes On National Popular Vote. 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 backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportImmigrant Worker SupportMilitary Veterans SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%17%<5yr14%22%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%14%<5yr14%31%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%5/208
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,357

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

191 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. 191 of the 208 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/191
Grantees still filing
89/191
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YOUR COMMUNITY PAC — $5,700,000 · OtherYOUR COMMUNITY PACNew Approach Montana — $4,727,500 · OtherNew Approach MontanaADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC — $4,512,000 · OtherADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INCCOLORADO FAMILIES FIRST — $4,400,000 · OtherCOLORADO FAMILIES FIRSTSOMOS PAC — $4,100,000 · OtherSOMOS PACWORKMONEY INC — $3,350,000 · OtherWORKMONEY INCMISSOURIANS FOR HEALTHCARE — $2,413,370 · OtherOhio Progressive Collaborative — $2,325,000 · OtherMake North Carolina First — $2,196,500 · Other+88 more — $26,755,785 · Other+88 moreSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $19,066,332 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDREWIRING AMERICA — $2,400,000 · EnvironmentREWIRING AMERICA+3 more — $825,000 · EnvironmentKEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC — $2,700,000 · Civil RightsKEEP COUNTRY FIRST…MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND — $2,255,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC ACT…A BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC — $1,520,000 · Civil RightsA BETTER WISCONSIN…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI — $1,300,000 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD…Care in Action Inc — $1,200,000 · Civil RightsCare in Action IncARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK — $1,072,614 · Civil RightsDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING — $780,000 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc — $750,000 · Civil Rights+49 more — $10,331,335 · Civil Rights+49 moreFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION — $6,736,650 · Public BenefitFUTURE FORWARD U…RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND — $5,000,000 · Public BenefitRUN FOR SOMETHIN…NEW LEFT ACCELERATOR — $2,700,000 · Public BenefitNEW LEFT ACCELER…Global Impact Social Welfare Fund — $1,671,484 · Public BenefitGlobal Impact So…FUTURE NOW ACTION — $650,000 · Public Benefit+11 more — $2,300,250 · Public Benefit+11 moreGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc — $1,250,000 · Human ServicesACCELERATE ACTION INC — $1,250,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL — $400,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLE FORK STRATEGIES INC — $325,000 · Human ServicesEMERGE ACTION FUND — $250,000 · Human ServicesFORWARD TOGETHER ACTION — $225,000 · Human Services+6 more — $315,000 · Human ServicesAmerica Votes — $1,450,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE — $250,000 · Community ImprovementAlliance for a Better Minnesota — $220,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESS FOR AMERICAS FUTURE FUND — $153,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION — $150,000 · Community ImprovementA BETTER BIG SKY — $100,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT — $90,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $90,000 · Community ImprovementPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $1,000,000 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ACTION — $104,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD PENNSYLVANIA ADVOCATES — $100,000 · Health+1 more — $36,000 · Health
Other$60,480,155Environment$22,291,332Civil Rights$21,908,949Public Benefit$19,058,384Human Services$4,015,000Community Improvement$2,503,000Health$1,240,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $19,066,332 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND — $5,000,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetNew Approach Montana — $4,727,500 over 1y, 69% of budgetADVANCE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY INC — $4,512,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetCOLORADO FAMILIES FIRST — $4,400,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetWORKMONEY INC — $3,350,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetKEEP COUNTRY FIRST POLICY ACTION INC — $2,700,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetNEW LEFT ACCELERATOR — $2,700,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetMISSOURIANS FOR HEALTHCARE — $2,413,370 over 2y, 27% of budgetREWIRING AMERICA — $2,400,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative — $2,325,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND — $2,255,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetMake North Carolina First — $2,196,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetSecure Democracy — $2,000,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGlobal Impact Social Welfare Fund — $1,671,484 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOhioans for Raising the Wage — $1,657,277 over 1y, 78% of budgetA BETTER WISCONSIN TOGETHER INC — $1,520,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetAmerica Votes — $1,450,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL — $1,350,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHUMANITY FORWARD INC — $1,300,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF MI — $1,300,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc — $1,250,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetACCELERATE ACTION INC — $1,250,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetCare in Action Inc — $1,200,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetARIZONA ADVOCACY NETWORK — $1,072,614 over 1y, 56% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS — $995,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK — $950,500 over 4y, 47% of budgetDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING — $780,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc — $750,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPROTECT COLORADOS RECOVERY — $750,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetABORTION FORWARD — $738,500 over 2y, 50% of budgetAvow Inc — $711,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN — $650,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetOne Person One Vote — $650,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFUTURE NOW ACTION — $650,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $625,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKANSANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM INC — $585,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC ACTION — $576,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetDeeds Action Fund — $550,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ACTION FUND INC — $545,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION — $530,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetKEEP KANSAS COURTS IMPARTIAL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCOLORADANS FOR PROSPERITY — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND — $500,000 over 4y, 87% of budgetARENA SUMMIT — $500,000 over 2y, 35% 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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesOpen Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Way to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …Our American Future A…State Engagement FundPro-Democracy CampaignStrategic Victory FundGrove Action Fund
Sixteen Thirty FundDC171.7× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · Our American Future Action · State Engagement Fund · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Strategic Victory Fund · Grove Action 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 North Fund 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 · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to North Fund?

Find your warmest path to North Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 208 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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