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Novo Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$214M
Granted FY2024still arriving
508
Grants FY2024still arriving
44
States reached
$20M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$350MCivil Rights$206MYouth Development$150MInternational$127MEducation$105MFood & Nutrition$98MArts & Culture$80MCommunity Improvement$68MOther$0
02FY2024 · 508 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k42 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k291 grants · $36M
  • $250k+172 grants · $177M
$150,000
Median grant
44
States reached
$938M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN BUILDING UP INC$20,000,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$19,337,450
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$14,000,000
TIDES CENTER$10,000,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$8,261,670
RUPCO INC$5,000,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$4,500,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$3,350,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$3,000,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$2,750,000
THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH$2,651,074
SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC$2,275,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$2,154,498
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC$2,000,000
MAKEWAY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
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 (FY18–24, $42.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Hopi Foundation: $350k → 26%Indian Land Tenure Foundation: $1.0M → 14%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%ALIANZA NACIONAL DE CAMPESINAS INC: $400k → 10%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $2.3M → 18%MONSOON ASIANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN SOLIDARITY: $300k → 10%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $300k → 18%The National Crittenton Foundation: $900k → 12%Powerful Voices: $400k → 9%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $300k → 33%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $300k → 26%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $2.3M → 18%Monsoon Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity: $300k → 10%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $300k → 18%THE NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $730k → 12%STANDING ROCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $300k → 33%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $2.2M → 18%FREEDOM INC: $326k → 10%THE NATIONAL CRITTENTON FOUNDATION: $400k → 12%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples In: $500k → 18%The National Crittenton Foundation: $400k → 12%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $600k → 14%The National Crittenton Foundation: $330k → 12%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $350k → 14%The National Crittenton Foundation: $330k → 12%AnnieCannons Inc: $317k → 10%Tides Center: $350k → 10%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $681k → 16%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $650k → 16%INCOME TO SUPPORT ALL FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%INCOME TO SUPPORT ALL FOUNDATION: $500k → 14%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $475k → 16%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $400k → 16%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $370k → 16%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $350k → 16%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $350k → 16%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $350k → 16%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $350k → 16%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $350k → 16%The New York Women's Foundation: $2.0M → 17%New York Women's Foundation: $1.0M → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 17%CITY DIBS SOCIETY: $500k → 17%CITY DIBS SOCIETY: $500k → 17%CITY DIBS SOCIETY: $500k → 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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Novo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 57%.

Novo Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.3% 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1B · 633 repeat orgs$54M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

633 repeat relationships: 262 still active in FY2024, 371 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

633
153

Total granted

$1.1B
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

87%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MADRE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $14M · revenue +39% · 94% of their budget
  • TL
    The Land Institute
    7× · 2018–2024 · $11M · revenue +140% · 36% of their budget
  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $9.5M · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • KI
    KASHIF INCUBATOR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.9M · revenue -17% · 87% of their budget
  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.3M · revenue +11%
  • ME
    MID-HUDSON ENERGY TRANSITION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.3M · revenue +14% · 83% of their budget
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.

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Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
2
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
3
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
6
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
9
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
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The Conversationalist
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International Womens Writing Guild

IWWG empowers women writers with workshops events and community gatherings to encourage writing speaking and publishing

Education
12
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute; the most unlike its peers is Re-Entry Rocks Inc. 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

