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The Draper Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$11MEducation$8.8MCommunity Improvement$3.0MSocial Science$2.3MHuman Services$2.3MYouth Development$1.8MArts & Culture$1.6MCivil Rights$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $111k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $605k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.6M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$188M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FDN INC$500,000
BIZWORLD FOUNDATION$500,000
RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$333,333
BAYORG$250,000
LIBERTAS INSTITUTE$250,000
BRINK TECHNOLOGY INC$250,000
BRINK TECHNOLOGY INC$200,000
CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER$200,000
VOTING BLOCK USA INC$175,000
ART OF LIVING FOUNDATION$150,000
UCLA$150,000
CSSSA FOUNDATION$100,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLAND: $5k → 8%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $1.1M → 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $264 → 6%CHULUCHOSEMA1374 INC: $1k → 12%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $300k → 10%ONE LEAGUE GLOBAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10k → 14%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $258 → 6%CHAMBER OF MOTHERS: $10k → 20%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $250k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $10k → 10%CAMP KESEM: $2k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $200k → 10%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $200k → 10%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $100k → 10%CAMP KESEM: $1k → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $100k → 10%TEACHAIDS: $1k → 8%REFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $70k → 10%REFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 10%REFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $50k → 10%REFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $20k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $35k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $10k → 10%AIM HIGH: $2k → 10%REFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $15k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NE
VA
AZ
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 86 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

86 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
94

Total granted

$23M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

60%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • CP
    CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +72% · 32% of their budget
  • TI
    THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +185%
  • BF
    Bizworld Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +35% · 80% of their budget

Funded once

  • M
    MAKESCHOOLORG
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • DH
    DRAPER HERO INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $805k · revenue -101% · 29% of their budget
  • PO
    POINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -36% · 28% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
6
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
7
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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8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…School Parent OrganizationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Women & Girls Leadership De…Dance Arts OrganizationsFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Youth Development ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Development CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%17%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/165
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,813

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.

04the grantee network

154 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. 154 of the 224 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/154
Grantees still filing
83/154
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $1,958,150 · OtherTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTEPOINT OWOOD FOUNDATION INC — $1,325,350 · OtherPOINT OWOOD FOUNDATION INCMAKESCHOOLORG — $1,000,000 · OtherMAKESCHOOLORGDRAPER HERO INSTITUTE — $805,000 · OtherDRAPER HERO INSTITUTETHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCCSSSA FOUNDATION — $673,160 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FDN INC FBO UTSA — $641,999 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $500,000 · Other+122 more — $5,191,303 · Other+122 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $6,177,921 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $4,328,369 · PhilanthropyDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION+14 more — $973,950 · Philanthropy+14 moreBizworld Foundation — $1,544,250 · EducationBizworld Foundatio…RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $999,999 · EducationRAVENSWOOD EDUCATI…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $975,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF TH…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $302,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $230,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $200,000 · Education+17 more — $584,000 · Education+17 moreCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $2,200,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION — $205,000 · Human Services+8 more — $99,000 · Human ServicesLibertas Network — $975,000 · Public BenefitLISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC — $150,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $30,000 · Public BenefitBAYORG — $250,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $202,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $201,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY — $70,000 · Arts & CulturePROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC — $45,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $92,000 · Arts & CultureBrink Technology Inc — $700,000 · Science & Tech
Other$12,844,962Philanthropy$11,480,240Education$5,685,249Human Services$2,504,000Public Benefit$1,205,000Arts & Culture$1,161,000Science & Tech$700,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $6,177,921 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION — $4,328,369 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER — $2,200,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $1,958,150 over 6y, 18% of budgetBizworld Foundation — $1,544,250 over 8y, 80% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $999,999 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLibertas Network — $975,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $975,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDRAPER HERO INSTITUTE — $805,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $750,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBrink Technology Inc — $700,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $350,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $302,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetART OF LIVING FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) — $260,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBAYORG — $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $230,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION — $205,000 over 5y, 81% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $202,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $201,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetThe Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTIE FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetLISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC — $150,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCANYON SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $145,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL — $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY — $110,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $102,660 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetSteve Menzies Global Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetINNOVATE YOUR STATE — $100,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY — $70,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT GLIMMER — $54,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Bizworld Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Libertas Network ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DRAPER HERO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Brink Technology Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLA AND DAVID CRANE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ART OF LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) ↗
  • Who funds BAYORG ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds POINT O'WOODS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…The David and Lucile …The Palo Alto Communi…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Bothin FoundationPhilanthropic Venture…The Yelp FoundationTides FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA33.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bothin Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 Draper Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Draper Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Draper 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 224 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines