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Scurlock Foundation at a glance

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Scurlock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2022
110
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of Scurlock Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Scurlock Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 80 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

50
’17
43
’18
41
’19
55
’20
61
’21
80
’22
49
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2024.

Philanthropy$22MEducation$4.8MHealth$2.6MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$726kReligion$461kFood & Nutrition$441kYouth Development$317kOther$0
02FY2022 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k52 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $841k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $953k
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salvation Army$265,000
The University of Texas Foundation Inc$165,100
Yellowstone Academy - Fdn for Tomorrow$118,334
Teach for America$111,250
Agape Development Ministries$107,000
Project Row Houses$100,000
Houston Methodist$84,000
Hermann Park Conservancy$57,000
Childrens Museum Inc$55,000
Lawndale Art and Performance Center$55,000
Arrow Child & Family MInistries$50,000
River Oaks Baptist School$50,000
Serenity Retreat for Healing$45,000
Focus on the Family$45,000
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center$40,500
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 (FY17–23, $336k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%God's Garage: $20k → 9%Heart of Texas Foundation: $25k → 15%The Heart of Texas Foundation Inc: $10k → 15%The Diaper Foundation: $20k → 16%Diaper Foundation: $10k → 16%Diaper Foundation: $5k → 16%Elijah Rising: $5k → 16%Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer: $10k → 16%Clayton Dabney Foundation For Kids With Cancer: $5k → 16%Homemade Hope for Homeless Children: $5k → 16%Homemade Hope for Homeless Children: $3k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $15k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $5k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $5k → 16%Pathways for Little Feet: $5k → 16%Pathways for Little Feet: $500 → 16%Center for Urban Transformation: $5k → 16%Center for Urban Transformation: $5k → 16%Center for Urban Transformation: $5k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $8k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $3k → 16%Prison Entrepreneurship Program: $2k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $3k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $1k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $100k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $15k → 16%Loving Houston Inc: $8k → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $7k → 16%Loving Houston Inc: $5k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $5k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $5k → 16%Kids Meals Inc: $5k → 16%Bear Be A Resource for CPS Kids: $3k → 16%Connect Community: $1k → 16%Connect Community: $1k → 16%Covenant House Texas: $500 → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
NM
TN
NC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 68% of Scurlock Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Scurlock Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 109 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

109 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2022, 35 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
62

Total granted

$10M
$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+32%

Still filing today

72%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +213%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON
    6× · 2017–2023 · $322k · revenue +96%
  • AD
    Agape Development Ministries
    6× · 2017–2022 · $303k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • Southern Methodist Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • AD
    Anglican Diocese of the Western GC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • AP
    Amazing PlaceSeniors Place
    one grant, 2021 · $34k
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
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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2
Houston Christian Foundation dba National Christian Foundation Houston

As the Houston affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), our mission is to serve and encourage givers to grow as faithful stewards who give wisely to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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3
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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4
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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5
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
6
Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
7
American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter

American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.

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8
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
9
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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10
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
11
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
12
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Project Savvy. 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

134 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. 134 of the 220 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
132/134
Grantees still filing
95/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $12,450,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $8,600,000 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INCGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,203,250 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+5 more: $142,500 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,706,267 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS …The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: $646,500 · OtherThe University of Texas …Salvation Army: $432,600 · OtherSalvation ArmyThe UT MD Anderson Cancer Center: $305,000 · OtherHouston Methodist: $276,200 · OtherRiver Oaks Baptist School: $275,000 · Other+117 more: $2,782,334 · Other+117 moreThe Brookwood Community Inc: $429,500 · EducationAgape Development Ministries: $303,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $141,250 · EducationYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $112,083 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $56,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University: $50,000 · EducationBreakthrough Houston: $49,000 · Education+11 more: $143,996 · EducationTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $321,940 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureA D Players: $125,000 · Arts & CultureProject Row Houses: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLawndale Art & Performance Center: $63,500 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES TEXAS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $47,750 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet Foundation: $35,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $106,500 · Arts & CultureTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $444,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital Foundation: $227,000 · HealthCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $45,000 · HealthJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $35,000 · Health+5 more: $30,500 · HealthKIDS' MEALS INC: $137,350 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center Inc: $105,000 · Human ServicesPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesTHE DIAPER FOUNDATION: $39,500 · Human ServicesHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY: $35,000 · Human ServicesChristian Community Service Center Memorial Endowment: $27,500 · Human ServicesGods Garage Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+12 more: $91,850 · Human ServicesCamp For All Foundation: $214,166 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $52,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTONEY CREEK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$22,395,750Other$7,423,901Education$1,284,829Arts & Culture$1,040,190Health$781,500Human Services$514,200Youth Development$276,166

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $12,450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $8,600,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,706,267 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,203,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $444,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $429,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $321,940 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAgape Development Ministries: $303,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital Foundation: $227,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $214,166 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $190,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSt John's School: $154,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $141,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $137,350 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetA D Players: $125,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy: $120,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS: $112,083 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetChristian Community Service Center Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetProject Row Houses: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORGE FOR FAMILIES: $96,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $93,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLawndale Art & Performance Center: $63,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetPRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERING FAMILY: $56,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $52,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas One Fund Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITIES TEXAS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBreakthrough Houston: $49,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $47,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLifeHouse of Houston Inc: $46,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $42,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden: $41,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $36,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation: $35,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJulie Rogers Gift of Life Program: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WORKFAITH CONNECTION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF TEXAS FOUNDATION COLLEGE OF MINISTRY: $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Hospice: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Agape Development Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds A D Players ↗
  • Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Christian Community Service Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Project Row Houses ↗
  • Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE FORGE FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
  • Who funds Lawndale Art & Performance Center ↗
  • Who funds PRISON ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING FAMILY ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗

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.

Albert & Ethel Herzst…Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationThe Elkins FoundationThe Brown Foundation …Houston Endowment IncVivian L Smith Founda…MD Anderson FoundationJohn P McGovern Found…The William Stamps Fa…Sterling-Turner Found…Shell USA Company Fou…
Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable FoundationTX71.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Scurlock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scurlock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
23report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Scurlock Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Scurlock 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 220 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 2022, released 2022. 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
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$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