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The Joyce Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52M
Granted FY2024still arriving
470
Grants FY2024still arriving
27
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$67MEnvironment$38MArts & Culture$31MPublic Benefit$29MCrime & Legal$24MCivil Rights$15MPhilanthropy$14MCommunity Improvement$9.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 470 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k124 grants · $2.9M
  • $50k–250k276 grants · $30M
  • $250k+50 grants · $19M
$80,000
Median grant
27
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chicago Public Media - Chicago Sun-Times$1,000,000
Education First Consulting LLC$935,000
IFF$625,000
The Aspen Institute Inc$600,000
Minnesota Department of Commerce - Energy & Utilities$600,000
National Parks Conservation Association$576,000
Civic News Company$525,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
Elevate Energy$500,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc - Families and Workers Fund$500,000
The Institute for College Access and Success Inc$485,000
Project Unloaded Inc$472,440
Chicago Public Education Fund$400,000
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc$400,000
Clean Wisconsin Inc$385,000
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, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Metropolitan St Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council: $120k → 21%The Pivot Fund: $300k → 13%Ohio Excels: $200k → 15%Swipe Out Hunger: $80k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%Force Detroit: $90k → 21%Voces de la Frontera: $50k → 17%Ohio Excels: $100k → 15%Ohio Excels: $100k → 15%ACCESS: $100k → 21%Force Detroit: $50k → 21%ACCESS: $100k → 21%Ohio Excels: $50k → 15%ACCESS: $100k → 21%ACCESS: $100k → 21%Community Refugee & Immigration Services Inc: $50k → 15%We the People of Detroit: $100k → 21%We The People of Detroit: $100k → 21%We the People of Detroit: $100k → 21%Chicago Architecture Biennial Inc: $50k → 14%Leadership for Educational Equity Foundation: $60k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights: $60k → 14%Center on Halsted: $77k → 14%The HANA Center: $75k → 14%A Better Chicago: $160k → 14%THRIVE CHICAGO NFP: $75k → 14%Northwest Side Housing Center: $50k → 14%The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence: $50k → 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

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of The Joyce Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 26%.

The Joyce Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$221M · 434 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

434 repeat relationships: 317 still active in FY2024, 117 since wound down; 106 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

434
297

Total granted

$221M
$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M 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
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +193%
  • University of Chicago
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +52%
  • CP
    CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $622k · revenue +63%
  • NL
    NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $525k · revenue +20%
  • PG
    Panorama Global - Hyphen
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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
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
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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7
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
8
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
9
Ampt Advancing Nonprofits

Advancing Nonprofits is committed to strengthening the organizational health and support long-term development of small nonprofits on Chicagos west and south sides while prioritizing Black- and Latine-led community organizations.…

Community Improvement
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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12
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

616 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. 616 of the 859 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.

