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Sam L Cohen Foundation at a glance

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Sam L Cohen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
94
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.1MHuman Services$1.9MYouth Development$1.6MArts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.4MCivil Rights$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $795k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE$250,000
MAINE PUBLIC$125,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$125,000
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MAINE$80,000
MAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$65,000
MAINE JEWISH MUSEUM$50,000
PREBLE STREET$50,000
YORK COUNTY SHELTER PROGRAMS INC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$50,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$50,000
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$50,000
MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION$45,000
MAINE FAMILY PLANNING$41,600
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN MAINE$40,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $50k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $50k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $30k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $25k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $25k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $20k → 7%SWEETSER: $25k → 9%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $35k → 9%YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $25k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED: $25k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $20k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $20k → 9%CARING UNLIMITED CORP: $20k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING INC: $40k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $40k → 9%FURNITURE FRIENDS: $20k → 7%BIDDEFORD FOOD PANTRY: $30k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $35k → 7%HOPE ACTS: $25k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $125k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $125k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $50k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $50k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $45k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $45k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $40k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $40k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $40k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $40k → 7%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $35k → 7%EQUALITYMAINE FOUNDATION: $35k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $33k → 7%PROSPERITYME: $30k → 7%MAINE ACCESS IMMIGRANT NETWORK: $30k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $30k → 7%MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $30k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $30k → 7%THE GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $25k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%COMMUNITY FINANCIAL LITERACY: $25k → 7%EQUALITYMAINE FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%THROUGH THESE DOORS: $20k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $35k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%THE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE: $25k → 7%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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
CA
DC
HI
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 170 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

170 repeat relationships: 67 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

170
113

Total granted

$17M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+27%

Still filing today

86%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • M
    MaineHealth
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +239%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine
    7× · 2017–2024 · $808k · revenue +97%
  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    5× · 2018–2024 · $493k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • CN
    CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +10%
  • YA
    YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +13%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
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
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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2
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
3
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
4
Maine & Company

Maine & Company is a private, non-profit business development sales organization. Its purpose is to improve Maine's success in attracting new business and expanding and retaining existing business by providing a focused, statewide sales…

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5
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

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6
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
7
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

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8
Autism Society of Maine d/b/a Asm

The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.

Human Services
9
Maine Arts Academy

The Academy is dedicated to academic excellence, commitment to the performing arts, leadership, integrity, and a virtuous code of conduct, all of which prepare students to meet the demands of a contemporary world through thoughtful…

Education
10
Maine Needs Inc

We strive to help individuals and families in Maine meet their basic, material needs by providing donated clothing, hygiene products, household items, and other necessities. We focus our work on those starting life over from scratch:…

Human Services
11
Maine Climate Action Now

MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…

Environment
12
Maine Health Access Foundation Inc
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; the most unlike its peers is Finding Our Voices. 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

222 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. 222 of the 303 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
90
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/222
Grantees still filing
171/222
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MaineHealth: $3,330,000 · HealthMaineHealthCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER: $500,000 · HealthCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTERPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $185,000 · Health+17 more: $951,623 · Health+17 moreMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $365,000 · OtherMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCEGood Shepherd Food Bank: $305,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $230,000 · OtherYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $250,000 · Other+101 more: $5,260,900 · Other+101 morePREBLE STREET: $492,500 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETThe Opportunity Alliance: $272,500 · Human ServicesThe Opportunity …Hospice of Southern Maine: $165,000 · Human ServicesHospice of South…Southern Maine Agency on Aging: $155,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Maine A…PROSPERITYME: $155,000 · Human ServicesPROSPERITYMEYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $152,500 · Human ServicesYORK COUNTY COMM…MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $140,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $130,000 · Human ServicesEqualityMaine Foundation: $95,000 · Human Services+16 more: $971,805 · Human Services+16 morePORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $265,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $145,000 · Arts & CultureTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Jewish Film Festival: $118,333 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $90,000 · Arts & CultureINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $85,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE OF MAINE: $81,800 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND OVATIONS: $65,000 · Arts & CultureSPACE Gallery: $60,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $385,340 · Arts & CultureJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $807,600 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc: $165,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $118,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Inc: $112,500 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $55,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $380,000 · Youth DevelopmentMy Place Teen Center Inc: $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $73,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Telling Room: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS TO MEN: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARDY GIRLS HEALTHY WOMEN INC: $45,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION: $380,000 · EducationThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges: $175,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationMAINE ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN: $62,700 · EducationFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION: $55,000 · EducationPortland Public Library: $50,000 · Education+8 more: $189,500 · Education
Health$4,966,623Other$6,410,900Human Services$2,729,305Arts & Culture$1,415,973Philanthropy$1,308,600Youth Development$1,040,500Education$987,200

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaineHealth: $3,330,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine: $807,600 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetCEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $492,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine: $380,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION: $380,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $365,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $305,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $305,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $272,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND STAGE COMPANY: $265,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH: $250,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $230,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges: $175,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $165,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $165,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $160,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging: $155,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPROSPERITYME: $155,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $152,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $145,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $140,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY: $135,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $130,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $130,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSpurwink Services Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetMaine Jewish Film Festival: $118,333 over 8y, 12% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $118,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $116,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWayside Food Programs: $115,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $112,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY: $105,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTEDFORD HOUSING: $100,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MAINE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLocker Project: $100,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $95,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetEqualityMaine Foundation: $95,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetHolocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine: $95,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSEEDS OF HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $91,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $90,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMONSPACE: $90,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $85,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCARING UNLIMITED: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: $85,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine: $82,500 over 4y, 0.2% 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 MaineHealth ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS NURSING CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SCHOOL OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds My Place Teen Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Opportunity Alliance ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds Maine Equal Justice Partners ↗
  • Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
  • Who funds PROSPERITYME ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
  • Who funds MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Spurwink Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Jewish Film Festival ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
  • Who funds Wayside Food Programs ↗
  • Who funds United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds MAINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…John T Gorman Foundat…United Way IncSaco & Biddeford Savi…Simmons Foundation - …Fisher Charitable Fou…Virginia Hodgkins Som…Maine Health Access F…Davis Family Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Onion Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME200.2× affinity187 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · United Way Inc · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Inc · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Onion Foundation

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 Sam L Cohen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam L Cohen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Upstander Project Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
69report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sam L Cohen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sam L Cohen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 303 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.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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