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Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
238
Grants FY2025still arriving
37
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$6.6MEducation$2.8MReligion$2.7MHuman Services$2.3MArts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$910kPublic Safety & Disaster$751kAnimals$708kOther$0
02FY2025 · 238 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $304k
  • $10k–50k151 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$10,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TERI CAMPUS OF LIFE$350,000
RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$250,000
SAN DIEGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$225,000
UC SAN DIEGO BIRCH AQUARIUM$150,000
SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$150,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NJ$100,000
CHRISTIAN HEALTH CARE CENTER FOUNDA$100,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$100,000
KICKSTART KIDS$100,000
AVE PHILOMENA$100,000
MISSION OF DIVINE MERCY INC$100,000
FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HI$81,925
Individual grant recipient$75,000
CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER'S FOUNDATIO$75,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN DEL: $15k → 10%OPERATION WARM: $50k → 10%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $30k → 7%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $10k → 10%MISSION OF MERCY: $20k → 17%BLUEBONNET YOUTH RANCH: $20k → 20%ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST: $10k → 12%TULSA BOYS HOME: $10k → 15%THE WOMENS CENTER: $20k → 5%TN FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%ALONGSIDE FAMILIES: $12k → 10%CHASE THE VICTORY: $25k → 13%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $30k → 8%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $50k → 26%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFE SERVICE: $25k → 7%THE WOMENS CENTER: $20k → 5%CHASE THE VICTORY: $25k → 13%LIFE HAS NO BOUNDARIES CO: $15k → 19%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $50k → 15%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT: $25k → 26%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICE: $25k → 7%OPERATION WARM: $50k → 6%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICE: $25k → 7%LORETO HOUSE: $50k → 8%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $30k → 16%OPERATION WARM: $25k → 6%SBCS CORPORATION: $250k → 11%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON: $20k → 16%OPERATION WARM: $20k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%LORETO HOUSE: $25k → 8%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $25k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $25k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%LORETO HOUSE: $25k → 8%GUIDE DOGS OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%QUEST THERAPEUTIC SERVICES: $20k → 6%LORETO HOUSE: $25k → 8%PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 14%NOAH HOMES INC: $25k → 11%ASSOCIATION FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $25k → 14%CRISIS HOUSE: $20k → 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $20k → 14%BRING THE LIGHT MINISTRIES: $15k → 14%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
VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 223 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

223 repeat relationships: 142 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

223
290

Total granted

$19M
$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+4%

Still filing today

52%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • TI
    TERI Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $850k · revenue +25%
  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundation
    4× · 2020–2025 · $775k · revenue +29%
  • AP
    AVE PHILOMENA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $725k · revenue +72% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STATION OF THE CROSS RADIO
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • CC
    COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -11% · 84% of their budget
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
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
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
2
Paws of War Inc

To rescue, train and place shelter dogs to serve and provide independence to our veterans & first responders that suffer the traumatic effects of war, and provide essential and supportive services to our heroes in need.

Animals
3
Operation Freedom Paws

Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and individuals with disabilities to restore their freedom to live life.

Public Benefit
4
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
5
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
6
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
7
Divine Canines

Divine canines therapy encourages smiles and brightens lives. to accomplish this, we recruit and train teams of dogs and their owners and organize and facilitate regular, frequent visits to residents of special care facilities.

Animals
8
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services
9
Duo Dogs Inc

Duo dogs, inc. is a national nonprofit organization that trains and connects dogs with people to cultivate meaningful changes in individuals, families, and communities.

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10
Golden Opportunities for Independence Inc

To empower our clients to live independently, unencumbered by the challanges of daily living associated with medical disabilities. we match each client with a service dog that meets their individual needs. it is our goal to be flexible…

Animals
11
Pawsitivity

Train and place service dogs at no cost with U.S. military veterans with PTSD and other disabilities to increase independence.

