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William Sloane Jelin Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$294kHuman Services$213kInternational$207kArts & Culture$169kReligion$78kEnvironment$75kPhilanthropy$54kHealth$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEWONKI FOUNDATION OF MAINE$15,000
BIKES FOR THE WORLD$15,000
Valentino Achak Deng Foundation$10,000
FRIENDS SEMINARY$5,000
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY$5,000
Wings over Haiti$5,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$5,000
BASBLUE INC$5,000
THE NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE LTD$5,000
World Affairs Council of Maine$5,000
PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER$5,000
MAJI SAFI GROUP$5,000
MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$5,000
ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC$3,000
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 (FY17–24, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WINGS OVER HAITI: $10k → 7%BASBLUE INC: $5k → 21%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $20k → 8%WINGS OVER HAITI: $5k → 7%BASBLUE INC: $3k → 21%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $20k → 8%Wings over Haiti: $5k → 7%BASBLUE INC: $3k → 21%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $20k → 8%WINGS OVER HAITI: $5k → 7%BASBLUE INC: $3k → 21%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $15k → 8%WINGS OVER HAITI: $5k → 7%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $15k → 8%Wings over Haiti: $5k → 7%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $15k → 8%WINGS OVER HAITI: $5k → 7%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $15k → 8%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%BIKES FOR THE WORLD: $15k → 8%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%MEDICINE FOR PEACE: $3k → 14%ONE VOICE: $4k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2k → 14%ONE VOICE: $1k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $1k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2k → 14%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

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
MD
DC
LA

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 52 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+26%

Still filing today

88%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BF
    Bikes for the World Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +22%
  • TA
    THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +20%
  • CF
    Chewonki Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    University of Southern Maine Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +92%

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
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
4
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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5
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
6
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
7
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
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is First Amendment Museum At the Gannett House. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Jewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 Schools
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,501

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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 69 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
49/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $75,000 · EducationTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR G…Williams College — $40,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYKENT SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOLJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSIT…KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $20,000 · EducationKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOO…MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $14,000 · EducationMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AN…GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $11,500 · EducationROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $11,500 · Education+2 more — $8,500 · EducationBikes for the World Inc — $135,000 · Human ServicesBikes for the World …WINGS OVER HAITI INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesWINGS OVER HAITI INCMEDICINE FOR PEACE — $20,000 · Human ServicesMEDICINE FOR PEACEBASBLUE INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesBASBLUE INCOne Voice — $11,000 · Human Services+2 more — $9,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS SEMINARY — $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS SEMINARYPORTLAND MEDIA CENTER — $35,000 · OtherPORTLAND MEDIA CENTERTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION…WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE — $18,000 · OtherSENATOR GEORGE J MITCHELL SCHOLARSHIP — $15,000 · OtherCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $40,000 · OtherCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNT…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $17,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $15,000 · OtherTHE NASPGHAN FOUNDATION — $16,000 · OtherSOUTH MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INC — $15,500 · OtherMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS — $21,000 · OtherMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROT…+22 more — $103,500 · Other+22 moreSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $85,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEAC…REFUGEPOINT INC — $21,500 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT I…VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION — $21,000 · InternationalVALENTINO ACH…World Affairs Council of Maine — $17,500 · InternationalWorld Affairs…MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE HIST…TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTREE OF LI…FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST AMEN…The National Film Preserve Ltd — $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe Nation…INTERNEWS NETWORK — $12,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNEWS …MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $7,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE CENT…PORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $5,000 · Arts & CultureChewonki Foundation Inc — $67,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $7,000 · EnvironmentMAJI SAFI GROUP — $32,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $12,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Philanthropy
Education$260,500Human Services$227,500Other$356,500International$145,000Arts & Culture$114,500Environment$74,500Philanthropy$63,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBikes for the World Inc — $135,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $67,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $40,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWINGS OVER HAITI INC — $40,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetWilliams College — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPORTLAND MEDIA CENTER — $35,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMAJI SAFI GROUP — $32,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKENT SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC — $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS — $21,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMEDICINE FOR PEACE — $20,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetKIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Maine — $17,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NASPGHAN FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INC — $15,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBASBLUE INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Alliance Southern Maine — $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChabad Lubavitch of Maine Inc — $11,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice — $11,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHollywood Indies Little League co Stanley M Brooks — $8,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY — $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Bikes for the World Inc ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OVER HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAJI SAFI GROUP ↗
  • Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICINE FOR PEACE ↗
  • Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds World Affairs Council of Maine ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NASPGHAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
  • Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds BASBLUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Chabad Lubavitch of Maine Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds One Voice ↗
  • Who funds University of Southern Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Roger K Berle Charita…Murray Charitable Tru…Spectemur Agendo IncSam L Cohen FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…Davis Family Foundati…Roxanne Quimby Founda…Albert B Glickman Fam…Lunder FoundationLibra Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME23.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Roger K Berle Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Libra Foundation

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 William Sloane Jelin Charitable 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 · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to William Sloane Jelin Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William Sloane Jelin Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 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.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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