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Verizon Foundation

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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5,464
Grants FY2024still arriving
52
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$15MInternational$15MCommunity Improvement$10.0MCivil Rights$9.8MFood & Nutrition$7.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$6.8MReligion$4.4MPhilanthropy$3.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 5464 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5403 grants · $4.2M
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $794k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$500
Median grant
52
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$1,000,000
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$400,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA$300,000
GEORGIA FOUMDAION FOR AGRICULTURE INC$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CSRA$100,000
GREATER VALDOSTA UNITED WAY INC$50,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC$50,000
VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$34,452
V M I FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$30,800
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUND$25,597
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$23,691
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC$23,541
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION$21,900
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$21,450
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$20,675
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 (FY20–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $20k → 10%ASSOCIATION FOR TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENT CHILDREN INC: $10k → 7%KIDS MEALS INC: $25k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF BROWARD COUNTY INCORPORATED: $50k → 13%THE YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $10k → 27%BEAUTIFUL SPIRITED WOMEN: $25k → 11%ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $100k → 13%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $18k → 9%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC: $10k → 6%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS IN NEW JERSEY: $13k → 12%YWCA RICHMOND: $15k → 22%SABINE COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $15k → 26%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $10k → 15%FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ST PAUL'S: $15k → 10%COLUMBIA URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF BROWARD COUNTY INCORPORATED: $10k → 13%NEW DIRECTIONS CAREER CENTER: $10k → 15%YWCA RICHMOND: $15k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10k → 15%YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10k → 11%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC: $100k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%ALVIS INC: $10k → 15%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $10k → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $25k → 6%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $30k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC: $25k → 11%MIRACLE MESSAGES: $10k → 10%100 BLACK MEN OF INDIANAPOLIS INC: $10k → 16%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $10k → 6%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $24k → 16%LATINO NETWORK: $15k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF THE UPSTATE: $20k → 10%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $20k → 14%GENEROUS LIFE FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND: $20k → 13%BALTIMORE URBAN LEAGUE: $15k → 19%SAFE HORIZON INC: $50k → 17%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS (NPNA): $50k → 14%ACE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN LEAD LDSHIP EMPWMENT AND DEVLPMENT FOR YOUTH & FAMILY: $15k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1.0M → 14%FIGHT FOR CHILDREN INC: $35k → 14%ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $100k → 14%ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $275k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $175k → 17%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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Verizon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Verizon Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$48M · 1499 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

1499 repeat relationships — 1095 still active in FY2024, 404 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1499
437

Total granted

$48M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+33%

Still filing today

66%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalArts & 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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +20%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +38%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $7.5M · revenue -21%
  • CE
    CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -74% · 26% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M

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.

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Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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3
Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education
4
Delaware Valley University

A private four-year university providing higher education to individuals seeking advancement.

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5
Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education
6
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
7
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
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University of the Sciences in

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders in the sciences. see sch. ouniversity of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and…

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9
Fielding Graduate University

Fielding provides doctoral, master's and graduate-level certificate programs in the fields of educational leadership, organization development, and psychology.

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10
United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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Goldey-Beacom College

To confer the associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees on qualified students.

Education
12
Salus University

Advancing integrated health care through innovative education, research and clinical services

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Leonardo. 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 backsteadyJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Youth CampsSchool Parent OrganizationsEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…Community Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Social ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsAddiction Recovery ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringUnited Way AffiliatesSenior Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Public Library OperationsYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsYouth Development CentersYouth Development ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%71/11,022
the rest of the field
11%
206,093/1,808,543

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.

05the grantee network

1437 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. 1437 of the 2,000 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)
268
Early backer (in before they grew)
1407/1437
Grantees still filing
1100/1437
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,007,269 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES — $1,986,700 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONST…Individual grant recipient — $1,431,160 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNAF — $1,080,184 · OtherTHE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS (NCAPA)TIDES CENTER — $1,000,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,500,350 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,428,150 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUN…+72 more — $6,877,003 · Other+72 moreUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $5,050,406 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUN…DIRECT RELIEF — $2,504,828 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,057,084 · InternationalSave The Children F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,011,601 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF…+11 more — $1,199,949 · International+11 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $7,500,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATI…+2 more — $401,088 · Community ImprovementCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,528,050 · Civil RightsCITIZEN EDUC…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,444,859 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL …NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $1,428,100 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWE…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $1,000,650 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERIC…HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $1,000,253 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $508,942 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTIC…+1 more — $70,483 · Civil RightsCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $3,138,391 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES A…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $1,001,004 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $503,511 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA — $500,150 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $400,504 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER F…UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $300,000 · Philanthropy+7 more — $437,725 · Philanthropy+7 moreOlder Adults Technology Services — $255,000 · EducationCODEPATHORG — $180,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $175,000 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $171,401 · Education+66 more — $4,213,966 · Education+66 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,110,098 · Human ServicesACE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC — $275,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $175,100 · Human Services+9 more — $594,134 · Human Services
Other$21,310,816International$10,823,868Community Improvement$7,901,088Civil Rights$6,981,337Philanthropy$6,281,285Education$4,995,367Human Services$3,154,332

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $7,500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $5,050,406 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $5,007,269 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $3,138,391 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $2,504,828 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,500,350 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,528,050 over 1y, 26% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,444,859 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $1,428,150 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $1,428,100 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,110,098 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,057,084 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,011,601 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $1,001,004 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $1,000,650 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $1,000,253 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetACE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $508,942 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $503,511 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA — $500,150 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $400,504 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION INC D/B/A CSFORALL — $300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM — $300,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $300,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $275,026 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $275,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC — $275,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOlder Adults Technology Services — $255,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS — $251,088 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $237,938 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA — $222,131 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $200,050 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $200,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $190,637 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCODEPATHORG — $180,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $178,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS — $176,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC — $175,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $173,021 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $171,401 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $151,314 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK — $150,204 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAscend Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $140,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC — $130,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $127,054 over 5y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Union FoundationCouncil of Independen…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Mondelez Internationa…Amin & Rubina Chikhal…Magyarbank Charitable…Ej Grassmann TrustThe Tyler FoundationE and S Van Houten Me…The Mimi Washington S…Sahara FoundationGertrude L Hirsch Cha…
Union FoundationNJ27.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Union Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Mondelez International Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Magyarbank Charitable Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Tyler Foundation · E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · The Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc · Sahara Foundation · Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust

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 Verizon Foundation 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 · 90%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Camden Community Partnership Inc — 94% of income from government
  • 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Family Counseling Center of St Paul's — 41% of income from government
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Hispa Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Albertus Magnus College — 6% of income from government
  • Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Southern Nazarene University — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 2000 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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