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North Star Fund Inc

North star fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting community organizing in new york.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
144
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$3.5MPhilanthropy$2.1MCrime & Legal$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$975kYouth Development$811kFood & Nutrition$488kOther$0
02FY2025 · 144 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 144 grants below total $4,332,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,696,690 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,364,690 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 $10k10 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k118 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $900k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$1,000,000
COMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND$60,000
EAST HARLEM EL BARRIO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$60,000
CARROLL GARDENS ASSOCIATION$60,000
SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT$60,000
COMMUNITY AID & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$60,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER OF ALBANY$60,000
COOPER SQUARE COMMITTEE$60,000
CASA COMMUNITY ACTION FOR SAFE APARTMENTS NEW SETTLEMENT$60,000
LA COLMENA$60,000
GLLTS$60,000
MEKONG NYC$60,000
HOOPS4KIDS$60,000
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$60,000
GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY$60,000
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 (FY23–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOR THE MANY: $150k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $60k → 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $40k → 11%LA COLMENA: $60k → 11%PROYECTO FARO: $40k → 14%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $40k → 14%FOREST DALE: $46k → 14%SWOP BEHIND BARS: $20k → 13%RAMAPOUGH MOUNTAIN INDIANS: $20k → 7%FOR THE MANY: $20k → 9%LA COLMENA: $20k → 11%PROYECTO FARO: $20k → 14%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $40k → 14%RAMAPOUGH MOUNTAIN INDIANS: $20k → 7%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $40k → 11%LA COLMENA: $20k → 11%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $20k → 14%MHACTION: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 9%RAFT FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $20k → 14%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $20k → 14%JAAGO HUDSON: $20k → 11%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $20k → 14%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $20k → 14%MISSION EDGE: $20k → 14%ROCK STEADY FARM: $30k → 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $20k → 11%NEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $20k → 14%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $20k → 9%FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED: $30k → 20%FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED: $30k → 20%BENGALI INTERFAITH YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: $20k → 13%CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT: $60k → 13%FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED: $20k → 20%CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT: $20k → 13%A BEAUTIFUL HEART MINISTRIES: $30k → 13%YA-YA NETWORK: $20k → 17%MEKONG NYC: $60k → 28%MEKONG NYC: $60k → 28%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $60k → 20%WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 20%FLUSHING WORKERS CENTER: $60k → 13%WOMEN AGAINST RACIST VIOLENCE: $30k → 13%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $40k → 17%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $40k → 17%LAUNDRY WORKERS CENTER: $60k → 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

MT
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 126 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

126 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
22

Total granted

$11M
$607k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

94%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SJ
    SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER OF ALBANY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $360k · revenue +24% · 38% of their budget
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $330k · revenue +15%
  • PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $260k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • RA
    RIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • CF
    Community Food Advocates Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -44%
  • FI
    FORESTDALE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $46k · revenue +5%
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
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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2
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc

programs in NYC pertaining to Workers Rights and workplaces by building power for working people

Employment
3
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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4
Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
5
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
6
Communities Resist Inc

We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
7
Green Worker Inc

The organization is based in the south bronx and serves immigrants and communities of color by building, growing, and sustaining worker-owned green businesses to create a strong, local, and democratic economy rooted in racial and gender…

Environment
8
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
9
Women Empowerment Coalition of Nyc

Wecnyc builds unity and power among communities of diverse immigrant women through education, collective support, direct services and practicing civic engagement.

Human Services
10
Nyc Nowc Inc

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives is dedicated to sharing and cultivating the educational, financial, and technical resources of its members and supporting the growth of worker cooperatives for social and economic justice. We offer…

Community Improvement
11
New York Communities for Change Inc

A grassroots membership-based organization building power for low and moderate-income communities in new york state.

