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The Bamford Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
156
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$167k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$4.3MArts & Culture$3.0MYouth Development$2.7MHuman Services$2.3MHealth$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.2MCommunity Improvement$736kRecreation & Sports$599kOther$0
02FY2024 · 156 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k105 grants · $538k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $780k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $217k
$7,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$166,667
GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT MUSEUM$40,000
FIRST 5 FUNDAMENTALS$40,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$32,500
TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS$27,000
ASIA PACIFIC CULTURAL CENTER$25,000
GRAND CINEMA$25,000
TACOMA COMMUNITY HOUSE$24,262
LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN$23,377
RAISING GIRLS$20,000
SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN$20,000
TACOMA PARKS FOUNDATION$20,000
PALMER SCHOLARS$18,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$18,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AT THE CROSSROADS: $40k → 10%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 9%COFFEE OASIS: $20k → 10%THE MOORE WRIGHT GROUP: $10k → 18%AT THE CROSSROADS: $25k → 10%INNOVATIONS HUMAN TRAFFICKING COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $41k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $26k → 9%CHILD CARE RESOURCES: $20k → 9%TACID: $32k → 9%TACID: $31k → 9%TACID: $25k → 9%TACID: $20k → 9%BRIGHTSPEAK EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $20k → 9%BRIGHTSPEAK EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $17k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $20k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $26k → 9%KOREAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $25k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $16k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $25k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $15k → 9%NORTHWEST FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $10k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $85k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $51k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $15k → 9%STEP BY STEP: $10k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $192k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $167k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $130k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $47k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $32k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $21k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $21k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $17k → 9%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $12k → 9%YMCA OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES: $11k → 9%AMARA: $35k → 9%AMARA: $30k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%AMARA: $20k → 9%AMARA: $15k → 9%OUR SISTER'S HOUSE: $15k → 9%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $12k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $40k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 187 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

187 repeat relationships — 106 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

187
77

Total granted

$18M
$926k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth 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

  • G
    GREENTRIKE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +116%
  • AW
    ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue +71%
  • FW
    FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $506k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PC
    PIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +47%
  • GH
    GIG HARBOER FISH FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • PD
    POINT DEFIANCE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue -43%

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
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
2
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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3
Pathwaves Washington

Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.

Education
4
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
5
Bike Works Seattle

Bike Works promotes the bicycle as a vehicle for change to empower youth and build resilient communities.

Recreation & Sports
6
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
7
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
8
Washington Progress Fund

Washington Progress Fund is building a permanent and powerful social change movement in Washington state supported by a network of committed donors. WPF envisions a Washington state where government serves the public interest and we all…

Philanthropy
9
The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound

To grow a lasting culture of generosity and well-being in the South Puget Sound through connection, leadership, and investment.

Philanthropy
10
Parent Trust for Washington Children

Parent trust for washington children creates lasting change and hope for the future by promoting safe, healthy families and communities.

Human Services
11
Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.

Unclassified
12
Seattle Economic Development Fund Business Impact Nw

To provide economic development financing to serve the needs of small businesses in the state of washington that would not qualify for private financing under conventional financing criteria.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Tacoma Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation. 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 backsteadyYouth Education & Stem Prog…Food Banks and Hunger ReliefYouth Sports ProgramsNonprofit Support Foundatio…Community Service ClubsArts and Cultural Organizat…Youth Mentorship and Leader…Regional Business & Tourism…Professional & Industry Ass…Immigrant & Refugee SupportAffordable Housing and Supp…Independent Schools and Ear…Family 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/213
the rest of the field
14%
2,245/16,350

