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Windhover 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.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
243
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$23M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$25MEducation$9.4MArts & Culture$4.2MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.1MReligion$710kRecreation & Sports$504kOther$0
02FY2024 · 243 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k177 grants · $468k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $828k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $23M
$3,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINDERFUL FOUNDATION INC$22,747,788
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC$285,000
AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$250,000
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC$200,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION$140,500
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$100,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC$100,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC$100,000
WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$100,000
MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC$100,000
MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD$82,500
BROWN UNIVERSITY$75,000
NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA INC$67,580
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC$63,324
BROWN UNIVERSITY$60,000
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, $883k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BALANCE INC: $13k → 6%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%ST NICKS ALLIANCE HOME CARE CORP: $4k → 20%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $110k → 14%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FOUNDATIONS FOR FREEDOM INC: $25k → 17%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $5k → 9%FULAA LIFELINE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $4k → 20%FULAA LIFELINE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 6%FULAA LIFELINE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 6%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $4k → 5%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $4k → 5%GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 17%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $4k → 5%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $3k → 5%THE WOMENS CENTER INC: $3k → 5%SHARP LITERACY INC: $50k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%SHARP LITERACY INC: $25k → 17%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%PRISM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1k → 17%GREATER PROVIDENCE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIO: $1k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER SANT LA INC: $1k → 15%YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $10k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $10k → 9%YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $10k → 9%HARTLEY HOUSE: $2k → 17%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAU: $35k → 13%HARTLEY HOUSE: $2k → 17%HARTLEY HOUSE: $2k → 17%HARTLEY HOUSE: $2k → 17%HARTLEY HOUSE: $2k → 17%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAU: $10k → 13%COURAGE INITIATIVE LTD: $10k → 17%SAINT JOHNS COMMUNITIES INC: $5k → 17%SAINT JOHNS COMMUNITIES INC: $5k → 17%SAINT JOHNS COMMUNITIES INC: $3k → 17%SHOWERING LOVE: $44k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $15k → 13%SHOWERING LOVE: $25k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $10k → 13%MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC: $3k → 17%CHRISTMAS IN JULY INC: $4k → 13%CHRISTMAS IN JULY INC: $4k → 13%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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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 7% of Windhover Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Windhover Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 289 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

289 repeat relationships: 140 still active in FY2024, 149 since wound down; 79 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

289
454

Total granted

$17M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+19%

Still filing today

40%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23M 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +27%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
  • RU
    REGIS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $725k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IH
    I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION - MILWAUKEE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -49%
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • BU
    BADGERS UNITED INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -39% · 33% of their budget
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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The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
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Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
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
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Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
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Manhattanville University

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

Education
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Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

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Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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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
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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
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The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Winderful Foundation Inc. 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

216 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. 216 of the 831 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
211/216
Grantees still filing
145/216
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WINDERFUL FOUNDATION INC: $22,747,788 · PhilanthropyTHE WINDERFUL FOUNDATION INCGreater Horizons: $1,847,500 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons+7 more: $346,833 · PhilanthropyNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,119,724 · EducationNova Southeaste…REGIS UNIVERSITY: $725,000 · EducationREGIS UNIVERSIT…GREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $630,220 · EducationGREENWICH ACADE…New York University: $500,000 · EducationNew York Univer…COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $428,570 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHO…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $403,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF W…THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $395,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $201,000 · Education+19 more: $1,039,432 · Education+19 moreHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $591,478 · OtherHUNGER TASK FOR…HOLY ANGELS NATIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH INC: $253,900 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · OtherMOBILE SCHOOL PANTRY INC SOUTH FLORIDA: $394,781 · OtherMOBILE SCHOOL P…AMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Other+118 more: $3,788,272 · Other+118 moreMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $2,442,562 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…CONECTA MIAMI ARTS INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureCONECTA M…SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $220,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLO…MILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD: $217,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…+11 more: $507,500 · Arts & Culture+11 moreTHE BRANDLAB: $550,000 · Youth DevelopmentRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $385,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $55,265 · Youth DevelopmentBROWN UNIVERSITY: $945,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $23,000 · Community ImprovementAIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $385,000 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $100,000 · Human ServicesSHOWERING LOVE INC: $68,672 · Human ServicesTHE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE INC: $45,001 · Human ServicesYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $30,000 · Human Services+9 more: $132,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$24,942,121Education$5,742,946Other$5,803,431Arts & Culture$3,687,562Youth Development$1,130,265Community Improvement$968,000Human Services$861,173

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WINDERFUL FOUNDATION INC: $22,747,788 over 1y, 98% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $2,442,562 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGreater Horizons: $1,847,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $1,119,724 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $945,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $725,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $630,220 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $591,478 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRANDLAB: $550,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNew York University: $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $428,570 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $403,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $395,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOBILE SCHOOL PANTRY INC SOUTH FLORIDA: $394,781 over 5y, 18% of budgetAIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $385,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $385,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONECTA MIAMI ARTS INC: $300,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetAMAZON CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE CHAMBER THEATRE LTD: $217,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $201,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPASS STORY OF DIASPORA FORWARD INC: $178,542 over 4y, 100% of budgetHOLLYWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $165,223 over 4y, 55% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $164,127 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF HALLANDALE BEACH INC: $154,375 over 3y, 24% of budgetMILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetSAFE SCHOOLS SOUTH FLORIDA: $117,412 over 3y, 12% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF WAUKESHA INC: $110,020 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE: $104,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetWilliams College: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE GAY SPORTS NETWORK INC: $93,750 over 5y, 98% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUNG ARTISTS AND WRITERS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $81,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMILWAUKEE TENNIS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSHOWERING LOVE INC: $68,672 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetWMEG INC: $67,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetCEDARBURG ART MUSEUM & SOCIETY INC: $65,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG AT ART OF BROWARD INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI81.9× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Anon Charitable Trust · Baird 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 Windhover Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Windhover Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Artefactus Cultural Project Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Stonewall Library and Archives Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Zoo Miami Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get 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 · 0–75%
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 Windhover Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Windhover 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 831 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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