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Wabtec Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$839k
Granted FY2024still arriving
254
Grants FY2024still arriving
33
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$601kEducation$575kHuman Services$288kHealth$251kArts & Culture$231kCivil Rights$201kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kInternational$127kOther$0
02FY2024 · 254 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k225 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $380k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $362k
$128
Median grant
33
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA$135,568
100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA$85,000
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND$71,080
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$70,000
CRUZ ROJA ESPANOLA (SPANISH RED CROSS)$32,100
THE ADVANCED LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (TALI)$30,000
VETERAN COMMUNITY PROJECT$30,000
UNITED WAY OF PIEDMONT$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE$25,000
NORTHWEST ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
ASSOCIATION MOVIMENTO UNIAO BR$20,000
LINKED BY PINK$16,500
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE$15,000
UNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$11,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE WARM COAT: $10k → 10%CAMP KESEM: $250 → 14%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $10k → 10%SAFEHOME: $250 → 5%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $131 → 13%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $250 → 26%GROVE CITY YMCA: $10k → 13%BEYOND VIOLENCE INC: $250 → 14%ONE WARM COAT: $700 → 10%CAMP KESEM: $250 → 14%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $9k → 10%WOMEN ARE DREAMERS TOO INC: $5k → 13%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $250 → 15%YMCA OF FRANKLIN AND GROVE CITY: $10k → 13%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $9k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CHICAGOLAND & NW INDIANA: $250 → 7%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAY: $8k → 10%GROVE CITY YMCA: $5k → 13%FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $8k → 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $5k → 10%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $250 → 15%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $5k → 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES: $250 → 10%COMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF BREVARD COUNTY INC DBA AGING MATTERS IN BREV: $125 → 10%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $250 → 9%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $250 → 14%TARRANT COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%PIEDMONT EMERGENCY RELIEF CENTER: $500 → 10%PIEDMONT EMERGENCY RELIEF CENTER: $250 → 10%ERIE FAMILY CENTER: $3k → 15%THE ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION: $10k → 17%WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 11%EMMA'S FOOTPRINTS: $138 → 15%THE GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $140 → 14%ST MARTIN CENTER: $250 → 15%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $3k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $250 → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $250 → 14%UNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $11k → 15%HARVEST912 INC: $10k → 15%HARVEST912: $1k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ERIE PA: $500 → 15%SAFENET: $300 → 15%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

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OR
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PA
NJ
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CA
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VA
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DE
AZ
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AR
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NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Wabtec Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wabtec Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 175 repeat orgs$721k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 110 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 129 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
367

Total granted

$1.9M
$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalArts & 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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +21%
  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +41%
  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PC
    PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • MO
    MARCH OF DIMES - WESTERN PA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +21%
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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Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
11
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
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 Bit Coding Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

455 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 455 of the 687 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)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
449/455
Grantees still filing
309/455
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY: $166,591 · OtherUNITED WAYSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $160,010 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICATHURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND: $142,160 · OtherTHURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUNDSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $120,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $100,000 · OtherThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc+127 more: $828,928 · Other+127 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $347,410 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY…+4 more: $22,313 · Philanthropy+4 more100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHPLACES: $15,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARCH OF DIMES INC: $62,355 · HealthLinked by Pink: $33,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $29,570 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INC: $15,000 · HealthRYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION: $12,500 · HealthACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $10,025 · Health+16 more: $30,933 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $84,111 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $57,349 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $41,386 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $17,000 · International+5 more: $4,344 · InternationalFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $36,044 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $26,917 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $26,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS: $25,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGH: $17,500 · Human ServicesUNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST912 INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesONE WARM COAT: $10,700 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTarrant County Homeless Coalition: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $19,850 · Human ServicesCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $26,362 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,517,689Philanthropy$369,723Youth Development$217,000Health$208,883International$204,190Human Services$204,011Arts & Culture$197,362

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%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $347,410 over 3y, 0.4% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF AMERICA INC: $170,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $84,111 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $62,355 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $57,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $41,386 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $40,025 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA TROLLEY MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFOSTERING GREAT IDEAS: $36,044 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLinked by Pink: $33,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Greater Spartanburg: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $29,570 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $26,917 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC: $26,362 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $26,351 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest ISD Education Foundation: $20,026 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHPLACES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION EMPOWER: $11,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetUNION CITY FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHARVEST912 INC: $11,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetONE WARM COAT: $10,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $10,262 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $10,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPE FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTarrant County Homeless Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERLIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

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.

Erie Community FoundationPA123.3× affinity74 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · United Way of Erie County · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles a Dailey Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen 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 Wabtec Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wabtec Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation: 5% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
54report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wabtec Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wabtec 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 687 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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