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Polk Bros Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Polk Bros Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
568
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$22MEducation$17MHealth$15MHousing & Shelter$13MCommunity Improvement$12MCrime & Legal$9.8MHuman Services$9.1MYouth Development$8.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 568 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k171 grants · $410k
  • $10k–50k249 grants · $7.0M
  • $50k–250k143 grants · $11M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$334M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Chicago Food Depository$250,000
Illinois Immigrant Funders Collaborative$250,000
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$250,000
Big Shoulders Fund$250,000
Navy Pier Inc$250,000
Window to the World Communications$200,000
Shriver Center on Poverty Law$180,000
Erie Family Health Center$170,000
WBEZChicago Public Media$160,000
Chicago Community Loan Fund$160,000
UIC Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships$150,000
Tapestry 360 Health$150,000
Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities$150,000
Chicago Public Education Fund$140,000
Mercy Housing Lakefront$135,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $10.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 Night Ministry: $80k → 14%The Night Ministry: $80k → 14%Misericordia Home: $75k → 14%Misericordia Home: $75k → 14%Misericordia Home: $75k → 14%Center on Halsted: $65k → 14%Center on Halsted: $65k → 14%Center on Halsted: $65k → 14%Center on Halsted: $65k → 14%Center on Halsted: $65k → 14%UCAN: $70k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $100k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $80k → 14%CARPLS: $80k → 14%CARPLS: $80k → 14%CARPLS: $80k → 14%The Night Ministry: $80k → 14%Facing Forward to End Homelessness: $85k → 14%The Night Ministry: $80k → 14%Facing Forward to End Homelessness: $85k → 14%Facing Forward to End Homelessness: $85k → 14%Facing Forward to End Homelessness: $85k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $80k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $80k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $80k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $65k → 14%Renaissance Social Services: $65k → 14%Christopher House: $76k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $85k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $85k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $85k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $70k → 14%Gads Hill Center: $235k → 14%Brave Space Alliance: $100k → 14%Thrive Chicago: $100k → 14%The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence: $100k → 14%CARPLS: $80k → 14%Ignite: $65k → 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

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129M · 597 repeat orgs$29M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

597 repeat relationships: 417 still active in FY2025, 180 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

597
215

Total granted

$129M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+6%

Still filing today

79%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • NP
    NAVY PIER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +20%
  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +33%
  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $23M
  • MG
    MATCHING GIFTS
    one grant, 2020 · $984k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $310k
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
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
2
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
3
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
4
Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc

Secure racial equity and economic opportunity for all

Crime & Legal
5
Chicago Cultural Alliance

The Chicago Cultural Alliances mission is to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago. We are an active consortium of 50 cultural heritage museums, centers, and historical societies that…

Arts & Culture
6
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

—
7
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
8
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
9
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
10
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits

Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…

Community Improvement
11
Chicago Committee On Minorities in Large Law Firms

The chicago committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its law firm and corporate membership to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide…

Civil Rights
12
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is The Goldin Institute. 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