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

199 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. 199 of the 316 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
196/199
Grantees still filing
129/199
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (UW-TACOMA) — $1,625,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION (UW-TACOMA)MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $525,550 · OtherMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS — $515,200 · OtherANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS+110 more — $6,282,139 · Other+110 moreGREENTRIKE — $1,177,125 · Arts & CultureGREENTRIKEFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $505,618 · Arts & CultureFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORTKBTC ASSOCIATION — $309,324 · Arts & CultureKBTC ASSOCIATIONAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $285,250 · Arts & CultureAsia Pacific Cultural…TACOMA ARTS LIVE — $262,225 · Arts & CultureTACOMA ARTS LIVETacoma Art Museum — $181,000 · Arts & CultureRefugee Choir Project — $169,030 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACT — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $598,200 · Arts & Culture+12 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $441,659 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S C…Tacoma Community House — $363,762 · Human ServicesTacoma Commun…Tacoma Urban League — $233,585 · Human ServicesTacoma Urban …STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $161,375 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP …AMARA — $141,800 · Human ServicesAMARABrightspark Early Learning Services — $125,500 · Human ServicesBrightspark E…TACID — $123,650 · Human ServicesTACID+17 more — $624,600 · Human Services+17 moreGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $690,368 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $441,800 · PhilanthropyTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC — $217,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $50,250 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $252,100 · EducationDEGREES OF CHANGE — $247,700 · EducationR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $245,800 · EducationCollege Success Foundation — $119,850 · EducationHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $89,350 · EducationA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY — $77,500 · Education+11 more — $290,100 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $367,250 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST FIVE FUNDAMENTALS — $228,800 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF WESTSOUND — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $45,800 · Youth DevelopmentOasis Youth Center — $41,700 · Youth Development+3 more — $48,500 · Youth DevelopmentMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $126,750 · HealthPierce County Project Access — $110,500 · HealthCOMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY — $93,723 · HealthOLIVE CREST — $90,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — $56,500 · HealthAHAT Homecare — $37,500 · HealthEDGE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · HealthTRA MEDICAL IMAGING FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Health+4 more — $76,000 · Health
Other$8,947,889Arts & Culture$3,612,772Human Services$2,215,931Philanthropy$1,399,418Education$1,322,400Youth Development$787,050Health$661,473

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENTRIKE — $1,177,125 over 8y, 15% of budgetGREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $690,368 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS — $515,200 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT — $505,618 over 8y, 19% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY — $441,800 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES — $441,659 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $367,250 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTacoma Community House — $363,762 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetKBTC ASSOCIATION — $309,324 over 3y, 72% of budgetSAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN — $291,733 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetAsia Pacific Cultural Center — $285,250 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER — $281,500 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE — $262,225 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $252,100 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetGreater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation — $251,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetDEGREES OF CHANGE — $247,700 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetR MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP — $245,800 over 8y, 20% of budgetTacoma Urban League — $233,585 over 8y, 16% of budgetFIRST FIVE FUNDAMENTALS — $228,800 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetTACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC — $217,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetTacoma Art Museum — $181,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetRefugee Choir Project — $169,030 over 6y, 27% of budgetMETROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $161,382 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $161,375 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetAMARA — $141,800 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $139,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS — $126,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBrightspark Early Learning Services — $125,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetARTS IMPACT — $125,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTACID — $123,650 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $119,850 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPierce County Aids Foundation — $114,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPierce County Project Access — $110,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTACOMA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $101,666 over 3y, 17% of budgetPIERCE COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGRAND TACOMA CINE CLUB DBA THE GRAND CINEMA — $97,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $97,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $95,877 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSYMPHONY TACOMA — $95,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON — $95,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF TACOMA-PIERCE COUNTY — $93,723 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $90,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLTOP ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE — $89,350 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetTacoma Urban Performing Arts Center — $88,450 over 6y, 11% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $79,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP AHEAD IN PIERCE COUNTY — $77,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRAISING GIRLS — $72,500 over 6y, 18% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES — $70,500 over 5y, 10% 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.

  • Who funds GREENTRIKE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TACOMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds FOSS WATERWAY SEAPORT ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PIERCE AND KITSAP COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Community House ↗
  • Who funds KBTC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE STREETS CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds Asia Pacific Cultural Center ↗
  • Who funds PEACE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA ARTS LIVE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds Greater Metro Parks Foundation dba Tacoma Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DEGREES OF CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds R MERLE PALMER MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Urban League ↗
  • Who funds FIRST FIVE FUNDAMENTALS ↗
  • Who funds TACOMA COMMUNITY BOAT BUILDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Tacoma Art Museum ↗
  • Who funds Refugee Choir Project ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMARA ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds MULTICARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Brightspark Early Learning Services ↗
  • Who funds ARTS IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds TACID ↗
  • Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Pierce County Aids Foundation ↗

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.

Greater Tacoma Commun…Fuchsg & M Fdn TaiThe Norcliffe Foundat…Kilworth Florence Cha…Woodworth Family Foun…Gary E Milgard Family…Heidner Marco J Char …Forest FoundationSequoia FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Ben B Cheney Foundati…The Russell Family Fo…
Greater Tacoma Community FoundationWA210.6× affinity116 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · The Norcliffe Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Woodworth Family Foundation · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Heidner Marco J Char Trust · Forest Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Bamford Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
89report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

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 316 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
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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