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When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited.

$355k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$84k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$715kEducation$585kFood & Nutrition$366kEnvironment$306kCommunity Improvement$67kHealth$15k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $188,793, the rows itemized in this filing. The $354,684 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $165,891 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $136k
$52,075
Median grant
2
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas State University Foundation$83,814
Regents of the University of Minnesota$52,075
University of Minnesota Foundation$38,571
University Kansas Center for Research Inc$14,333
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $21k → 8%Regents of the University of Minnesota: $52k → 11%GREEN LANDS BLUE WATERS: $25k → 14%USDA AGRICULTURE RESEARCH SERVICE: $28k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $42k → 22%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%USDA ARS: $17k → 14%MCPHERSON COLLEGE: $20k → 10%KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $38k → 13%University of Kansas: $43k → 15%Kansas State University: $91k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $41k → 10%PLOVGH INC: $34k → 15%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL: $15k → 8%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $54k → 27%USDA-ARS: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%THE BERRY CENTER: $50k → 13%University of Minnesota Foundation: $39k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 14%USDAARS: $10k → 10%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $41k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $42k → 15%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $21k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $35k → 27%University of Minnesota Foundation: $15k → 11%TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $38k → 22%University Kansas Center for Research Inc: $14k → 15%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $13k → 10%University of Georgia Foundation: $34k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN: $34k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $21k → 10%UGA FOUNDATION: $23k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 11%Kansas State University Foundation: $84k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $12k → 10%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $10k → 10%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%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

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
KS
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $166k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$54k · 33% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$36k · 22% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS

Sub-Saharan Africa$36k · 22% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS

Russia and Neighboring States$30k · 18% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$10k · 6% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 11 repeat orgs$583k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$461k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+39%

Still filing today

36%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
EducationHealthScience & TechOther
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

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $298k
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $179k
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue -36%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2022 · $54k
  • TB
    THE BERRY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • WF
    WSU Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $45k
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
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
2
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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3
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
4
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the university and communities that have touched the lives of ku alumni and friends, the mission of the ku endowment charitable gift fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
5
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
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
9
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Berry Center 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

15 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. 15 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $297,500 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $179,214 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $127,655 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTATEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCH: $121,717 · OtherTEXAS A&M AGRILIFE RESEARCHAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA): $105,000 · OtherAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE (USDA)UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $103,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISONUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $53,500 · OtherWSU Foundation: $45,000 · Other+10 more: $183,827 · Other+10 moreCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $172,719 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $91,690 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $83,814 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Associa…THE BERRY CENTER INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE BERRY CENTER INCUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $38,571 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $38,500 · EducationKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $37,500 · Education+5 more: $74,263 · Education+5 moreUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $99,091 · Science & TechTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Health
Other$1,217,213Education$722,057Science & Tech$99,091Health$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $172,719 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $99,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $91,690 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $83,814 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $38,571 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $21,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $15,477 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $8,750 over 1y, 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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds THE BERRY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 33 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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