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The Bullitt 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Environment$27MEducation$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.5MCivil Rights$1.1MRecreation & Sports$1.1MFood & Nutrition$912kHousing & Shelter$835kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $494k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $1.9M
$45,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOXIC-FREE FUTURE$125,000
VERDE$100,000
TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION$100,000
FUTUREWISE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$100,000
WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION$100,000
OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$95,000
SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE$95,000
350 SEATTLE$90,000
BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$80,000
RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT$80,000
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE$75,000
EARTHJUSTICE$75,000
DUWAMISH RIVER CLEANUP COALITION$70,000
INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTON'S FUTURE$60,000
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, $831k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ROOM ONE: $1k → 17%EMPOWERMT: $927 → 9%GREEN LENTS: $25k → 12%SOUND GENERATIONS: $66k → 9%COMMUNITY DAY CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $781 → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $450 → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $60k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $50k → 9%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $36k → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $375 → 9%OPEN ARMS PERINATAL SERVICES: $375 → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $145k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $60k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $60k → 9%FEET FIRST: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE (THE DOORWAY PROJECT): $64k → 9%CHIEF SEATTLE CLUB: $3k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $900 → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $35k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $750 → 9%FACING HOMELESSNESS: $35k → 9%SERVE ETHIOPIANS WASHINGTON: $30k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK: $22k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $450 → 9%SOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $62k → 9%SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $32k → 9%MUSLIMAHS AGAINST ABUSE CENTER: $30k → 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

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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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$35M · 212 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

212 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 169 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

212
221

Total granted

$35M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +46%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $794k · revenue +66%
  • NE
    NW ENERGY COALITION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $661k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • RP
    ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPHY ADVISORS
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • GP
    GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -28%
  • WE
    WASHINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL (WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION)
    one grant, 2022 · $130k

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
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
2
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
3
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
4
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
5
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
6
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment
7
Whatcom Land Trust

The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.

Environment
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment
10
10000 Years Institute

10,000 Years Institute evaluates the ecological effects of human activities on natural environments, and promotes the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity through the integration of reliable scientific information, sound…

Unclassified
11
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
12
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Local Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportSenior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesPublic Library OperationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…School Parent OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity 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 number21%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%44%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr15%8%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%3/325
the rest of the field
12%
4,744/38,643

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

316 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. 316 of the 446 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
96
Early backer (in before they grew)
302/316
Grantees still filing
222/316
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $3,050,375 · EnvironmentEARTH DAY NETWORK INCWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $794,140 · EnvironmentOregon Environmental Council — $657,500 · Environment+71 more — $14,053,441 · Environment+71 moreNW ENERGY COALITION — $661,485 · OtherVerde Inc — $495,000 · Other+97 more — $11,865,073 · Other+97 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,618,344 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $275,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $185,000 · EducationNATIONAL CAUCUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATORS — $120,000 · EducationWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF LAND TRUSTS — $84,000 · Education+1 more — $60,000 · EducationTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $631,500 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $365,000 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS — $310,000 · Community ImprovementOPAL — $265,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SEATTLE WATERFRONT — $105,000 · Community ImprovementWin Win Network — $103,250 · Community Improvement+1 more — $60,000 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $545,675 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $265,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Roots Housing Foundation — $180,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP — $150,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGROW — $100,000 · PhilanthropyInvestigateWest — $245,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS INC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO — $151,484 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMON ACRE — $97,500 · Arts & CultureSHUNPIKE — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $573,630 · Recreation & SportsCascade Bicycle Club — $160,000 · Recreation & Sports
Environment$18,555,456Other$13,021,558Education$2,342,344Community Improvement$1,839,750Philanthropy$1,340,675Arts & Culture$783,984Recreation & Sports$733,630

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 budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $3,050,375 over 4y, 33% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,618,344 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $794,140 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetNW ENERGY COALITION — $661,485 over 5y, 11% of budgetOregon Environmental Council — $657,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetTRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION — $631,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetSEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION — $573,630 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetFUTUREWISE — $553,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $545,675 over 7y, 0.1% of budget350 Seattle — $545,518 over 7y, 12% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $500,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetVerde Inc — $495,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetInternational Living Future Institute — $495,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION — $480,075 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetSightline Institute — $475,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFORTERRA NW — $455,210 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Foundation — $440,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $432,150 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST — $365,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetECOTRUST — $340,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST — $326,800 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetSEATTLE 2030 DISTRICT — $322,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $315,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS — $310,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $285,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $280,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA — $280,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbors for Clean Air — $275,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetOPAL — $265,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $265,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK NORTHWEST — $260,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budget350PDX — $260,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE — $260,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM — $255,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $255,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetWILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP — $255,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $253,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION — $250,650 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetInvestigateWest — $245,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetZero Waste Washington — $245,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetNORTHWEST ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER — $245,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG — $240,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER — $237,125 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetCONSERVATION NW — $231,450 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY — $225,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetNORTHWEST NATURAL RESOURCE GROUP — $225,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetEarthGen Fka WA Green Schools — $220,475 over 5y, 9.4% 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 EARTH DAY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NW ENERGY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Environmental Council ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPORTATION CHOICES COALITION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FUTUREWISE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 350 Seattle ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Verde Inc ↗
  • Who funds International Living Future Institute ↗
  • Who funds TOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Sightline Institute ↗
  • Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
  • Who funds BlueGreen Alliance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
  • Who funds RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE 2030 DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS ↗
  • Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Neighbors for Clean Air ↗
  • Who funds OPAL ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPARK NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds 350PDX ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM ↗
  • Who funds PUGET SOUND SAGE ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…The Russell Family Fo…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Norcliffe Foundat…Stolte Family Foundat…PatagoniaorgThe Rose Foundation f…Kaleidoscope Foundati…Social Justice Fund N…Ridge Road FoundationUnited States Energy …
Seattle FoundationWA95.6× affinity121 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Stolte Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Kaleidoscope Foundation · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Ridge Road Foundation · United States Energy 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 Bullitt 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 · 230%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
  • Willamette Partnership — 76% of income from government
  • WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
  • The Intertwine Alliance Foundation — 47% of income from government
  • Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
  • Green Lents — 38% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
  • Columbia Slough Watershed Council Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
  • Forth Mobility Fund — 7% of income from government
  • The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest — 5% of income from government
  • Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides — 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
  • Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
  • Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
  • CRAFT3 — 1% of income from government
  • Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Bullitt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Bullitt 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 446 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
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$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