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The William and Karin Banks Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$381k
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$528kHuman Services$199kAnimals$187kPublic Safety & Disaster$179kInternational$154kEducation$127kCommunity Improvement$120kRecreation & Sports$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $147k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $234k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUDOUN CLUB 12$30,000
HIGHLAND MEDICAL CENTER$24,500
DC RAPE CRISIS CENTER$22,500
SAFE HARBOR$22,500
BLOOD STAINED MEN$15,000
ALEXANDRIA SEAPORT FOUNDATION$15,000
BOLAR VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY$15,000
HIGHLAND CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION CO JENNIFER DONOVAN$14,500
MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF ART$13,550
EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE$11,000
SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT$10,000
RED HORSE CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP$10,000
WATERORG$9,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $9k → 7%AFGHAN HANDS INC: $4k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%ALIVE INC: $2k → 9%SAFE HARBOR: $23k → 22%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $9k → 7%UNITED COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%ALIVE INC: $2k → 9%SAFE HARBOR: $20k → 22%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 7%UNITED COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%ALIVE INC: $2k → 9%SAFE HARBOR: $20k → 22%UNITED COMMUNITY AGAINST POVERTY INC: $3k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%ALIVE INC: $2k → 9%UNITED COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%ALIVE INC: $2k → 9%UNITED COMMUNITY: $5k → 6%ALIVE INC: $2k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND CENTER: $15k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND CENTER: $15k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND CENTER: $13k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND CENTER: $13k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND CENTER: $13k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $5k → 6%HIGHLAND CENTER: $13k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 58 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
17

Total granted

$2.0M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+7%

Still filing today

69%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HM
    HIGHLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $131k · revenue +27%
  • LC
    Loudoun Club 12
    3× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +195% · 57% of their budget
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TF
    TLI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • IC
    INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +14%
  • A
    ASKCA125
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -69%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
CalvertHealth Medical Center Inc

Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…

Health
2
Shelter House Inc

Shelter House's mission is to prevent and end homelessness and domestic violence by engaging the community, building effective relationships and providing crisis intervention, safe housing and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
3
Central Vermont Medical Center Inc

Cvmc works collaboratively to meet the needs and improve the health of the residents of central vermont.

Health
4
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
5
Carilion Medical Center

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.

Health
6
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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7
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
8
Healing Strides of Virginia

To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.

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9
Arlington Food Assistance Center

To provide dignified access to free groceries for qualified families in Arlington, VA and surrounding counties.

Food & Nutrition
10
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health
11
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
12
Community Health Center of Snohomish County

Community health center of snohomish county (chc) provides our diverse communities with access to high quality, affordable primary health care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsChristian Youth CampsEnvironmental Conservation …Equine Therapy ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr15%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr14%40%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr15%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,412

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
37/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOLAR VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $70,000 · OtherBOLAR VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYDC RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $62,500 · OtherDC RAPE CRISIS CENTERPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF BURLINGTON VT — $57,367 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF BURLINGTON VTTLI FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherCAF AMERICA FOR PARENTLINE PART OF CHILDREN1ST — $39,167 · OtherCAF AMERICA FOR PF COUNSELLING SERVICES — $39,166 · OtherAlexandria Seaport Foundation — $75,000 · OtherAlexandria Seaport FoundationVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $84,000 · OtherVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATIONCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $35,575 · Other+36 more — $425,850 · Other+36 moreHIGHLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC — $131,000 · HealthHIGHLAND MEDICAL CE…Loudoun Club 12 — $106,000 · HealthLoudoun Club 12PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $41,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH …Highland County Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc — $32,000 · HealthHighland County Vol…INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK — $22,750 · HealthINFORMED CONSENT AC…COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC — $13,200 · Health+2 more — $24,000 · Health+2 moreThe Highland Center — $82,000 · Human ServicesThe Highland …SAFE HARBOR — $62,500 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBORAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUN…INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SO…ALIVE Inc — $12,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC — $11,600 · Human Services+1 more — $3,500 · Human ServicesEQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · AnimalsGERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC — $45,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY — $43,200 · AnimalsSaddlebred Rescue Inc — $12,000 · AnimalsHIGHLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $11,500 · AnimalsMaryland Institute — $75,300 · EducationPRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 · EducationROOM TO READ — $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · Education+1 more — $3,000 · EducationWATERORG — $50,000 · InternationalSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC — $26,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $25,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $65,125 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL — $12,000 · Environment
Other$1,018,625Health$369,950Human Services$257,600Animals$167,200Education$109,300International$108,500Environment$106,125

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIGHLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC — $131,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLoudoun Club 12 — $106,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION — $84,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Highland Center — $82,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetMaryland Institute — $75,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlexandria Seaport Foundation — $75,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE — $65,125 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HARBOR — $62,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDC RAPE CRISIS CENTER — $62,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetWATERORG — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC — $45,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY — $43,200 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $35,575 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL BEYOND CANCER VT INC — $32,575 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetHighland County Volunteer Fire Department — $32,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetHighland County Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc — $32,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE LIGHT HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $29,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $26,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $25,375 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK — $22,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE USA — $19,200 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC — $13,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Crisis Services Inc — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALIVE Inc — $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASKCA125 — $12,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetVALLEY CONSERVATION COUNCIL — $12,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSaddlebred Rescue Inc — $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC — $11,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $11,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetRide With Pride Inc — $9,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHIGHLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $8,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFGHAN HANDS INC — $3,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HIGHLAND MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Loudoun Club 12 ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Highland Center ↗
  • Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
  • Who funds Alexandria Seaport Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR ↗
  • Who funds DC RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE RESCUE LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERORG ↗
  • Who funds GERDAS EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAIL BEYOND CANCER VT INC ↗
  • Who funds Highland County Volunteer Fire Department ↗
  • Who funds Highland County Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
  • Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE USA ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Seventh Generation Fo…United Way of the Nat…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Morris & Bessie A…Philip L Graham Fund …Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Greater Washington Co…The Vermont Community…The Jerry Greenfield …The University of Ver…United Way of Northwe…
The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham CountyVA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Jerry Greenfield & Elizabeth Skarie Foundation · The University of Vermont Medical Center · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The William and Karin Banks Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Community Advocates for Family and Youth — 23% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc — 17% of income from government
  • United Communities Against Poverty Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Community Crisis Services Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The William and Karin Banks Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The William and Karin Banks 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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