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Unobskey Foundation

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.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$147k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$579kArts & Culture$45kHealth$43kReligion$13kYouth Development$11kEnvironment$8kRecreation & Sports$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $147k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$433k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY$147,126
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET$2,500
TIDES INSTITUTE$2,000
ENTERPRISE FUND FOR YOUTH$2,000
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,500
FRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING$200
WORLD WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$100
THE SALVATION ARMY$100
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Summer Ink: $4k → 7%TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $147k → 10%Marin County Day School: $1k → 8%Trustees of Phillips Academy: $6k → 10%The Friends of the Fromm Institue: $1k → 10%Fielding Graduate University: $1k → 14%Elihu Club: $1k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 14%Planned Parenthood: $2k → 17%AGA Fellowship: $3k → 8%Goucher College: $10k → 11%Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $1k → 9%Maine State Museum: $5k → 12%Bates College: $2k → 13%TIDES INSTITUTE: $2k → 16%Summer Ink: $1k → 7%TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $144k → 10%Concrergation Beth Israel: $6k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE FROMM INSTITUTE: $1k → 10%Goucher College: $1k → 11%TIDES INSTITUTE: $2k → 16%Trustees of Phillips Academy: $133k → 10%Congregation Beth Israel: $3k → 10%Phillips Academy: $125k → 10%Concrergation Beth Israel: $2k → 10%Humanity in Action: $1k → 17%San Francisco Fall Antiques Show: $2k → 10%Machias Memorial High School: $2k → 16%Enterprise Fund for Youth: $1k → 10%Beauty of the earth: $1k → 16%Calais regional hospital: $10k → 16%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $10k → 10%Calais regional hospital: $1k → 16%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO OPERA: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $3k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $2k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $2k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $1k → 10%San Francisco Opera: $1k → 10%Enterprise Fund for Youth: $5k → 10%ENTERPRISE FUND FOR YOUTH: $2k → 10%CPMC FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Enterprise Fund for Youth: $1k → 10%NARAL: $2k → 10%NARAL: $2k → 10%NEW CENTURY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $1k → 10%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

ME
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$648k · 21 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
31

Total granted

$648k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+20%

Still filing today

48%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +4%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%
  • GC
    GOUCHER COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TO
    Trustees of Phillips Academy
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • YA
    Yale Alumni Fund
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SO
    State of Maine
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. 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

24 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. 24 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $549,185 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $25,000 · Education+5 more: $15,600 · EducationCalais Regional Hospital: $11,000 · OtherCalais Regio…CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL: $11,000 · OtherCONGREGATION…Enterprise Fund for Youth: $9,100 · OtherEnterprise F…Trustees of Phillips Academy: $6,000 · OtherTrustees of …Yale Alumni Fund: $5,000 · OtherYale Alumni …State of Maine: $5,000 · OtherState of Mai…TIDES INSTITUTE: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherNARAL: $3,000 · Other+27 more: $21,000 · Other+27 moreSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $19,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $11,800 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,050 · Arts & CultureSUMMER INK INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,300 · HealthCalais Community Hospital: $500 · HealthMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,600 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $300 · EnvironmentHUMANITY IN ACTION INC: $1,000 · Civil RightsFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 · International
Education$589,785Other$78,100Arts & Culture$36,350Recreation & Sports$4,500Health$3,300Environment$1,900Civil Rights$1,000International$100

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $549,185 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $11,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalais Regional Hospital: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER INK INC: $4,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASHDRIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Century Chamber Orchestra: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITY IN ACTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalais Community Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLYMPIC CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Calais Regional Hospital ↗
  • Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER INK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SQUASHDRIVE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New Century Chamber Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITY IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
  • Who funds Calais Community Hospital ↗

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.

Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Unobskey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unobskey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Unobskey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Unobskey 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 57 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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