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The Union Home Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$279k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$594kHousing & Shelter$523kYouth Development$335kEducation$290kEmployment$131kHealth$64kFood & Nutrition$63kCommunity Improvement$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $138k
$2,500
Median grant
25
States reached
$763k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$40,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SUMMIT COUNTY$15,000
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$12,500
HOMESTRETCH INC$10,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER OHIO$10,000
FEEDING TAMPA BAY$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC$10,000
LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM$10,000
TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC$10,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO$10,000
HOMELESS YOUTH CONNECTION INC$7,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$7,500
HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE$7,500
EMPOWERING & STRENGTHENING OHIO'S PEOPLE$7,500
CUYAHOGA LAND BANK CHARITIES$6,000
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 (FY17–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ONE SMALL STEP INC CLOTHES CABIN: $1k → 11%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES: $875 → 5%CITY CARE: $3k → 16%CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $3k → 12%MARION MATTERS: $5k → 17%COMMUNITY HOPE INC: $3k → 4%HOMESTRETCH INC: $10k → 4%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $7k → 23%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 16%CITY CARE: $3k → 16%MARION MATTERS: $5k → 17%HOMESTRETCH INC: $10k → 4%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $3k → 16%MARION MATTERS: $3k → 17%HOMESTRETCH INC: $10k → 4%LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $20k → 19%HOMESTRETCH INC: $9k → 4%LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $13k → 19%HOMESTRETCH INC: $8k → 4%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $10k → 19%HOMESTRETCH INC: $5k → 4%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $10k → 19%HOMESTRETCH INC: $5k → 4%LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $10k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $5k → 19%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $13k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $6k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%DIOCESAN COUNCIL SOCIETY OF SVDP CLEVELAND: $2k → 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

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NJ
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CA
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MO
KY
VA
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DE
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NC
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DC
OK
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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.
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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 20% of The Union Home Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 46%.

The Union Home Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 54 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
100

Total granted

$1.8M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

91%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
Housing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MO
    MBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +119%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND
    6× · 2018–2023 · $102k · revenue +119%
  • TE
    TOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CITY MISSIONLAURA'S HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CC
    CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -16%
  • TO
    THE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
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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Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Inc

Habitat for humanity of cleveland is a non-profit christian housing ministry. habitat works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities for people in need by building and selling houses…

Housing & Shelter
2
Family Promise of Greater Cleveland

To provide families facing the crisis of homelessness with a safe place designed to engage, inspire, and guide them toward a future where they feel empowered to control the course of their lives. family promise of greater cleveland…

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3
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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4
Community Housing Network Inc

Community housing network's (chn) mission is to empower people to live in affordable homes to help build thriving communities.

Community Improvement
5
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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6
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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7
Chn Housing Capital

Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity - Midohio

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity-midohio brings people together to inspire hope, build homes, empower families, and develop communities.

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9
The Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati in

The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.

Housing & Shelter
10
Global Cleveland

Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.

Human Services
11
Findlay Hope House for the Homeless Inc

The mission of hope house is to provide housing solutions, support and education to meet the needs of individuals and families facing homelessness in our community.

Housing & Shelter
12
Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. maumee valley habitat for humanity adheres…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Summit County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smart Development 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

129 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. 129 of the 186 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
126/129
Grantees still filing
78/129
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $87,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY I…HOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC: $55,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INCVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OHIO & INDIANA: $40,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER OHIO: $35,207 · OtherMINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC: $34,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $32,876 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $30,000 · OtherYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $30,000 · OtherENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $32,500 · OtherGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $30,135 · Other+112 more: $363,615 · Other+112 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $101,500 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT…COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $67,000 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATE…CLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $44,250 · EducationCLEVELAND KIDS' BO…THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $36,250 · EducationTHE LITERACY COOPE…Saint Martin de Porres High School: $27,932 · EducationSaint Martin de Po…CITY MISSION INC: $20,000 · EducationCITY MISSION INCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $12,500 · Education+8 more: $29,500 · Education+8 moreMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyMBA OPENS DOORS …+6 more: $26,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $62,500 · Housing & ShelterCHN HOUSING PA…HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FOR NE…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA: $42,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HU…EMPOWERING AND STRENGTHENING OHIO'S PEOPLE INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterEMPOWERING AND…GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER CLEVEL…YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING & EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter+11 more: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+11 moreTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $67,500 · Human ServicesTHE LIFE O…Homestretch Inc: $56,000 · Human ServicesHomestretc…SEEDS OF LITERACY: $46,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF L…MARION MATTERS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMARION MAT…+11 more: $30,875 · Human Services+11 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $54,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $22,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $95,000 · EmploymentCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $7,000 · Employment+1 more: $2,500 · Employment
Other$771,333Education$351,432Philanthropy$326,000Housing & Shelter$289,500Human Services$212,875Youth Development$144,000Employment$104,500

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 budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $101,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTOWARDS EMPLOYMENT INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT COUNTY INC: $87,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $67,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $67,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $65,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHomestretch Inc: $56,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NORTHEASTERN OHIO INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $54,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $46,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND KIDS' BOOK BANK: $44,250 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERING AND STRENGTHENING OHIO'S PEOPLE INC: $40,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $36,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF CLEVELAND OHIO INC: $34,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $32,876 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $30,135 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $27,932 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITY MISSION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMART DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARION MATTERS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCUYAHOGA LAND BANK CHARITIES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $10,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OHIO FOUNDATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHFS CHICAGO SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSING & EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $6,000 over 3y, 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.

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 Cleveland Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…The Swagelok Foundati…United Way of Greater…Higley Fund of the Cl…Third Federal Foundat…The Cleveland Clinic …The George Gund Found…Fred a Lennon Charita…Firstenergy FoundationCavaliers Youth Found…The Cleveland Clinic …
The Cleveland FoundationOH43.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · United Way of Greater Cleveland · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return · The George Gund Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Firstenergy Foundation · Cavaliers Youth Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 Union Home Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Union Home Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Community Hope Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Destination Downtown Dover Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
43report 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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Find your warmest path to The Union Home Foundation Inc 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 186 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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