· Private foundation
William T Grant Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k93 grants · $12M
- $250k+14 grants · $4.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE | $497,580 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $429,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $426,494 |
| PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK | $410,006 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $400,219 |
| NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION | $360,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $323,150 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $309,912 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $305,892 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $299,266 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $298,327 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $283,819 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $267,763 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $259,573 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $232,013 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $782k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of William T Grant Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NYNew York University6× · 2019–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +51%
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +140% · 81% of their budget
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +8%
Funded once
Youth Collaboratory Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $218k · revenue +42%- RSRUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -74%
- TBTHE BELL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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 and Research
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ithrive Games Foundation. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
166 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. 166 of the 248 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 New York University ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Spencer Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Youth Improving Non-Profits for Children · Brooklyn Community 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 T Grant Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Educational Testing Service — 6% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.