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Stearns Charitable Trust at a glance

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Stearns Charitable Trust

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.

$450k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$786kEducation$758kArts & Culture$492kHealth$451kHousing & Shelter$219kAnimals$173kReligion$126kFood & Nutrition$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY$55,000
MASSACHUSETTS RIVERS ALLIANCE$40,000
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM$30,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$20,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION (USCF FOUNDATION)$20,000
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES$17,500
SAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL$15,000
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (DBA BRIC)$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC$10,000
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION)$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE)$10,000
PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION$10,000
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, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEADS: $1k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%NEADS: $1k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $5k → 12%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $9k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 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

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 88 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

88 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
57

Total granted

$2.8M
$312k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • MR
    Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +76%
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $162k · revenue +218%
  • CF
    COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • OO
    ORDER OF SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM PHIL PA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • AC
    ADM CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -49%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
United States Naval Institute

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

—
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grace Science 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

107 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. 107 of the 156 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
77/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (DBA BRIC): $92,000 · OtherBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (DBA BRIC)UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION (USCF FOUNDATION): $76,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUND…SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS: $74,000 · OtherSISTERS OF OUR LADY OF SORROWSTHE MORRIS ARBORETUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA: $65,000 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL: $62,500 · OtherWHEATON ANNUAL FUND: $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK SERVICE (POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE): $55,000 · OtherSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $48,500 · Other+73 more: $798,388 · Other+73 moreWHEATON COLLEGE: $119,333 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGETHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $106,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $89,555 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $42,500 · EducationSAN DOMENICO SCH…MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationMARIN PRIMARY & …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION: $22,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $18,000 · Education+8 more: $51,500 · Education+8 moreMassachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc: $174,889 · EnvironmentMassachusetts Ri…Seekonk Land Conservation Trust: $99,995 · EnvironmentSeekonk Land Con…WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $42,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LAND CO…WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC: $41,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT RIVER W…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $22,500 · EnvironmentEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $20,000 · Environment+9 more: $48,000 · Environment+9 moreCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $74,500 · HealthCUTANEOUS L…GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthGRACE SCIEN…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $51,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH…THE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $37,500 · HealthTHE PACIFIC…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $26,000 · HealthDana-Farber…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $24,440 · HealthPLANNED PAR…EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · HealthLENNY LEARNING INC: $15,000 · Health+5 more: $34,000 · Health+5 moreWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $162,000 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE AR…BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC ARTS M…OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION: $32,500 · Arts & CultureOLD SLATER …MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF S…Chicago Humanities Festival: $17,000 · Arts & Culture51 WALDEN INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION: $14,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $14,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $32,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $152,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $66,388 · Human Services+4 more: $17,000 · Human ServicesSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $101,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $28,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,500 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 · Animals+3 more: $6,000 · Animals
Other$1,331,388Education$507,388Environment$500,884Health$348,440Arts & Culture$346,500Human Services$235,888Animals$150,500

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 budgetMassachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc: $174,889 over 6y, 11% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $162,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $152,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $119,333 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $106,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $101,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSeekonk Land Conservation Trust: $99,995 over 5y, 54% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $89,555 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION: $74,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $66,388 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $51,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $48,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $43,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $42,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC: $41,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION: $32,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA: $24,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADM CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMarin Rowing Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLENNY LEARNING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budget51 WALDEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,889 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOSSIPEE CHILDRENS FUND INC: $14,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSeekonk Library Trust: $14,000 over 4y, 22% 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 Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Seekonk Land Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Boston Foundation IncUnited Way of Rhode I…Marin Community Found…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Fidelity FoundationJewish Community Fede…Amica Companies Found…Neil & Anna Rasmussen…Alvord Family Foundat…Pobble Stone Foundati…The Jaket Foundation
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Marin Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Fidelity Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amica Companies Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Jaket 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 Stearns Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stearns Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Oars Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Narrows Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Westport Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 156 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

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

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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