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The Howard and Sarah D Solomon 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$254k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE HOWARD AND SARAH D SOLOMON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $254k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $415k
  • $250k+3 grants · $754k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET$254,000
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION$250,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$250,000
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL$170,000
THE SANTA FE OPERA$75,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$62,500
METROPOLITAN MUESEUM OF ART$57,579
CARNEGIE HALL - SONGSTUDIOENSEMBLE$50,000
PARK AVENUE ARMORY$26,500
KRONOS PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION$25,025
GOTHAM EARLY MUSIC SCENE INC - RUCKUS$25,000
CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC & THE ARTS INC$25,000
THE ENGLISH CONCERT IN AMERICA$22,095
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$20,000
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BRISTOL OLD VIC: $50k → 10%CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY: $300k → 13%BETH MORRISON PROJECTS: $50k → 20%THE SANTA FE OPERA: $118k → 12%JOHNSON AND WALES UNIVERSITY-CHARLESTON (JWUC): $50k → 14%BETH MORRISON PROJECTS: $30k → 20%BETH MORRISON PROJECTS: $30k → 20%KRONOS PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC - OPERA PROGRAMING: $75k → 20%ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S: $44k → 17%BETH MORRISON PROJECTS - 5K FOR PROTOTYPE: $25k → 20%CHAPEL & YORK: $250k → 17%MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $50k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL - SONGSTUDIOENSEMBLE: $50k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL - SONGSTUDIOENSEMBLE: $50k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL - SONGSTUDIOENSEMBLE: $50k → 17%THE CARNEGIE HALL SOCIETY INC: $40k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $40k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $40k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $250k → 17%CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $28k → 17%PARK AVENUE ARMORY: $27k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET: $254k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET: $250k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $63k → 17%CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - OPERA VENTURES: $250k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $250k → 17%THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $170k → 17%THE JULLIARD SCHOOL: $155k → 17%THE JULLIARD SCHOOL: $135k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $125k → 17%THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $60k → 17%LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $32k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $30k → 17%INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $75k → 17%INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $33k → 17%MET MUSEUM: $120k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $73k → 17%MET MUSEUM: $60k → 17%MET MUSEUM: $60k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - CHAIRMAN'S COUNCIL: $60k → 17%METROPOLITAN MUESEUM OF ART: $58k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - MET LIVE ARTS: $55k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $54k → 17%MET MUSEUM: $50k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART - MET LIVE ARTS: $38k → 17%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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 81 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
69

Total granted

$5.8M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+11%

Still filing today

58%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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 & CultureEducationInternationalHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TS
    THE SANTA FE OPERA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $737k · revenue +53%
  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +65%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $507k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • CO
    CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -94% · 98% of their budget
  • CY
    CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - OPERA VENTURES
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $250k

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
Foundation for Modern Opera
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2
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
3
Center for Contemporary Opera

Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…

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4
Cantata Profana Inc

Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…

Arts & Culture
5
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
6
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
7
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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8
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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9
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…

Arts & Culture
10
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
12
Vanguard Concerts
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/105
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,655

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.

04the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 180 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/105
Grantees still filing
52/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN OPERA — $467,440 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERACANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INC — $300,000 · OtherCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INCMET MUSEUM — $290,000 · OtherMET MUSEUMCHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - OPERA VENTURES — $250,000 · OtherCHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION - OPERA VENTURESIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCARNEGIE HALL - SONGSTUDIOENSEMBLE — $150,000 · OtherPARK AVENUE ARMORY — $141,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION — $133,300 · Other+95 more — $1,859,325 · Other+95 moreTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $737,250 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERAAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC — $506,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BA…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $184,361 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC — $155,000 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $119,200 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $118,000 · Arts & Culture+52 more — $1,334,360 · Arts & Culture+52 moreJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $525,000 · EducationJUILLIARD S…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEE…+3 more — $35,000 · EducationCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $87,500 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $10,000 · Community ImprovementMYRIAD USA INC — $60,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $10,000 · InternationalTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC — $10,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $5,000 · International+2 more — $3,000 · InternationalBEDFORD 2030 INC — $61,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$3,841,565Arts & Culture$3,154,671Education$860,000Philanthropy$276,000Community Improvement$97,500International$88,000Environment$62,000

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 budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA — $737,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $525,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC — $506,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INC — $300,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $184,361 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC — $155,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION — $133,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $119,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $118,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY — $105,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $84,575 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC — $72,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates — $72,095 over 3y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $66,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC — $65,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC — $64,360 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $62,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD 2030 INC — $61,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC — $55,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON SITE OPERA INC — $50,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHeartbeat Opera Ltd — $42,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FREYA PROJECT INC — $32,500 over 5y, 66% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $31,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBLANCHARDS ANGUILLA CHILDRENS FUND INC — $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetDecoda Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMID-PACIFIC INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKronos Performing Arts Association — $25,025 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEXPERIMENTS IN OPERA — $25,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetChicago Symphony Orchestra — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Glyndebourne Association America Inc co Richard Block — $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSING FOR HOPE INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC — $16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINTL FRIENDS OF THE INTL LYRIC ART FESTIVAL IN AIX — $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% 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 THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
  • Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARIS OPERA AND BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN MODERN OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds THE MARIINSKY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds BEDFORD 2030 INC ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LYRIC THEATER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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.

The Aaron Copland Fun…The Fan Fox and Lesli…The Howard Gilman Fou…The Amphion Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…New Music USA IncAnn & Gordon Getty Fo…Susan and Elihu Rose …The New York Communit…Mid Atlantic Arts IncJewish Communal FundThe Bill and Ann Ziff…
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLPNY37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · New Music USA Inc · Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation

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 Howard and Sarah D Solomon 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 180 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.

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