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United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

United way of metro chicago brings together and activates people, resources, and expertise to improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.

$28M
Granted FY2025still arriving
331
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Human Services$63MCommunity Improvement$38MPhilanthropy$35MHealth$23MHousing & Shelter$16MYouth Development$12MEducation$12MEmployment$10MOther$0
02FY2025 · 331 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 331 grants below total $22,795,927, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,397,762 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,601,835 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k110 grants · $660k
  • $10k–50k145 grants · $3.7M
  • $50k–250k54 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+22 grants · $14M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES$2,038,325
BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL$1,322,556
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$1,050,471
URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC$1,000,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO$786,602
RAND CORPORATION$639,543
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$630,886
AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER$623,953
LATINOS PROGRESANDO$573,063
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO$559,660
GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$538,500
OAI INC$514,588
EVANSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$509,000
TEAMWORK ENGLEWOOD$485,000
CLARETIAN ASSOCIATES INC$440,000
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 (FY17–25, $49.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $1.0M → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE (FII) - NATIONAL: $500k → 10%Outreach Community Ministries: $180k → 7%CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF IL: $289k → 14%Outreach Community Ministries: $180k → 7%Children's Home & Aid Society of Il: $178k → 14%Outreach Community Ministries: $177k → 7%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2.6M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $2.0M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $1.9M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.8M → 14%Metropolitan Family Services: $1.4M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $559k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $334k → 14%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $269k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $263k → 14%YWCA Metropolitan Chicago: $257k → 14%YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $256k → 14%YWCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $181k → 14%American Red Cross of Greater Chicago: $1.0M → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $356k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $350k → 14%TOGETHER WE COPE: $167k → 14%SGA YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $204k → 14%ERIE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $155k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $175k → 14%Corazon Community Services: $174k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $195k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $163k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $725k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $570k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $404k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $403k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $403k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $401k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $398k → 14%Family Focus Inc: $155k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $375k → 14%PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $375k → 14%FAR SOUTH NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK: $175k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2.1M → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING: $209k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $2.0M → 14%A BETTER CHICAGO: $201k → 14%Children's Home & Aid Society of IL: $172k → 14%Children's Home & Aid: $162k → 14%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

NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191M · 480 repeat orgs$22M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

480 repeat relationships: 214 still active in FY2025, 266 since wound down; 115 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

480
341

Total granted

$191M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+29%

Still filing today

90%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MF
    Metropolitan Family Services
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16M · revenue +332%
  • AC
    Austin Coming Together
    8× · 2017–2025 · $9.3M · revenue +256% · 63% of their budget
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.8M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHICAGO CONNECTED
    one grant, 2021 · $9.7M
  • H
    HIRE360graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +46%
  • SA
    Salvation Army Metropolitan Chicago
    one grant, 2017 · $726k
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
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
2
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
3
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

Education
4
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
5
Child Link Inc

Child Link provides foster care, family counseling, and therapy services to Chicago area adolescents who are at risk of homelessness. Child Link also refers adolescents to other agencies that are able to provide additional resources and…

Human Services
6
Chicago Cares Inc

Chicago Cares, Inc. mobilizes volunteers to build a stronger, more unified Chicago.

Community Improvement
7
Chicago United

To achieve parity in economic opportunity for people of color by advancing multiracial leadership in corporate governance, expanding the talent pipline for executive-level management, and growing minority businesses.

Philanthropy
8
Chicago Refugee Coalition

The Chicago Refugee Coalition is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated ot the alleviation of human suffering through innovative partnerships, advocacy and community empowerment.

Human Services
9
Lakeside Community Committee

To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.

Human Services
10
Chicago Jobs Council

Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…

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11
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
12
The Partnership for College Completion

The Partnership for College Completion (PCC) champions policies, practices, and systems that increase college completion and eliminate degree completion disparities for low-income, first generation, and students of color in Illinois…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dbc Gifts of Love Nfp. 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

