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Siemer Institute

The SIEMER INSTITUTE will enhance educational opportunities for school-aged children by preventing family homelessness and reducing school instability.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$72MHuman Services$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHealth$710kCrime & Legal$248kCommunity Improvement$220k
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $8.2M
  • $250k+20 grants · $10M
$170,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC$1,940,000
FAMILY PROMISE INC$1,100,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA$720,000
YMCAS OF THE USA$708,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NASHVILLE$530,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS (COLUMBIA)$450,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO DBA UNITED WAY OF METRO CHICAGO$420,000
ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY$420,000
METRO UNITED WAY INC$410,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$360,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA$360,000
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC$360,000
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$360,000
UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA$360,000
UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY$336,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $110k → 15%YMCAS OF THE USA: $708k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $120k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $120k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $120k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $120k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $60k → 14%YMCA OF THE USA: $20k → 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

WA
ID
MN
IL
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MI
NY
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OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
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CO
NE
MO
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DE
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NC
SC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$67M · 64 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -16% since the first grant, against -60% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
1

Total granted

$67M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
-60%

Still filing today

98%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +76%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +66%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -60%

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
United Way of Wayne County Inc

United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…

Philanthropy
2
United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc

Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.

Philanthropy
3
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry

The mission of united way greater union county is to improve lives and build strong communities by uniting individuals and organizations with the will, passion, expertise, and resources needed to solve problems.

Philanthropy
5
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

—
6
United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy
7
United Way of South Wood & Adams Counties Inc

The mission of the united way of south wood & adams counties, inc. is: united we change and strenghten lives by investing in our community.

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Greater Lafayette

Mission - mobilizing our community to action so all can thrive vision - for over 100 years, we have partnered with local nonprofits, businesses, community leaders, donors and volunteers to create solutions that address the most complex…

Philanthropy
9
United Way Quad Cities

United way qc mission is mobilizing people and resources to improve lives in our community. united way qc develops, supports and invests in the most impactful strategies and partners to strengthen education, income and health--the building…

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Charlotte County Inc

Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.

Philanthropy
11
Greater Ottawa County United Way

To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of community to advance the common good. greater ottawa county united way supports, develops, and implements a range of impact solutions that improve lives and creates stronger communities.

—
12
United Way of Door County Inc

United way of door county mobilizes the community to build strong, equitable, and healthy lives for everyone who lives and works in door county. we bring people together to identify local needs, align resources, and support programs that…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Northwest Housing Alternatives. 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 68 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%74%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%71%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,482

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.

04the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 83 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
30/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $10,437,375 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $3,430,000 · Philanthropy+64 more — $52,675,000 · Philanthropy+64 moreUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $1,500,000 · OtherUnited Wa…UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $835,000 · OtherUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $715,000 · OtherUNITED WA…PHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION — $710,000 · OtherPHYSICIAN…UNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG — $585,000 · OtherUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC — $495,000 · OtherUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF LONG ISLAND — $475,000 · OtherUNITED WA…THE SALVATION ARMY — $440,000 · OtherTHE SALVA…TULSA AREA UNITED WAY — $215,000 · Other+1 more — $135,000 · OtherNational Council of YMCAs of the USA — $1,268,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE INC — $1,100,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $110,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $620,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCampaign for Working Families Inc — $247,500 · Crime & LegalWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $220,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$66,542,375Other$6,105,000Human Services$1,378,000Housing & Shelter$1,210,000Public Safety & Disaster$620,000Crime & Legal$247,500Community Improvement$220,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $10,437,375 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $3,430,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $2,190,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $1,945,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $1,930,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC — $1,870,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA — $1,870,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC — $1,695,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $1,677,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY INC — $1,620,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $1,560,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $1,500,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN — $1,400,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $1,390,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $1,350,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA — $1,268,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $1,200,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $1,180,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $1,175,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $1,140,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY — $1,120,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $1,120,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $1,110,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC — $1,100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $1,060,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $1,025,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC — $987,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC — $835,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $834,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc — $815,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY — $800,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION — $790,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $790,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $740,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH — $740,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY — $740,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC — $740,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $740,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $740,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $715,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPHYSICIANS CARE CONNECTION — $710,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC — $690,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY — $690,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TREASURE VALLEY INC — $656,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $640,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE — $640,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO — $640,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $640,000 over 8y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗

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.

United Way WorldwideAT&T FoundationLumen Clarke M Willia…Centene FoundationAetna Foundation IncWells Fargo FoundationPnc FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…United Way of Bergen …Synchrony Foundation
United Way WorldwideVA51.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · AT&T Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Centene Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Pnc Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of Bergen County · Synchrony Foundation

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 Siemer Institute 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 · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • United Way of Delaware — 58% of income from government
  • United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Siemer Institute?

Find your warmest path to Siemer Institute 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home