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The Century Foundation Inc

The century foundation is a progressive, independent think tank that conducts research, develops solutions, and drives policy change to make people's lives better.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$460kCommunity Improvement$355kEmployment$281kCrime & Legal$184kPublic Benefit$50kHuman Services$31kCivil Rights$23kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $75,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $155,957 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,957 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANCIENT SONG INC$40,000
URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC$25,000
LCTCS FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AUTISTIC WOMEN & NONBINARY NETWORK: $13k → 13%COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $2k → 22%SIERRA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $8k → 11%EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER: $30k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%THE NEW SCHOOL CENTER FOR NYC AFFAIRS: $20k → 17%ANCIENT SONG INC: $40k → 20%HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%HAWKEYE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 17%BISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 19%MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $8k → 17%FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 15%IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 16%LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 13%COLLEGE OF LAKE COUNTY: $8k → 8%MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE: $50k → 14%NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $40k → 16%LCTCS FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%MARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION: $23k → 19%PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $97k → 22%THE NEW SCHOOL - CENTER FOR NYC AFFAIRS: $15k → 17%ANCIENT SONG INC: $40k → 20%LAKE RESEARCH PARTNERS INC: $95k → 14%COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF DENVER: $8k → 13%MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE: $19k → 14%PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $55k → 22%THE VOLCKER ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC: $110k → 20%URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 17%URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC: $65k → 20%URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC: $25k → 17%URBAN MANUFACTURING ALLIANCE INC: $55k → 20%THE INVISIBLE AMERICANS PODCAST INC: $9k → 17%BREUKELEN RISE INC: $31k → 20%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

IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
AL
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $65k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$65k · 100% · 1 person

Stated purpose: GENERAL SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$976k · 5 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
24

Total granted

$976k
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • UM
    Urban Manufacturing Alliance Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $355k · revenue +100%
  • AS
    ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $320k
  • PL
    PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $152k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • LR
    LAKE RESEARCH PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $95k
  • VA
    VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -40%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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8
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
9
Labor Community Strategy Center

The strategy center is a think tank/act tank for regional, national and international movement building, founded in 1988 and based in the 10 million-person world city of los angeles. our campaigns, projects, and publications are rooted in…

Health
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empire Justice Center; the most unlike its peers is Invisible Americans Podcast Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $319,898 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYLAKE RESEARCH PARTNERS INC: $94,641 · OtherLAKE RESEARCH PARTNERS INCANCIENT SONG INC: $80,000 · OtherANCIENT SONG INCMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN: $69,250 · OtherMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMM…BREUKELEN REACHING INDEPENDENCE THROUGH SELF EMPOWERMENT INC: $31,000 · Other+10 more: $102,000 · Other+10 moreUrban Manufacturing Alliance Inc: $355,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Manufacturing Alliance…PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION: $152,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA L…EMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER: $30,000 · Crime & LegalEMPIRE JUSTICE…+1 more: $2,000 · Crime & LegalVOLCKER ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitMARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION INC: $22,500 · Public BenefitThe New School: $15,000 · EducationCornell University: $10,000 · EducationLouisiana Community Technical College System Foundation: $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSierra College Foundation: $8,000 · EducationHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationAUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK: $12,500 · HealthINVISIBLE AMERICANS PODCAST INC: $9,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$696,789Community Improvement$355,000Crime & Legal$184,000Public Benefit$112,500Education$61,000Health$12,500Arts & Culture$9,000

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 budgetUrban Manufacturing Alliance Inc: $355,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION: $152,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE FKA CENTER FOR LABOR AND COMMUN: $69,250 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetVOLCKER ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEMPIRE JUSTICE CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARYLAND CONSUMER RIGHTS COALITION INC: $22,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe New School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVISIBLE AMERICANS PODCAST INC: $9,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSierra College Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

American Association …I Car Education Found…Amalgamated Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Association of Community CollegesDC19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Association of Community Colleges · I Car Education Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Century Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Century Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 30 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 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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