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Sanders Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$419k
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$534kEducation$354kHuman Services$288kHousing & Shelter$283kFood & Nutrition$213kInternational$192kArts & Culture$141kRecreation & Sports$112kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $300k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $119k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANNA FOOD CENTER$26,000
JEWISH SOCIETY SERVICE AGENCY$17,881
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$13,500
HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY - HIAS$11,000
SIBLEY FOUNDATION$11,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS-HOFT$10,000
AMFRIENDS OF NIR-OZ ISRAEL$10,000
ADL ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$10,000
A WIDER CIRCLE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE$10,000
PROJECT ZAWADI$9,000
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA$9,000
CONGREGATION BETH EL$8,926
BETHESDA CARES$8,000
BCCHS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$8,000
CAMP NEWAYGO$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $3k → 14%CAMP NEWAYGO: $8k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $5k → 6%CAMP NEWAYGO: $7k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%CAMP NEWAYGO: $6k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%CAMP NEWAYGO: $6k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%CAMP NEWAYGO: $5k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%CAMP NEWAYGO: $5k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%CAMP NEWAYGO: $5k → 13%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%CAMP NEWAYGO: $5k → 13%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 22%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%CAMP NEWAYGO: $5k → 13%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $5k → 17%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $4k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $3k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%LITTLE FALLS VILLAGE: $2k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $10k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $9k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $9k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $8k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $7k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $7k → 8%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $8k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $4k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $4k → 14%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $3k → 14%BETHESDA CARES: $5k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $5k → 8%BETHESDA CARES: $5k → 8%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Sanders Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sanders Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 88 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
26

Total granted

$2.4M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • MF
    MANNA FOOD CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +82%
  • BC
    BETHESDA CARES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +150%
  • PZ
    PROJECT ZAWADI INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +271%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAIRFIELD CENTER - THE LISTENING CORPS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • GY
    GRYC YOUTH CHORUS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • NA
    NFP AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -92%
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
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
5
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

—
8
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
9
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
10
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
11
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; the most unlike its peers is Reaching Out to Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 123 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
52/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIBLEY FOUNDATION: $117,000 · OtherSIBLEY FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $67,500 · OtherWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMYJEWISH SOCIETY SERVICE AGENCY: $63,461 · OtherHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY - HIAS: $57,400 · OtherThe Foundation for the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam Inc: $48,441 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $47,000 · OtherSOME INC: $44,820 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH EL: $44,242 · OtherJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA: $43,500 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $47,000 · OtherVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $45,000 · Other+68 more: $629,032 · Other+68 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $54,000 · HealthDana-Farber C…CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $50,400 · HealthCHILDREN'S IN…LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOU…INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $49,500 · HealthINOVA HEALTH …COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $35,820 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOL…SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSP…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $18,422 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROS…PHILADELPHIA FIGHT: $13,900 · Health+2 more: $9,500 · HealthA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $91,160 · EducationA WIDER CIRC…PROJECT ZAWADI INC: $63,000 · EducationPROJECT ZAWA…Creighton University: $27,500 · EducationCreighton Un…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HON…BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,160 · EducationBETHESDA-CHE…YOUTH JOURNALISM INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,500 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Education+4 more: $16,680 · Education+4 moreBETHESDA CARES INC: $64,500 · Human ServicesBETHESDA CAR…TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50,500 · Human ServicesTRUENORTH CO…PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $45,160 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHI…GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $28,500 · Human ServicesGREATER DC D…ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES: $25,222 · Human ServicesENDLESS OPPO…UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMU…Little Falls Village Corporation: $21,000 · Human ServicesLittle Falls…+5 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $183,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $4,500 · Food & NutritionSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $32,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION: $26,820 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: $24,500 · Housing & ShelterNFP AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP: $4,500 · Housing & ShelterJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $57,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $43,480 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE: $8,000 · International+1 more: $480 · International
Other$1,254,396Health$309,542Education$270,000Human Services$268,382Food & Nutrition$187,500Housing & Shelter$132,820International$108,960

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 budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $183,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $91,160 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC: $64,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT ZAWADI INC: $63,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $57,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $54,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $50,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $49,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam Inc: $48,441 over 9y, 61% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $47,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $47,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $45,160 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $44,820 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $43,480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $35,820 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $28,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $27,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION: $26,820 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES: $25,222 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetRISE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE: $24,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,160 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $21,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Falls Village Corporation: $21,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetLorton Community Action Center Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $18,422 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH THEATRE GRAND RAPIDS: $16,418 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $16,200 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FIGHT: $13,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH JOURNALISM INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE CAPITAL CRESCENT TRAIL INC: $11,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEDUTUTOR OF VIRGINIA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 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 MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ZAWADI INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
  • Who funds LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
  • Who funds SUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION RENEWED HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds RISE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…United Way of the Nat…The Morris and Gwendo…Philip L Graham Fund …Clark-Winchcole Found…The Community Foundat…American Gift FundNora Roberts Foundati…Adventist Healthcare …Spm Foundation IncThe Gary and Pennie A…William S Abell Found…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · American Gift Fund · Nora Roberts Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Spm Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · William S Abell 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 Sanders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works: 4% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 123 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 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