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The Western New York Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
134
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.0MCommunity Improvement$759kHealth$700kYouth Development$337kEducation$328kOther$0
02FY2025 · 134 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k84 grants · $285k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $681k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $254k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$100,000
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION CHAUTUAQUA$52,500
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT$51,100
CONNECTING COMMUNITIES IN ACTION$50,000
NY FUNDERS ALLIANCE$41,797
ROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION$40,000
PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE$31,421
INFINITY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS INC$30,000
PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE$30,000
BUFFALO PREP$26,000
MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATES$21,400
CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF NIAGARA$21,000
Individual grant recipient$20,500
GERARD PLACE$20,000
GOOD FOOD BUFFALO COALITION$17,335
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 (FY17–25, $993k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALLEGANY SENIOR FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $33k → 14%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%ROOTED IN LOVE: $5k → 13%YMCA CAMP ONYAHSA: $15k → 18%YMCA CAMP ONYAHSA: $10k → 18%THE DALE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $8k → 18%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $5k → 18%HEARTS AND HANDS: $10k → 14%YWCA OF JAMESTOWN: $5k → 18%ACCESS OF WNY: $5k → 13%ACCESS OF WNY: $5k → 13%ACCESS OF WNY: $5k → 13%CHILD CARE RESOURCE NETWORK: $9k → 13%ACCESS OF WNY: $8k → 13%WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%COMPASS HOUSE: $21k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $20k → 13%OLMSTED CENTER FOR SIGHT: $13k → 13%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $10k → 13%WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $51k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $51k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $25k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $25k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $10k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $10k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT: $8k → 13%WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE: $22k → 13%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $42k → 13%NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $20k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $20k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $54k → 13%THE FOUNDRY: $15k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $54k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $14k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $20k → 13%THE FOUNDRY: $10k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $20k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $8k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $20k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $8k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $6k → 13%RURAL OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 13%SUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $35k → 13%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

IL
MI
NY
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 128 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

128 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

128
160

Total granted

$6.5M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+5%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP
    5× · 2021–2025 · $192k · revenue +164%
  • MA
    Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +90%
  • The Rural Outreach Center Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +261%

Funded once

  • BF
    BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -68%
  • FW
    FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue -4%
  • ST
    SOUTHERN TIER WEST DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Western Ny Coalition of Farmworker Serving Agencies Inc

To promote justice, dignity, and equity for migrants and farmworkers through advocacy, education, outreach, and direct services. We empower our communities to achieve self-sufficiency by fostering collaboration among partners.

Human Services
2
The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo

The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…

Crime & Legal
3
Invest Buffalo Niagara Foundation Inc

Invest buffalo niagara foundation, inc. is a vehicle to solicit charitable contributions to develop programs, collaborate with, and provide funding to organizations that advance and encourage economic development in western new york.

Community Improvement
4
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

The Buffalo Institiute for Contemporary Art (Bica) is a art and educational project for Buffalo, NY. Through Innovative exhibitions, cross-discipplinary skills-based programming, and arts ecology development, bica mission is to break down…

Arts & Culture
5
East Buffalo Development Corporation

East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…

Community Improvement
6
Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Inc

To acquire, remediate, and steward lands along wny's waterfronts prioritizing public access.

Environment
7
Cny Arts Inc

CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.

Arts & Culture
8
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal
9
Reentry Association of Wny Inc

RAWNY is dedicated to serving our community by supporting the men and women who have experienced incarceration, and the agencies that serve them, to ensure anyone reentering has access to needed resources and support.

Crime & Legal
10
Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation

The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…

Community Improvement
11
Ralph Wilson Park Conservancy Inc

The organization was formed for the specific purpose of operating, maintaining and protecting parks and public spaces in the city of buffalo, new york, including but not limited to parks and public spaces owned or operated by the city of…

Recreation & Sports
12
Center for Elder Law & Justice Inc

To improve the quality of life for elderly, disabled and low-income persons in the western new york area through the provision of free civil legal services. the primary goal is to use the legal system to assure that clients may live…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Center of Buffalo Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arcade Historical Society. 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

