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Northland Foundation

The NORTHLAND FOUNDATION supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
122
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Community Improvement$13MHuman Services$6.9MHousing & Shelter$2.7MEducation$2.4MYouth Development$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.6MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$843kOther$0
02FY2025 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 122 grants below total $4,950,607, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,624,213 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $673,606 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

  • $10k–50k96 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$125M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEPOT ON CENTRAL LLC$750,000
THE NORTHSPAN GROUP INC$300,000
ELY HARDWARE$199,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHLAND$100,000
ROOTS AND WINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER LLC$100,000
YWCA OF DULUTH$85,000
FOND DU LAC BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA$75,000
NORTH ST LOUIS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$70,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA$55,000
SMART NORTH$50,749
NORTHERN BEDROCK CONSERVATION CORPS$50,000
SOPHIA LEE LLC$50,000
BOIS FORTE BAND OF CHIPPEWA$50,000
DULUTH CHILDRENS MUSEUM$50,000
MR LARSON LLC$50,000
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, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AITKIN YOUTH CENTER: $40k → 11%DIVINE KONNECTIONS: $50k → 15%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $30k → 15%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $30k → 15%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $33k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $180k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $135k → 11%KOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS: $65k → 12%AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC: $140k → 14%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $65k → 9%ELDERCIRCLE: $73k → 11%AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC: $65k → 14%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $50k → 11%CARE PARTNERS OF COOK COUNTY: $45k → 9%AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC: $40k → 14%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $100k → 8%AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC: $36k → 14%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $65k → 8%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $30k → 9%NORTH SHORE AGE TO AGE - NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $55k → 8%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 11%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $46k → 8%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $30k → 11%KOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS: $33k → 12%KOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS: $30k → 12%NORTHWOODS PARTNERS: $140k → 8%YWCA OF DULUTH: $85k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $70k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $40k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 15%DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $32k → 15%YWCA OF DULUTH: $30k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $35k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $30k → 15%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $30k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $100k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $45k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $35k → 15%FAMILY FREEDOM CENTER: $35k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH: $31k → 15%DAMIANO OF DULUTH: $30k → 15%POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $175k → 15%POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $50k → 15%POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $40k → 15%YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SUPPORT AND SAFETY - FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $37k → 15%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Northland Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 85%.

Northland Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 200 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

200 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2025, 128 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

200
625

Total granted

$22M
$9.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+5%

Still filing today

56%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • NG
    NORTHSPAN GROUP INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $580k · revenue +124%
  • CU
    CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $542k · revenue +246%
  • BC
    BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $407k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MG
    MJ GUNFLINT PROPERTIES LLC 1
    one grant, 2024 · $199k
  • C1
    CCREF 11 1ST AVE W LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $199k
  • ML
    MAIN LIVING LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $195k
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
Arc Northland

To promote and protect the rights of people with disabilities and their families while supporting inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetime.

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2
Northern Pines Mental Health Center

Providing direct and indirect services in the areas of mental health, developmental disabilites, and substance use to residents of aitkin, cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.

Health
3
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
4
Care in Action Minnesota

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…

Human Services
5
Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education
6
Love to Grow On

To provide learning opportunities, values, and encouragement to children & parents through our early childhood proagram. we serve infants through school-age children in a full day, year round program. our facility uses creative and…

Human Services
7
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
8
Family and Children's Center Inc

To serve children, families, and individuals with a continuum of services designed to strengthen families and promote individual well-being.

Human Services
9
Arrowhead Library System

Arrowhead library system enhances the value of all types of libraries to their communities by cultivating collaboration, technological innovation, and professional development; and enriches the quality of life by providing direct services…

Education
10
Good News Childrens Center Inc

Good news children's center provides quality childcare to southeast minnesota families, in a safe environment that promotes life-long learning through developmentally appropriate and active learning curriculum.

Human Services
11
Northwest Community Action Inc

Our mission is to stimulate a focusing of all available resources upon the goal of enabling area low-income families and individuals of all ages to attain skills, knowledge, and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for them to…

Human Services
12
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilderness Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is C K Blandin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

