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Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 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.

$326M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,101
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$9.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$495MCivil Rights$485MPhilanthropy$435MEnvironment$174MPublic Benefit$135MEducation$132MCrime & Legal$98MHealth$68MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $637k
  • $50k–250k627 grants · $85M
  • $250k+430 grants · $240M
$200,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$134M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC$9,750,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$6,500,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC$4,875,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP) EMPOWERM$3,000,000
WINDWARD FUND$2,950,000
FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS$2,740,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$2,550,000
THE AGENCY FUND$2,500,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,250,000
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$2,250,000
GDI SOLUTIONS INC$2,048,310
ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING$2,000,000
ACCELERATE CHANGE INC$2,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$2,000,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$2,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 77% of grant dollars ($1.7B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($526M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $28.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP: $400k → 16%BOLD FUTURES NM: $364k → 14%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $1.1M → 17%SILICON VALLEY DE-BUG: $350k → 8%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $800k → 17%OPERATION RESTORATION: $325k → 23%PUBLIC ALLIES: $350k → 17%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND: $1.5M → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND: $1.0M → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND: $1.0M → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND: $1.0M → 13%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND: $500k → 13%TIDES CENTER: $1.1M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $585k → 10%FIRST FOCUS: $1.0M → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE BAN KI-MOON CENTRE: $375k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $915k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $915k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $915k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $915k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $915k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $900k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $900k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $900k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $900k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $900k → 14%TRANSGENDER GENDER VARIANT INTERSEX JUSTICE PROJECT: $350k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.0M → 17%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 17%PARENTSTOGETHER FOUNDATION: $350k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $600k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $525k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $508k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR CIVILIANS IN CONFLICT: $500k → 14%CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT: $348k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
NH
WA
ID
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MN
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WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
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CA
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MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($526M)

62 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$88M · 329 grants
Netherlands$60M · 67 grants
Uganda$52M · 299 grants
Kenya$50M · 281 grants
Tanzania$41M · 219 grants
South Africa$30M · 144 grants
Canada$24M · 106 grants
Mexico$21M · 171 grants
Switzerland$19M · 94 grants
Brazil$14M · 61 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6B · 1113 repeat orgs$204M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

1113 repeat relationships: 679 still active in FY2024, 434 since wound down; 136 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1113
383

Total granted

$1.6B
$165M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

52%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39M 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
Civil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $53M · revenue +191%
  • FF
    FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25M · revenue +2%
  • IF
    INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SE
    STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $45M
  • UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $19M · revenue +40%
  • TS
    THE SUNRISE PROJECT LIMITED
    one grant, 2020 · $8.0M
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
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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7
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
8
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
9
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
10
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa. 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

932 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. 932 of the 1,677 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.

106
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
214
Early backer (in before they grew)
915/932
Grantees still filing
592/932
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION: $45,000,000 · OtherSTICHTING EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATIONPROTEUS FUND INC: $20,127,500 · OtherMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $18,756,661 · OtherBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $22,527,000 · OtherINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $23,755,840 · Other+100 more: $418,942,830 · Other+100 moreAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $92,182,200 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $43,360,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH IN…FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $25,401,994 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN…+28 more: $120,373,321 · International+28 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $149,656,837 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVES…COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $9,143,936 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $8,390,000 · Community Improvement+6 more: $18,133,250 · Community Improvement+6 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $79,054,875 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…WINDWARD FUND: $10,860,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD F…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $9,100,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF …SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $7,647,800 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND…HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,676,867 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Inc: $4,500,000 · Environment+4 more: $12,901,200 · Environment+4 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $23,495,637 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $18,500,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $14,611,000 · PhilanthropyGDI-SOLUTIONS INC: $11,830,805 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $9,000,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $8,282,900 · PhilanthropyMSI US: $6,438,750 · PhilanthropyCARINA INITIATIVES INC: $6,059,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AGENCY FUND: $4,240,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $12,021,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $16,565,070 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICES: $16,264,300 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $10,925,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $5,550,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,400,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $5,355,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $5,337,150 · Civil RightsWomen's Link Worldwide: $4,407,000 · Civil Rights+15 more: $43,713,039 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Inc: $52,845,550 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $17,875,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $7,775,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $7,220,000 · Public BenefitTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $4,250,000 · Public BenefitINSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY: $3,850,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $3,750,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $3,750,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $3,000,000 · Public Benefit
Other$549,109,831International$281,317,515Community Improvement$185,324,023Environment$130,740,742Philanthropy$114,479,092Civil Rights$113,516,559Public Benefit$104,315,550

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $149,656,837 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $92,182,200 over 8y, 30% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $79,054,875 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $52,845,550 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $43,360,000 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $25,401,994 over 8y, 19% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $23,755,840 over 8y, 11% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $23,495,637 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $22,527,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $20,127,500 over 8y, 9.6% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $18,756,661 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION: $18,500,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $17,875,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $16,581,591 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $16,565,070 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $16,264,300 over 8y, 19% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $14,611,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $13,117,910 over 8y, 22% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,396,831 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $10,925,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $10,860,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $9,143,936 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $9,100,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $9,000,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $8,390,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $8,282,900 over 8y, 12% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $8,197,100 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $7,901,700 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $7,775,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $7,647,800 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCRISIS ACTION INC: $7,425,000 over 8y, 88% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,405,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $7,330,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $7,220,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetBUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC: $6,950,160 over 7y, 21% of budgetPRECISION DEVELOPMENT INC: $6,766,140 over 7y, 53% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,676,867 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $6,632,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetMSI US: $6,438,750 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $6,274,393 over 8y, 23% of budgetCARINA INITIATIVES INC: $6,059,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $6,000,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetFIRELIGHT FOUNDATION: $5,956,609 over 4y, 35% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,756,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetID INSIGHT INC: $5,662,909 over 7y, 16% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $5,550,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetFirst Focus on Children: $5,500,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,400,000 over 6y, 3.5% 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE VOICES ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GDI-SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS 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.

Foundation to Promote…NEO Philanthropy IncThe Ford FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Susan Thompson Bu…Borealis PhilanthropyNew Venture FundHopewell FundGroundswell FundThe Heising-Simons Fo…Foundation for a Just…Freedom Together Foun…
Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNY157.9× affinity155 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · Groundswell Fund · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Foundation for a Just Society · Freedom Together 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 Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • National Bureau of Economic Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Centerlink Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Ibis Reproductive Health Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 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 1677 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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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home