35
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
147
Early backer (in before they grew)
608/616
Grantees still filing
399/616
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chicago Public Media - Chicago Sun-Times: $3,000,000 · OtherEDUCATION FIRST CONSULTING LLC: $2,890,630 · Other+94 more: $72,465,364 · Other+94 moreADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $2,725,000 · EducationADVANCE ILLINOIS NFPUniversity of Chicago: $2,698,802 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoThe Education Trust Inc: $1,963,000 · EducationThe Institute for College Access & Success: $1,952,500 · EducationCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $1,910,000 · EducationCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $1,816,400 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,627,705 · EducationTEACH PLUS INC: $1,575,000 · Education+27 more: $21,663,718 · Education+27 moreElevate Energy: $2,233,200 · EnvironmentElevate EnergyNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,980,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOUR…MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,850,000 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN LEAGU…THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,780,000 · EnvironmentTHE OHIO ENVIR…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,776,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS…CLEAN WISCONSIN INC: $1,755,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WISCONSI…FRESH ENERGY: $1,610,000 · EnvironmentFRESH ENERGYMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,300,000 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVIR…MIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE: $1,283,000 · EnvironmentMIDWEST ENERGY…NEW VENTURE FUND: $1,098,375 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $990,000 · EnvironmentCUB CONSUMER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND: $940,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $800,000 · Environment+6 more: $4,025,600 · Environment+6 moreCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $1,550,000 · Civil RightsChicago Votes: $1,250,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center: $1,160,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES: $1,150,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,030,000 · Civil RightsCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND: $1,005,000 · Civil RightsCHANGE ILLINOIS: $850,500 · Civil RightsGUNSDOWN INC: $815,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $750,000 · Civil RightsPROMOTE THE VOTE FUND INC: $700,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $630,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $575,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL STUDENT LEGAL DEFENSE NETWORK: $500,000 · Civil Rights365 Media Foundation Inc: $500,000 · Civil RightsYOUNG INVINCIBLES: $475,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS: $464,987 · Civil RightsCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,525,120 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,053,000 · Arts & CultureTRACE MEDIA INC: $1,014,000 · Arts & CultureWCIJ INC: $1,000,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $800,000 · Arts & Culture3ARTS INC: $790,000 · Arts & CultureSAFE STATES ALLIANCE: $788,560 · Arts & CultureOPEN CAMPUS MEDIA INC: $755,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM & NATURAL RESOURCES: $685,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART FKA MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM: $511,250 · Arts & CultureCongo Square Theatre Company: $490,000 · Arts & CultureTHE 74 MEDIA INC: $475,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO SINFONIETTA INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL B NEWS INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureCourt Theatre Fund: $440,000 · Arts & CulturePUERTO RICAN ARTS ALLIANCE: $425,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,335,000 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,309,250 · Social ScienceAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $592,500 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $575,000 · Social ScienceASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $550,000 · Social SciencePOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $500,000 · Social ScienceITHAKA HARBORS INC: $500,000 · Social ScienceINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $430,000 · Social ScienceTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY: $427,000 · Social ScienceWAVE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $1,320,000 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $970,000 · Crime & LegalVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $925,000 · Crime & LegalChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc: $905,000 · Crime & LegalIMPACT FOR EQUITY: $855,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: $625,000 · Crime & LegalFINES AND FEES JUSTICE CENTER INC: $623,000 · Crime & LegalPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $600,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $450,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$78,355,994Education$37,932,125Environment$23,421,175Civil Rights$13,405,487Arts & Culture$12,651,930Social Science$8,218,750Crime & Legal$7,273,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,335,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP: $2,725,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,698,802 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,525,120 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetElevate Energy: $2,233,200 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,980,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $1,963,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetThe Institute for College Access & Success: $1,952,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetCIVIC NEWS COMPANY: $1,910,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,850,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $1,816,400 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,780,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,776,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCLEAN WISCONSIN INC: $1,755,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,650,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,627,705 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRESH ENERGY: $1,610,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $1,575,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,570,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFAITH IN PLACE: $1,550,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $1,550,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $1,475,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLATINO POLICY FORUM: $1,342,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $1,335,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetWAVE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $1,320,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,309,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,300,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE: $1,283,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $1,270,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetChicago Votes: $1,250,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC: $1,235,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetEd Allies: $1,200,000 over 4y, 40% of budgetCIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE: $1,163,800 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetFair Elections Center: $1,160,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $1,150,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetONE AIM ILLINOIS: $1,150,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $1,150,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $1,125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,098,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,090,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,053,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,030,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $1,025,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTRACE MEDIA INC: $1,014,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetCEASEFIRE PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATION FUND: $1,005,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetWCIJ INC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000,000 over 5y, 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 THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE ILLINOIS NFP ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Elevate Energy ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Institute for College Access & Success ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC NEWS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
  • Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LATINO POLICY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
  • Who funds WAVE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Votes ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Ed Allies ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC CONSULTING ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Field Foundation of I…Polk Bros Foundation …John D and Catherine …Arie and Ida Crown Me…Lloyd a Fry FoundationRobert R McCormick Fo…Builders Vision Found…Walder FoundationCircle of Service Fou…United Way of Metropo…Alphawood FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…
Field Foundation of IllinoisIL138.3× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Field Foundation of Illinois · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Walder Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Alphawood Foundation · The McKnight Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Rodel Charitable Foundation - De: 20% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
33report 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 859 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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