828 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. 828 of the 949 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
250
Early backer (in before they grew)
799/828
Grantees still filing
601/828
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Metropolitan Family Services: $16,049,371 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Service…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,883,785 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross…The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $3,466,450 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metropolitan Ch…YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $2,325,037 · Human Services+48 more: $23,843,725 · Human Services+48 moreCHICAGO CONNECTED: $9,709,034 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $7,822,066 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of…BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $2,884,551 · OtherLatinos Progresando: $3,894,924 · Other+85 more: $51,174,980 · Other+85 moreROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION: $19,326,823 · PhilanthropyROBERT R MCCORMIC…JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $6,416,810 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…Evanston Community Foundation: $2,533,383 · PhilanthropyEvanston Communit…UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY - MCCO…+3 more: $1,122,605 · PhilanthropyAustin Coming Together: $9,256,465 · EducationAustin Com…CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $4,676,930 · EducationCHILDREN F…CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: $1,023,120 · EducationCENTER RES…PRIMO CENTER FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $712,487 · Education+10 more: $3,508,913 · Education+10 moreBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $7,687,301 · Community ImprovementGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,879,775 · Community ImprovementEnlace Chicago: $1,493,463 · Community ImprovementTeamwork Englewood Inc: $951,317 · Community ImprovementCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $794,308 · Community Improvement+3 more: $926,333 · Community ImprovementRush University Medical Center: $3,160,513 · HealthSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,027,142 · HealthACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $803,780 · HealthESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS: $654,416 · HealthSouth Suburban Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse: $621,855 · HealthErie Family Health Center Inc: $532,558 · HealthSaint Anthony Hospital: $469,345 · HealthEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $462,092 · HealthPILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $445,219 · HealthAIDS Foundation of Chicago: $443,985 · Health+11 more: $3,081,553 · HealthChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $1,661,308 · EmploymentHIRE360: $1,352,914 · EmploymentOAI Inc: $1,147,250 · EmploymentCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $717,482 · EmploymentThe Cara Program: $682,778 · EmploymentJANE ADDAMS RESOURCE CORPORATION: $656,393 · EmploymentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $558,329 · EmploymentSERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC: $314,798 · EmploymentWEST SIDE FORWARD: $295,991 · Employment
Human Services$50,568,368Other$75,485,555Philanthropy$31,899,621Education$19,177,915Community Improvement$15,732,497Health$11,702,458Employment$7,387,243

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION: $19,326,823 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $16,049,371 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetAustin Coming Together: $9,256,465 over 8y, 63% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago: $7,822,066 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $7,687,301 over 9y, 20% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $6,416,810 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,883,785 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $4,676,930 over 6y, 15% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $3,894,924 over 8y, 30% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,879,775 over 9y, 17% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $3,466,450 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $3,160,513 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP: $2,884,551 over 9y, 13% of budgetEvanston Community Foundation: $2,533,383 over 7y, 14% of budgetUNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $2,500,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetYOUTH CROSSROADS INC: $2,359,673 over 9y, 30% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $2,325,037 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP: $2,306,694 over 8y, 23% of budgetChicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative: $1,661,308 over 6y, 20% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $1,632,451 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $1,506,242 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $1,500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEnlace Chicago: $1,493,463 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetHIRE360: $1,352,914 over 1y, 20% of budgetRESTORATION MINISTRIES INC: $1,322,468 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $1,296,884 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $1,209,349 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOAI Inc: $1,147,250 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $1,147,232 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET: $1,088,712 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,027,142 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: $1,023,120 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER: $992,972 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHeartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights: $987,292 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPHALANX FAMILY SERVICES: $963,078 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc: $951,317 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBUILD INC: $940,565 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetYOUTH & OPPORTUNITY UNITED INC: $916,616 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $870,147 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $845,778 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $805,713 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK: $803,780 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $794,308 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetLawrence Hall: $794,133 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION: $786,235 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $776,830 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSERTOMA CENTRE INC: $743,845 over 9y, 1.1% 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 ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
  • Who funds Austin Coming Together ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON PARK NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Latinos Progresando ↗
  • Who funds GREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT STAR COMMUNITY OUTREACH CORP ↗
  • Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY - MCCORMICK PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CROSSROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NFP ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
  • Who funds YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Enlace Chicago ↗
  • Who funds HIRE360 ↗
  • Who funds RESTORATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds OAI Inc ↗
  • Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF JOLIET ↗
  • Who funds SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights ↗
  • Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES ↗

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.

Polk Bros Foundation …Robert R McCormick Fo…Chicago Foundation fo…Circle of Service Fou…Field Foundation of I…ForefrontMichael Reese Health …George M Eisenberg Fo…Visiting Nurse Associ…Healthy Communities F…Blowitz-Ridgeway Foun…Northwestern Memorial…
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL177.3× affinity147 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Field Foundation of Illinois · Forefront · Michael Reese Health Trust · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

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 United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
89report 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
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.

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 949 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 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home