Human Services
12
Paws for Purple Hearts

Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minuteman Disaster Response Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Czech Catholic Foundation of Texas. 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

322 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. 322 of the 611 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
61
Early backer (in before they grew)
319/322
Grantees still filing
176/322
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WACO FAM PRACTICE FDN: $1,500,000 · OtherWACO FAM PRACTICE FDNIndividual grant recipient: $600,000 · OtherTHE STATION OF THE CROSS RADIO: $500,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE: $500,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $500,000 · OtherKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $600,000 · Other+126 more: $9,075,925 · Other+126 moreSharp Healthcare Foundation: $775,000 · HealthSharp Heal…THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · HealthTHE VALLEY…Christian Health Care Center: $160,000 · HealthChristian …Grossmont Hospital Foundation: $150,000 · HealthGrossmont …THE BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $125,000 · HealthTHE BIOLOG…ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $105,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $80,000 · Health+14 more: $615,000 · Health+14 moreTERI Inc: $850,000 · ReligionTERI IncAVE PHILOMENA INC: $725,000 · ReligionAVE PHILOM…Mission of Divine Mercy Inc: $450,000 · ReligionMission of…+1 more: $25,000 · ReligionRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $650,000 · EducationCOVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationCornell University: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $100,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · Education+2 more: $85,000 · EducationOperation Warm Inc: $285,000 · Human ServicesSBCS CORPORATION: $250,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesLORETO HOUSE: $125,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $105,000 · Human Services+10 more: $373,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $440,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSE OF UKRAINE: $280,000 · Arts & CulturePARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: $100,000 · Arts & CultureANSONIA MUSIC OUTREACH ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $90,000 · Arts & CultureBurn Institute: $275,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $154,500 · PhilanthropySan Diego Council on Literacy: $110,000 · PhilanthropyMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyKIMBERLIE JO PATEK FOUNDATION: $77,500 · PhilanthropyEagle Mount: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POTTER'S HANDS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE POTTERS HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$13,275,925Health$2,205,000Religion$2,050,000Education$1,670,000Human Services$1,568,000Arts & Culture$1,190,000Philanthropy$857,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTERI Inc: $850,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $775,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAVE PHILOMENA INC: $725,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetRAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetKick Drugs Out of America Foundation: $600,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCOVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $500,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetMission of Divine Mercy Inc: $450,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $440,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $285,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF UKRAINE: $280,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetCHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 6y, 70% of budgetBurn Institute: $275,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetSBCS CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCornell University: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetChristian Health Care Center: $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $154,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetK9S4COPS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC: $135,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetLORETO HOUSE: $125,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Council on Literacy: $110,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $105,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGuide Dogs of Texas Inc: $105,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $105,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: $100,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER: $100,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKLAAS KIDS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetRETRIEVING FREEDOM INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNOCONA RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $85,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SAN DIEGO: $80,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $80,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKIMBERLIE JO PATEK FOUNDATION: $77,500 over 5y, 84% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST INC: $75,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetFORPEACE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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 TERI Inc ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AVE PHILOMENA INC ↗
  • Who funds RAMAPO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Mission of Divine Mercy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds CHULA VISTA FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Burn Institute ↗
  • Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Christian Health Care Center ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds K9S4COPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Grossmont Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PARLANCE CHAMBER CONCERTS INC ↗
  • Who funds LORETO HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Ken W Davis FoundationGil and Dody Weaver F…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Strake FoundationHattie Mae Lesley Fou…Walter J & Betty C Za…Communities Foundatio…Coserv Charitable Fou…The Rees-Jones Founda…The Cushman FoundationThomas M Helen McKee …Harry S & Isabel C Ca…
Ken W Davis FoundationTX29.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ken W Davis Foundation · Gil and Dody Weaver Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Strake Foundation · Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation Inc · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Coserv Charitable Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company

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 Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Family Promise of Southern Delaware Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Ramapo College Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Christian Health Care Center: 0% of income from government
  • Casa of Jackson County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 611 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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