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The Alvin L Glick Foundation at a glance

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The Alvin L Glick 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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
98
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.2MEducation$2.2MRecreation & Sports$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$645kEmployment$466kReligion$454kArts & Culture$448kOther$0
02FY2025 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $551k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACKSON INTERFAITH SHELTER$1,000,000
WEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION$500,000
MAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE$175,000
CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION$150,000
LUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$100,000
JACKSON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$100,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$100,000
CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION$75,000
ISAIAH'S HUB$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$50,000
JACKSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$50,000
JUDI'S HOUSE$50,000
JACKSON COUNTY PARKS$35,000
GROW JACKSON$30,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RED ROVER VENTURES: $85k → 11%LEAD FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%LEAD FOUNDATION: $15k → 5%KATE'S KART: $10k → 12%LEAD FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%KATE'S KART: $10k → 12%LEAD FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%KATE'S KART: $10k → 12%LEAD FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $20k → 12%ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $20k → 12%ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $20k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MID-MICHIGAN: $25k → 16%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $225k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $75k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%JACKSON AREA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%JACKSON AREA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%JACKSON AREA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%DISABILITY CONNECTIONS: $10k → 13%DISABILITY CONNECTIONS: $10k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $10k → 13%TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE: $10k → 13%TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE: $10k → 13%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 13%DISABILITY CONNECTIONS: $10k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $10k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $10k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $5k → 13%JACKSON YMCA: $50k → 13%JACKSON YMCA: $35k → 13%JACKSON YMCA: $30k → 13%COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $25k → 13%COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $24k → 13%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

WA
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MI
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MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
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AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 205 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

205 repeat relationships: 70 still active in FY2025, 135 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

205
213

Total granted

$13M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

48%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & 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

  • JI
    Jackson Interfaith Shelter
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +602%
  • CD
    CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +220%
  • SA
    Spring Arbor University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $470k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • WS
    WESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • SF
    STATE FAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.

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Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
2
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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3
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
4
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
5
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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7
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Jackson Community Ambulance

The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Michigan Sports Alliance

To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles

Recreation & Sports
10
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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11
Michigan Health Leadership Fund

To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.

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12
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc; the most unlike its peers is Michelle Marie Lunn Hope 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

219 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. 219 of the 445 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
208/219
Grantees still filing
141/219
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,081,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANWESTERN MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION: $500,000 · OtherWESTERN MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSIONLUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL: $462,275 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $451,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ISRAEL: $407,000 · OtherJACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (V): $314,050 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $305,000 · OtherJACKSON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $302,000 · OtherTHE ENTERPRISE GROUP COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $330,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN EDGE INC: $390,500 · Other+128 more: $4,229,510 · Other+128 moreCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $1,046,200 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DE…Jackson YMCA Inc: $119,000 · Human ServicesJackson YMCA…RED ROVER VENTURES: $85,000 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $65,500 · Human ServicesASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $61,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $59,000 · Human Services+9 more: $259,450 · Human Services+9 moreJackson Interfaith Shelter: $1,061,750 · Housing & ShelterMYPLACE INC: $55,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION: $500,000 · Recreation & SportsMAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE: $350,000 · Recreation & SportsJACKSON AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $101,000 · Recreation & Sports+5 more: $49,500 · Recreation & SportsSpring Arbor University: $470,000 · EducationJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $183,600 · EducationCOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON: $57,500 · EducationREGGIE McKENZIE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION AT MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30,000 · Education+11 more: $103,999 · EducationJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $384,800 · PhilanthropyJackson Community Foundation: $145,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $75,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $58,868 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $525,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,350 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $47,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,100 · HealthAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $25,500 · Health+6 more: $82,100 · Health
Other$8,772,835Human Services$1,695,150Housing & Shelter$1,120,250Recreation & Sports$1,000,500Education$882,599Philanthropy$763,668Health$760,050

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 budgetJackson Interfaith Shelter: $1,061,750 over 9y, 11% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $1,046,200 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $525,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSpring Arbor University: $470,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $451,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN EDGE INC: $390,500 over 9y, 34% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $384,800 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetMAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE: $350,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE GROUP COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $330,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetJackson School of the Arts Assoc: $268,000 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY: $260,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $183,600 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ANCHOR INITIATIVE: $170,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetJackson Community Foundation: $145,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetJackson YMCA Inc: $119,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $115,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEAN ROCKET LAB: $105,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetJACKSON AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $101,000 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRED ROVER VENTURES: $85,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $65,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME: $65,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $61,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetJACKSON SOUTHWEST LITTLE LEAGUE: $60,200 over 9y, 44% of budgetGROW JACKSON: $60,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY: $59,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON: $57,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMYPLACE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetL E A D FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $50,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetSOAR CAFE AND FARMS: $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetJACKSON AREA MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION: $48,250 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $48,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $47,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetELLA SHARP MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF JACKSON: $46,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH: $39,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetREGGIE McKENZIE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetJACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $36,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN THEATRE OF JACKSON INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $30,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION AT MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDISABILITY CONNECTIONS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLIONS OF MICHIGAN SERVICE FOUNDATION INC: $27,800 over 4y, 2.3% 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 Jackson Interfaith Shelter ↗
  • Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds Spring Arbor University ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN EDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE ENTERPRISE GROUP COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ANCHOR INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Jackson Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Jackson YMCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LEAN ROCKET LAB ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RED ROVER VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗

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.

Consumers Energy Foun…Jackson Community Fou…John George Jr Paragr…The Alro Steel Founda…Lavery FoundationPhil & Pat Willis Fou…The Hurst FoundationSpeckhard-Knight Char…Addison P Cook III Fo…Comerica Charitable F…Melling Family Founda…The L H Field Family …
Consumers Energy FoundationMI91.7× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · The Alro Steel Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Addison P Cook III Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Melling Family Foundation · The L H Field 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 The Alvin L Glick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alvin L Glick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Alvin L Glick 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 445 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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