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Witherspoon Institute Inc
Research, education, and public awareness of the political, moral and philosophical principles of free and democratic societies
$132k
Granted FY2025
1
Grants
1
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Education$1.0MReligion$383kCommunity Improvement$275kScience & Tech$150kOther$940k
02FY2025 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Aquinas Inst for CatholicLife$50,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 11 repeat orgs$458k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
7
Total granted
$2.3M
$458k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+13%
+175%
Still filing today
64%
29%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationReligionCommunity ImprovementScience & TechOther
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
- AIAquinas Institute for Catholic Life7× · 2019–2025 · $383k · revenue +1798% · 67% of their budget
- HPHyde Park Institute2× · 2017–2018 · $280k · revenue +38%
- TCThe Catholic University of America2× · 2018–2019 · $210k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TMThe Morningside Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +175% · 95% of their budget
- CFCtr for Study of Tech & Socgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +222%
- WJWilliam J Seymour Institueone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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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
2
New York University
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.
Education
3
Claremont Graduate University
A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.
Education
4
The Academy of Political Science
The academy's primary exempt purpose is to contribute to the scholarly examination of political institutions, processes and public policies; enrich political discourseand channel the best social science research for use in public policy…
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5
Yale University
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Education
6
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The howard hughes medical institute is a philanthropy that serves society through the direct conduct of biomedical research and support for programs in science education.
Health
7
Center of Theological Inquiry
CTI pursues Theological research through interdisciplinary inquiry.
Religion
8
The American Academic Research Institute
Promotion of scholarly research on and in Iraq and ancient Mesopotamia. TAARII raises funds for graduate and post-graduate fellowships for Americans and for Iraqi academics to perform research work on Iraq in a broad range of disciplines.
International
9
Maryland Institute
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college (see schedule o)
Education
10
The Center for the Study of Great Ideas
Philosophical education
Arts & Culture
11
Council of Graduate Schools
Dedicated to the improvement and advancement of graduate education.
Education
12
Trinity University
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Institute for the Study and the most unlike its peers is Catholic University of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,039,461Other$940,004Religion$383,000Community Improvement$275,000Science & Tech$150,000
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 Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Institute ↗
- Who funds Zephyr Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds The Morningside Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds The Catholic University of America ↗
- Who funds The Catholic University ↗
- Who funds Ctr for Study of Tech & Soc ↗
- Who funds American Academy of Sciences ↗
- Who funds Austin Inst Family & Culture ↗
- Who funds Oakland Service Ministries ↗
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.
Foundation For Excellence in Higher EducationNJ18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Foundation For Excellence in Higher Education · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation Witherspoon Institute 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Morningside Institute Inc.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 821094056 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on The Morningside Institute Inc, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Witherspoon Institute Inc?
Find your warmest path to Witherspoon Institute Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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