199 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. 199 of the 878 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
60
Early backer (in before they grew)
190/199
Grantees still filing
129/199
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEPOT ON CENTRAL LLC: $750,000 · OtherNORTHSPAN GROUP INC: $580,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR CHIPPEWA: $551,500 · OtherCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $541,500 · OtherGRAND PORTAGE BAND OF LAKE SUPERIOR FOOD SHELF: $534,000 · Other+135 more: $12,686,525 · Other+135 moreELDERCIRCLE: $403,000 · Human ServicesELDERCIRCLENORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $306,500 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE AREA …LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $287,180 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL S…AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC: $280,500 · Human ServicesAITKIN COUNTY CAR…POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $265,000 · Human ServicesPOLAR CUBS CHILDC…Family Freedom Center: $240,000 · Human ServicesFamily Freedom Ce…KOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS: $238,000 · Human ServicesKOOCHICHING AGING…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH: $209,970 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHR…DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $206,200 · Human ServicesDULUTH AREA FAMIL…Care Partners of Cook County: $202,500 · Human ServicesCare Partners of …Northwoods Partners: $189,448 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $146,000 · Human ServicesAdvocates for Family Peace: $135,000 · Human Services+12 more: $658,778 · Human Services+12 moreBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $406,703 · Youth DevelopmentSomething Cool Inc: $334,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR NORTH: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentWELCH CENTER INC D/B/A VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $90,900 · Youth DevelopmentRECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES ACHIEVING COMMUNITY HARMONY INC: $82,000 · Youth DevelopmentSummer Work Outreach Project: $64,200 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY PARTNERS-TWO HARBORS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM: $325,386 · HealthPROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC: $170,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $165,000 · HealthWell Being Development: $110,000 · HealthELY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $104,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA: $95,500 · HealthSAWTOOTH MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC: $90,000 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING: $80,000 · HealthNorth Shore Health Care Foundation: $75,000 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Health+1 more: $42,500 · HealthAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $395,000 · Housing & ShelterONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $267,500 · Housing & ShelterSERVANTS OF SHELTER OF KOOCHICHING: $190,000 · Housing & ShelterLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $285,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Finland and Community: $145,000 · Community ImprovementAREA PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC EXPANSION: $145,000 · Community ImprovementSERVEMINNESOTA: $105,000 · Community ImprovementWaawaate Programs: $60,000 · Community ImprovementTwo Harbors Area Food Shelf: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $175,250 · EducationCHISHOLM KIDS PLUS: $117,500 · EducationVOLUNTEERS IN EDUCATION: $86,000 · EducationOSHKI OGIMAAG CHARTER SCHOOL: $84,000 · EducationHAPPY DAYS LEARNING CENTER INC: $75,000 · EducationIRONWORLD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $71,500 · EducationCHILDREN OF GRACE CHILDCARE & EDUCATION CENTER: $55,000 · EducationDULUTH COMMUNITY SCHOOL COLLABORATIVE: $51,730 · Education
Other$15,643,525Human Services$3,768,076Youth Development$1,393,303Health$1,312,386Housing & Shelter$852,500Community Improvement$780,000Education$715,980

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNORTHSPAN GROUP INC: $580,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $541,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $406,703 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetELDERCIRCLE: $403,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION: $395,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSomething Cool Inc: $334,500 over 8y, 95% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS-TWO HARBORS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM: $325,386 over 4y, 52% of budgetNORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $306,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetLIFE HOUSE INC: $300,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA: $295,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $287,180 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $285,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAITKIN COUNTY CARE INC: $280,500 over 4y, 36% of budgetONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING: $267,500 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED: $266,239 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPOLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER: $265,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetFamily Freedom Center: $240,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetKOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS: $238,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetSECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK: $236,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMEN AS PEACEMAKERS: $230,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetKOOCHICHING COUNTY FOOD ACCESS: $230,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH: $209,970 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetDULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA: $206,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCare Partners of Cook County: $202,500 over 6y, 29% of budgetADVOCATES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $201,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetCENTER CITY HOUSING CORP: $192,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $190,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetSERVANTS OF SHELTER OF KOOCHICHING: $190,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION DULUTH INC: $190,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNorthwoods Partners: $189,448 over 3y, 55% of budgetNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL: $175,250 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC: $170,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC: $165,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $163,527 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCITIZENS FOR BACKUS AB Inc: $153,800 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSMART NORTH: $150,749 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetThe Ely Community Resource Inc: $149,458 over 6y, 28% of budgetWESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $149,000 over 6y, 8.0% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC: $146,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of Finland and Community: $145,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetAREA PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC EXPANSION: $145,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $136,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAdvocates for Family Peace: $135,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $130,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHISHOLM KIDS PLUS: $117,500 over 4y, 64% of budgetMENTOR NORTH: $115,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetWell Being Development: $110,000 over 4y, 13% 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 NORTHSPAN GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds ELDERCIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Something Cool Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS-TWO HARBORS LIVING AT HOME BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AITKIN COUNTY CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds POLAR CUBS CHILDCARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Family Freedom Center ↗
  • Who funds KOOCHICHING AGING OPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MEN AS PEACEMAKERS ↗
  • Who funds KOOCHICHING COUNTY FOOD ACCESS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Care Partners of Cook County ↗
  • Who funds ADVOCATES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗

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.

Duluth-Superior Area …Lloyd K Johnson Found…Smdc Medical CenterMinnesota Power Found…Ordean FoundationDuluth 1200 Fund IncHead of the Lakes Uni…C K Blandin FoundationMardag FoundationUnited Way of Ne Minn…Pachel FoundationSecond Harvest Northl…
Duluth-Superior Area Community FoundationMN127.7× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Duluth 1200 Fund Inc · Head of the Lakes United Way · C K Blandin Foundation · Mardag Foundation · United Way of Ne Minnesota · Pachel Foundation · Second Harvest Northland

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 Northland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 878 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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