· Private foundation
The Northrop Grumman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1185 grants · $921k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+15 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NPOWER | $1,000,000 |
| ROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION | $750,000 |
| US SPACE ROCKET CENTER ED FDN | $590,000 |
| FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FDN | $400,000 |
| NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOC | $310,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $250,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $250,000 |
| BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $250,000 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIV FDN | $250,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP | $250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
880 repeat relationships — 517 still active in FY2024, 363 since wound down; 128 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ASAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +52%
- REROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +114%
- MFMATHCOUNTS Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TOTIDES - ONE TENone grant, 2021 · $3.0M
- REROBOTICS EDUC & COMPETITION FDNone grant, 2019 · $1.5M
- MBMILITARY BOWL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1.1M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Varosha. 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
935 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. 935 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ONETEN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MATHCOUNTS Foundation ↗
- Who funds EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASCTE FOUNDATION FKA ALABAMA SCHOOL OF CYBER AND ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Da Vinci Schools ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills 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 Northrop Grumman 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.
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.