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The Staten Island Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.1MEducation$3.6MHealth$3.4MHuman Services$1.7MYouth Development$917kCommunity Improvement$866kCrime & Legal$788kRecreation & Sports$766kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $685k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$400,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF STATEN ISLAND INC$200,000
NEW YORK EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$175,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$175,000
ST GEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION INC$152,500
CRIMSONRISE INC$110,000
PAL$100,000
THE ARC NEW YORK$100,000
STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES$83,210
STATEN ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$80,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND$76,500
THE GRACE FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK$75,000
AFRICAN REFUGE INC$70,000
ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION$60,000
THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%THE ARC NEW YORK: $100k → 14%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%GREEN CITY FORCE: $50k → 20%SAFE HORIZON: $50k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $50k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $50k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $50k → 17%STATEN ISLAND COMMUNITY JOB CENTER LA COIMENA: $50k → 11%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $50k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $50k → 17%METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $10k → 17%CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $105k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND: $77k → 11%CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $75k → 11%AFRICAN REFUGE INC: $70k → 11%AFRICAN REFUGE INC: $70k → 11%AFRICAN REFUGE INC: $70k → 11%AFRICAN REFUGE: $70k → 11%CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $60k → 11%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $50k → 17%AFRICAN REFUGE: $60k → 11%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $50k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $50k → 17%VISIONSSERVICES FOR BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $15k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $30k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $50k → 17%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $50k → 17%PERSON CENTERED CARE SERVICES: $43k → 11%PERSON CENTERED CARE SERVICES: $42k → 11%SAFE HORIZON: $50k → 17%COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 11%EMMA'S PLACE- STATEN ISLAND GRIEF & LOSS CENTER: $12k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI: $75k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI: $75k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI: $50k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI: $40k → 11%ON YOUR MARK: $60k → 11%ON YOUR MARK: $50k → 11%BAIT-UL JAMAAT HOUSE OF COMMUNITY: $25k → 11%ON YOUR MARK: $50k → 11%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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MA
NJ
CA
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DC
AL
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 11% of The Staten Island Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 85%.

The Staten Island Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 125 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

125 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
98

Total granted

$15M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+5%

Still filing today

79%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RM
    RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $843k · revenue +25%
  • RF
    Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    3× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +33%
  • SH
    SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $364k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • VN
    VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SI
    one grant, 2021 · $195k
  • NE
    NY EARLY CHILDHOOD PD INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $186k
  • WNET
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
2
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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3
Peace Islands Institute New York Inc
Religion
4
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
5
Studio in a School Association Inc

From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.

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6
City Access New York Inc

City access new york promotes lifelong access to educational, vocational & cultural programs. it identifies barriers to participation, in schools and in the community, and adopts content and delivery of programs to the diverse needs of…

Arts & Culture
7
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
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School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
9
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
10
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
11
Workforce Professionals Training Institute

Wpti's mission is to build the capacities of people, programs, and organizations that provide job training, placement, and career guidance for individuals and to advocate for policies that promote economic opportunities for all.

Employment
12
The Child Study Center of New York

To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation 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

146 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. 146 of the 248 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
141/146
Grantees still filing
94/146
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $364,160 · Other+122 more: $8,456,142 · Other+122 moreAFRICAN REFUGE INC: $340,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN REFUGE …JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $323,770 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNIT…NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $303,400 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDL…SAFE HORIZON INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON IN…THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $240,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTRAL FAM…ON YOUR MARK INC: $170,250 · Human ServicesON YOUR MARK IN…COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $150,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVI…GREEN CITY FORCE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesGREEN CITY FORC…COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $110,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $100,000 · Human ServicesNYSARC INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesPERSON CENTERED CARE SERVICES INC: $94,500 · Human Services+8 more: $262,215 · Human Services+8 moreResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $380,000 · EducationResearch Found…Literacy Partners Inc: $355,000 · EducationLiteracy Partn…READ ALLIANCE INC: $295,000 · EducationREAD ALLIANCE …LITERACY INC: $260,000 · EducationLITERACY INCURBAN HOPE INC: $150,000 · EducationURBAN HOPE INCNew York University: $125,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $105,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF NEW WORLD PREP INC: $100,000 · EducationSTATEN ISLAND ACADEMY: $82,500 · Education+11 more: $535,500 · Education+11 moreALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DA…STATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $285,000 · Arts & CultureSTATEN ISLAND …Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum: $222,710 · Arts & CultureStaten Island …ST GEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION INC: $208,630 · Arts & CultureST GEORGE THEA…THE NOBLE MARITIME COLLECTION: $201,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NOBLE MARI…THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMON…FRIENDS OF ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF ALI…THE CENTER FOR SYSTEMS AWARENESS INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $125,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF OLMSTED-BEIL HOUSE INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $363,960 · Arts & Culture+7 moreRICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER: $842,570 · HealthGrace Foundation of New York: $177,500 · HealthCRIMSONRISE INC: $133,000 · HealthTHE STATEN ISLAND PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC: $123,000 · Health+3 more: $45,750 · HealthPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $201,039 · Youth DevelopmentJOBSFIRSTNYC: $165,170 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL KIDS INC: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentK WOODS FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITY GAMES INC: $25,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMake the Road New York: $410,000 · Crime & LegalNew York Center for Interpersonal Development Inc: $180,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $23,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$9,220,302Human Services$2,594,635Education$2,388,000Arts & Culture$2,371,300Health$1,321,820Youth Development$636,209Crime & Legal$613,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER: $842,570 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMake the Road New York: $410,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $380,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $364,160 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $355,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAFRICAN REFUGE INC: $340,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC: $323,770 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $303,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCD/B/A HISTORIC RICHMOND TOWN: $295,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC: $295,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF STATEN ISLAND INC: $288,465 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $285,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetLITERACY INC: $260,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC: $250,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $240,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetStaten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum: $222,710 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPROJECT HOSPITALITY INC: $210,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST GEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION INC: $208,630 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $201,039 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NOBLE MARITIME COLLECTION: $201,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIlluminart Productions: $190,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetSEAMEN'S SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $180,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNew York Center for Interpersonal Development Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGrace Foundation of New York: $177,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetON YOUR MARK INC: $170,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJOBSFIRSTNYC: $165,170 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLIFESTYLES FOR THE DISABLED INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $155,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetA VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC: $150,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALICE AUSTEN HOUSE INC: $150,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN HOPE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCRIMSONRISE INC: $133,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetSTATEN ISLAND NFP ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR SYSTEMS AWARENESS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWNET: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenbelt Conservancy Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE STATEN ISLAND PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY WELLNESS INC: $123,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPRIDE CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND INC: $110,600 over 3y, 5.2% 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.

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.

Richmond County Savings FoundationNY116.1× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richmond County Savings Foundation · The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · United Way of New York City · Pinkerton Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Roberta and Allan Weissglass Foundation · City Parks Foundation Inc · Altman 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 Staten Island Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Staten Island Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    59report 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.
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    How do I get to The Staten Island Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Staten Island 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 248 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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