· Private foundation
The Commonwealth Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k225 grants · $547k
- $10k–50k159 grants · $4.2M
- $50k–250k129 grants · $15M
- $250k+21 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Commonwealth Fund | $2,345,604 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $850,000 |
| SSRS | $800,456 |
| Georgetown University | $639,482 |
| Rush University Medical Center | $638,814 |
| SSRS | $560,000 |
| SSRS | $514,781 |
| SSRS | $490,115 |
| Urban Institute | $440,000 |
| Urban Institute | $430,800 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $395,858 |
| Bailit Health Purchasing LLC | $384,000 |
| The Commonwealth Fund | $336,742 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $321,565 |
| First Nation Development Institute | $312,570 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Commonwealth Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
370 repeat relationships — 218 still active in FY2025, 152 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +34%- NYNew York University5× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +30%
- TGThe George Washington University5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NGNATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICESone grant, 2021 · $203k · revenue -2%
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANAone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -10%
COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence for Healthcare Improvement and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
567 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. 567 of the 757 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH CARE JOURNALISM ↗
- Who funds NALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds National Association of Medicaid Directors ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT ↗
- Who funds ACADEMYHEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Health Policy ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PATIENT-CENTERED PRIMARY CARE 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.
Open a dossier: Laura and John Arnold Foundation · California Healthcare Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The John a Hartford Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Scan Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Open Society Institute · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center 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 Commonwealth Fund 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.
- The Technical Assistance Collaborative Inc — 68% of income from government
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc — 63% of income from government
- Capital Link Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- National Association of Community Health Centers Inc — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Center for Health Care Strategies Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Evidence for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.