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The Common Sense Fund Inc at a glance

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The Common Sense Fund Inc

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.6MEnvironment$7.0MInternational$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.2MScience & Tech$780kCrime & Legal$335kCivil Rights$230kEducation$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$75,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND$1,018,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$150,000
NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS$100,000
ACADIA CENTER$100,000
THE HESCHEL CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY$100,000
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS$100,000
SUSTAINABLE CT INC$100,000
PEOPLES ACTION FOR CLEAN ENERGY$100,000
SAVE THE SOUND$100,000
STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG$95,000
HARTFORD PERFORMS$90,000
MAKING BOOKS SING$80,000
INTERWINE ARTS INC$75,000
CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS$75,000
ORCHESTRATING DREAMS$75,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $150k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $160k → 10%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YEDIDIM: $95k → 14%GROUNDSWELL: $110k → 20%SUSTAINABLE CT INC: $100k → 12%SAVE THE SOUND: $100k → 12%Natural Capitalism Solutions: $100k → 12%The Heschel Center for Environmental: $95k → 14%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $150k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $150k → 10%SUSTAINABLE CT INC: $100k → 12%SAVE THE SOUND: $100k → 12%Natural Capitalism Solutions: $100k → 12%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $110k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $150k → 10%Sustainable CT Inc: $100k → 12%NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS: $100k → 12%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $100k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $150k → 10%Sustainable CT Inc: $100k → 12%NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS: $100k → 12%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $100k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $150k → 10%SUSTAINABLE CT INC: $100k → 12%NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS: $100k → 12%CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $100k → 8%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $150k → 10%Sustainable CT Inc: $100k → 12%Natural Capitalism Solutions: $100k → 12%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $150k → 10%NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS: $100k → 12%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $140k → 10%Natural Capitalism Solutions: $100k → 12%STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG: $95k → 17%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%ACADIA CENTER: $100k → 11%PEOPLES ACTION FOR CLEAN ENERGY: $100k → 11%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $1.0M → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $325k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $272k → 17%MAKING BOOKS SING: $125k → 17%PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUND: $120k → 17%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

VT
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 75% of The Common Sense Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 17%.

The Common Sense Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 50 repeat orgs$579k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
12

Total granted

$17M
$457k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+16%

Still filing today

74%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentInternationalScience & TechEducationOther
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

  • IC
    INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +465%
  • SUSTAINABLE CT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $690k · revenue +49%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Heschel Center for Environmental
    one grant, 2017 · $95k
  • EF
    ECSU FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +14%
  • OV
    Ohel Ve Leah Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
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
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
2
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
3
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
4
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
5
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
6
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
7
Canary Media Inc

Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy.

Environment
8
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
9
Alliance for Climate Transition Inc

ACT leads the just, equitable and rapid transition to a clean energy future and diverse climate economy.

Community Improvement
10
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
11
Climate Advocates Voces Unidas

Climate advocates voces unidas (cavu) inspires local solutions to the climate crisis via visual storytelling and youth education programs.

Environment
12
Community-Word Project Inc

Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute; the most unlike its peers is The Gunk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 67 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
42/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMBODIAN LIVING ARTS: $860,000 · OtherCAMBODIAN LIVING ARTSACADIA CENTER: $800,000 · OtherACADIA CENTERThe Heschel Center For Sustainability: $715,000 · OtherThe Heschel Center For SustainabilityPeoples Action for Clean Energy Inc: $450,000 · OtherPeoples Action for Clean Energy IncGROUNDSWELL INC: $425,000 · OtherGROUNDSWELL INCJUDY DWORIN PERFORMANCE PROJECT: $335,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $335,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE RON-SHULAMIT CONSERVATORY: $235,000 · OtherBnei Zion Meitar Day Center: $232,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE CT INC: $690,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE CT INCCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $325,000 · Other+15 more: $1,367,500 · Other+15 moreMUSIC HAVEN INC: $523,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC HAVEN INCCO LAB THEATER GROUP INC: $502,000 · Arts & CultureCO LAB THEATER GROUP INCCLAY ART CENTER INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCLAY ART CENTER INCSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $470,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR …CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCAS…GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: $390,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTEMaking Books Sing Inc DBA New York City Childrens Theater: $375,000 · Arts & CultureMaking Books Sing Inc DBA N…ORCHESTRATING DREAMS INC: $365,000 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRATING DREAMS INCARTS IGNITE INC: $340,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IGNITE INCINTERTWINE ARTS INC: $235,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $947,200 · Arts & Culture+11 morePEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWM…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHA…+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNatural Capitalism Solutions Inc: $800,000 · EnvironmentNatural Capita…SAVE THE SOUND: $590,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION L…OUR CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND: $305,000 · EnvironmentOUR CLIMATE ED…SPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $185,000 · EnvironmentSPRING STREET …SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $140,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS: $130,000 · Environment+3 more: $175,000 · Environment+3 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YEDIDIM: $563,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $420,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $115,000 · InternationalGLASSROOTS INC: $497,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $490,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF U OF TAZ INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $800,000 · Social Science
Other$6,769,500Arts & Culture$5,047,700Philanthropy$3,220,000Environment$2,695,000International$1,098,000Youth Development$1,052,000Social Science$800,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $2,000,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Capitalism Solutions Inc: $800,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $800,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE CT INC: $690,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $590,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMUSIC HAVEN INC: $523,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetCO LAB THEATER GROUP INC: $502,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetCLAY ART CENTER INC: $500,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetGLASSROOTS INC: $497,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $490,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $470,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetPeoples Action for Clean Energy Inc: $450,000 over 7y, 72% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $420,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $400,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: $390,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetMaking Books Sing Inc DBA New York City Childrens Theater: $375,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetORCHESTRATING DREAMS INC: $365,000 over 7y, 33% of budgetARTS IGNITE INC: $340,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $335,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $325,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetOUR CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND: $305,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetINTERTWINE ARTS INC: $235,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetSCIENCE FRIDAY INITIATIVE INC: $190,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $185,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $145,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $140,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $140,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetART START INC: $135,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetJAZZ DRAMA PROGRAM: $130,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS: $130,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSONGWRITINGWITHINC: $130,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetECSU FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNOTCH THEATRE COMPANY: $70,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTOXICS ACTION CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF U OF TAZ INC: $65,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC: $62,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK: $61,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE GUNK FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUNIFIED THEATER INC: $36,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINTERRELIGIOUS ECO-JUSTICE NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE CT INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YEDIDIM ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CO LAB THEATER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds CLAY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GLASSROOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARTFORD PERFORMS INC ↗
  • Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
  • Who funds Peoples Action for Clean Energy Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Making Books Sing Inc DBA New York City Childrens Theater ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ORCHESTRATING DREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS IGNITE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
  • Who funds OUR CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERTWINE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE FRIDAY INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER ↗

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.

The New York Communit…The Hyde and Watson F…Hartford Foundation f…Fairfield County's Co…The Ford FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foun…The Community Foundat…Lily Auchincloss Foun…Connecticut Humanitie…United States Energy …Tides FoundationHispanic Federation I…
The New York Community TrustNY20.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Hispanic Federation Inc

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 Common Sense Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Common Sense Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Community Partners in Action Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Real Art Ways Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Music Haven Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Hartford Performs Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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