· Private foundation
Query on Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $159,276 |
| DENIM PICTURES LLC | $117,000 |
| ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,305 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,357 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $2,000 |
| SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,090 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $900 |
| BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER | $900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $900 |
| NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY | $400 |
| CHARITY WATCH | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $108 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OOPENSECRETS4× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +181%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC3× · 2019–2024 · $6k · revenue +37%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE2× · 2021–2023 · $25k
- HLHARVARD LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
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.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OPENSECRETS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Ithaca Public Education Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Query on Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Query on Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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