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Viking Global Foundation Inc at a glance

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Viking Global Foundation Inc

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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
423
Grants FY2024still arriving
30
States reached
$375k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$7.2MEducation$6.2MPhilanthropy$2.2MCivil Rights$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHousing & Shelter$881kOther$0
02FY2024 · 423 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k383 grants · $556k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $394k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$950
Median grant
30
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN$375,000
DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT$241,000
LENA FOUNDATION$204,000
FAMILY CENTERS INC$175,000
READ TO GROW INC$150,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$150,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$150,000
FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC$150,000
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC$150,000
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC$150,000
BARBERSHOP BOOKS$150,000
NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT (NYRP)$125,000
BARBERSHOP BOOKS$100,000
STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (SPEF)$100,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$80,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RECLAIM CHILDHOOD: $50k → 8%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $150k → 22%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $15k → 8%MADISON HOUSE: $6k → 8%BAPS CHARITIES INC: $10k → 8%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICE: $120k → 11%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $6k → 10%LONG ISLAND CARES INC: $15k → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $8k → 6%ROOM TO GROW: $125k → 28%ROOM TO GROW: $44k → 28%ST CHRISTOPHERS INC: $15k → 9%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $146k → 13%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $143k → 13%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $125k → 13%TIDES CENTER: $182k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $70k → 10%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC: $150k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC: $120k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $120k → 9%CHILDREN'S AID: $150k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150k → 17%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $230k → 20%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $200k → 20%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC: $105k → 9%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $190k → 20%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $160k → 20%CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $150k → 20%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC: $100k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC: $50k → 9%GBAPP INC: $45k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $50k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $40k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $25k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $60k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $6k → 9%ROOM TO GROW: $200k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $150k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $150k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $150k → 17%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $46k → 9%HUDSON GUILD: $50k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $100k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $30k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $150k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $100k → 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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 365 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

365 repeat relationships: 182 still active in FY2024, 183 since wound down; 93 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

365
491

Total granted

$19M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $975k · revenue +11%
  • NY
    NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $958k · revenue +440%
  • CH
    CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $935k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2017 · $275k
  • HG
    HUDSON GUILD
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • CL
    CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $170k
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.

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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
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
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
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
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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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Kallol of New Jersey. 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

707 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. 707 of the 977 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
106
Early backer (in before they grew)
693/707
Grantees still filing
473/707
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT OF NY: $1,017,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT OF NYNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $957,850 · OtherNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INCNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT (NYRP): $677,700 · OtherNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT (NYRP)FAMILY CENTERS INC: $547,040 · OtherINSPIRICA INC: $487,500 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $486,112 · OtherADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN: $475,000 · OtherCHILDRENS LEARNING CTR OF FFLD CNTY: $466,500 · OtherTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC: $441,000 · OtherSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN & FAMILY SVCS: $440,000 · OtherCHILD FIRST INC: $410,000 · Other+97 more: $4,721,799 · Other+97 moreROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $975,150 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL IN…CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $935,000 · Human ServicesCYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE…TIDES CENTER: $652,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $645,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGEN…HOUR CHILDREN INC: $414,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $406,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIE…+16 more: $1,037,137 · Human Services+16 moreALL OUR KIN INC: $827,026 · EducationALL OUR KIN I…LENA FOUNDATION: $370,000 · EducationLENA FOUNDATI…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $305,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $300,000 · EducationBARBERSHOP BO…READ TO GROW INC: $210,700 · EducationREAD TO GROW …TEACHING MATTERS INC: $160,000 · EducationTEACHING MATT…JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $150,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR…+24 more: $461,199 · Education+24 moreFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $780,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR TH…STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $517,780 · PhilanthropySTAMFORD PU…ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $182,184 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD …THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YOR…CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $117,950 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $117,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $113,278 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $100,000 · Philanthropy+12 more: $276,094 · Philanthropy+12 moreAdvocates for Children of New York: $650,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalFUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $300,000 · HealthSUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $150,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $58,500 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $19,700 · Health+4 more: $49,955 · HealthEQUITY ADVOCATES INC: $170,000 · Food & NutritionRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $73,050 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $63,766 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $40,750 · Food & NutritionCITY GROWERS INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $27,993 · Food & Nutrition
Other$11,127,501Human Services$5,064,287Education$2,783,925Philanthropy$2,354,786Crime & Legal$740,000Health$578,155Food & Nutrition$495,559

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 budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $975,150 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $957,850 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION: $935,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $827,026 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $780,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $652,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $650,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $645,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC: $547,040 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $517,780 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $487,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC: $441,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $414,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCHILD FIRST INC: $410,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $406,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLENA FOUNDATION: $370,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $305,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARBERSHOP BOOKS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $242,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $210,700 over 2y, 10% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $182,184 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEQUITY ADVOCATES INC: $170,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC: $160,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $151,260 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC: $151,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $141,580 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $130,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $126,587 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSHELTERING ARMS CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $120,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $117,950 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $117,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $113,278 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $110,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINK FOOD NYC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $86,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $76,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $73,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $71,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $63,766 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRECLAIM CHILDHOOD INC: $60,250 over 3y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $58,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds CYPRESS HILLS CHILD CARE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Advocates for Children of New York ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LENA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds BARBERSHOP BOOKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds TEACHING MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Robin Hood FoundationThe Lazard Charitable…Pinkerton FoundationThe New York Communit…The Pitney Bowes Foun…The Hyde and Watson F…The Warburg Pincus Fo…Alexander Family Foun…The Near and Far Asso…The Tudor Foundation …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT55.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc

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 Viking Global Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Viking Global Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Gbapp Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • Reclaim Childhood Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Champions for Children Inc: 14% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Youth Symphony Inc: 2% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Viking Global Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Viking Global Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 977 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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