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· Private foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
281
Grants FY2024still arriving
30
States reached
$800k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$28MPhilanthropy$23MEnvironment$16MArts & Culture$14MCommunity Improvement$10MPublic Benefit$9.8MInternational$9.8MEducation$6.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 281 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $314k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k125 grants · $13M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$30,000
Median grant
30
States reached
$483M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$800,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$250,000
INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE INC$250,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$250,000
BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE$250,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$225,000
THE CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$200,000
MAJORITY ACTION$200,000
THE SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC$200,000
MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$200,000
THE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT$200,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$200,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY$200,000
FAIR COUNT INC$175,000
UNITED FOR RESPECT EDUCATION FUND$175,000
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 (FY18–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMPACT CUBED: $75k → 11%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $75k → 18%WE OWN IT INC: $75k → 10%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $150k → 17%THE BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $100k → 24%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $100k → 16%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $100k → 29%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $75k → 18%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $150k → 17%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $180k → 9%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $50k → 16%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $100k → 29%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $75k → 18%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $125k → 17%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $100k → 9%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $50k → 23%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $100k → 29%POSSIBILITY LABS: $175k → 10%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $50k → 18%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $50k → 9%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $100k → 29%POSSIBILITY LABS: $100k → 10%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $75k → 29%ALIANZA NACIONAL DE CAMPESINAS: $50k → 8%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $75k → 29%PUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $50k → 11%INADVANCE: $65k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $100k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $75k → 10%INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE: $80k → 20%TIDES CENTER: $175k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%LOISAIDA INC: $80k → 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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DC
HI
LA
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AL
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inclessmore 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.
$96M · 335 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

335 repeat relationships: 150 still active in FY2024, 185 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

335
305

Total granted

$96M
$9.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +192%
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +153%
  • CO
    COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • 5C
    5050 CLIMATE PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $263k
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +52%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +87% · 41% of their budget
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
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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2
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
3
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
4
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
5
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
6
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
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
The Alliance for Media Arts Culture Inc

To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.

Arts & Culture
11
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
12
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. 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

659 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. 659 of the 752 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
163
Early backer (in before they grew)
644/659
Grantees still filing
403/659
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,165,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHIL…TIDES FOUNDATION: $3,109,534 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $2,809,000 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A…THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $1,350,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR C…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,060,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIA…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $850,000 · PhilanthropyPillars Fund: $650,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $604,667 · Philanthropy+13 more: $3,237,255 · Philanthropy+13 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $3,180,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE F…Solutions Project Inc: $1,575,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Pro…HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,315,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RE…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $1,077,576 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTI…Clean Energy Group Inc: $825,000 · EnvironmentClean Energy …MAJORITYACTION: $806,500 · EnvironmentMAJORITYACTIO…US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK: $600,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $600,000 · EnvironmentGreenLatinos: $525,000 · EnvironmentCERES INC: $475,000 · Environment+10 more: $2,690,782 · Environment+10 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,915,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,915,000 · EducationAUBURN THEO…OPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE: $975,000 · EducationOPEN MARKET…THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $810,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVE…PROTEUS FUND INC: $805,500 · EducationPROTEUS FUN…United for Respect Education Fund: $775,000 · EducationUnited for …UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $700,000 · EducationUNION THEOL…MOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC: $675,000 · EducationMOMENTUM CO…THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $450,000 · EducationLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: $400,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $400,000 · Education+3 more: $525,000 · EducationCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $1,945,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CH…The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $1,350,000 · Civil RightsThe Center …National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $1,212,500 · Civil RightsNational Do…FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $850,000 · Civil RightsFIRELIGHT M…JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $850,000 · Civil RightsJEWS FOR RA…JOLT INITIATIVE: $800,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIA…Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $725,000 · Civil RightsAction Cent…SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $550,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $525,000 · Civil RightsADVANCEMENT PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $412,500 · Civil Rights+10 more: $2,320,000 · Civil Rights+10 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $2,680,000 · OtherALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC+94 more: $40,467,855 · Other+94 moreFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $1,305,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN A…PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $1,275,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S A…INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $1,125,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE …COMMON FUTURE: $1,062,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUT…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $1,035,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT S…FINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFP: $725,000 · Community ImprovementFINANCIAL …POLICYLINK: $725,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINKCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $600,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR…AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT: $535,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $400,000 · Community Improvement+10 more: $2,454,250 · Community Improvement+10 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,473,850 · InternationalNEW ISRAE…T'RUAH: $875,000 · InternationalT'RUAHWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $500,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $350,000 · International+5 more: $1,208,000 · International+5 more
Philanthropy$16,835,456Environment$13,669,858Education$11,845,500Civil Rights$11,540,000Other$43,147,855Community Improvement$11,241,750International$10,406,850

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 budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $7,473,850 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $3,180,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,165,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $3,109,534 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $2,915,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $2,809,000 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $2,680,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $1,945,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $1,915,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $1,575,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,404,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $1,350,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $1,350,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,320,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,315,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $1,305,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $1,275,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $1,220,333 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $1,212,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $1,200,000 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $1,125,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE: $1,125,000 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,118,700 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $1,077,576 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $1,062,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,060,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $1,035,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA: $1,000,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetOPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE: $975,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC: $950,000 over 7y, 45% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $875,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetT'RUAH: $875,000 over 7y, 9.2% of budgetUPROSE INC: $851,283 over 5y, 14% of budgetFIRELIGHT MEDIA INC: $850,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $850,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $850,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $825,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetClean Energy Group Inc: $825,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $810,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMAJORITYACTION: $806,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $805,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJOLT INITIATIVE: $800,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $800,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $800,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $775,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $758,593 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Political Accountability: $725,000 over 6y, 22% of budgetFINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFP: $725,000 over 6y, 18% 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 NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
  • Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds OPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
  • Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds T'RUAH ↗
  • Who funds UPROSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
  • Who funds Clean Energy Group Inc ↗

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.

Surdna Foundation IncFreedom Together Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…Foundation to Promote…The Ford FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Proteus Fund IncMarguerite Casey Foun…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…NEO Philanthropy IncWindward FundOmidyar Network Fund …
Surdna Foundation IncNY105.8× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Surdna Foundation Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Windward Fund · Omidyar Network Fund 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 Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Presencing Institute Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs: 3% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
36report 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 752 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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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home