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State Policy Network

STATE POLICY NETWORK's (spn) mission is to catalyze thriving, durable freedom movements in every state, anchored with high-performing, independent think tanks.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
31
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$14MSocial Science$4.0MEducation$3.5MCivil Rights$2.2MHuman Services$1.5MCrime & Legal$519kPhilanthropy$386kHealth$359kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $750k
  • $50k–250k45 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$75,000
Median grant
31
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREEDOM FOUNDATION$500,000
INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT$250,000
OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS$250,000
PIONEER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH$250,000
BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE$245,000
ARIZONA LIBERTY NETWORK$125,000
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$125,000
INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT$125,000
OPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS$125,000
CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE$125,000
JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE$125,000
BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE$125,000
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY$125,000
ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE$125,000
CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT$125,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LET GROW: $55k → 17%TRUE CHANGE: $75k → 16%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $280k → 11%FATHER ON A MISSION: $73k → 19%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $186k → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $45k → 14%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $130k → 11%HEARTS OF EMPOWERMENT INC: $51k → 7%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $144k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $126k → 11%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $139k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $125k → 11%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $107k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $100k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $95k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $67k → 10%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI: $40k → 11%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

AK
ME
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 59 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
34

Total granted

$32M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+17%

Still filing today

95%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $733k 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
Public BenefitEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceCivil RightsOther
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

  • BC
    BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +106%
  • GC
    Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +99%
  • PU
    PEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +246% · 93% of their budget

Funded once

  • IL
    INSPIRED LIFE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -68%
  • FF
    FREEDOM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +11% · 84% of their budget
  • NM
    NATIONAL MICROSCHOOLING CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +74%
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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3
Institute for Policy Innovation

It is the mission of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) to provide education, research, analysis and recommendations to policy makers, opinion leaders and the American people designed to help solve public policy problems through…

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4
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
5
Technology Policy Institute
International
6
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
9
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
10
The Libertarian Institute

Disseminate information and education about pertinent economic, social and governmental topics, via print, web and other media to educate the public about the principles of LIbertarianism.

Education
11
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

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12
The Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research Inc

To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Freedom Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 105 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
66/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $1,854,500 · Public BenefitBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEEPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $999,500 · Public BenefitPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLI…ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $955,500 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTEINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $803,000 · Public BenefitINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTETHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES: $799,000 · Public BenefitTHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR P…MACKINAC CENTER: $746,200 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTERLibertas Network: $713,000 · Public BenefitLibertas NetworkEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $694,650 · Public BenefitEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY I…BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $452,500 · Public Benefit+16 more: $1,943,900 · Public Benefit+16 moreThe Buckeye Institute: $944,000 · OtherThe Buckeye InstituteSOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $887,500 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL ED…EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $733,700 · OtherEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATIONTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $650,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR …YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $583,300 · OtherYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLI…PLATTE INSTITUTE ACTION: $525,000 · OtherPLATTE INSTITUTE ACTIONTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC: $480,725 · OtherCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $445,000 · OtherALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $375,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY: $375,000 · OtherWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $611,050 · OtherWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LI…Center of the American Experiment: $522,800 · OtherPalmetto Promise Institute: $513,250 · Other+31 more: $2,172,400 · Other+31 moreGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $1,536,094 · EducationGeorgia Center for O…INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC: $1,288,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR REFORM…PIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $1,117,000 · EducationPIONEER INSTITUTE IN…ALASKA POLICY FORUM INC: $475,000 · EducationALASKA POLICY FORUM …KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $462,500 · EducationKANSAS POLICY INSTIT…THE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER: $325,950 · EducationSutherland Institute: $280,300 · Education+11 more: $798,900 · Education+11 morePEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION: $1,371,718 · Social SciencePEOPLE UNIT…Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc: $1,157,400 · Social ScienceCardinal In…GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC: $966,000 · Social ScienceGEORGIA PUB…+1 more: $23,750 · Social ScienceEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $996,250 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $838,358 · Human ServicesTrue Change Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesFOAM Fathers on a Mission: $72,750 · Human Services+3 more: $150,736 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $696,218 · PhilanthropySHOW-ME INSTITUTE: $260,500 · PhilanthropyFREEDOM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $1,046,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Public Benefit$9,961,750Other$9,818,725Education$6,283,744Social Science$3,518,868Human Services$2,133,094Philanthropy$1,156,718Public Safety & Disaster$1,046,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $1,854,500 over 8y, 17% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $1,536,094 over 9y, 14% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION: $1,371,718 over 4y, 93% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC: $1,288,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetCardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc: $1,157,400 over 8y, 41% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $1,117,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $1,046,000 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $999,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $996,250 over 6y, 15% of budgetGEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC: $966,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $955,500 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $944,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $887,500 over 4y, 56% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $838,358 over 7y, 11% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $803,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES: $799,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $746,200 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetEVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $733,700 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLibertas Network: $713,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetOPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS FOUNDATION: $696,218 over 4y, 34% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC: $694,650 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $650,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $611,050 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $583,300 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $522,800 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetPalmetto Promise Institute: $513,250 over 7y, 21% of budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC: $480,725 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetALASKA POLICY FORUM INC: $475,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $462,500 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $452,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $445,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $375,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $330,500 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetTHE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER: $325,950 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetSutherland Institute: $280,300 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetGARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC: $276,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetSHOW-ME INSTITUTE: $260,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetIOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF: $215,400 over 2y, 89% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $210,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOUNDARY LINE FOUNDATION: $201,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetFRONTIER INSTITUTE INC: $185,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $172,900 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTHE THOMAS JEFFERSON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $167,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetGRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $148,900 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC: $148,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBLUEGRASS INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY SO: $147,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetAMERICAN CULTURE FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $135,250 over 4y, 2.8% 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 BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR PRIVACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Inc ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
  • Who funds PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Buckeye Institute ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA POLICY COUNCIL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY ALTERNATIVES ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Libertas Network ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY ARKANSAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
  • Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
  • Who funds Palmetto Promise Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA POLICY FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MAINE HERITAGE POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Sutherland Institute ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHOW-ME INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds IOWANS FOR TAX RELIEF ↗

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.

Donors Trust IncThe Lynde and Harry B…The Roe FoundationAdolph Coors Foundati…Atlas Economic Resear…The Seminar Network I…Bradley Impact Fund I…Beth and Ravenel Curr…Charles Koch InstituteCharles Koch Foundati…EdChoice IncThe Chase Foundation …
Donors Trust IncVA114.6× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Roe Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · The Seminar Network Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · EdChoice Inc · The Chase Foundation of Virginia

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 State Policy Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from State Policy Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    10get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 105 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 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 endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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