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The Starr 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.

$74M
Granted FY2024still arriving
90
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$10M
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$230MEducation$173MArts & Culture$40MInternational$24MCommunity Improvement$16MPhilanthropy$7.6MFood & Nutrition$3.0MEnvironment$2.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+25 grants · $71M
$30,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND$10,000,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE)$7,000,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$5,000,000
AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS$5,000,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$5,000,000
ROGOSIN INSTITUTE INC$5,000,000
HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED AT RIVERDALE$4,900,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE)$4,000,000
US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$3,000,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE)$3,000,000
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000,000
FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC$1,600,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$1,000,000
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 (FY19–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOULDER CREST RETREAT FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON NJ: $15k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON NJ: $15k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON NJ: $15k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON NJ: $15k → 11%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%UNITED STATES-PHILIPPINES SOCIETY INC: $100k → 14%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $24k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%UNITED STATES-PHILIPPINES SOCIETY: $25k → 14%UNITED STATES-PHILIPPINES SOCIETY INC: $25k → 14%UNITED STATES-PHILIPPINES SOCIETY INC: $25k → 14%UNITED STATES-PHILIPPINES SOCIETY INC: $22k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%CGCC FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $275k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $250k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $23k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $50k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $10k → 17%NY POLICE & FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
DC
LA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Starr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Starr Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$481M · 129 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

129 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 91 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
81

Total granted

$481M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+29%

Still filing today

82%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $57M · revenue +32%
  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    5× · 2019–2023 · $48M · revenue +58%
  • UC
    US Chamber of Commerce Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $16M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CE
    CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
    one grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue +12%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +47%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +29%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
8
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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9
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Albert H Small Normandy Inst 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

182 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. 182 of the 226 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/182
Grantees still filing
126/182
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE): $47,127,000 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL SCHOO…CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE): $36,021,000 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDIC…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERYALE UNIVERSITY: $12,750,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYAMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS: $10,050,000 · OtherAMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARISNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FOUNDATIONINC: $10,035,000 · OtherNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,900,000 · Other+79 more: $31,927,902 · Other+79 moreNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $56,772,750 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCThe Broad Institute Inc: $48,000,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale: $30,359,000 · HealthThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverd…The Rogosin Institute Inc: $14,000,000 · HealthThe Rogosin Institute Inc+9 more: $3,375,000 · HealthTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40,578,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVE…US Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $16,000,000 · EducationUS Chamber of Commerc…ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $12,107,090 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…+39 more: $15,846,875 · Education+39 moreTSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC: $20,000,000 · InternationalTSINGHUA …International Rescue Committee INC: $5,225,000 · InternationalInternati…NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $5,200,000 · InternationalNATIONAL …COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $4,000,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL O…GIVE2ASIA: $3,046,306 · InternationalGIVE2ASIACARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $2,500,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE …CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1,750,000 · International+15 more: $1,357,500 · InternationalThe OSS Society Inc: $10,085,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $1,810,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $2,810,013 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $6,800,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $580,475 · PhilanthropyCITY HARVEST INC: $1,600,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,250,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$174,810,902Health$152,506,750Education$94,531,965International$43,078,806Arts & Culture$30,205,013Philanthropy$7,380,475Food & Nutrition$2,980,000

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 budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $56,772,750 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $48,000,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $40,578,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetThe Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale: $30,359,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetTSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC: $20,000,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation: $16,000,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetThe Rogosin Institute Inc: $14,000,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $12,107,090 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe OSS Society Inc: $10,085,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetNATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FOUNDATIONINC: $10,035,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC: $6,800,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,225,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC: $5,200,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $4,000,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $3,100,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $3,046,306 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS: $3,000,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetNUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2,925,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $2,500,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,500,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $1,810,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $1,750,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,600,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University: $900,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHIEF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF THE YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT INC: $850,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $700,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $625,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $621,450 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetThe Army Historical Foundation Inc: $575,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $500,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $400,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $369,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $350,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR EASTWEST STUDIES INC: $350,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $305,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON GLOBAL LTD: $300,000 over 2y, 28% 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 NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale ↗
  • Who funds TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC ↗
  • Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds The OSS Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FOUNDATIONINC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS ↗
  • Who funds NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗

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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Carnegie Corporation …The Edward E & Marie …Wolfensohn Family Fou…The New York Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…Jewish Communal FundThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Tang FundUnited Way Miami IncCurtis W McGraw Found…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY44.9× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation · Wolfensohn Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Tang Fund · United Way Miami Inc · Curtis W McGraw 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 Starr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Starr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%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%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
30report 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 226 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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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