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The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation at a glance

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The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation

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.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$10MEducation$5.9MYouth Development$3.9MReligion$1.4MEmployment$1.0MScience & Tech$1.0MRecreation & Sports$956kHousing & Shelter$820kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $806k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.1M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR$2,250,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$1,000,000
CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$525,020
UPSTREAM$300,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION$200,000
NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$185,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER CENTRAL MASSMETROWEST$150,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$125,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$120,000
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$100,000
THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC$100,000
SHARE WINTER FOUNDATION$100,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$85,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OLD COLONY YMCA: $25k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $25k → 16%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $60k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $4k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $165k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $100k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $40k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $4k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $335k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $105k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $85k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $25k → 16%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
TN
NC
GA
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 17% of The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundationlessmore 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 53 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
24

Total granted

$26M
$585k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • RB
    Ron Burton Training Village Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +479%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $970k · revenue +263%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $825k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • U
    UPSTREAM
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • BC
    BOSTON'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
6
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
7
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
8
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. 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

72 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. 72 of the 97 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
56/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR: $5,552,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EARFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC: $4,475,020 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INCSAINT CECILIA PARISH: $1,270,000 · OtherSAINT CECILIA PARISHRon Burton Training Village Inc: $1,210,000 · OtherRon Burton Training Village IncShare Winter Foundation: $750,000 · Other+50 more: $4,817,850 · Other+50 moreUpstream USA Inc: $2,400,000 · HealthUpstream US…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $350,000 · HealthDana-Farber…Children's Hospital Corporation: $125,000 · Health+7 more: $114,450 · HealthCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $970,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $825,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $110,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentYEAR UP INC: $1,000,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 · EducationTHE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC: $190,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $135,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $116,905 · EducationHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $800,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $330,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $75,000 · Human Services+4 more: $78,020 · Human ServicesWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 · Science & TechNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $242,500 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc: $240,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Bullpen Project Inc: $95,000 · PhilanthropyGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $60,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $950 · Philanthropy
Other$18,075,370Health$2,989,450Youth Development$1,943,000Education$1,866,905Human Services$1,508,020Science & Tech$1,000,000Philanthropy$863,450

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 budgetUpstream USA Inc: $2,400,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $1,210,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $1,000,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $970,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC: $825,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $800,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetShare Winter Foundation: $750,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $600,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $488,150 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $330,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $242,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $240,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC: $190,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $135,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Bullpen Project Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK STREET SCHOOL INC: $31,905 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMedicine for Humanity: $30,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOne Summit Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 4.1% 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 Upstream USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Share Winter Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds Boston Bullpen Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…GivenGain Foundation …Highland Street Conne…The Ayco Charitable F…Arbella Insurance Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Edgerley Family F…The Lynch FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Analog Devices Founda…Boston Bruins Charita…
Boston Foundation IncMA36.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Edgerley Family Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation 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 Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Maranyundo Initiative Inc: 85% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 97 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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