657 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. 657 of the 857 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
137
Early backer (in before they grew)
648/657
Grantees still filing
439/657
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $22,616,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+94 more: $42,516,785 · Other+94 moreNAVY PIER INC: $1,750,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY PIER INCWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,323,595 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,005,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OB…INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $881,979 · Arts & CultureINGENUITY INC…CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $852,120 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLI…Latinos Progresando: $827,400 · Arts & CultureLatinos Progr…RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $560,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $502,855 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $5,931,745 · Arts & Culture+18 moreChiArts Foundation: $1,588,450 · EducationChiArts Fou…Big Shoulders Fund: $1,457,500 · EducationBig Shoulde…Youth Guidance: $918,125 · EducationYouth Guida…CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $804,500 · EducationCHICAGO PUB…LEADING EDUCATORS INC: $757,000 · EducationLEADING EDU…CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $614,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $475,000 · Education+17 more: $5,774,875 · Education+17 moreMetropolitan Family Services: $1,276,625 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $542,000 · Human ServicesGADS HILL CENTER: $500,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $476,000 · Human ServicesRenaissance Social Services Inc: $434,000 · Human ServicesTHE NETWORK ADVOCATING AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $390,000 · Human ServicesTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $384,000 · Human ServicesCOORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $384,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $371,500 · Human ServicesUCAN: $360,000 · Human ServicesFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $355,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $329,200 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $325,000 · Human ServicesIGNITE: $312,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $300,000 · Human ServicesMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $296,500 · Human ServicesCHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL INC: $296,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $288,000 · Human Services+2 more: $500,000 · Human ServicesRush University Medical Center: $1,034,500 · HealthErie Family Health Center Inc: $940,000 · HealthMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST: $736,000 · HealthPublic Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago: $592,000 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $505,000 · HealthHEARTLAND ALLIANCE HEALTH: $415,250 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $406,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $387,750 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $380,000 · HealthALTERNATIVES INC: $375,500 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $310,000 · HealthACCLIVUS INC: $310,000 · HealthHEALTH AND MEDICINE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP: $300,000 · HealthCHICAGO HOUSE & SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $264,000 · HealthEqual Hope: $250,000 · HealthALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $1,120,500 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Housing and Health: $940,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $675,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $408,000 · Housing & ShelterDEBORAH'S PLACE: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $365,500 · Housing & ShelterBICKERDIKE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $360,000 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $336,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $312,250 · Housing & ShelterThe Resurrection Project: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterCHICAGO REHAB NETWORK: $300,000 · Housing & ShelterCenter for Changing Lives: $289,000 · Housing & ShelterSARAH'S CIRCLE: $280,000 · Housing & ShelterLA CASA NORTE: $272,750 · Housing & ShelterJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,305,500 · PhilanthropyFOREFRONT: $976,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $800,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $502,000 · PhilanthropyMetropolis Strategies NFP: $315,500 · Philanthropy
Other$65,133,135Arts & Culture$13,634,694Education$12,389,450Human Services$8,119,825Health$7,206,000Housing & Shelter$6,959,000Philanthropy$3,899,500

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 budgetNAVY PIER INC: $1,750,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetChiArts Foundation: $1,588,450 over 5y, 41% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $1,457,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,323,595 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,305,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $1,276,625 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,267,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY: $1,120,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,034,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,005,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC: $998,700 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetFOREFRONT: $976,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetErie Family Health Center Inc: $940,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Housing and Health: $940,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW: $926,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetYouth Guidance: $918,125 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $881,979 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $852,120 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $827,400 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $804,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $800,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $757,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST: $736,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT: $675,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetChicago Youth Centers: $645,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $640,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC: $628,125 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $625,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Jobs Council: $615,250 over 5y, 18% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $614,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF CHICAGO INC: $600,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPublic Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago: $592,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetIMPACT FOR EQUITY: $591,850 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $560,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $542,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTapestry 360 Health: $525,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $511,125 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $505,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $502,855 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $502,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGADS HILL CENTER: $500,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $500,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $478,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $476,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $475,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $463,750 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION: $450,250 over 5y, 3.0% 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 NAVY PIER INC ↗
  • Who funds ChiArts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds ALL CHICAGO MAKING HOMELESSNESS HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds Erie Family Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Center for Housing and Health ↗
  • Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
  • Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
  • Who funds INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds LEADING EDUCATORS INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL REESE HEALTH TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY LOAN FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ROGER BALDWIN FOUNDATION OF ACLU INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Jobs Council ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Lloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…John D and Catherine …The Joyce FoundationAlphawood FoundationThe Albert Pick Jr Fu…Woods Fund of Chicago
Lloyd a Fry FoundationIL232.6× affinity153 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Alphawood Foundation · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Woods Fund of Chicago

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
96report 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 857 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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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