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Steelcase 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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
98
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$506k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$6.4MArts & Culture$4.3MHuman Services$3.3MPhilanthropy$2.7MYouth Development$2.1MHealth$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.3MCivil Rights$690kOther$0
02FY2024 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $949k
  • $50k–250k52 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$129M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$506,026
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY$450,000
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$250,000
GRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER$250,000
YOURCAUSE LLC$249,717
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$212,901
LEADING EDUCATORS$200,000
GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM$200,000
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$155,000
GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY$150,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$149,587
DIATRIBE INC$130,000
UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE$125,000
HEALTH NET OF WEST MICHIGAN$110,500
KENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK$105,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $50k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES: $30k → 10%EIGHTCAP INC: $1k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30k → 21%MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $50k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $2k → 19%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%REALISM IS LOYALTY: $105k → 11%REALISM IS LOYALTY: $101k → 11%REALISM IS LOYALTY: $100k → 11%TREETOPS COLLECTIVE: $50k → 11%TREETOPS COLLECTIVE: $50k → 11%OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $25k → 11%OAKDALE NEIGHBORS: $20k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $30k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $25k → 11%STREAMS OF HOPE: $25k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE: $50k → 11%ARBOR CIRCLE: $50k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE: $45k → 11%THE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES: $65k → 11%WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $30k → 11%AFRICAN RESOURCE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 11%AFRICAN RESOURCE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN: $25k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF WEST MICHIGAN: $101k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF WEST MICHIGAN: $100k → 11%PUBLIC THREAD X: $75k → 11%VIBRANT FUTURES: $50k → 11%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
IL
MI
NY
OR
NJ
MD
DE
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

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

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 78 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
47

Total granted

$16M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+6%

Still filing today

78%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $419k · revenue +34%
  • SG
    STEM GREENHOUSE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $330k · revenue +120%
  • K
    K-CONNECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $325k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • ES
    EDUCATION SEE ATTCHED LISTING
    one grant, 2020 · $2.8M
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • LC
    LIMESTONE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $216k

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
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
2
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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3
Grand Rapids Early Discovery Center

Our mission is to continuously expand the potential of children, the experiences of educators and the involvement of parents within the diverse community of grand rapids, mi

Human Services
4
Family Outreach Center

Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.

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5
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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6
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
7
Brilliant Detroit

Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.

Youth Development
8
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities

Michigan roundtable for just communities is a racial and social justice organization whose purpose is eradicate racism, discrimination, and systemic inequities by cultivating multigenerational just and beloved communities.

Religion
10
Progress Michigan Education Inc

Progress Michigan Education is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that promotes solutions for michigan through independent research, public education and the use of new media and internet outreach campaigns.

Public Benefit
11
Center for Success Network

Center for success unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.

Community Improvement
12
The Michigan Center for Civic Education

To promote and support the development of engaged, responsible citizens.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cook Museum of Natural Science. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr13%16%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr18%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr13%10%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr18%34%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/115
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,741

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

108 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. 108 of the 158 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/108
Grantees still filing
56/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EDUCATION SEE ATTCHED LISTING — $2,810,015 · OtherEDUCATION SEE ATTCHED LISTINGYOURCAUSE LLC — $1,320,077 · OtherYOURCAUSE LLCGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY — $820,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY — $450,000 · OtherANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $424,302 · OtherUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE — $418,500 · Other+83 more — $5,432,537 · Other+83 moreHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $1,350,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST …AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $506,026 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLIN…GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $340,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPIDS C…Rende Progress Capital — $237,750 · PhilanthropyRende Progress…Michigan Association of United Ways Inc — $225,000 · PhilanthropyMichigan Assoc…+6 more — $229,475 · Philanthropy+6 moreLEADING EDUCATORS INC — $525,000 · EducationLEADING EDUC…THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC — $380,250 · EducationTHE LEADERSH…STEM GREENHOUSE INC — $330,000 · EducationSTEM GREENHO…K-CONNECT — $325,000 · EducationK-CONNECTKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK — $205,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL …DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · EducationDAVENPORT UN…WEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $135,500 · EducationWEST MICHIGA…Math Medic Foundation — $130,000 · EducationYOUNG MONEY FINANCES — $100,000 · Education+6 more — $167,950 · Education+6 moreGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM — $575,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS…THE DIATRIBE INC — $310,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DIATRIBE…GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC — $303,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS…GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $300,250 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS…GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM — $200,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS…COOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE — $182,090 · Arts & CultureCOOK MUSEUM …THE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCE — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOSAIC F…EBONY ROAD PLAYERS — $125,000 · Arts & CultureGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $110,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $197,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreREALISM IS LOYALTY — $305,800 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE — $200,750 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $125,000 · Human ServicesBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $110,000 · Human ServicesTreetops Collective — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION — $100,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS GROWING II WOMEN — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $80,000 · Human ServicesStreams of Hope — $80,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC THREAD X — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES — $65,000 · Human Services+11 more — $332,750 · Human ServicesICCF COMMUNITY HOMES — $300,600 · Housing & ShelterAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP BLODGETT — $175,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF GRAND RAPIDS PARKS — $50,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$11,675,431Philanthropy$2,888,251Education$2,498,700Arts & Culture$2,452,840Human Services$1,674,300Housing & Shelter$900,600Recreation & Sports$575,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $1,350,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM — $575,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC — $525,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $506,026 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE — $418,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC — $380,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $340,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSTEM GREENHOUSE INC — $330,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetK-CONNECT — $325,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetTHE DIATRIBE INC — $310,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetThe Refugee Education Center — $310,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetREALISM IS LOYALTY — $305,800 over 3y, 22% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC — $303,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetICCF COMMUNITY HOMES — $300,600 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC — $300,250 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $300,250 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $300,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHealth Net of West Michigan — $280,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetRende Progress Capital — $237,750 over 2y, 11% of budgetMichigan Association of United Ways Inc — $225,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetKENT SCHOOL SERVICES NETWORK — $205,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS URBAN LEAGUE — $200,750 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN — $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOOK MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE — $182,090 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCAMP BLODGETT — $175,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCODE ON WHEELS — $150,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ATHENS-LIMESTONE COUNTY — $150,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Delta Project — $150,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetAFFINITY MENTORING — $150,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE MOSAIC FILM EXPERIENCE — $150,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetWomens Resource Center Inc — $149,587 over 1y, 13% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $135,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMath Medic Foundation — $130,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetEBONY ROAD PLAYERS — $125,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $125,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER — $110,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $110,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetWomen's Resource Center — $100,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTreetops Collective — $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetYOUNG MONEY FINANCES — $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS GROWING II WOMEN — $100,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCATHERINES HEALTH CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

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

Grand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationHeart of West Michiga…The Wege FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…The Meijer FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationCorewell Health Group…The Mercantile Bank F…The Sebastian Foundat…Krw FoundationCdv5 Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI142.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Wege Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Krw Foundation · Cdv5 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 Steelcase Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Steelcase Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Steelcase 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 158 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines