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The Argosy 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.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
280
Grants FY2024still arriving
43
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$9.3MHealth$7.4MEnvironment$7.1MYouth Development$6.6MEducation$5.8MFood & Nutrition$3.6MArts & Culture$3.4MPhilanthropy$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 280 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $140k
  • $10k–50k131 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k93 grants · $7.1M
  • $250k+10 grants · $6.7M
$30,000
Median grant
43
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACK CLUB$1,355,000
SHELBURNE FARMS$1,000,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$1,000,000
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES$666,667
FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FIRST)$585,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$300,000
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$290,000
REFED INC$250,000
BEYOND BENIGN INC$250,000
FIRST IN MICHIGAN$225,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$200,000
HACKSHACKERS$150,000
FIRST IN VERMONT$150,000
HACK CLUB$125,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFIYA CENTER: $80k → 14%FIRST IN TEXAS: $125k → 16%ALABAMA CAMPAIGN FOR ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $50k → 18%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $65k → 23%FIRST IN TEXAS: $63k → 16%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $65k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $50k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $50k → 23%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $30k → 23%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $30k → 23%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $20k → 8%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $25k → 23%COLLABORATIVE HEALING INITIATIVE WITHIN COMMUNITIES (CHIC): $20k → 8%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $20k → 8%YOUTH PASSAGEWAYS: $20k → 10%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $35k → 8%ATTENTION INC DBA TGTHR: $45k → 12%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $40k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $40k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $30k → 17%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $70k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $60k → 12%EQUIMUNDO CENTER FOR MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $60k → 14%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $53k → 12%PROMUNDO-US: $60k → 14%ATTENTION INC DBA TGTHR: $20k → 12%EQUIMUNDO CENTER FOR MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $60k → 14%EQUIMUNDO CENTER FOR MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $60k → 14%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 10%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $40k → 12%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $25k → 17%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $32k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $31k → 10%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $25k → 17%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $25k → 10%AFRICAN AMERICAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK INC: $30k → 17%AFRICAN AMERICAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK INC: $30k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $25k → 17%AGE WELL INC: $25k → 10%AGE WELL INC: $25k → 10%AGE WELL INC: $25k → 10%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

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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$47M · 237 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

237 repeat relationships — 200 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

237
131

Total granted

$47M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FI
    For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +92%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +5%
  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +34%
  • Rocky Mountain Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +26%
  • FI
    FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (FIRST) IN MICHIG
    one grant, 2021 · $125k

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

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

International
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
4
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

Animals
11
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
12
Compass Science Communication Inc

Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is National History Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development CentersElementary Literacy TutoringSenior Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Immigrant Worker SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsYmca Youth DevelopmentAnimal Rescue and ShelterAddiction Recovery ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts CentersPregnancy Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Development ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/349
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,216

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

339 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. 339 of the 440 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
334/339
Grantees still filing
212/339
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HACK CLUB — $2,030,000 · OtherHACK CLUBTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,120,000 · OtherTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $625,000 · Other+97 more — $14,954,811 · Other+97 moreBeyond Benign Inc — $1,250,000 · EnvironmentBeyond Benign…SHELBURNE FARMS — $1,225,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FAR…STAND — $460,000 · EnvironmentSTANDCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $345,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES F…Conservative Energy Network — $300,000 · EnvironmentCOOK INLETKEEPER — $257,500 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $245,000 · Environment+17 more — $2,136,000 · Environment+17 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $4,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …INGENUITYNE INC — $390,000 · Youth DevelopmentINGENUITYNE I…FIRST NORTH CAROLINA — $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST NORTH C…WISCONSIN FIRST ROBOTICS INC — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS — $245,000 · Youth Development+8 more — $670,100 · Youth Development+8 moreAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $1,000,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASS…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $450,000 · EducationAMERICAN IND…Youth Guidance — $442,500 · EducationYouth Guidan…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FO…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNI…THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $300,000 · EducationHACKS HACKERS — $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $299,966 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $266,334 · EducationCENTER FOR CURRICULUM REDESIGN INC — $250,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $240,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $225,000 · Education+13 more — $1,235,000 · Education+13 moreFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $5,275,307 · Science & TechFor Inspirat…+3 more — $393,500 · Science & Tech+3 moreBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $2,000,000 · HealthBaptist Heal…HAVEN HEALTH CLINICS — $380,000 · HealthHAVEN HEALTH…ACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC — $375,000 · HealthACCESS ESPER…Repro TLC — $320,000 · HealthRepro TLCPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $300,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $275,000 · HealthKentucky Health Justice Network Inc — $250,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $250,000 · HealthTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS — $200,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $200,000 · Health+7 more — $805,000 · Health+7 moreMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $125,757 · Arts & CultureLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT PUBLIC CO — $115,000 · Arts & CultureCONSENSUS BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $112,500 · Arts & CultureOPEN FUTURE INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMedia Literacy Now — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OKLAHOMA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF WESTERN VIRGINIA — $100,000 · Arts & CultureGATEWAY TO SCIENCE CENTER INC — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $242,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$18,729,811Environment$6,218,500Youth Development$5,930,100Education$5,733,800Science & Tech$5,668,807Health$5,605,000Arts & Culture$2,870,257

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) — $5,275,307 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc — $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBeyond Benign Inc — $1,250,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $1,225,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $1,120,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,050,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $625,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $600,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetREFED INC — $550,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST IN MICHIGAN — $550,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $480,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSTAND — $460,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $450,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Guidance — $442,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINGENUITYNE INC — $390,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHAVEN HEALTH CLINICS — $380,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetACCESS ESPERANZA CLINICS INC — $375,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $345,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFIRST NORTH CAROLINA — $325,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRepro TLC — $320,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMILWAUKEE FILM INC — $300,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC — $300,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWISCONSIN FIRST ROBOTICS INC — $300,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHACKS HACKERS — $300,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC — $300,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetConservative Energy Network — $300,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $299,966 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $275,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $266,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Food Connect — $265,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc — $260,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCOOK INLETKEEPER — $257,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetMILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $256,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CURRICULUM REDESIGN INC — $250,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetKentucky Health Justice Network Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS — $245,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $245,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …The Vermont Community…George W Mergens Foun…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Hopewell FundNational Life Group C…Greater Milwaukee Fou…The Susan Thompson Bu…The Prentice Foundati…Ralph Evinrude Founda…The Morris & Bessie A…Amalgamated Charitabl…
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO36.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · The Vermont Community Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Hopewell Fund · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 The Argosy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Media Literacy Now — 12% of income from government
  • Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Consensus Building Institute Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Beyond Benign Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
60report 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

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.

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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Argosy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Argosy 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 440 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.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home