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The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$889k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$7.6MReligion$6.4MHealth$2.6MInternational$1.2MEnvironment$819kArts & Culture$715kPhilanthropy$674kPublic Benefit$232kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $402k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $476k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$889,340
BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION$677,128
AFRICA COLLEGE FUND$262,500
DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION$122,525
MGANL MOTHER DIVINE PROGRAM$98,162
MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM$71,080
MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$67,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$66,666
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$50,000
NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL$35,000
THE GREATER WASHINGTON JEWISH COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE$33,333
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$33,333
RAAM RAJ FOUNDATION$30,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$25,000
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $2k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTONDINNER OF CHAMPIONS: $2k → 8%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION: $153k → 14%MAHARISHI FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $68k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION: $28k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION: $21k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION: $21k → 14%GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORGANIZATION: $13k → 14%SEABURY RESOURCES FOR AGING: $4k → 14%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE: $2k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 14%COLUMBIA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 83 repeat orgs$725k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
68

Total granted

$20M
$559k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+30%

Still filing today

70%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • MI
    MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +42%
  • BS
    BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +953% · 27% of their budget
  • BS
    BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CF
    Center for the Advancement of Integrative Health
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -97% · 98% of their budget
  • MG
    MAHARISHI GLOBAL ADMINISTRATION THROUGH NATURAL LAW
    one grant, 2020 · $85k
  • NB
    NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM (10K-ED25K-ANNL)
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
3
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
Meridian International Center

Meridian international center is a nonpartisan diplomacy institution founded in 1960 to advance american leadership. headquartered on a historic campus in washington dc, our mission is to empower leaders to advance the next era of…

International
6
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
7
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
8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Global Wellness Institute Inc. 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

112 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. 112 of the 167 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/112
Grantees still filing
77/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $7,166,950 · EducationMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $375,000 · Education+5 more: $77,000 · EducationBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $3,135,263 · ReligionBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUN…BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION: $1,806,750 · ReligionBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGY…MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $597,963 · OtherMAHARISHI PURUSHA PR…Individual grant recipient: $247,300 · OtherIndividual grant rec…MGANL-MD (JESSICA KEEN SPONSORSHIP): $237,600 · OtherMGANL-MD (JESSICA KE…JEWISH NATIONAL FUNDARAVA INST PLEDGE: $228,334 · OtherJEWISH NATIONAL FUND…NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $210,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCE DEF…MGANL MOTHER DIVINE PROGRAM: $183,137 · OtherMAHARISHI SCHOOL FOR THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: $152,500 · OtherCenter for the Advancement of Integrative Health: $150,000 · OtherGLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG USA TM PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PROFESSIONALS: $236,106 · OtherGLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE…+100 more: $1,544,377 · Other+100 moreDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $1,541,774 · PhilanthropyDAVID LYNCH F…GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $496,754 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PROJEC…THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $416,666 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FE…+3 more: $34,240 · PhilanthropyAFRICA COLLEGE FUND: $318,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $229,999 · InternationalRaam Raj Foundation: $105,620 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $90,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUST: $31,500 · International+11 more: $113,166 · InternationalTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $232,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $206,998 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM: $140,000 · Arts & CultureHEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALZBURG FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $33,333 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $76,050 · Arts & CultureFriends of Cancer Research: $200,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $150,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthHELP ME SEE INC: $21,000 · Health+7 more: $20,750 · Health
Education$7,618,950Religion$4,942,013Other$3,787,317Philanthropy$2,489,434International$888,285Arts & Culture$848,381Health$416,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $7,166,950 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION: $3,135,263 over 8y, 27% of budgetBRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION: $1,806,750 over 3y, 13% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $1,541,774 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetMAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM: $597,963 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetGLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE: $496,754 over 4y, 34% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $416,666 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: $375,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICA COLLEGE FUND: $318,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetGLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG USA TM PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PROFESSIONALS: $236,106 over 5y, 29% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $232,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $229,999 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $206,998 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $200,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for the Advancement of Integrative Health: $150,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM: $140,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRaam Raj Foundation: $105,620 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $86,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $80,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGirl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $68,467 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMaharishi Foundation International: $67,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER: $56,967 over 7y, 20% of budgetGLOBAL WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC: $53,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetSAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SALZBURG FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $37,501 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $33,333 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRIYA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Thread Initiative: $24,240 over 1y, 48% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $21,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHELP ME SEE INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 6y, 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.

  • Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRAHMANANDA SARASWATI YAGYA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
  • Who funds MAHARISHI PURUSHA PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PROJECTS FOR PEACE ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds AFRICA COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL MOTHER DIVINE ORG USA TM PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PROFESSIONALS ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for the Advancement of Integrative Health ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
  • Who funds Raam Raj Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEIFETZ INTERNATIONAL MUSIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd ↗
  • Who funds Maharishi Foundation International ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗

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.

Galena-Yorktown Found…The Gary and Pennie A…Clark-Winchcole Found…Schwartz Family Found…The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark Charitable Foun…Philip L Graham Fund …Invincibility Foundat…The Annette M Lerner …Bender Foundation IncNora Roberts Foundati…
Galena-Yorktown FoundationDC57.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Schwartz Family Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Invincibility Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts 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 Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Art Works Studio School Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Moco Kidsco Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
20report 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

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How do I get to The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rona and Jeffrey Abramson 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 167 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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