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Synchrony Foundation

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.

$21M
Granted FY2025still arriving
374
Grants FY2025still arriving
33
States reached
$4.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$17MHuman Services$13MPhilanthropy$11MCommunity Improvement$11MInternational$5.4MEmployment$5.2MYouth Development$4.2MFood & Nutrition$4.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 374 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k215 grants · $882k
  • $10k–50k85 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k54 grants · $4.9M
  • $250k+20 grants · $14M
$7,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION$4,895,896
DISTRICT ARTS & EDUCATION$1,007,600
THE KNOWLEDGE HOUSE$950,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$900,000
NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING$750,000
DOMUS KIDS INC$675,100
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION$675,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$461,420
MYRIAD USA$456,750
BUILDON INC$455,426
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$409,300
JEANETTE RANKIN FOUNDATION$350,000
GIRLS WHO CODE$287,000
DONORSCHOOSE$270,700
JOB'S FOR AMERICA'S GRADUATES$270,000
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, $15.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANINE COMPANIONS: $50k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $100k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 11%NORTH AMERICAN TELUGU ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $103k → 8%CANINE COMPANIONS: $47k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $55k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 8%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $52k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $900k → 11%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $30k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $705k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 11%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $25k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $662k → 11%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $41k → 8%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $75k → 13%SAFE HORIZON: $36k → 17%SAVVY LADIES: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $75k → 13%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $250k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $72k → 13%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $29k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $28k → 16%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING: $750k → 14%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING: $750k → 14%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING: $750k → 14%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING: $100k → 14%NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING: $750k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE: $562k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $505k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $502k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $287k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $123k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $73k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $73k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $40k → 9%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: $250k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $201k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE: $200k → 17%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF FAIRFIELD COUNTRY INC: $48k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $26k → 9%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CTR OF FAIRFIELD COUNTRY INC: $35k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AID: $30k → 9%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
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VT
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IL
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NY
MA
OR
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IA
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NJ
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CA
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CO
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KY
WV
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Synchrony Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Synchrony Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88M · 1243 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

1243 repeat relationships: 272 still active in FY2025, 971 since wound down; 85 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1243
644

Total granted

$88M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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 ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • DI
    DAE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +105% · 53% of their budget
  • BUILDON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +55%
  • GIRLS WHO CODE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • TA
    THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -32%
  • BP
    BUILDON PROGRAMS
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
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
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition
2
Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture
3
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
4
United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services
5
One Community Health

To advance health and social justice for all members of our community.

—
6
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals... feeding san diego is on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community…

Food & Nutrition
7
Options for All Inc

To create and support opportunities for individuals with idd in making choices to live, work, and love lifein their community with dignity and respect

Employment
8
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
9
Jewish Family and Children's Service

To support people of all backgrounds to reach their full potential.

Human Services
10
Child Health and Development Institute

To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.

Human Services
11
Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International
12
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder builds lasting and trusted local partnerships to strengthen health systems, forging resilient pathways to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Colgate University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1430 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. 1430 of the 2,000 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)
259
Early backer (in before they grew)
1406/1430
Grantees still filing
1014/1430
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION HOPE INC: $2,150,000 · OtherOPERATION HOPE INCDOMUS KIDS INC: $2,012,463 · OtherDOMUS KIDS INC+120 more: $31,469,797 · Other+120 moreDEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $5,756,652 · PhilanthropyDEED COMMUNITY GIVI…THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $5,004,099 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVIN…UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $1,544,756 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COAST…UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1,381,695 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWID…FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $851,886 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE …+10 more: $1,417,079 · Philanthropy+10 moreEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,984,171 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTA…NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $3,120,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FOUNDATI…GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $2,266,137 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE IN…+18 more: $2,700,338 · Human Services+18 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $1,972,630 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $1,236,456 · EducationMERCY LEARNING…HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,060,260 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOL…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $921,282 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIB…ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $625,525 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIV…Brewster Academy: $625,000 · EducationBrewster Acade…AMERICAN INDIAN BUSINESS LEADERS: $541,495 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $517,000 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATION: $512,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $417,826 · Education+17 more: $3,192,333 · Education+17 moreDAE INC: $3,876,350 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $3,000,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $134,074 · Community ImprovementBUILDON INC: $2,802,810 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $1,065,750 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $886,982 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $222,006 · InternationalGK 1 WORLD FOUNDATION: $183,461 · International+4 more: $327,339 · InternationalJobs for America's Graduates Inc: $1,970,000 · EmploymentThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $1,850,000 · Employment+1 more: $100,000 · Employment
Other$35,632,260Philanthropy$15,956,167Human Services$14,070,646Education$11,621,807Community Improvement$7,010,424International$5,488,348Employment$3,920,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,984,171 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetDEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION: $5,756,652 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $5,004,099 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDAE INC: $3,876,350 over 5y, 53% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC: $3,120,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDON INC: $2,802,810 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $2,266,137 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $2,150,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC: $2,012,463 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $1,972,630 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJobs for America's Graduates Inc: $1,970,000 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $1,850,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $1,544,756 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1,381,695 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $1,236,456 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetTHE JEANNETTE RANKIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,152,100 over 5y, 22% of budgetONETEN COALITION INC: $1,134,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFeeding America: $1,117,020 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $1,065,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,060,260 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $1,010,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $921,282 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $886,982 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $851,886 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $850,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetALPFA INC: $750,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $627,597 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $625,525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBrewster Academy: $625,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN BUSINESS LEADERS: $541,495 over 4y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $517,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION: $512,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $478,705 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC: $430,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $417,826 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $400,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $385,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $357,056 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC: $352,115 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetAscend Inc: $350,900 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $337,537 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $337,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALPFA FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $296,884 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $295,450 over 5y, 0.0% 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 EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DEED COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds DAE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Jobs for America's Graduates Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEANNETTE RANKIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONETEN COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE ADVERTISING COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALPFA INC ↗
  • Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN BUSINESS LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

The Dayton Power and …Mathile Family Founda…The United Way of the…Virginia W Kettering …The Near and Far Asso…Miami Valley HospitalLevin Family Foundati…Black Hills Area Comm…Newtown Savings Bank …The Tudor Foundation …Dayton Foundation Plu…The Berry Family Foun…
The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio FoundationOH48× affinity30 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · The Near and Far Association Inc · Miami Valley Hospital · Levin Family Foundation · Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Berry Family 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 Synchrony Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Synchrony Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc: 54% of income from government
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Aid Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Stamford Partnership Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Triangle Community Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut: 1% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Synchrony Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Synchrony 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 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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