763 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 763 of the 872 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
232
Early backer (in before they grew)
738/763
Grantees still filing
515/763
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION: $381,718,864 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $81,413,214 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INCHudson Valley Farm Hub LLC: $70,491,960 · OtherHudson Valley Farm Hub LLC+105 more: $266,510,615 · Other+105 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $119,387,433 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PH…ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC: $10,100,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER FA…THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,010,000 · Philanthropy+11 more: $28,876,202 · Philanthropy+11 moreTIDES CENTER: $49,873,334 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $8,406,112 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $4,598,025 · Human ServicesGood Work Institute Inc: $4,575,077 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,535,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $4,060,000 · Human ServicesINDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $3,643,333 · Human Services+9 more: $15,867,890 · Human ServicesMADRE INC: $13,565,305 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $8,309,800 · InternationalEquality Now Inc: $8,250,000 · InternationalEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION: $7,808,289 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $6,734,459 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,000,000 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $4,856,113 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECT: $4,100,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $3,800,000 · International+10 more: $17,463,042 · InternationalWOMEN BUILDING UP INC: $20,000,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $9,500,000 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $7,990,000 · Civil RightsGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $5,107,500 · Civil RightsCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC: $2,888,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVE: $2,107,500 · Civil RightsFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $2,020,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $9,548,945 · Civil RightsOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $7,300,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $6,437,870 · EducationSTERLING COLLEGE: $5,850,000 · EducationTHE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,255,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,653,945 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC: $3,085,000 · EducationULSTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 · EducationUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2,600,000 · EducationUnited for Respect Education Fund: $2,550,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION INC: $2,338,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,265,000 · EducationSADIE NASH LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC: $1,965,000 · Education+5 more: $7,024,667 · EducationMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $13,048,945 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $5,375,000 · Community ImprovementRISING TIDE CAPITAL INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $3,250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTURE: $2,600,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $2,400,000 · Community ImprovementRESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY: $2,100,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,577,500 · Community ImprovementKITE'S NEST INC: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $1,400,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $1,200,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,050,000 · Community Improvement
Other$800,134,653Philanthropy$165,373,635Human Services$99,558,771International$80,887,008Civil Rights$59,161,945Education$53,324,482Community Improvement$35,501,445

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $119,387,433 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $81,413,214 over 7y, 53% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $49,873,334 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetWOMEN BUILDING UP INC: $20,000,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetMADRE INC: $13,565,305 over 7y, 94% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $13,048,945 over 6y, 12% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $12,425,500 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetThe Land Institute: $10,500,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC: $10,100,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $9,500,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $8,406,112 over 7y, 56% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $8,309,800 over 7y, 32% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $8,250,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $7,990,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION: $7,808,289 over 3y, 50% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $7,500,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetRUPCO INC: $7,451,393 over 4y, 31% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $7,405,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $7,300,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,010,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetTURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $7,000,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $6,734,459 over 3y, 21% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $6,437,870 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $6,425,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,000,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetV-Day: $6,000,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $5,850,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $5,450,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $5,375,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $5,330,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,255,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $5,107,500 over 5y, 71% of budgetCapital for Good USA: $5,000,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH: $4,862,388 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $4,856,113 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $4,800,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY: $4,598,025 over 7y, 21% of budgetGood Work Institute Inc: $4,575,077 over 5y, 70% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $4,535,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION: $4,504,258 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetFAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC: $4,487,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetSAMADHI CENTER INC: $4,348,414 over 5y, 87% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $4,100,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $4,077,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI: $4,060,000 over 7y, 53% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $4,060,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetINDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $4,000,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetKINGSTON CITY LAND BANK INC: $3,988,350 over 5y, 86% 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 ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN BUILDING UP INC ↗
  • Who funds MADRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Land Institute ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
  • Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
  • Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds RUPCO INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds V-Day ↗
  • Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Capital for Good USA ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI OF KINGSTON AND ULSTER COUNTY ↗

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.

Common Counsel Founda…Rsf Social Finance IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Community Foundations…Ms Foundation for Wom…Ulster Savings Charit…Wellspring Philanthro…New York Women's Foun…Rockefeller Philanthr…Seventh Generation Fu…First Nations Develop…Tides Foundation
Common Counsel FoundationCA106.2× affinity102 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Common Counsel Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · First Nations Development Institute · Tides 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 Novo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Novo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%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%
  • National Florence Crittenton Mission: 24% of income from government
  • Sterling College: 10% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Rising Tide Capital Inc and Subsidiaries: 2% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
52report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Novo Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Novo Foundation 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 872 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home