Civil Rights
12
Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights

TheNorthern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights (NMCIR), is a non-profit organization, founded in 1982 to educate, defend and protect the rights of immigrants. Recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals, NMCIR is committed to…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is First Central Economic Development Corp. 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

176 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. 176 of the 192 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/176
Grantees still filing
81/176
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $230,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $220,000 · OtherPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $220,000 · OtherINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $200,000 · Other+87 more: $4,678,650 · Other+87 moreTIDES CENTER: $377,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERNEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $200,000 · Human ServicesNEWBURGH LGBTQIA CE…Mekong Inc: $180,000 · Human ServicesMekong IncCOLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT INC: $137,500 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA COUNTY SAN…FLUSHING WORKERS CENTER INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesFLUSHING WORKERS CE…AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesWomens Community Justice Association Inc: $110,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesLA COLMENA NYC INC DBA LA COLMENA F/K/A STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER: $100,000 · Human Services+19 more: $858,200 · Human Services+19 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHI…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $330,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE…THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $67,500 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $60,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $90,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreMake the Road New York: $420,000 · Crime & LegalMake the Ro…SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER OF ALBANY INC: $360,000 · Crime & LegalSOCIAL JUST…PAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $260,000 · Crime & LegalPAROLE PREP…Alliance of Families for Justice Inc: $120,000 · Crime & LegalAlliance of…Sylvia Rivera Law Project Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalSylvia Rive…FJC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalFJCGIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalWorker Justice Center of New York Inc: $60,000 · Crime & LegalRise Up Kingston NY Inc: $140,000 · Civil RightsRise Up K…FAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $120,000 · Civil RightsFAMILIES …NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $110,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL …RIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsRIDERS AL…VOCES CIUDADANAS INC: $80,000 · Civil RightsVOCES CIU…Communities United for People: $60,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $60,000 · Civil RightsDAMAYAN MIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsBrandworkers International Inc: $60,000 · Civil RightsMOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsIN OUR OWN VOICES INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsMALIKAH INC FKA INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT: $40,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH BROOKLYN SANCTUARY INC: $40,000 · Civil Rights+8 more: $140,000 · Civil Rights+8 moreCooper Square Community Development Committee Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $80,000 · Community ImprovementCYPRESS HILLS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $80,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $60,000 · Community ImprovementKITE'S NEST INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementFLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHERN MANHATTAN IMPROVEMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementBUSHWICK HOUSING INDEPENDENCE PROJECT: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNew York State Tenants & Neighbors Information Ser: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementLa Brega Y Fuerza Fund Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $40,000 · Community Improvement+8 more: $127,500 · Community ImprovementHudson Catskill Housing Coalition: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterCARROLL GARDENS ASSOCIATION INC: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST NEW YORK CLT INC: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST HARLEM EL BARRIO COMMUNITY LAN: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $66,750 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,778,650Human Services$2,413,200Philanthropy$1,547,500Crime & Legal$1,480,000Civil Rights$1,190,000Community Improvement$937,500Housing & Shelter$886,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York: $420,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $377,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER OF ALBANY INC: $360,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $330,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $260,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetWESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $230,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $220,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $220,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEWBURGH LGBTQIA CENTER: $200,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $200,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMekong Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetHudson Catskill Housing Coalition: $170,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCARROLL GARDENS ASSOCIATION INC: $160,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $160,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $148,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRise Up Kingston NY Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT INC: $137,500 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetFLUSHING WORKERS CENTER INC: $130,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetGIRL VOW INC: $130,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetJustice Committee Inc: $128,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetAlliance of Families for Justice Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFAITH IN NEW YORK: $120,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $120,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $120,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEAST NEW YORK CLT INC: $110,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $110,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWomens Community Justice Association Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEAST HARLEM EL BARRIO COMMUNITY LAN: $100,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $100,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSylvia Rivera Law Project Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetCooper Square Community Development Committee Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Food Advocates Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLA COLMENA NYC INC DBA LA COLMENA F/K/A STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER: $100,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFJC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY INC: $90,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetVOCES CIUDADANAS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetGAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TRANSGENDER SOCIETY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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.

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.

New York FoundationNew York Women's Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…Brooklyn Community Fo…Robin Hood FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyProteus Fund IncThe New York Communit…New York Immigration …The Sparkplug Foundat…The Scherman Foundati…NEO Philanthropy Inc
New York FoundationNY139.9× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New York Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Proteus Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · The Sparkplug Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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 North Star Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Star Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
60report 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
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.

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 192 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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