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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive.

$95M
Granted FY2025still arriving
67
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$68MInternational$840kSocial Science$476kEducation$255kCommunity Improvement$236kFood & Nutrition$224kEmployment$95kHuman Services$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 67 grants below total $17,005,657, the rows itemized in this filing. The $94,524,536 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,518,879 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $689k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+15 grants · $13M
$81,258
Median grant
25
States reached
$559M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE TREE PLANTED INC$2,016,536
GLOBAL FOREST GENERATION$1,460,401
AFEF INC$1,386,214
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$1,378,517
REALIZE IMPACT$1,250,345
C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADER$1,222,385
SDSN ASSOCIATION INC$833,108
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$678,342
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$649,832
ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY$526,438
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION$422,283
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION$401,617
INTERNATIONALFOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$374,963
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$357,754
THE SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP (SFP)$321,127
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $2.0M → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $1.3M → 10%INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS INC: $94k → 7%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $256k → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $516k → 10%INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS: $38k → 7%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $1.6M → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $997k → 17%IMPACT GURU INC: $158k → 10%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $883k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $833k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $800k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $742k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $293k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $174k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $160k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $51k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $38k → 17%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NY: $34k → 17%SDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $31k → 17%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

ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $77M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$18M · 23% · 68 grants

Stated purpose: REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS · PROMOTE ENVIR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS · SUPPORT ENVIR AND SOCIALLY EQUITABLE DECISIONS

East Asia and the Pacific$17M · 22% · 157 grants

Stated purpose: REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS · PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT · PROTECT CLIMATE FROM GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

South Asia$14M · 18% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: PROTECT CLIMATE FROM GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS · PROMOTE ENVIR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS · REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$13M · 17% · 37 grants

Stated purpose: REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS · PROTECT CLIMATE FROM GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS · PROMOTE ENVIR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS

South America$9.7M · 12% · 35 grants

Stated purpose: REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS · PROMOTE ENVIR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS · PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$5.1M · 7% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: PROMOTE ENVIR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS · REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS · PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Central America and the Caribbean$1.2M · 2% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: REVERSE RAPID DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEMS · PROTECT CLIMATE FROM GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS · PROMOTE ENVIR SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SOLUTIONS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80M · 113 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
36

Total granted

$80M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

93%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +126%
  • AI
    AFEF INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +43%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • UN
    UNITED NATIONS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FU
    one grant, 2020 · $444k
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $383k · revenue +65%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2019 · $171k
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.

1
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
3
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
6
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
7
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
8
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
9
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
10
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
11
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
12
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Inc

The nonpartisan center for climate and energy solutions works to secure a safe and stable climate by accelerating the global transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and a thriving, just, and resilient economy. for over 25 years,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ab Inbev Foundation. 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

158 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. 158 of the 180 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/158
Grantees still filing
96/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $16,239,278 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKALLOTROPE PARTNERS LLC: $2,311,680 · OtherALLOTROPE PARTNERS LLCRocky Mountain Institute: $1,545,750 · OtherWildlife Conservation Society: $1,443,137 · Other+80 more: $16,061,385 · Other+80 moreC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $4,633,143 · EnvironmentC40 Cities Climate Leaders…THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC: $2,181,756 · EnvironmentTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL …ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,085,148 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND…Global Forest Generation: $1,460,401 · EnvironmentGlobal Forest GenerationMONGABAY ORG CORP: $1,194,382 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORPMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $834,936 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $763,448 · Environment+52 more: $7,381,729 · Environment+52 moreSDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $6,606,598 · Human ServicesSDSN ASSOCIATI…GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,243,750 · Human ServicesGIVE FOUNDATIO…Realize Impact: $1,765,940 · Human ServicesRealize Impact+2 more: $289,658 · Human ServicesONE TREE PLANTED INC: $6,332,629 · PhilanthropyONE TREE …AB INBEV FOUNDATION: $583,825 · PhilanthropyAB INBEV …+5 more: $350,006 · PhilanthropyENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $1,401,723 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,260,683 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $696,451 · InternationalVITAL STRATEGIES INC: $610,414 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES: $585,316 · InternationalPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY: $277,000 · International+11 more: $739,042 · InternationalAFEF INC: $2,788,944 · Civil RightsGreater Greater Washington: $151,284 · Civil Rights+1 more: $45,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC: $2,225,294 · Science & TechCENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT: $239,276 · Science & Tech+3 more: $96,765 · Science & Tech
Other$37,601,230Environment$20,534,943Human Services$10,905,946Philanthropy$7,266,460International$5,570,629Civil Rights$2,985,228Science & Tech$2,561,335

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSDSN ASSOCIATION INC: $6,606,598 over 8y, 12% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $6,332,629 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc: $4,633,143 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAFEF INC: $2,788,944 over 2y, 19% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $2,243,750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC: $2,225,294 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC: $2,181,756 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,085,148 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRealize Impact: $1,765,940 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $1,545,750 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation: $1,460,401 over 1y, 32% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $1,443,137 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY: $1,401,723 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,260,683 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP: $1,194,382 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $841,728 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $834,936 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $788,400 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $783,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $763,448 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE: $711,914 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $696,451 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $667,937 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNEWS NETWORK: $664,357 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $643,792 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetVITAL STRATEGIES INC: $610,414 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $599,211 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $592,554 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVerra: $591,724 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES: $585,316 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAB INBEV FOUNDATION: $583,825 over 2y, 37% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $494,513 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $421,687 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $401,617 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $382,546 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $354,667 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $339,290 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $323,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHOUSE GAS EXPERTS NETWORK INC: $317,362 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $305,279 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT & SECURITY: $277,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE LINUX FOUNDATION: $262,621 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT: $260,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCALSTART INC: $242,032 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT: $239,276 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY WORKS: $238,111 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetFORUM FOR THE FUTURE US INC: $234,118 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds SDSN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
  • Who funds C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds AFEF INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Realize Impact ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
  • Who funds Global Forest Generation ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAL STRATEGIES INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Verra ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds AB INBEV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗

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.

Climateworks Foundati…United States Energy …The Energy FoundationThe William & Flora H…Natural Resources Def…New Venture FundThe Rockefeller Found…Environmental Defense…John D and Catherine …The David and Lucile …Gordon E and Betty I …Rockefeller Philanthr…
Climateworks FoundationCA55.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Climateworks Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · New Venture Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 World Resources Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Resources Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
  • Lomakatsi Restoration Project: 100% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Vermont Energy Investment Corporation: 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Forth Mobility Fund: 7% of income from government
  • The Linux Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 180 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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