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The Fine Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
100
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$737k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$7.6MEducation$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$701kReligion$419kCommunity Improvement$323kInternational$214kOther$0
02FY2025 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $598k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$176k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$737,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$703,500
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$264,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$252,000
TREE OF LIFE$100,000
TREE OF LIFE$100,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$50,000
PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$45,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$40,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$40,000
PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$20,000
FAMILY HOUSE$20,000
CONTEMPORARY CRAFT$20,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%WARD HOME: $5k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $150k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $10k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $10k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $10k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $10k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $200k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $200k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $200k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $40k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $30k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $10k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $9k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $8k → 11%PEER SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY NETWORK: $8k → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DE
TN
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 155 repeat orgs$625k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

155 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 105 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

155
91

Total granted

$16M
$519k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+26%

Still filing today

90%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +57%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +44%
  • WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $580k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TW
    The Working Group
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -40%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +47%
  • CT
    COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +25%
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc

The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
5
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
8
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
9
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
12
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is The Fine Fund. 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

219 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. 219 of the 270 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/219
Grantees still filing
157/219
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $6,767,500 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $580,000 · Arts & CultureWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY+53 more: $2,035,400 · Arts & Culture+53 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,911,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…+14 more: $305,555 · Education+14 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,255,520 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDE…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $92,500 · PhilanthropyFine Family Charitable Foundation: $90,122 · PhilanthropyTHE FINE FUND: $90,122 · PhilanthropyTHE FINE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $90,122 · Philanthropy+8 more: $227,000 · Philanthropy+8 moreTREE OF LIFE: $385,000 · OtherTREE OF LIFECarnegie Mellon University: $267,175 · OtherCarnegie Mello…THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: $180,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY FO…RODEF SHALOM CONGREGATION: $162,500 · OtherRODEF SHALOM C…LEAD PITTSBURGH: $100,000 · OtherGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $105,500 · Other+67 more: $1,142,936 · Other+67 moreJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $695,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSO…YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $335,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN A…MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $202,500 · Human ServicesMORSELIFE F…NEW SUN RISING: $174,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RIS…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $142,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…CITY OF ASYLUM: $113,100 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASY…+13 more: $118,278 · Human Services+13 moreTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH: $191,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $114,626 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 · HealthSQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 · HealthEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $29,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Health+12 more: $83,528 · HealthWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $155,000 · InternationalTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $28,000 · InternationalGLOBAL LINKS: $12,500 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $10,000 · International+2 more: $5,500 · International
Arts & Culture$9,382,900Education$2,217,055Philanthropy$1,845,386Other$2,343,111Human Services$1,779,878Health$555,154International$211,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $6,767,500 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,911,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $1,255,520 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $695,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $580,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $335,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $267,175 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $230,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $202,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH: $191,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $187,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: $180,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $174,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $155,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $142,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $114,626 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $113,100 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $112,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD: $111,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $105,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEAD PITTSBURGH: $100,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $96,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFILM PITTSBURGH: $95,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetATTACK THEATRE INC: $92,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $92,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LYRIC INC: $90,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFine Family Charitable Foundation: $90,122 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE FINE FUND: $90,122 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE FINE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $90,122 over 2y, 23% of budgetPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION: $85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $80,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: $72,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetQUANTUM THEATRE INC: $72,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $63,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL: $62,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $61,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetHILLEL JEWISH UNIVERSITY CENTER: $53,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetERADICATE HATE GLOBAL SUMMIT: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% 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 CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
  • Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds LEAD PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds FILM PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ATTACK THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LYRIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Fine Family Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FINE FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE FINE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
  • Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
  • Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL ↗

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 Heinz EndowmentsHillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Grable FoundationOpportunity FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Jack Buncher Foun…The Buhl FoundationMcKinney Charitable F…McCune Foundation Pnc…Staunton Farm Foundat…Jewish Federation of …
The Heinz EndowmentsPA146.8× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
68report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Fine Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fine 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 270 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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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