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The Presser Foundation at a glance

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The Presser Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
486
Grants FY2025still arriving
46
States reached
$186k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$20MEducation$10.0MYouth Development$333kHuman Services$313kHealth$221kRecreation & Sports$34kCommunity Improvement$29kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 486 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k391 grants · $1.3M
  • $10k–50k85 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $961k
$3,000
Median grant
46
States reached
$89M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$185,720
THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$150,000
WRTI901FM$125,000
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS)$100,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS)$75,000
WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE$75,000
ARTPHILLY$50,000
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA MUSIC INSTITUTE$50,000
CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$50,000
ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS$40,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$40,000
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL$40,000
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION$40,000
THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$40,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE: $75k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 11%EASTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 6%READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $75k → 11%COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL LEHIGH VALLEY: $75k → 11%WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $75k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $125k → 10%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 18%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 11%ZOELLNER ARTS CENTER: $75k → 11%WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $75k → 22%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%RIDER UNIVERSITY - WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE: $95k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 22%WRTI901FM: $125k → 22%VARIOUS: $181k → 22%VARIOUS: $162k → 22%VARIOUS: $161k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $125k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $125k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $100k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $100k → 22%KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY: $70k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $125k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $100k → 22%CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $150k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $100k → 22%THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $75k → 22%SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL: $75k → 22%LIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $100k → 22%LIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $100k → 22%LIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $100k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $200k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $100k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS): $100k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $90k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC (ENSEMBLE ARTS): $75k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 22%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $75k → 22%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 417 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

417 repeat relationships: 298 still active in FY2025, 119 since wound down; 126 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

417
67

Total granted

$30M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+0%

Still filing today

56%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $532k 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
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MC
    MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +245%
  • KC
    KIMMEL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $665k · revenue +75%
  • PC
    Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
    9× · 2017–2025 · $653k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • ST
    STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • TM
    THE MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • EU
    EASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +22%
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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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Wilson College

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

Education
3
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
4
Point Park University

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…

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5
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
6
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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7
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
8
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
9
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawrence University of Wisconsin; the most unlike its peers is Mosaic Youth Chorus. 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

351 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. 351 of the 614 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)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
344/351
Grantees still filing
209/351
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,211,250 · Arts & CultureMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSKIMMEL CENTER INC: $665,000 · Arts & CultureKIMMEL CENTER INCPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $652,500 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Chamber Music SocietyTHE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $625,000 · Arts & CultureSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $540,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $490,500 · Arts & CultureCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $469,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $450,250 · Arts & Culture+53 more: $6,926,660 · Arts & Culture+53 moreVARIOUS: $1,464,606 · OtherVARIOUSLIVECONNECTIONS DBA WORLD CAFE LIVE: $420,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $315,500 · Other+66 more: $6,175,135 · Other+66 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $331,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF T…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $325,000 · EducationTemple University -…RIDER UNIVERSITY: $284,000 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYTHE CROSSING INC: $279,500 · EducationTHE CROSSING INCSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $231,500 · Education+60 more: $3,008,250 · Education+60 moreASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $250,500 · EmploymentBEYOND THE BARS INC: $97,250 · Crime & LegalTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $97,000 · PhilanthropyArtistas y Musicos Latino Americanos: $41,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $34,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$12,030,660Other$8,375,741Education$4,459,250Employment$250,500Crime & Legal$97,250Philanthropy$97,000Health$41,000Recreation & Sports$34,000

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 budgetMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,211,250 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetKIMMEL CENTER INC: $665,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Chamber Music Society: $652,500 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC: $625,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $540,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $490,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $469,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $450,250 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS: $359,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $345,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $331,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $325,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOPERADELAWARE INC: $317,685 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA: $315,500 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $284,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CROSSING INC: $279,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $277,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM: $267,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetSYMPHONY IN C: $252,500 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetASTRAL ARTISTS INC: $250,500 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA: $235,000 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $231,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED: $230,250 over 9y, 21% of budgetTHE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $226,000 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetDELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $217,500 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSINGING CITY INC: $217,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetNETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC: $211,500 over 9y, 18% of budgetHISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP: $200,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetMENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $200,000 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD: $199,500 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetTEMPESTA DI MARE INC: $198,250 over 9y, 10% of budgetPIFFARO THE RENAISSANCE BAND: $194,250 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetTHE STATE THEATRE REGIONAL ARTS CENTER AT NEW BRUNSWICK INC: $192,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICOPIA INC: $185,750 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCommonwealth Youthchoirs Inc: $185,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetREADING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $175,500 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetGRAND OPERA HOUSE INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $173,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc: $170,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $155,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $139,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $134,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $124,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $124,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $124,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $121,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $111,000 over 8y, 6.7% 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 MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Chamber Music Society ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds OPERADELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSSING INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY IN C ↗
  • Who funds ASTRAL ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRISM QUARTET INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CHOIR SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SINGING CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC LANSDOWNE THEATER CORP ↗
  • Who funds MENDELSSOHN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF COLLEGEVILLE LTD ↗
  • Who funds TEMPESTA DI MARE 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.

The Philadelphia Cult…The William Penn Foun…The University of the…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Musical Fund Society …The Philadelphia Foun…National Collegiate A…Arthur Judson Foundat…The Barra Foundation …Mid Atlantic Arts IncD'Addario Foundation …Connelly Foundation
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund IncPA99.5× affinity52 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The University of the Arts · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Arthur Judson Foundation Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Connelly 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 Presser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Presser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Wilmington Children's Chorus: 16% of income from government
  • Grand Opera House Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Operadelaware Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Delaware Symphony Association Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Westrick Music Academy Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Music School of Delaware Inc: 9% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa: 2% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Capital Harmony Works Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
  • The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
57report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Presser Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Presser Foundation 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 614 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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