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The Hearst Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
111
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$34MEducation$17MHealth$17MFood & Nutrition$6.1MHuman Services$6.0MHousing & Shelter$4.3MYouth Development$2.9MCrime & Legal$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k102 grants · $14M
  • $250k+9 grants · $2.9M
$150,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$430M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Museum of Manhattan$500,000
Save the Children Federation$500,000
New Museum$350,000
Center for Disability Services Inc$300,000
NY Pubic Library$250,000
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$250,000
National Park Foundation$250,000
Hunter College Foundation$250,000
Crohns & Colitis Foundation$250,000
School of the Art Institute of Chicago$200,000
New York City Center$200,000
University Hospitals Health System$200,000
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$200,000
Oklahoma State University$200,000
University of Houston$200,000
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 (FY20–24, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services: $75k → 14%Hot Bread Kitchen: $125k → 17%Four Oaks Family and Children's Services: $100k → 9%Starfish Family Services Inc: $100k → 21%Oasis Institute: $100k → 11%The Center for Family Justice: $125k → 9%CHRIS 180: $75k → 14%Covenant House Alaska: $100k → 10%Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative: $75k → 19%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $100k → 10%Lutheran Family Services: $150k → 12%Dream Foundation: $150k → 14%Family Service League: $75k → 7%Sojourner Family Peace Center: $100k → 17%Youth Villages: $150k → 17%Community Options: $75k → 11%Northern Virginia Family Service: $75k → 6%Kingsley House: $75k → 23%Knox County Homeless Coalition: $125k → 11%First Place for Youth: $200k → 10%ACCESS: $100k → 21%Bridges from School to Work: $100k → 8%YMCA of Greater Louisville: $100k → 15%Institute on Aging: $150k → 10%Warren Village: $150k → 12%Pine Street Inn: $150k → 16%Family Independence Initiative: $100k → 10%Friends of the Underline: $100k → 15%Covenant House New Orleans: $175k → 23%People's Emergency Center: $75k → 22%Miami Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired Inc: $75k → 15%Loaves & Fishes Inc: $100k → 10%Covenant House New Orleans: $100k → 23%Way to Grow: $125k → 11%Asian American Civic Association: $100k → 16%Way to Grow: $125k → 11%The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights: $100k → 14%Family Rescue: $100k → 14%Community Servings: $150k → 16%Community Servings: $100k → 16%Exceptional Minds: $200k → 14%Exceptional Minds: $150k → 14%Lenox Hill Neighborhood House: $150k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $125k → 17%Room to Grow: $125k → 17%YMCA of Greater New York: $100k → 17%Henry Street Settlement: $100k → 17%Girls Who Code: $100k → 17%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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VT
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ND
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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
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NJ
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RI
CA
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CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
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AR
TN
NC
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HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
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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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 71 repeat orgs$76M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
509

Total granted

$25M
$66M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+15%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +55%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +13%
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +35%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +35%
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
Columbia College Chicago

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

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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
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
6
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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7
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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8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Guild for Community Arts Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Modern States Education Alliance 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

557 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. 557 of the 651 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
555/557
Grantees still filing
367/557
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $900,000 · Arts & Culture+67 more: $20,620,000 · Arts & Culture+67 moreIndividual grant recipient: $1,200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+70 more: $16,500,000 · Other+70 moreThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000,000 · EducationThe New York…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER C…NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $450,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SY…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $350,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC: $250,000 · EducationPRATT INSTITUTE: $225,000 · Education+11 more: $1,800,000 · Education+11 moreFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $525,000 · HealthFOOD & FR…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · HealthCROHN'S &…CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $300,000 · HealthCENTER FO…NAMI National: $300,000 · HealthNAMI Nati…White Plains Hospital Medical Center: $300,000 · HealthWhite Pla…CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $250,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $250,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $250,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $250,000 · HealthBETANCES HEALTH CENTER: $225,000 · HealthMercy Medical Angels: $200,000 · HealthVassar Brothers Hospital Foundation: $200,000 · HealthOklahoma Medical Research Foundation: $200,000 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $200,000 · HealthCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $200,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 · HealthUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $175,000 · Health+4 more: $600,000 · Health+4 moreEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $350,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $275,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW: $250,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE ON AGING: $150,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $700,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterM F PLACE INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housing Inc: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterSTAR OF HOPE MISSION: $150,000 · Housing & ShelterHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $450,000 · Food & NutritionREFED INC: $250,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $250,000 · Food & NutritionMISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC: $175,000 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$23,520,000Other$17,700,000Education$6,375,000Health$5,000,000Human Services$1,975,000Housing & Shelter$1,500,000Food & Nutrition$1,275,000

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $900,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $750,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $750,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $750,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County: $700,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $600,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHEATRE FORWARD INC: $550,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $525,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $500,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE OPERA: $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $450,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $400,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $350,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $350,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $325,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA: $300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKITCHENS FOR GOOD: $300,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNAMI National: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $300,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $275,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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.

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.

The Shubert Foundatio…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Hyde and Watson F…Pinkerton FoundationThe Harry and Jeanett…The New York Communit…Robin Hood FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Altman FoundationThe Bloomberg Family …The Pierre & Tana Mat…
The Shubert Foundation IncNY50.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Robin Hood Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Altman Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · The Pierre & Tana Matisse Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation: 31% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra: 21% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center: 14% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Medical System Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
62report 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

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How do I get to The Hearst Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Hearst 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 651 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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