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The George H Scanlon Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The George H Scanlon 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.

$189k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$484kHealth$362kArts & Culture$298kRecreation & Sports$180kEnvironment$126kAnimals$47kFood & Nutrition$27kPhilanthropy$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $156k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION$41,000
COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION$24,760
OPERATION WALK CHICAGO$20,000
HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$15,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
CORE SCHOOL INC$10,000
NORTH LIBERTY COMMNITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$6,000
MSPCA$5,000
BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER$5,000
FIX N FIDOS$5,000
PROVINCETOWN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC$2,500
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%OCEANA INC: $20k → 14%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $24k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $23k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%OCEANA INC: $20k → 14%NORTH LIBERTY COMMNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 15%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $20k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $20k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%OCEANA INC: $20k → 14%NORTH LIBERTY COMMNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 15%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $19k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO: $20k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%OCEANA INC: $20k → 14%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $18k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $20k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $23k → 7%BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%OCEANA INC: $20k → 14%ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC NON PROFIT: $10k → 15%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $15k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $20k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $23k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $15k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO: $18k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $15k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $15k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $19k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $15k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $15k → 14%COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION: $18k → 7%THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $10k → 15%HEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $15k → 7%OPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $10k → 14%CORE SCHOOL INC: $10k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%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
IA
PA
CT
CA
MO
DC
OK
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 40 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
49

Total granted

$1.4M
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+29%

Still filing today

65%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +91%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +78%
  • BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +41%
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • OC
    OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +39%
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
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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2
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
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

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
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
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
11
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Englert Civic Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Conor Lynch Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 101 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
48/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $328,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONHEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMY: $155,500 · OtherHEADLOCK WRESTLING ACADEMYOPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITATION INSTITUTE): $123,000 · OtherOPERATION WALK CHICAGO (NORTHWESTERN ARTHRITIS & REHABILITA…UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA LAW SCHOOL+54 more: $168,029 · Other+54 moreCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $210,910 · Arts & CultureCOOLIDGE CORNER TH…Brookline Arts Center: $24,500 · Arts & CultureBrookline Arts Cen…THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $9,795 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $98,500 · HealthChildren's Hospi…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MED…Operation Walk Chicago: $38,000 · HealthOperation Walk C…Children's Hospital Corporation: $37,500 · HealthChildren's Hospi…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $12,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCE…+3 more: $850 · HealthOCEANA INC: $114,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA IN…MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentMOTHERS O…+1 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $45,500 · EducationTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $7,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $2,500 · EducationFixn Fidos Inc: $22,500 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $5,000 · AnimalsPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCONOR LYNCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $1,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $850 · Philanthropy
Other$824,529Arts & Culture$255,205Health$227,350Environment$125,500Education$86,500Animals$32,500Philanthropy$19,350

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 budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $210,910 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOCEANA INC: $114,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $98,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL: $45,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Walk Chicago: $38,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBrookline Arts Center: $24,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFixn Fidos Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetIOWA CITY EELS SWIM CLUB INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COVE SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $8,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSTON PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONOR LYNCH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFILMSCENE: $2,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRunning Start: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTerritory NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOKENA YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME ENERGY EFFICIENCY TEAM INC: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVCA CHARITIES: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCLE CINEMA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $500 over 1y, 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 COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds BUCKINGHAM BROWNE & NICHOLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Operation Walk Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Brookline Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds Fixn Fidos Inc ↗
  • Who funds IOWA CITY EELS SWIM CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENGLERT CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COVE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PABLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEBO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSTON PARTNERSHIP FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE 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.

Boston Foundation IncAllen & Franka Charlu…The Kenneth K Kinsey …Brookline Community F…The Hamilton Company …Eastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Charles Hale & Kaaren…Susan & Barry E Tatel…Rdmsj Charitable Trus…John and Golda Cohen …Hills Bank Donor Advi…
Boston Foundation IncMA20.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · Brookline Community Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation · Susan & Barry E Tatelman Family Foundation · Rdmsj Charitable Trust Dtd 101392 · John and Golda Cohen Trust · Hills Bank Donor Advised 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 George H Scanlon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George H Scanlon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Brookline Arts Center: 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Brookline Teen Center: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
13report 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.

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 101 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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