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Sbb Research Group 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.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.

Education$212kHealth$135kHuman Services$111kEnvironment$90kRecreation & Sports$56kCrime & Legal$55kAnimals$42kEmployment$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k65 grants · $205k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $115k
$2,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO SCHOLARS$25,000
SURGE FOR WATER$10,000
CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING$10,000
RENAISSANCE KNIGHTS CHESS FOUNDATION$10,000
CHICAGO CHILDRENS MUSEUM$10,000
ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER$10,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
AUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP$10,000
CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC$10,000
SALUTE INC$10,000
HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER$9,979
THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION$9,289
WOMEN UNITED OF LAKE COUNTY$8,286
LIVING WORKS$7,500
COMMUNITY PLAY WORKSHOP INC$7,500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANGEL NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 15%OSWEGOLAND SENIORS INC: $1k → 6%OUTREACH HOUSE: $8k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF CENT IL: $1k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $1k → 14%COMMUNITY PLAY WORKSHOP INC: $8k → 10%ANGEL NETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 15%OUTREACH HOUSE: $3k → 7%ANTIOCH TRAVELING CLOSET CORPORATION: $5k → 8%ANTIOCH TRAVELING CLOSET CORPORATION: $3k → 8%ASPIRITECH: $1k → 14%ANTIOCH TRAVELING CLOSET CORPORATION NFP: $325 → 8%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 14%DRINKWATER FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6k → 8%OMNI YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 8%DRINKWATER FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1k → 8%FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS: $2k → 14%CENTER OF CONCERN: $795 → 14%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $5k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS INC: $1k → 8%FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: $1k → 8%THE ROBERTI COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1k → 8%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $5k → 14%INVEST FOR KIDS INC: $1k → 14%INELLAS RESTORATION CENTER INC: $8k → 14%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $3k → 14%PEER PLUS EDUCATION & TRAINING ADVOCATES: $5k → 14%PEER PLUS EDUCATION & TRAINING ADVOCATES: $3k → 14%ILLINOIS JOINING FORCES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%EXCEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1k → 14%THE BLOC: $1k → 14%ATD NEIGHBORHOOD RELIEF COALITION: $1k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $1k → 14%HAVEN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES: $1k → 14%SALUTE INC: $10k → 14%SHARE OUR SPARE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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IN
OH
PA
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RI
CA
CO
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TN
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SC
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FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Sbb Research Group Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sbb Research Group Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$561k · 44 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
93

Total granted

$561k
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

77%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SF
    Surge for Water Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +128% · 41% of their budget
  • HA
    HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +535%
  • ZS
    ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -24%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -17%
  • FL
    FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD (RUSTIC FALLS NATURE CAMP)
    one grant, 2023 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
2
Students Run Chicago
Health
3
Association House of Chicago

Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…

Human Services
4
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
5
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
6
True Chicago
Arts & Culture
7
East-West University

East-west university is an independent institution of higher learning located in downtown chicago. its mission is the pursuit of excellence by all through relevant, effective and convenient education and service to humankind with a global,…

Education
8
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
9
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
10
Start Early

Start early advances quality early learning for families with children, before birth through their earliest years, to help close the opportunity gap.

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11
Equality Dream Team

Provide resources and tools to help african american youth from underserved communities aged 14-24 achieve economic sustainability through education, career, and workforce development.

Education
12
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roberti Community House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%10%<5yr13%17%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr22%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%7%<5yr13%12%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr15%32%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr22%11%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%5/147
the rest of the field
12%
8,886/72,212

