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The Rockefeller 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.

$233M
Granted FY2024still arriving
381
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$75M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

International$666MPhilanthropy$277MEnvironment$177MHealth$155MEducation$90MFood & Nutrition$85MCommunity Improvement$68MPublic Benefit$50MOther$0
02FY2024 · 381 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k170 grants · $21M
  • $250k+139 grants · $211M
$170,914
Median grant
34
States reached
$6.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$75,000,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$11,800,000
CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC$10,000,000
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$10,000,000
CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC$8,500,000
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$7,384,000
GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS & MALARIA$7,000,000
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$6,417,744
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME$3,901,164
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$3,152,963
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT$2,500,000
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR PROJECT SERVICE (UNOPS)$2,500,000
AFRICAN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK$2,000,000
HOPEWELL FUND$2,000,000
FREUNDE VON GISAID EV$1,547,316
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 80% of grant dollars ($1.4B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($361M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $28.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT INC: $535k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $275k → 8%STATE POWER FUND: $2.0M → 12%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $300k → 23%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $500k → 11%STATE POWER FUND: $1.0M → 12%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $450k → 21%STATE POWER FUND: $375k → 12%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $450k → 21%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $250k → 17%STATE POWER FUND: $325k → 12%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $300k → 23%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $250k → 21%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $250k → 17%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $250k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $1.2M → 10%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM: $200k → 17%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $1.3M → 8%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 8%BREAD OF LIFE INC: $300k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $400k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $250k → 10%BREAD OF LIFE INC: $250k → 16%CHANGE MACHINE: $1.9M → 20%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $594k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $400k → 17%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $500k → 17%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $500k → 17%AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION: $500k → 17%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $1.3M → 14%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $229k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $500k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $275k → 17%GLOBAL RESILIENT CITIES NETWORK: $1.9M → 17%GLOBAL RESILIENT CITIES NETWORK: $1.5M → 17%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $400k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $393k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $360k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $300k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $251k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $251k → 14%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $400k → 14%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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NC
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HI
OK
LA
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Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($361M)

67 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Kenya$81M · 130 grants
Switzerland$66M · 73 grants
Italy$38M · 88 grants
India$33M · 64 grants
United Kingdom$32M · 160 grants
South Africa$18M · 39 grants
Austria$16M · 14 grants
Canada$12M · 27 grants
Netherlands$7.8M · 23 grants
Nigeria$7.0M · 14 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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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 15% of The Rockefeller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 30%.

The Rockefeller Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4B · 1005 repeat orgs$163M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

1005 repeat relationships: 189 still active in FY2024, 816 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1005
843

Total granted

$1.4B
$148M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

68%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • RC
    RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $349M · revenue ×25 · 60% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32M · revenue +43%
  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $32M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30M
  • IL
    IHEALTH LABS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
  • IL
    INCANDESCENT LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $3.3M
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
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
3
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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4
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
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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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
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is Berggruen Institute. 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

1299 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. 1299 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.

76
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
188
Early backer (in before they grew)
1275/1299
Grantees still filing
840/1299
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC: $349,196,744 · PhilanthropyRF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INCROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $87,057,473 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INCCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC: $32,000,000 · PhilanthropyCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC+16 more: $56,118,405 · Philanthropy+16 moreALLIANCE FOR A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: $58,873,342 · OtherALLIANCE FOR A GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICAINTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION: $30,000,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATIONGLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS & MALARIA: $28,000,000 · OtherBELLAGIO CENTER THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION: $21,820,135 · OtherINTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT: $18,175,000 · Other+112 more: $383,455,592 · Other+112 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $92,897,127 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…THE ENERGY FOR GROWTH HUB INC: $9,750,000 · EnvironmentTHE ENERGY…NREL Foundation: $5,000,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER: $4,738,801 · Environment+6 more: $18,535,569 · Environment+6 moreATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $31,750,000 · InternationalATLANTIC C…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,908,129 · InternationalUNITED STA…PATH: $9,038,805 · InternationalPATHINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $7,056,234 · InternationalINSTITUTE …UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $6,755,486 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $6,284,780 · InternationalDalberg Catalyst: $6,279,894 · InternationalPACT INC: $6,000,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INC: $5,821,437 · International+14 more: $34,309,460 · International+14 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,916,024 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $6,678,210 · EducationBENEFITS DATA TRUST: $4,982,500 · EducationTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $4,617,869 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,751,059 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,215,548 · EducationRESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $3,025,000 · EducationCornell University: $2,941,528 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $2,891,317 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $2,600,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2,301,684 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,245,570 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,061,390 · Education+6 more: $9,913,256 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $31,814,747 · HealthMEDIC MOBILE INC: $3,099,759 · HealthPATHWAYS TO HEALTH COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,825,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,500,000 · HealthROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $1,500,000 · HealthTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $9,109,000 · Social ScienceSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $7,500,000 · Social ScienceECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $4,010,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $4,000,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,900,000 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $3,874,914 · Social ScienceJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC: $1,850,000 · Social Science
Philanthropy$524,372,622Other$540,324,069Environment$130,921,497International$129,204,225Education$58,140,955Health$39,739,506Social Science$34,243,914

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC: $349,196,744 over 4y, 60% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $92,897,127 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $87,057,473 over 8y, 13% of budgetCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC: $32,000,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $31,814,747 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $31,750,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $15,908,129 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ENERGY FOR GROWTH HUB INC: $9,750,000 over 7y, 72% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $9,109,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetPATH: $9,038,805 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetDATAKIND INC: $7,957,500 over 7y, 50% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $7,875,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $7,500,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMeridian Institute: $7,463,816 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $7,056,234 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,916,024 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $6,755,486 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $6,678,210 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $6,284,780 over 5y, 36% of budgetDalberg Catalyst: $6,279,894 over 4y, 33% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $6,000,300 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPACT INC: $6,000,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC: $6,000,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetPACT INSTITUTE: $6,000,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $5,991,050 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $5,821,437 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $5,650,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $5,619,338 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,556,947 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNREL Foundation: $5,000,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetAfrican American Alliance of CDFI CEOs: $5,000,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBENEFITS DATA TRUST: $4,982,500 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,750,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $4,738,801 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $4,617,869 over 5y, 10% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $4,281,970 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $4,105,278 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $4,010,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $4,000,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $3,968,192 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $3,903,299 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $3,900,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL RESILIENT CITIES NETWORK: $3,874,993 over 4y, 50% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $3,874,914 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,751,059 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $3,700,000 over 4y, 48% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $3,695,053 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSeed to Growth Foundation: $3,620,000 over 3y, 100% 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 RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds THE ENERGY FOR GROWTH HUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds DATAKIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
  • Who funds Dalberg Catalyst ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PACT INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS TO CAPITAL FOR ENTREPRENEURS INC ↗
  • Who funds PACT INSTITUTE ↗

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 Ford FoundationSkoll FundFreedom Together Foun…The Skoll FoundationFoundation to Promote…Gates FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Omidyar Network Fund …The William & Flora H…The David and Lucile …The Nathan Cummings F…The Commonwealth Fund
The Ford FoundationNY58× affinity249 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Skoll Fund · Freedom Together Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Gates Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · The Commonwealth Fund

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 Rockefeller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rockefeller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%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%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of Essex & West Hudson D/B/a United Way of Greater Newark: 2% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
33report 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 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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