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$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$72kEducation$23kYouth Development$7k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THINK TV$10,000
SOUTH FLORIDA PBS$7,000
PBS 12$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ASU FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (ARIZONA PBS): $9k → 11%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $8k → 17%GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $7k → 5%SOUTH FLORIDA PBS: $7k → 11%PBS NORTH CAROLINA: $7k → 11%PBC UTAH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $7k → 8%THINK TV: $10k → 14%WYOMING PBS CENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE: $7k → 17%NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $8k → 17%PBS UTAH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $7k → 8%THINK TV GREATER DAYTON PUBLIC TELEVISION: $10k → 14%THINK TV GREATER DAYTON PUBLIC TELEVISION: $10k → 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

MA
WY
OH
UT
CO
AZ
NC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 3 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +307% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$59k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+307%
+51%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GD
    Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +307%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue -3%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k

Funded once

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +51%
  • CW
    CENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +81%
  • PN
    PBS NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TVNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INCSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INCCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISIONUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $14,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,250 · OtherCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDAT…PBS NORTH CAROLINA: $7,145 · OtherPBS NORTH CAROLINAARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $8,550 · EducationARIZONA S…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $7,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$58,000Other$28,395Education$8,550Youth Development$7,000

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 budgetGreater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $8,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Washington Ed…Public Broadcasting S…Corporation for Publi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc · Public Broadcasting Service · Corporation for Public Broadcasting · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Window to the World Communications Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Window to the World Communications Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • New England Public Media Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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