Skip to content
P-Squared Philanthropies Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

P-Squared Philanthropies Inc

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.3MEducation$3.2MHealth$3.0MInternational$1.1MCivil Rights$642kArts & Culture$525kYouth Development$381kHuman Services$186kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $418k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $825k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$108M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$500,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$500,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO$300,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$250,000
PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE$125,000
IF WHEN HOW$100,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$100,000
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE$100,000
ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH$100,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
19TH NEWS$50,000
PUBLICOLOR INC$50,000
PUBLICOLOR INC$50,000
WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC$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 (FY20–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INDIASPORA: $25k → 16%VINES FOUNDATION: $700 → 9%INDIASPORA: $25k → 14%INDIASPORA: $25k → 14%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $50k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $20k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $2k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50k → 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

WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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 13% of P-Squared Philanthropies Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

P-Squared Philanthropies Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.6M · 29 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
35

Total granted

$7.6M
$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+18%

Still filing today

93%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +11%
  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +12%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • RF
    ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $92k · revenue +2%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +54%
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
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
2
The Conversationalist
—
3
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Arrow

To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.

International
11
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

—
12
Global Freedoms Inc

Develop culturally driven educational content that raises awareness about the human rights abuses in the middle east and amplify the brave woman-led freedom movements that resist injustice and inequality through everyday acts of civil…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Breakfast Revolution. 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

74 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. 74 of the 81 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
44/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New York University: $2,050,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…PUBLICOLOR INC: $366,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INCJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $155,144 · Education+10 more: $337,500 · Education+10 moreNEW YORK UNIVERSITY - LANGONE HEALTH: $2,100,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY - LANGONE HEAL…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $250,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALCOMMUNITY FUNDS INC: $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $200,000 · OtherIFWHENHOW: $200,000 · Other+25 more: $853,700 · Other+25 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER P…+3 more: $21,000 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVE…+2 more: $16,823 · Community ImprovementCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $600,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE E…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $400,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON…THE BREAKFAST REVOLUTION: $105,000 · InternationalTHE BREAKF…+7 more: $58,050 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $102,500 · Arts & CultureTHE 19TH NEWS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $95,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $55,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $21,500 · Arts & CulturePublic Health Institute: $225,000 · HealthTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $145,000 · HealthIBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $25,000 · HealthCOMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $11,000 · Health
Education$3,508,644Other$3,853,700Philanthropy$1,521,000Community Improvement$1,516,823International$1,163,050Arts & Culture$499,000Health$426,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $2,050,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $600,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $400,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $366,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $155,144 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC: $145,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAKFAST REVOLUTION: $105,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $102,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSundance Institute: $95,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND: $95,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $92,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRESIST INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINDIASPORA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $71,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOLICING EQUITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEETING HOUSE FAMILY CENTER INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC: $11,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…Wellspring Philanthro…National Philanthropi…Rockefeller Philanthr…American Express Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Loreen Arbus Foun…Ag FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…
The Ford FoundationNY27.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Loreen Arbus Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 P-Squared Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from P-Squared Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Ibis Reproductive Health Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 81 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on P-Squared Philanthropies’ filings →

More from the funding graph

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 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