192 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. 192 of the 325 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
184/192
Grantees still filing
120/192
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $170,000 · Other+124 more: $4,461,688 · Other+124 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $618,400 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $554,194 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BU…+4 more: $69,650 · Philanthropy+4 moreEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $143,375 · Arts & CultureEXPLORE & MOR…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE …Genesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council: $68,025 · Arts & CultureGenesee-Orlea…BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $66,500 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO STRIN…ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $61,925 · Arts & CultureROBERT H JACK…BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $56,500 · Arts & CultureBURCHFIELD PE…THE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $52,700 · Arts & CultureCommunity Music School: $50,050 · Arts & CultureROAD LESS TRAVELED PRODUCTIONS LTD: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $43,055 · Arts & CultureTorn Space Theater Inc: $41,500 · Arts & CultureSPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $219,100 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $181,450 · Human ServicesMassachusett…The Rural Outreach Center Inc: $179,350 · Human ServicesThe Rural Ou…WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $136,750 · Human ServicesWNY WOMEN'S …Open Buffalo Inc: $105,200 · Human ServicesOpen Buffalo…Native American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Inc: $53,620 · Human ServicesNative Ameri…PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $43,308 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $37,500 · Human ServicesSUBURBAN ADULT SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human Services+12 more: $208,235 · Human Services+12 morePROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP: $192,204 · Food & NutritionFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $58,330 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR THE SPIRIT INC: $15,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $7,500 · Food & NutritionGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $97,232 · Housing & ShelterHEART OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $69,432 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL INC: $29,850 · Housing & ShelterBUFFALO PEACE HOUSE INC: $27,000 · Housing & ShelterBELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMESPACE CORPORATION: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $55,000 · Community ImprovementWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $39,430 · Community ImprovementPartnership For the Public Good Inc: $27,500 · Community ImprovementWYOMING COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $23,500 · Community ImprovementCOALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementVOICE Buffalo Inc: $17,500 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementAlianza Agricola Inc: $12,500 · Community ImprovementRICHARDSON CENTER CORPORATION: $10,500 · Community ImprovementNIAGARA ORGANIZING ALLIANCE FOR HOPE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBRRALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $14,560 · Community Improvement
Other$4,631,688Philanthropy$1,242,244Arts & Culture$992,730Human Services$980,413Food & Nutrition$273,534Housing & Shelter$255,514Community Improvement$255,490

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $618,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY: $554,194 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP: $192,204 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetMassachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $181,450 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $179,350 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetEXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $143,375 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $136,750 over 4y, 11% of budgetBUFFALO PREP INC: $123,600 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetJOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC: $123,300 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC: $113,050 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $105,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetOpen Buffalo Inc: $105,200 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $97,232 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetINFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC: $92,994 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetARTPARK & COMPANY INC: $76,950 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION: $72,546 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC: $70,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $69,432 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGenesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council: $68,025 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetBUFFALO STRING WORKS INC: $66,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY HELP CENTER INC: $65,842 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBUFFALO GO GREEN INC: $65,133 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC: $61,925 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetFIELD & FORK NETWORK: $59,750 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR JUST COMMUNITIES OF WNY INC: $58,900 over 6y, 19% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $58,330 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $56,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Community Services of Erie and Niagara County Inc: $53,620 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCausewave Community Partners Inc: $53,024 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NIAGARA ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $52,700 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES: $52,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Music School: $50,050 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetROAD LESS TRAVELED PRODUCTIONS LTD: $50,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $46,906 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBUFFALO NIAGARA WATERKEEPER INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBACK TO BASICS OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $43,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $43,308 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBUFFALO ARTS STUDIO: $43,055 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $41,663 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTorn Space Theater Inc: $41,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSPRINGVILLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $39,430 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA CHILDREN'S SAFETY EDUCATION VILLAGE INC: $37,760 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUFFALO: $37,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF BUFFALO AND ERIE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE FARM COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORE & MORE A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds JOURNEY'S END REFUGEE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA STRIDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Open Buffalo Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds GERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds INFINITY VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTPARK & COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROYCROFT CAMPUS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF THE CITY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds Genesee-Orleanse Regional Arts Council ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO STRING WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO GO GREEN INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT H JACKSON CENTER INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…The Peter and Elizabe…Buffalo Bills Foundat…The Frank G Raichle F…The Margaret L Wendt …Health Foundation for…The Baird FoundationUnited Way of Buffalo…First Niagara Foundat…Children's Foundation…James H Cummings Foun…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY210.8× affinity141 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Baird Foundation · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · First Niagara Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    0get no government money at all
    82report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Western New York Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Western New York 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 325 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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