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Points of Light Foundation

Points of light's mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to create positive change through volunteering and civic engagement.

$10M
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
46
States reached
$305k
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 2024.

Community Improvement$5.8MHousing & Shelter$5.4MHuman Services$5.1MYouth Development$3.8MPhilanthropy$2.6MEducation$2.2MHealth$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k25 grants · $868k
  • $50k–250k74 grants · $8.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $305k
$97,000
Median grant
46
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT$305,000
BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$245,000
RESTORATION POINTE$235,000
INSIGHT HOUSING$210,000
DREAM STREETS TN (WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER)$198,000
LGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC$195,000
YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY$182,000
SPECIAL LOVE AND THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER$175,000
QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE$175,000
OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS$172,000
PIVOT INC$170,000
THE WORKSHOPS INC$170,000
BRILLIANT DETROIT$170,000
TMBC - TOGETHER MAKING A BETTER COMMUNITY$170,000
UNDERCLIFF$160,000
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 (FY17–24, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HANDS ON GREATER PHOENIX: $139k → 11%GAP MINISTRIES: $105k → 15%SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER: $145k → 13%NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $110k → 11%KERN PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $50k → 18%LOCHLAND SCHOOL: $87k → 10%MENTARI HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $35k → 12%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $90k → 11%CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDREN'S MINISTRIES: $110k → 18%HISPANIC HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL (HHRC): $110k → 11%REBUILDING TOGETHER MIAMI-DADE: $153k → 15%FRIENDSHIP MISSION: $120k → 18%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $115k → 11%SERENITY INNS: $93k → 17%RESTORATION POINTE: $235k → 14%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $80k → 15%LUMBEE LAND DEVELOPMENT: $160k → 26%ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $145k → 8%HUNTINGTON COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER DBA MCKENZIE'S HOPE: $75k → 13%CAREY SERVICES INC: $115k → 19%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $100k → 10%GILDA'S CLUB SOUTH JERSEY INC: $100k → 11%NEST4US: $52k → 4%THRIVE PENINSULA: $100k → 17%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION AT VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION & STA: $215k → 21%OASIS A SAFE HAVEN FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $45k → 17%DEEP ROOTS INC: $30k → 10%NFI NORTH INC: $40k → 10%INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF KENTUCKY: $71k → 18%MAYO STREET ARTS: $110k → 7%SWEETSER: $145k → 9%HANDSON GREATER PHOENIX: $86k → 11%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $95k → 16%INSIGHT HOUSING: $210k → 10%ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES INTERNATIONAL DBA KAHUMANA: $100k → 9%ARCA: $95k → 14%SURAYYA ANNE FOUNDATION: $85k → 15%PIVOT INC: $170k → 16%OUR MOTHER'S HOME OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $110k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY: $41k → 11%ARIZONA KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERMENT AND ADVOCACY GROUP: $50k → 11%Child Rescue Coalition Inc: $35k → 11%AUNTIE NAS VILLAGE: $250k → 21%OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS: $172k → 10%METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 13%DREAM STREETS TN (WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER): $198k → 14%CHILDREN OF MINE: $155k → 14%SHOWER THE PEOPLE: $70k → 14%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 34 repeat orgs$29M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
269

Total granted

$4.4M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+12%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationOther
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

  • HO
    HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $357k · revenue +40%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $273k · revenue +3%
  • VC
    VOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $237k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO
    one grant, 2022 · $325k
  • HK
    HORTON'S KIDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -39%
  • PB
    PARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -14%
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
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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2
Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition
3
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
4
Community Services for EVERY1 Inc

We partner with individuals of all abilities to reach their fullest potential, protecting their rights and promoting their independence and inclusion in our community.

Human Services
5
Domestic Violence Intervention Services

See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…

Human Services
6
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
7
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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8
90 Works Inc

Overcoming homelessness, poverty, and family violence by becoming self-sufficient

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9
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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10
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
11
Gateway House Inc

The organization provides low income housing in a supportive environment for homeless men. this is done through a combination of safe, clean and suitable housing along with supportive services that will lead to self sufficiency and…

Housing & Shelter
12
Community Action Inc

Community action, inc. partners with community members to improve low- income situations by assisting families with activities to overcome barriers, improve economic status, and enhance their quality of life.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Port Orchard Historic Theatre Foundation. 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

332 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. 332 of the 404 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.

