How much did THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

parksbuilding

2021

farmparkscollaborative

2022

parkscollaborative

2023

educational improvementimprovement creditcredit scholarshipparkscollaborative

2024

egyptian galleriesostceitclogoscollaborative

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $64k
$10k–50k13 grants · $277k
$50k–250k4 grants · $410k
$250k+4 grants · $2.5M

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$1,200,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA$500,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA$250,000
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$150,000
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA$125,000
YSC ACADEMY$85,000
CRISPUS ATTUCKS YORK$50,000
SILVERBACK EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFOR THE ARTS DANCE & ATHLETICS$40,000
LOGOS ACADEMY$40,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$35,000
UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY$30,000
SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY$25,000
APPELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$20,000
THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$20,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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 GRAHAM 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, 48% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 42% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE GRAHAM FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 5.9% 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 51 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

51 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+54%

Still filing today

41%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

UO
University of Michigan
4× · 2020–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +126%
YC
York College of Pennsylvania
3× · 2020–2024 · $675k · revenue +24%
YA
YSC ACADEMY
2× · 2023–2024 · $335k · revenue +71%

Funded once

TP
The Pennsylvania State University
one grant, 2021 · $600k
YJ
YORK JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $500k
CA
CRISPUS ATTUCKS
one grant, 2023 · $75k

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.

York County Bar Association

Promote excellence in the profession by providing services to the bar members

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York University

Provide post secondary education to students in various fields.the university is a four year accredited post secondary education institution offering bachelor's degrees in various areas. the university offers on-site learning and provides…

Education

York College Foundation

To assist york college in developing and delivering more educational opportunities by making gifts, grants, contributions, and donations for the benefit of the college.

Education

York Foundation

To support educational, cultural, religious and charitable activities.

Philanthropy

The York School

To operate as a coeducational, independent, nonprofit educational institution.

Education

Watershed Alliance of York (Way) Inc

To improve york county's waters making them cleaner and healthier for all

—

York Community Foundation

To utilize charitable funds to strengthen and improve the york community for all its citizens

Philanthropy

York Academy Regional Charter School

With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.

Education

University of York in America Inc

To promote education and ancillary research.

Education

York County Development Corporation

To encourage and promote quality economic growth in york county

—

York Hospital

Provide quality, cost-effective health care without regard for an individual's ability to pay.

Health

York Land Trust

The York Land Trust conserves and protects lands of community significance in the York area.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Bar Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Leg Up Farm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

176/2,222

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.

06the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/30

Grantees still filing

21/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,664,498Education$1,175,000Arts & Culture$74,500Human Services$60,000Recreation & Sports$45,000Health$36,000Animals$32,000

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

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.

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.

Powder Mill FoundationPA48.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Powder Mill Foundation · York County Community Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William · The Stewart Foundation · United Way of York County · The W Dale Brougher Foundation · White Rose Leadership Institute · Kinsley Foundation · Bob Hoffman Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family · Memorial Health Fund

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 organisation THE GRAHAM 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Miss PA Scholarship Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814893202 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Miss PA Scholarship Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Graham Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Graham Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Graham Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Graham Foundation?

More from the funding graph