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The Pfizer Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9,306
Grants FY2024still arriving
53
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$104MHealth$30MPublic Safety & Disaster$23MEducation$11MHuman Services$5.2MPhilanthropy$5.1MFood & Nutrition$4.6MArts & Culture$2.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 9306 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9203 grants · $6.1M
  • $10k–50k72 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+14 grants · $14M
$200
Median grant
53
States reached
$255M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JHPIEGO$4,000,000
DIRECT RELIEF$2,500,000
MYRIAD USA$1,000,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$1,000,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$1,000,000
MYRIAD USA$1,000,000
LELEKA FOUNDATION$500,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$500,000
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC$500,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$500,000
FUTURE FOR UKRAINE$500,000
WORLD VISION INC$500,000
THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$350,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$350,000
RISE AGAINST HUNGER$150,000
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, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CALIFORNIA IMMUNIZATION COALITION: $25k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $17k → 16%COASTAL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF THE ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DIOCESE OF: $20k → 12%HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $100k → 16%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $35k → 11%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $26k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25k → 14%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $16k → 11%THE LATINO CANCER INSTITUTE: $25k → 8%CALIFORNIA CHRONIC CARE COALITION: $50k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $12k → 14%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $20k → 8%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $15k → 11%BOYS TOWN LOUISIANA INC: $15k → 23%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $11k → 14%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $16k → 8%KESSLER FOUNDATION INC: $12k → 4%NORTH AMERICAN TELUGU ASSOCIATION INC: $19k → 11%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $83k → 7%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT INC: $16k → 8%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $61k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 8%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $19k → 11%CANCER PATHWAYS: $20k → 9%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $18k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $16k → 11%HERO HOUSE NW: $20k → 9%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $250k → 8%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $12k → 11%GENDERCOOL PROJECT: $12k → 14%TEAMMATES FOR LIFE INC: $11k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES: $2.0M → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1.0M → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES: $850k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $400k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $246k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $150k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%SAFE FUTURES INC: $13k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $58k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $55k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $33k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $13k → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $100k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $17k → 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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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 8% of The Pfizer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 23%.

The Pfizer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111M · 1634 repeat orgs$35M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

1634 repeat relationships: 1335 still active in FY2024, 299 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1634
265

Total granted

$111M
$34M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +20%
  • AH
    AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +40% · 35% of their budget
  • P
    PATH
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • OP
    OTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $16M
  • UH
    UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +34% · 25% of their budget
  • HR
    HEALTH RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -31%
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.

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University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
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University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education
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Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education
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Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education
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Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
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United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundling; the most unlike its peers is La Salle University. 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

1664 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. 1664 of the 2,000 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
1638/1664
Grantees still filing
1129/1664
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYRIAD USA INC: $11,253,282 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCDIRECT RELIEF: $9,537,535 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $8,125,343 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)PATH: $5,097,769 · InternationalPATHSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,044,403 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $5,004,685 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,246,463 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,034,111 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCRWORLD VISION INC: $3,320,756 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $3,214,408 · International+28 more: $13,414,180 · International+28 moreOTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: $15,716,631 · OtherOTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIESJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $5,000,200 · OtherJHPIEGO CORPORATIONAMERICAN RED CROSS: $2,750,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSJHPIEGO: $2,000,000 · OtherAMPATH THROUGH INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,920,000 · Other+70 more: $14,533,828 · Other+70 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $21,072,977 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FO…+11 more: $2,682,023 · Philanthropy+11 moreHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $2,000,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $769,348 · HealthARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INC: $625,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $624,766 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $561,135 · HealthTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $550,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $465,404 · HealthLAST MILE HEALTH: $400,000 · HealthZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $394,948 · Health+37 more: $3,725,461 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,870,524 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,161,536 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $259,072 · Human Services+8 more: $698,137 · Human ServicesUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $525,098 · Arts & CultureCARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureIndiana University Foundation: $1,030,060 · EducationSISTERS WORKING IT OUT: $558,785 · EducationPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $452,810 · EducationSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $295,000 · EducationVILLAGEREACH: $201,950 · EducationCornell University: $147,435 · Education+9 more: $660,226 · Education
International$72,292,935Other$41,920,659Philanthropy$23,755,000Health$10,116,062Human Services$5,989,269Arts & Culture$5,925,098Education$3,346,266

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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $21,072,977 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $11,253,282 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $9,537,535 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $8,125,343 over 4y, 35% of budgetPATH: $5,097,769 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,044,403 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $5,004,685 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetJHPIEGO CORPORATION: $5,000,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,246,463 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $4,034,111 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,870,524 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,320,756 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $3,214,408 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $2,385,095 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,609,932 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLELEKA FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,161,536 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,100,569 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC: $1,040,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $1,030,060 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,002,305 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,000,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $769,348 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INC: $625,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $624,766 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $614,965 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $581,753 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE: $561,331 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $561,135 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERS WORKING IT OUT: $558,785 over 5y, 49% of budgetESSIE B & WILLIAM EARL GLENN FOUNDATION FOR BETTER LIVING: $552,104 over 4y, 35% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $550,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $525,098 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $501,290 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank Council of Michigan Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFUTURE FOR UKRAINE: $500,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $465,404 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: $452,810 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $400,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $400,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMUSO INC: $400,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $394,948 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $367,180 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $362,981 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.

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.

Tyler-Little Family FoundationMI33.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · United Way of Southeastern Connecticut 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pfizer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
  • Association of Immunization Managers: 52% of income from government
  • Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc: 15% of income from government
  • National Association of Community Health Centers Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Pfizer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pfizer Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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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