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Unbound Philanthropy

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
104
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$400k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$24MPhilanthropy$7.0MArts & Culture$5.6MCrime & Legal$3.0MHuman Services$2.8MPublic Benefit$2.7MInternational$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $486k
  • $50k–250k85 grants · $6.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $907k
$65,635
Median grant
11
States reached
$198M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$400,000
CHARITY PROJECTS DBA COMIC RELIEF$256,820
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$250,000
TRUST FOR LONDON TRUSTEE$195,795
Individual grant recipient$166,638
PROTEUS FUND INC$150,000
RESILIENCE FORCE$150,000
AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND$148,750
IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTITIONERS' ASSOCIATION$136,740
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT$125,000
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL INC$120,000
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES$118,125
RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION$112,500
RURALORGANIZING-DOT-ORG EDUCATION FUND$112,500
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE$100,000
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.

US giving: 63% of grant dollars ($36M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($21M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $71k → 11%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $20k → 10%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 14%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 15%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $65k → 11%INADVANCE: $50k → 10%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 14%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 11%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 14%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $45k → 11%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 10%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $150k → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $200k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $200k → 14%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $125k → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $175k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $125k → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $175k → 14%DEFINE AMERICAN: $100k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $175k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $173k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $35k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $50k → 14%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $100k → 17%REFUGEE COUNCIL USA: $22k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $50k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $15k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $10k → 14%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $100k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $100k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $100k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $100k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $50k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $125k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $125k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $95k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $75k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $75k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
FL

Beyond the US: 37% of all-years giving ($21M)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$20M · 271 grants
Netherlands$335k · 3 grants
Ireland$245k · 5 grants
Belgium$140k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Unbound Philanthropy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Unbound Philanthropylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 38% 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47M · 127 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

127 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
86

Total granted

$47M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+13%

Still filing today

39%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +58%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +48%
  • NK
    NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +237%

Funded once

  • CP
    CHARITY PROJECTS
    one grant, 2021 · $283k
  • CO
    CLIMATE OUTREACH INFORMATION NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $192k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
    one grant, 2020 · $170k · revenue -26%
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
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
2
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
3
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
4
National Immigration Forum Action Fund

The action fund raises the profile of, and advocates for, policies that value of immigrants and immigration at the federal, state and local level.

Human Services
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
California Immigrant Policy Center

The california immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in california by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.

Civil Rights
7
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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8
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
9
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
10
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

—
11
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Civil Rights
12
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Opportunity Agenda Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Foundation. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 240 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
65/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POP CULTURE COLLABORATIVE FUND A PROJECT OF ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISO: $2,300,000 · OtherPOP CULTURE COLLABORATIVE FUND A PROJECT OF ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROP…+149 more: $31,038,497 · Other+149 moreUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $1,310,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM …NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $1,065,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN …AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $942,500 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VOICE …MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: $785,000 · Civil RightsMIGRATION POLICY…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $727,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRA…NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $585,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LAB…National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $534,439 · Civil RightsNational Domesti…ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $297,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $290,000 · Civil Rights+9 more: $1,440,000 · Civil Rights+9 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc: $4,178,450 · Public BenefitNEO Phila…AMERICAN BUSINESS IMMIGRATION COALITION: $340,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN …Poder in Action: $275,000 · Public BenefitPoder in …+1 more: $100,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $1,222,500 · Human ServicesDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $545,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $250,000 · Human ServicesAliento Education Fund: $231,000 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $150,000 · Human Services+2 more: $85,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $1,309,068 · Community ImprovementRACE FORWARD: $630,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $550,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $450,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $75,000 · Community ImprovementROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $355,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $250,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $72,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE PHILANTHROPY INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $40,000 · PhilanthropyPROTEUS FUND INC: $800,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $143,426 · EducationRE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC: $112,500 · EducationTHE SEMILLA PROJECT: $75,000 · EducationHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $35,000 · Education
Other$33,338,497Civil Rights$7,976,439Public Benefit$4,893,450Human Services$4,033,500Community Improvement$3,014,068Philanthropy$1,242,000Education$1,215,926

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $4,178,450 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $1,310,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $1,309,068 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $1,222,500 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $1,065,000 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $942,500 over 6y, 26% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $800,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE: $785,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $727,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetRACE FORWARD: $630,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetDEFINE AMERICAN INC: $600,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $585,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $572,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $550,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $550,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $545,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $534,439 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $500,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $450,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $450,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $355,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTaproot Earth: $350,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $340,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN BUSINESS IMMIGRATION COALITION: $340,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC: $300,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM: $300,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT: $297,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $290,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPoder in Action: $275,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $250,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $245,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAliento Education Fund: $231,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC: $225,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRepairers of the Breach: $222,500 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetRURALORGANIZING-DOT-ORG EDUCATION FUND: $187,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $170,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $150,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetRESILIENCE FORCE: $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice: $150,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $143,426 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEPA MUJER INC: $140,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetRE-IMAGINING MIGRATION INC: $112,500 over 1y, 7.4% 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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RACE FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds DEFINE AMERICAN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Ford FoundationFwdus Education Fund …Freedom Together Foun…Tides FoundationSurdna Foundation IncFoundation to Promote…Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincBorealis Philanthropy
NEO Philanthropy IncNY51.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Tides Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Borealis Philanthropy

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 Unbound Philanthropy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unbound Philanthropy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Unbound Philanthropy?

Find your warmest path to Unbound Philanthropy 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 240 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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