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The Giant Steps 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$675k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$7.4MFood & Nutrition$1.8MEducation$801kHealth$608kPublic Safety & Disaster$276kInternational$232kEnvironment$172kHuman Services$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $532k
  • $250k+1 grant · $675k
$6,363
Median grant
15
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA PLANTA$675,000
BETTER FOOD FOUNDATION (VEGANS OF LA)$215,000
KANE'S KRUSADE$85,124
AMERICAN WILD HORSE CONSERVATION$72,000
FLEET OF ANGELS$60,000
WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST$50,000
FIXNATION$50,000
WILDCARE$42,500
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$25,000
INTO THE LIGHT$25,000
MARIN HUMANE$25,000
GIVING HOPE PROJECT$20,000
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE PROTECTION & EDUCATION$12,000
PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE$7,500
CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION$7,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%GIZMO-CDA: $8k → 10%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $153k → 6%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $149k → 6%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $300k → 17%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $115k → 6%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $97k → 6%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $80k → 6%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $181k → 14%GIRL VENTURES: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of The Giant Steps Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 60% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Giant Steps Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 51 repeat orgs$596k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
70

Total granted

$10M
$549k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+18%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • VO
    VEGAN OUTREACH INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.6M · revenue +37% · 59% of their budget
  • AW
    AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN
    8× · 2017–2025 · $667k · revenue +209%
  • FP
    FARMLINK PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $631k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $85k
  • DW
    DreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -63%
  • BC
    BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $30k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
4
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
5
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
6
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
7
Environmental and Animal Defense

At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…

Crime & Legal
8
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
9
Peace 4 Animals

Peace 4 animals animal welfare organization supports the conservation of endangered species worldwide. we work on campaigns to promote advocacy and education on how to protect wildlife in peril, as well as the preservation of their natural…

Animals
10
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch

Jameson humane is an impact-driven nonprofit organization whose program model includes a variety of novel solutions and approaches to create a truly unique animal welfare organization that is unlike any animal rescue or sanctuary. jameson…

Animals
12
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc

We seek to end animal agriculture by rescuing farmed animals, giving them lifelong care and sanctuary, and educating about the harms of animal farming.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Animal Nations Dba Redrover and the most unlike its peers is The Emma Zen Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%7%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%56%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr11%4%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/116
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,862

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 137 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/111
Grantees still filing
71/111
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VEGAN OUTREACH INC — $3,612,891 · Food & NutritionVEGAN OUTREACH INCLA PLANTA — $685,000 · Food & NutritionLA PLANTA+2 more — $120,500 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN — $666,570 · AnimalsAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRES…KANES KRUSADE INC — $369,319 · AnimalsKANES KRUSADE INCFixNation Inc — $275,000 · AnimalsFixNation IncFLEET OF ANGELS — $229,000 · AnimalsFLEET OF ANGELSMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $175,000 · AnimalsMARIN HUMANE SOCIETYCENTER FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION AND EDUCATION — $114,500 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $96,453 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $95,000 · Animals+33 more — $503,029 · Animals+33 moreBETTER FOOD FOUNDATION (VEGANS OF LA) — $290,000 · OtherBETTER FOOD FOUND…WILDCARE — $199,309 · OtherWILDCAREWILDHORSES IN NEED — $196,150 · OtherWILDHORSES IN NEE…The Bhutan Foundation — $168,600 · OtherThe Bhutan Founda…PAWPADS — $165,400 · OtherPAWPADSNORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER — $85,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH EL OF GREAT NECK — $66,018 · OtherKINGS MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIRE BRIGADE INC — $65,000 · Other+56 more — $607,500 · Other+56 moreFARMLINK PROJECT — $631,000 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PRO…PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS — $592,920 · Human ServicesPAWSITIVE PE…+4 more — $52,500 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $720,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Education+3 more — $19,060 · EducationSTANFORD HEALTH CARE — $480,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $190,000 · HealthA Foundation Building Strength Inc — $52,000 · Health+2 more — $15,000 · HealthWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $30,000 · EnvironmentBig Sur Land Trust — $20,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $7,500 · EnvironmentHIGH ATLAS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Environment+6 more — $17,500 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$4,418,391Animals$2,523,871Other$1,842,977Human Services$1,276,420Education$794,060Health$737,000Environment$152,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVEGAN OUTREACH INC — $3,612,891 over 6y, 59% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $720,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA PLANTA — $685,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN — $666,570 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT — $631,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS — $592,920 over 5y, 73% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE — $480,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANES KRUSADE INC — $369,319 over 6y, 51% of budgetFixNation Inc — $275,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetFLEET OF ANGELS — $229,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetWILDCARE — $199,309 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetWILDHORSES IN NEED — $196,150 over 6y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $190,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $175,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation — $168,600 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC — $118,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCENTER FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION AND EDUCATION — $114,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $96,453 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPets In Need — $83,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetINTO THE LIGHT HORSE RESCUE & SANCT — $72,700 over 5y, 29% of budgetKINGS MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIRE BRIGADE INC — $65,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Foundation Building Strength Inc — $52,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetDreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHO COMPASION — $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSalt River Wild Horse Management Group Inc — $27,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC — $25,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS NATIONAL — $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMAYAS HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHumane Society of North Iowa — $18,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHASING HORSES WILD HORSE ADVOCATES — $17,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEACOLOGY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMedical Mutts Service Dogs Inc — $12,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMORNINGSIDE CENTER FOR TEACHING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLVENTURES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds VEGAN OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LA PLANTA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN ↗
  • Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
  • Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
  • Who funds KANES KRUSADE INC ↗
  • Who funds FixNation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLEET OF ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds WILDCARE ↗
  • Who funds WILDHORSES IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BETTER FOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Pets In Need ↗
  • Who funds INTO THE LIGHT HORSE RESCUE & SANCT ↗
  • Who funds KINGS MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIRE BRIGADE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds A Foundation Building Strength Inc ↗
  • Who funds DreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOLLOW YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds RANCHO COMPASION ↗
  • Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds Salt River Wild Horse Management Group Inc ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Thornton S Jr and Kat…Gordon E and Betty I …Marin Community Found…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…The Quinn FoundationThe Grey Muzzle Organ…The American Society …The Duffield Family F…The David and Lucile …Caroline & Sigmund Sc…Animal Charity Evalua…
Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide FoundationCA22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Quinn Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Caroline & Sigmund Schott Fund · Animal Charity Evaluators

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Giant Steps Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mitzvah Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report 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

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

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