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The Derfner 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.

$7.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$38MEducation$4.7MArts & Culture$4.4MHuman Services$3.3MInternational$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.5MReligion$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $585k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.0M
$30,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$218M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT SINAI DEPT OF SURGERY$1,500,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$1,000,000
HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED$1,000,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$550,000
GREEN 4 KIDS$500,000
KESSLER FOUNDATION$250,000
BABY2BABY$250,000
RED AUTISMO FOUNDATION$150,000
BASSER RESEARCH CENTER FOR BRCA$100,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NY$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR GENDER SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC$100,000
METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY$100,000
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$100,000
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$100,000
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FDN$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 14%KIDS IN DISTRESS INC: $2k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250k → 4%JACK & JILL CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250k → 4%BROOKLYN CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $30k → 20%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $130k → 4%BROOKLYN CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 20%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%BROOKLYN CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 20%BROOKLYN CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 20%BROOKLYN CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $15k → 20%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $50k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%SAN FERNANDO VALLEY REFUGEE CHILDREN CENTER INC: $687 → 14%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $100k → 17%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $35k → 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

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$57M · 96 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

96 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
32

Total granted

$57M
$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-11%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • TM
    THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.6M · revenue +64%
  • TS
    THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +339%
  • KF
    Kessler Foundation Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +41%
  • SB
    STONY BROOK SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MC
    MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
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
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
9
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
10
Mjhs Hospice and Palliative Care Inc

To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis

Human Services
11
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
12
Isabella Geriatric Center Inc

Operating as isabella center for rehabilitation and nursing care, isabella is a 705-bed not-for-profit organization that is a member of the mjhs health system family. isabella is committed to providing exceptional short-term, sub-acute…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Red Autismo Foundation. 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

89 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. 89 of the 135 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/89
Grantees still filing
54/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT SINAI DEPT OF SURGERY: $9,300,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI DEPT OF SURGERYHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $7,176,941 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYBABY2BABY: $1,252,753 · OtherBASSER RESEARCH CENTER FOR BRCA: $950,000 · Other+69 more: $9,779,333 · Other+69 moreThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale: $7,100,000 · HealthThe Hebrew Home for Aged at …THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,380,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOU…THE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $1,200,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SP…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $575,000 · Health+17 more: $3,195,187 · Health+17 moreTHE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN: $2,585,000 · EducationTHE MIRMA…THE LAURENCE SCHOOL: $475,000 · EducationTHE LAURE…NICAPHOTO INC: $400,000 · EducationNICAPHOTO…BRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $350,000 · EducationBRENTWOOD…INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC: $205,000 · EducationThe Ideal School of Manhattan: $180,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · Education+5 more: $441,500 · Education+5 moreSHAREWELL: $1,975,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $775,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $360,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $145,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $85,000 · Arts & CultureGREEN-4-KIDS: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $710,000 · PhilanthropyBOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 · PhilanthropyAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $150,000 · PhilanthropyCIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $160,000 · PhilanthropyKessler Foundation Inc: $1,385,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $635,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $365,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN CHINESE-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $90,000 · Human Services+7 more: $158,002 · Human ServicesThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,030,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $200,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$28,459,027Health$14,450,187Education$4,801,500Arts & Culture$3,340,000Philanthropy$3,165,000Human Services$2,633,002Food & Nutrition$1,230,000

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 budgetThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale: $7,100,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN: $2,585,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,380,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetSHAREWELL: $1,975,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $1,385,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBABY2BABY: $1,252,753 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC: $1,200,000 over 8y, 61% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,030,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGREEN-4-KIDS: $1,000,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $775,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $710,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $635,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $575,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRE MEXICO FOUNDATION: $480,000 over 5y, 48% of budgetTHE LAURENCE SCHOOL: $475,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetRED AUTISMO FOUNDATION: $425,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetENGINEERING WORLD HEALTH: $400,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetNICAPHOTO INC: $400,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $365,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $360,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBRENTWOOD SCHOOL: $350,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetAHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetTHE STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION: $290,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NASSAU COUNTY INC: $280,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC: $260,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE GHETTO FIGHTERS' MUSEUMINC: $260,000 over 4y, 99% of budgetNATIONAL SCHOOL CLIMATE CENTER: $250,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $242,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $225,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $225,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $220,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT INC: $205,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $200,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Ideal School of Manhattan: $180,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $155,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $145,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCIRCLE OF GENEROSITY FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 8y, 68% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $140,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LANAI BOOSTER: $135,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON ETHIOPIAN JEWRY INC: $130,000 over 8y, 0.9% 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 The Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale ↗
  • Who funds THE MIRMAN SCHOOL FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAREWELL ↗
  • Who funds Kessler Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR GENDER-SPECIFIC MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREEN-4-KIDS ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRE MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LAURENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RED AUTISMO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERING WORLD HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NICAPHOTO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BICOL CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AHRC NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STOCKBRIDGE BOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Bessemer Giving F…The Batchelor Foundat…American Express Foun…Leslie L Alexander Fo…Ira M Resnick Foundat…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Enterprise Holdings F…
Jewish Communal FundNY18.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Ira M Resnick Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Enterprise Holdings 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 Derfner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Derfner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Derfner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Derfner 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 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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