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Robert R McCormick Foundation

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$106M
Granted FY2024still arriving
255
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$33M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$108MEducation$65MPhilanthropy$37MCommunity Improvement$30MHuman Services$24MHealth$22MYouth Development$17MArts & Culture$17MOther$0
02FY2024 · 255 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k107 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k75 grants · $7.9M
  • $250k+62 grants · $95M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANTIGNY FOUNDATION$33,451,760
UNITED WAY-MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC$8,246,000
NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY$5,398,000
ENLACE CHICAGO$4,715,000
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$3,572,000
INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS (INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESO LATINO)$3,325,000
TEAMWORK ENGLEWOOD$2,720,000
BIG SHOULDERS FUND$2,024,208
XCHANGE CHICAGO INC$2,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER - MAIN CAMPUS$1,500,000
NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$1,500,000
LEWIS UNIVERSITY$1,235,000
BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION$1,173,000
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART$1,155,000
BRIGHTPOINT$1,050,000
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, $32.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHOWERUP: $150k → 10%ILLINOIS PRINCIPALS FOUNDATION: $440k → 11%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE & REFERRAL AGENCIES: $401k → 11%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $315k → 11%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $425k → 13%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $620k → 14%ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCES & REFERRAL AGENCIES: $275k → 11%JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $450k → 14%FRIENDS OF DEKALB REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $150k → 13%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $455k → 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $393k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR RESILIENCE: $150k → 7%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $135k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $600k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.7M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $470k → 14%ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $261k → 14%ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $782k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF GREATER CHICAGO: $233k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $225k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $133k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $503k → 14%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $350k → 14%CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 14%UCAN: $150k → 14%YMCA OF METRO CHICAGO: $471k → 14%THE BLOC: $250k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $150k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $150k → 14%THE BLOC: $150k → 14%AUSTIN CHILDCARE PROVIDERS NETWORK: $150k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $4.1M → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS (INSTITUTO DEL PROGRESO LATINO): $3.3M → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $560k → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $225k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $200k → 14%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $180k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $125k → 14%FAMILY FOCUS INC: $615k → 14%CHICAGO COMMONS ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $3.6M → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $1.1M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $955k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $453k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $165k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $165k → 14%THRIVE CHICAGO: $150k → 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
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
KS
TN
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366M · 331 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

331 repeat relationships: 192 still active in FY2024, 139 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

331
195

Total granted

$366M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

95%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    CANTIGNY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105M · revenue +101% · 56% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $27M · revenue +88% · 100% of their budget
  • EC
    Enlace Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +20% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • VV
    Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leadersgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $610k · revenue +90% · 33% of their budget
  • DC
    DUPAGE COUNTY REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2021 · $550k
  • CC
    CHICAGO COALITION TO SAVE OUR MENTAL HEALTH CENTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +45% · 90% 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.

1
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
2
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
3
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…

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4
The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…

Education
5
The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation

To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.

Education
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
8
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
9
Arise Chicago

Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Employment
10
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
11
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
12
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids First Chicago for Education; the most unlike its peers is Mexican Cultural Center. 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

532 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 532 of the 596 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.

40
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
112
Early backer (in before they grew)
520/532
Grantees still filing
373/532
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANTIGNY FOUNDATION: $105,143,170 · OtherCANTIGNY FOUNDATION+81 more: $79,080,661 · Other+81 moreNational Louis University: $7,719,050 · EducationNational Louis U…Big Shoulders Fund: $6,318,921 · EducationBig Shoulders Fu…University of Chicago: $2,713,558 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,710,500 · EducationCristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $2,300,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1,924,206 · EducationBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP: $1,833,575 · Education+43 more: $28,334,616 · Education+43 moreEnlace Chicago: $13,654,620 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chi…PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,110,500 · Community ImprovementPROJECT HO…Teamwork Englewood Inc: $7,132,600 · Community ImprovementTeamwork E…THE BOTTOM LINE INC: $1,861,500 · Community Improvement+11 more: $4,155,000 · Community Improvement+11 moreUNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $26,753,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $2,547,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…The Chicago Community Trust: $1,655,000 · PhilanthropyMetropolis Strategies NFP: $1,446,600 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,270,850 · PhilanthropyMetropolitan Family Services: $7,189,300 · Human ServicesMetropoli…Carole Robertson Center for Learning: $5,633,808 · Human ServicesCarole Ro…INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $3,725,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE…CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $1,847,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $1,118,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $1,110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,025,430 · Human ServicesILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $990,500 · Human Services+13 more: $6,746,210 · Human Services+13 moreUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $4,750,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $3,420,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $3,385,515 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,285,000 · HealthALTERNATIVES INC: $622,100 · Health+3 more: $1,105,000 · HealthILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,300,000 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $2,105,000 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,655,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $1,580,500 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum: $1,255,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Humanities Festival: $670,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $3,213,650 · Arts & Culture
Other$184,223,831Education$53,854,426Community Improvement$34,914,220Philanthropy$33,672,450Human Services$29,385,748Health$15,567,615Arts & Culture$13,279,650

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 budgetCANTIGNY FOUNDATION: $105,143,170 over 5y, 56% of budgetUNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $26,753,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $13,654,620 over 5y, 57% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,110,500 over 3y, 56% of budgetNational Louis University: $7,719,050 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $7,189,300 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $7,132,600 over 5y, 47% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $6,318,921 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $5,845,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCarole Robertson Center for Learning: $5,633,808 over 5y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $4,750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $4,202,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $3,725,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetLITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,439,000 over 4y, 79% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $3,420,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $3,385,515 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIllinois Action for Children: $3,116,260 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,713,558 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $2,710,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $2,701,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $2,547,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM: $2,388,350 over 5y, 17% of budgetILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,300,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $2,285,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $2,105,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetXCHANGE CHICAGO INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetInjustice Watch NFP: $2,000,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $1,975,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1,924,206 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $1,861,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $1,847,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP: $1,833,575 over 5y, 34% of budgetGE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $1,779,800 over 4y, 74% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $1,738,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $1,670,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetONE MILLION DEGREES: $1,662,500 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,655,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $1,655,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $1,580,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetMetropolis Strategies NFP: $1,446,600 over 5y, 49% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,386,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTART EARLY: $1,384,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,362,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $1,335,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,277,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetOFF THE STREET CLUB: $1,272,250 over 5y, 18% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $1,255,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetLewis University: $1,235,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 CANTIGNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds National Louis University ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Teamwork Englewood Inc ↗
  • Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
  • Who funds Carole Robertson Center for Learning ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE VILLAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Action for Children ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
  • Who funds XCHANGE CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds Injustice Watch NFP ↗
  • Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO NFP ↗
  • Who funds GE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New Life Centers of Chicagoland ↗
  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …United Way of Metropo…Circle of Service Fou…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Lloyd a Fry FoundationField Foundation of I…John D and Catherine …The Joyce FoundationCme Group FoundationMichael Reese Health …Chicago Foundation fo…Fulk Family Foundatio…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL170.2× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Chicago Foundation for Women · Fulk Family 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 Robert R McCormick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert R McCormick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
68report 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 596 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
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