39
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
323/332
Grantees still filing
183/332
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $641,000 · Other+98 more: $13,751,343 · Other+98 moreAUNTIE NA'S VILLAGE: $250,000 · Human ServicesRESTORATION PONITE: $235,000 · Human ServicesHANDSON GREATER PHOENIX: $230,730 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sta: $215,000 · Human ServicesInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $210,000 · Human ServicesWEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $198,000 · Human ServicesourBRIDGE Inc: $172,000 · Human ServicesPIVOT INC: $170,000 · Human Services+30 more: $3,284,000 · Human Services+30 morePARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterPARITY BAL…THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMUN…STATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $230,000 · Housing & ShelterSTATUS HOM…BELOVED ASHEVILLE: $195,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED AS…ASHBY HOUSE LTD: $195,000 · Housing & ShelterASHBY HOUS…Housing Plus Solutions Inc: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterECOREHAB OF MUNCIE INC: $123,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE ARC MORRIS COUNTY CHAPTER NEW JERSEY INC: $123,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $121,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HELENA INC: $115,000 · Housing & ShelterBARRETT FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterM F PLACE INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE VILLAGE AT GLENCLIFF: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION ENPOWER: $97,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Guest House of Milwaukee Inc: $97,000 · Housing & ShelterAMERICANS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $85,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterFAIRFIELD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentFAIRFIELD…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC…NORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHERN …BRILLIANT DETROIT: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT…THE MIDIAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDIA…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THURSTON COUNTY: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…OFF THE STREET CLUB: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentOFF THE S…JEANS ANGELS: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentJEANS ANG…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TUSTIN: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE EXTREME INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentA POCKET FULL OF HOPE INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of the Piedmont Inc: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDO GREATER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC: $237,460 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC: $232,365 · PhilanthropyONEOC: $216,119 · PhilanthropyHands on Atlanta Inc: $157,750 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER ACTION CENTER OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $115,450 · PhilanthropyNextstep Recycling: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GRAND FORKS EAST GRAND FORKS AND REGION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHANDSON BAY AREA: $99,725 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $85,000 · PhilanthropyHANDS ON ORLANDO INC: $84,900 · PhilanthropyVolunteerNow: $82,450 · PhilanthropyHope Haven Inc: $175,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC: $167,000 · HealthQuadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc: $150,000 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE RECOVERY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $150,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $100,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $90,000 · HealthCommunity Free Clinic Inc: $80,000 · HealthMONTCLAIR AMBULANCE UNIT: $80,000 · HealthCOVEY INC: $75,000 · HealthHuntington Children's Museum Inc: $288,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSU TEATRO INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERURBAN ARTHOUSE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $85,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ELITCH GARDENS THEATRE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$14,392,343Human Services$4,964,730Housing & Shelter$2,526,000Youth Development$2,285,000Philanthropy$2,011,219Health$1,067,000Arts & Culture$998,000

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 budgetCENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC: $356,635 over 2y, 11% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $305,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $300,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFAIRFIELD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $300,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetHuntington Children's Museum Inc: $288,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetlowernineorg: $275,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $273,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $245,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC: $237,460 over 3y, 15% of budgetRESTORATION PONITE: $235,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $232,365 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANDSON GREATER PHOENIX: $230,730 over 3y, 12% of budgetSTATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC: $230,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $220,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetONEOC: $216,119 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRESTOREOKC INC: $215,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sta: $215,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $210,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Florida Aquarium Inc: $210,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJERSEY CARES INC: $209,186 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMACKIDA LOVEAL & TRIP MENTORING OUTREACH CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER: $198,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $195,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC: $195,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $195,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetYOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY: $182,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $175,539 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $175,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetQUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE: $175,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHope Haven Inc: $175,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $175,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetourBRIDGE Inc: $172,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE WORKSHOPS INC: $170,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTogether Making a Better Community: $170,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $170,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPIVOT INC: $170,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC: $167,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MIDIAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT INC: $165,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetLUMBEE LAND DEVELOPMENT INC: $160,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUndercliff Volunteer Fire Company: $160,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetHands on Atlanta Inc: $157,750 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBOSTON CARES INC: $155,325 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCHILDREN OF MINE: $155,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER MIAMI-DADE INC: $153,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetThe Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

THDF II Inc DBA The H…Td Charitable Foundat…Simple Generosity Fou…Joe C Davis FoundationWells Fargo FoundationTruist Foundation IncThe Leon Levine Found…Hca Healthcare Founda…United Way of Middle …The Frist FoundationRochester Area Commun…Tegna Foundation Inc
THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer FundGA24.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Simple Generosity Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Tegna Foundation 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 Points of Light Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Points of Light Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Three Oaks Homeless Shelter Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Parity Baltimore Incorporated: 11% of income from government
  • St Vincent Depaul Middletown: 6% of income from government
  • Jersey Cares Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Pivot Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Preferred Behavioral Health of Nj Inc: 0% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit: 0% of income from government
  • Montclair Ambulance Unit: 0% of income from government
  • The Florida Aquarium Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
72report 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 404 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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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