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· Public charity

The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc

To drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures, for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, usher syndrome, and the spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

$23M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$8.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$129MScience & Tech$28MEducation$7.3M
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 38 grants below total $19,662,310, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,880,201 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,217,891 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+17 grants · $17M
$200,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$111M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND$8,771,404
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,398,985
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$914,667
DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$900,000
ODYLIA THERAPEUTICS$631,039
FORDHAM UNIVERITY$539,141
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$474,235
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$460,869
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$402,223
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY$396,667
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$375,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$300,000
MITOCHEM THERAPEUTICS INC$300,000
NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION$296,150
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $1.5M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.7M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $915k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $775k → 11%FORDHAM UNIVERITY: $539k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $674k → 10%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $900k → 11%UNIV OF NC CHAPEL HILL: $545k → 13%ODYLIA THERAPEUTICS: $869k → 13%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 17%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $15.1M → 6%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $1.3M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.4M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $675k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $897k → 17%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $768k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $700k → 11%ODYLIA THERAPEUTICS: $631k → 13%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1.0M → 9%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $14.9M → 6%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $840k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.1M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $575k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $597k → 17%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $622k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $600k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $645k → 9%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $11.9M → 6%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $775k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $994k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $575k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $597k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $612k → 9%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $11.1M → 6%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $775k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $600k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $575k → 11%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $577k → 17%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $8.8M → 6%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $675k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $575k → 22%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $8.3M → 6%MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY: $500k → 16%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $13.0M → 6%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5.3M → 6%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RD FUND: $3.1M → 6%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

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IL
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MA
OR
IA
IN
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PA
CA
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MO
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DE
TN
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AL
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Grants abroad, by region: $3.6M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.6M · 72% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

Middle East and North Africa$502k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$489k · 14% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
$157M · 48 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
10

Total granted

$157M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+62%

Still filing today

52%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $991k 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
EducationHealthSocial ScienceOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92M · revenue +29% · 100% of their budget
  • PM
    PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.3M · revenue +106%
  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $336k · revenue +62%
  • LS
    LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED IN NEW ORLEANS FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE
    one grant, 2017 · $283k · revenue +8%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $266k
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
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
10
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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

37 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. 37 of the 67 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
34/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND: $91,537,877 · HealthFOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUNDPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $8,285,539 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEMMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $7,464,342 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY+8 more: $4,398,446 · HealthOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,428,173 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCI…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $3,831,680 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHI…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,813,455 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COL…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,364,998 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,970,636 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCO…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,747,024 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,405,000 · EducationBaylor College of Medicine: $1,399,820 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,074,565 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,035,000 · EducationFordham University: $1,019,171 · Education+13 more: $3,777,163 · Education+13 moreUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $5,859,435 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPI…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $3,525,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE U…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $2,692,155 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $1,514,667 · OtherREGENTS OF THE U…BIOJIVA: $947,967 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $939,919 · OtherMITOCHEM THERAPEUTICS INC: $900,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $900,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $817,913 · Other+22 more: $6,065,349 · Other+22 moreBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $40,000 · Social Science
Health$111,686,204Education$28,866,685Other$24,162,405Social Science$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND: $91,537,877 over 9y, 100% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $8,285,539 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $7,464,342 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $4,428,173 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $3,831,680 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,813,455 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,364,998 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,970,636 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,747,024 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetODYLIA THERAPEUTICS INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,405,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,399,820 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,074,565 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,035,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $1,019,171 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $890,446 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST: $697,100 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $678,213 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $565,831 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $482,822 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $399,974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $375,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $336,371 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $296,150 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMarquette University: $288,588 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MED IN NEW ORLEANS FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE: $282,790 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $218,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $199,554 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $90,020 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $86,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ODYLIA THERAPEUTICS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 67 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 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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