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 184 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/133
Grantees still filing
68/133
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RENAISSANCE KNIGHTS CHESS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherRENAISSANCE KNIGHTS CHESS FOUNDATIONWOMEN UNITED OF LAKE COUNTY — $16,190 · OtherZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $40,000 · OtherZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTERTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION — $27,584 · OtherTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATIONAUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC — $20,972 · Other+99 more — $297,196 · Other+99 moreTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $66,641 · EducationTHE CHICAGO SCHOLAR…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $7,500 · EducationWILL'S PLACE — $6,000 · Education+30 more — $79,500 · Education+30 moreTHE OUTREACH HOUSE — $10,800 · Human ServicesTHE OUTREACH …SALUTE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSALUTE INCAntioch Traveling Closet Corporation NFP — $7,825 · Human ServicesAntioch Trave…COMMUNITY PLAY WORKSHOP INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY PLA…Inellas Restoration Cente — $7,500 · Human ServicesInellas Resto…HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK — $7,500 · Human ServicesHUNGER RESOUR…PEER PLUS EDUCATION AND TRAINING ADVOCATES — $7,500 · Human ServicesPEER PLUS EDU…DRINKWATER FAMILY SERVICES INC — $7,214 · Human ServicesDRINKWATER FA…FACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS — $7,197 · Human ServicesFACING FORWAR…FILL A HEART 4 KIDS — $6,787 · Human ServicesFILL A HEART …CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES — $6,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR IN…Mothers Trust Foundation — $5,000 · Human ServicesANGEL NETWORK FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Human Services+14 more — $15,009 · Human Services+14 moreTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $18,063 · HealthTHE DRAGO…DKMS — $12,500 · HealthDKMSSALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER — $8,325 · HealthSALAAM CO…SUPPORT OVER STIGMA INC — $7,500 · HealthSUPPORT O…LEMONS OF LOVE INC — $7,500 · HealthLEMONS OF…Soul Survivors of Chicago NFP — $6,370 · HealthSoul Surv…LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $5,477 · HealthLYMPHOMA …FOUNDATION FOR HEARING AND SPEECH RESOURCES — $5,000 · HealthFOUNDATIO…ERICK A GARCIA YOU ARE ENOUGH FOUNDATION YOU ARE ENOUGH — $5,000 · HealthERICK A G…+4 more — $5,870 · Health+4 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $17,500 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS OYSTER PROJECT INC — $7,500 · Environment+1 more — $1,021 · EnvironmentSurge for Water Inc — $42,950 · InternationalHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP — $42,010 · Animals
Other$441,942Education$159,641Human Services$110,832Health$81,605Environment$46,021International$42,950Animals$42,010

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $66,641 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSurge for Water Inc — $42,950 over 4y, 41% of budgetHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP — $42,010 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ANDREW WEISHAR FOUNDATION — $27,584 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE MENTORING GROUP INC — $20,972 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $18,063 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDKMS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OUTREACH HOUSE — $10,800 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChicago Children's Museum — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSALUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC — $9,354 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER — $8,924 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALAAM COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER — $8,325 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetAntioch Traveling Closet Corporation NFP — $7,825 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetSUPPORT OVER STIGMA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLIVING WORKS — $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CHILDRENS CHORUS CORP — $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVIOLETS KITCHEN — $7,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY PLAY WORKSHOP INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetInellas Restoration Cente — $7,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS OYSTER PROJECT INC — $7,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLEMONS OF LOVE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON DANCE ALLIANCE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCASA LAKE COUNTY INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK — $7,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPEER PLUS EDUCATION AND TRAINING ADVOCATES — $7,500 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetREADING POWER INC — $7,494 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFACING FORWARD TO END HOMELESSNESS — $7,197 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILL A HEART 4 KIDS — $6,787 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSoul Survivors of Chicago NFP — $6,370 over 3y, 53% of budgetWILL'S PLACE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILTON TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY INC — $6,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetWILLOW HOUSE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $5,477 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTop Floor Learning Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetNORTH SIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnriching Partnerships for Early Learning — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMothers Trust Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetERICK A GARCIA YOU ARE ENOUGH FOUNDATION YOU ARE ENOUGH — $5,000 over 1y, 55% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Circle of Service Fou…Give N KindThe Chicago Community…Northwestern Memorial…Andrew and Alice Fisc…The Lake County Commu…George M Eisenberg Fo…United Way of Metropo…John and Kathleen Sch…Trustmark FoundationFirst Bank Chicago Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…
Circle of Service FoundationIL36.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Circle of Service Foundation · Give N Kind · The Chicago Community Trust · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The Lake County Community Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Trustmark Foundation · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sbb Research Group Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Beverly Main Streets Inc — 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Childrens Chorus Corp — 6% of income from government
  • Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 184 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

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