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The Commonwealth Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31M
Granted FY2025still arriving
534
Grants FY2025still arriving
35
States reached
$2.3M
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.

Health$59MEducation$35MSocial Science$7.6MInternational$7.5MPublic Benefit$6.8MArts & Culture$5.8MScience & Tech$3.1MCommunity Improvement$2.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 534 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k225 grants · $547k
  • $10k–50k159 grants · $4.2M
  • $50k–250k129 grants · $15M
  • $250k+21 grants · $11M
$15,000
Median grant
35
States reached
$923M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Local Media Foundation: $180k → 13%Local Media Foundation: $180k → 13%ABFM Foundation Inc: $92k → 15%Local Media Foundation: $120k → 13%Local Media Foundation: $90k → 13%Local Media Foundation: $90k → 13%Local Media Foundation: $20k → 13%ABFM Foundation Inc: $61k → 15%Local Media Foundation: $20k → 13%Local Media Foundation: $20k → 13%Grantmakers in Aging Inc: $28k → 7%ABFM Foundation Inc: $40k → 15%Grantmakers in Aging Inc: $12k → 7%ABFM Foundation Inc: $10k → 15%Jewish Association for Services for the Aged: $15k → 17%The Reede Scholars Inc: $19k → 16%The Reede Scholars Inc: $17k → 16%The Reede Scholars Inc: $15k → 16%Asian American Federation of New York: $25k → 17%Families USA Foundation Inc: $140k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $120k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $120k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $120k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $117k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $115k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $80k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $78k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $75k → 14%Families USA Foundation Inc: $35k → 14%National Alliance for Caregiving: $100k → 14%ParentsTogether Foundation: $50k → 14%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 8% of The Commonwealth Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Commonwealth Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$113M · 370 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

370
280

Total granted

$113M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+1%

Still filing today

71%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +34%
  • NY
    New York University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +30%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NG
    NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR BEST PRACTICES
    one grant, 2021 · $203k · revenue -2%
  • FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -10%
  • COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -39%
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
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
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
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence for Healthcare Improvement; 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.
05the grantee network

568 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. 568 of the 757 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
562/568
Grantees still filing
322/568
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Commonwealth Fund: $14,294,222 · OtherThe Commonwealth FundSSRS: $9,001,001 · OtherSSRS+117 more: $46,591,019 · Other+117 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,299,282 · EducationPresident and Fellows of H…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $4,259,635 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNew York University: $2,333,226 · EducationNew York UniversityThe George Washington University: $2,210,937 · EducationThe George Washington Univ…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,192,753 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,125,923 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,024,813 · Education+19 more: $5,118,796 · Education+19 moreCENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC: $1,740,250 · HealthCENTER FOR HE…National Association of Medicaid Directors: $1,383,122 · HealthNational Asso…Rush University Medical Center: $1,347,954 · HealthRush Universi…ACADEMYHEALTH: $1,163,686 · HealthACADEMYHEALTHAlliance for Health Policy: $968,712 · HealthAlliance for …THE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $799,885 · HealthTHE HEALTH IN…PATIENT-CENTERED PRIMARY CARE FOUNDATION: $759,997 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $704,073 · HealthNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE: $509,598 · Health+28 more: $5,483,085 · Health+28 moreTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $4,712,208 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $927,684 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $700,471 · Social ScienceNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $698,666 · Social ScienceCENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH CARE JOURNALISM: $1,616,310 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $746,990 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $209,887 · Community Improvement+1 more: $78,250 · Community ImprovementFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $720,075 · Human ServicesAARP FOUNDATION: $468,543 · Human ServicesABFM FOUNDATION INC: $203,275 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING: $100,000 · Human Services+1 more: $67,338 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $1,209,614 · Civil RightsTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $594,148 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $125,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $60,000 · Civil Rights
Other$69,886,242Education$29,565,365Health$14,860,362Social Science$7,039,029Community Improvement$2,651,437Human Services$2,559,231Civil Rights$1,988,762

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,299,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $4,712,208 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $4,259,635 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,333,226 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $2,210,937 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,192,753 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH CARE STRATEGIES INC: $1,740,250 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH POLICY DEVELOPMENT: $1,679,830 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH CARE JOURNALISM: $1,616,310 over 5y, 32% of budgetNALEO EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,525,886 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetNational Association of Medicaid Directors: $1,383,122 over 5y, 11% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $1,380,612 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $1,347,954 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,224,004 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $1,209,614 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetACADEMYHEALTH: $1,163,686 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,125,923 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,067,868 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,024,813 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetAlliance for Health Policy: $968,712 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $927,684 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $799,885 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetPATIENT-CENTERED PRIMARY CARE FOUNDATION: $759,997 over 4y, 16% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $746,990 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $726,025 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $720,075 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $714,291 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $704,073 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $700,471 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $698,666 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $640,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC: $594,148 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWHYY INC: $547,840 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $513,419 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE: $509,598 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $468,543 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $432,435 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPRIMARY CARE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $420,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $419,904 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $409,998 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTH CARE COST INSTITUTE INC: $407,242 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH: $393,613 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN: $385,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $377,658 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $375,873 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MEDICAID INNOVATION INC: $369,190 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $355,067 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Laura and John Arnold…California Healthcare…The Robert Wood Johns…The John a Hartford F…The Rockefeller Found…New York State Health…The Ford FoundationThe Scan FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Open Society InstituteAnnie E Casey Foundat…Gary and Mary West He…
Laura and John Arnold FoundationTX68.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 757 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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