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The Forst Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$693k
Granted FY2025still arriving
158
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$890kHuman Services$792kHealth$562kHousing & Shelter$248kReligion$222kFood & Nutrition$175kInternational$125kYouth Development$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 158 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k141 grants · $291k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
$1,876
Median grant
23
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORA SERVICES$80,500
DANNY'S HOUSE$59,560
LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS$55,000
CARVERSVILLE FARM FOUNDATION$50,000
FACE TO FACE$21,000
THE BREATHING ROOM$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY$15,000
CITYTEAM CHESTER$10,515
IRC$10,000
INDEPENDENT MISSION SCHOOLS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$10,000
MCKEOWN FOUNDATION$10,000
CARON FOUNDATION$10,000
SCHOOLMENS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 8%PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP BENEFIT OF JONICA WILLIAMS: $3k → 12%FAITH HOPE AND LOVE FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%WHILE WE ARE WAITING: $1k → 17%BOYS TOWN NORTH FLORIDA: $15k → 19%BOYSTOWN OF NORTH FLORIDA: $3k → 19%BOYS TOWN NORTH FLORIDA: $3k → 19%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $5k → 6%BOYS TOWN OF NORTH FLORIDA: $2k → 19%FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $5k → 6%BAPS CHARITIES: $1k → 8%BUCKS COUNTY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $3k → 6%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%INNOCENT PROJECT: $1k → 17%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES OF PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $5k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES: $5k → 22%MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES OF PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%METHODIST SERVICES: $2k → 22%METHODIST SERVICES: $2k → 22%METHODIST SERVICE: $2k → 22%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $5k → 7%UPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $5k → 7%PROJECT HOME: $13k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $13k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $12k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $8k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $2k → 22%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $10k → 7%MATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $1k → 7%FACE TO FACE: $43k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $41k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $31k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $28k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $24k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $22k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $21k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $15k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $14k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $5k → 22%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $5k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $3k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $3k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $3k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $2k → 22%WOMEN IN TRANSITIONS INC: $2k → 22%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 230 repeat orgs$928k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

230 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2025, 145 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

230
471

Total granted

$3.3M
$742k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

60%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • CS
    CORA SERVICES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $388k · revenue +105%
  • Philabundance
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +101%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ENDOWMENT FOR THE CARE OF RETIRED PRIEST
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF ALLENTOWN- THE VILLA
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • RP
    RETIREMENT PLAN FOR THE ORDAINED DIOCESAN PRIESTS OF THE DIOCESE OF
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
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
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
7
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
8
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
10
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—
11
Healthwise Incorporated

The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.

Health
12
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. 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

393 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. 393 of the 780 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
82
Early backer (in before they grew)
379/393
Grantees still filing
260/393
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $220,000 · OtherLITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLSBREATHING ROOM: $132,471 · OtherBREATHING ROOMTHE ENDOWMENT FOR THE CARE OF RETIRED PRIESTS: $70,000 · OtherPhilabundance: $105,250 · OtherPhilabundance+120 more: $1,231,250 · Other+120 moreCORA SERVICES INC: $387,700 · EducationCORA SERVICES INCINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $30,000 · EducationSCHOOLMENS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Education+21 more: $135,622 · Education+21 moreFACE TO FACE INC: $237,425 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE …PROJECT HOME: $50,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMEMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMERCY NEIGHBO…Boys Town North Florida Inc: $23,600 · Human ServicesBoys Town Nor…FEAST OF JUSTICE: $16,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN TRANSITION: $14,212 · Human Services+9 more: $58,820 · Human Services+9 moreEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $59,269 · HealthInterim House Inc: $40,000 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $38,500 · HealthNORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION: $23,150 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $15,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,609 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,800 · HealthAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $10,300 · Health+11 more: $56,100 · HealthDANNY'S HOUSE: $218,967 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $23,945 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY: $90,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $63,638 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · International+3 more: $13,750 · InternationalTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $85,000 · PhilanthropyINVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · PhilanthropyPENNSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC: $11,850 · PhilanthropyTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $8,035 · PhilanthropyDREW MICHAEL TAYLOR FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,758,971Education$573,322Human Services$425,057Health$289,228Housing & Shelter$247,912International$192,388Philanthropy$183,385

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 budgetCORA SERVICES INC: $387,700 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC: $237,425 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetDANNY'S HOUSE: $218,967 over 7y, 35% of budgetPhilabundance: $105,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY: $90,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $63,638 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $59,269 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInterim House Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $33,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANT TODAY FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $23,945 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town North Florida Inc: $23,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION: $23,150 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSCHOOLMENS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetPENNSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $19,015 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMY CARES INC: $17,397 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetFEAST OF JUSTICE: $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PENN SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetWOMEN IN TRANSITION: $14,212 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,609 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $12,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $12,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC: $11,850 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,391 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $10,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJENKINTOWN YOUTH ACTIVITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJenkintown Food Cupboard Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUPPER MERION AREA COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER MORELAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF BUCKS COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETHACTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST AURORA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $9,500 over 4y, 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 CORA SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds FACE TO FACE INC ↗
  • Who funds DANNY'S HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARVERSVILLE FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
  • Who funds Interim House Inc ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANT TODAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys Town North Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FAYETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLMENS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PENNSBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…The Cigna Group Found…Connelly FoundationThe Cedarcrest Charit…The William Penn Foun…The Leo and Peggy Pie…Wsfs Cares FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…Claneil Foundation IncFuture Standard Found…
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA39.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable · The William Penn Foundation · The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Future Standard 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 Forst Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forst Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • One Community Now Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Your Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Forst Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Forst 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 780 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