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Www Foundation

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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2023
107
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

76% of Www Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Horizons, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 83 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Www Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 71 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

62
’17
101
’18
93
’19
98
’20
100
’21
87
’22
71
’23
83
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Philanthropy$11MAnimals$9.4MEducation$3.3MArts & Culture$3.2MEnvironment$2.1MYouth Development$2.1MInternational$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.6MOther$0
02FY2023 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k19 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k73 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $740k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER$450,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES$290,000
AFRICAN WOMEN RISING$222,500
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$200,000
FULFILLMENT FUND$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$99,000
ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION$75,000
LONG LIVE THE KINGS$70,000
ORANGE COUNTY UNITED WAY$65,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$55,000
LOS ANGELES ROOM & BOARD (LA ROOM & BOARD)$50,000
DIGNITYMOVES$50,000
SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM$50,000
LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION$50,000
LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION$50,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 18%CELEBRATION NATION INC: $10k → 8%GIRLVENTURES: $6k → 10%HUMOROLOGY INC: $1k → 10%FREE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3k → 13%MATRICULATE: $25k → 20%MATRICULATE: $20k → 20%MATRICULATE: $20k → 20%JENESSE CENTER INC: $50k → 14%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES: $15k → 10%MATRICULATE: $20k → 17%MATRICULATE: $8k → 17%STREET SOCCER USA: $25k → 17%ORCAS RECYCLING SERVICES: $10k → 10%BEHAPPY LIVING INC: $5k → 10%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER: $3k → 14%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER: $3k → 14%WE ARE BRAVE TOGETHER: $3k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $100k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $50k → 14%ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA: $4k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE INC: $20k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $225k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $223k → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $130k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $121k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $66k → 14%THE DALMATIAN DREAMS FOUNDATION DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $60k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $50k → 14%THE DALMATIANS DREAM FOUNDATION DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE DALMATIANS DREAM FOUNDATION DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $25k → 14%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $15k → 14%THE DALMATIANS DREAM FOUNDATION DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $3k → 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

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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 36% of Www Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 52%.

Www Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 162 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

162 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2023, 90 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

162
124

Total granted

$25M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+40%

Still filing today

81%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther
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

  • HW
    HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +84%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WOMEN RISING
    7× · 2018–2024 · $914k · revenue +172%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $907k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHALLENGERS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $275k
  • DV
    Da Vinci Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $110k · revenue +91%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WOMEN RISING FORMERLY CAFWA
    one grant, 2017 · $65k
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
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc

The organization was established to protect and restore the santa barbara channel and its watersheds through science-based advocacy, education, field work, community engagement, and citizen enforcement of environmental laws.

Environment
3
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
4
The Institute for Bird Populations

The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.

Animals
5
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
6
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
9
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
10
Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment
11
Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Behappy Living 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

270 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. 270 of the 340 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)
261/270
Grantees still filing
191/270
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Horizons: $9,623,911 · PhilanthropyGreater HorizonsCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $612,142 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA+8 more: $1,090,484 · Philanthropy+8 moreHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $8,440,714 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTERLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $506,667 · Animals+11 more: $870,000 · Animals+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $1,026,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES - TENNIS ACADEMY: $825,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO L…Young America's Foundation: $655,500 · OtherYoung America's FoundationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $418,998 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $906,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO L…CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $515,000 · Other+107 more: $5,453,772 · Other+107 moreSANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $831,350 · Arts & CultureLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $602,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $288,500 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $167,500 · Arts & CultureOLD SPANISH DAYS IN SANTA BARBARA INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureSTATE STREET BALLET: $92,500 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $466,500 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $913,500 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND: $200,000 · Human ServicesMATRICULATE INC: $92,500 · Human ServicesTara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy: $75,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $50,000 · Human Services+5 more: $140,000 · Human ServicesTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $207,050 · EducationLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $187,500 · EducationCATE SCHOOL: $120,000 · EducationNinos del Sol Inc: $120,000 · EducationDa Vinci Schools: $110,000 · EducationNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $106,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $56,975 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationISHA FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · Education+4 more: $54,015 · EducationTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $206,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $147,500 · EnvironmentARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $126,000 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $125,000 · EnvironmentA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA: $83,667 · EnvironmentCoastal Ranches Conservancy: $78,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $75,000 · Environment+13 more: $238,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$11,326,537Animals$9,817,381Other$9,801,070Arts & Culture$2,553,850Human Services$1,471,000Education$1,243,540Environment$1,079,167

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 budgetGreater Horizons: $9,623,911 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $8,440,714 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $913,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $906,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $831,350 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $655,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $612,142 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION: $602,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY: $515,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $506,667 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetELINGS PARK FOUNDATION: $316,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $307,167 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $300,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $295,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $288,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $245,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $217,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $207,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $206,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $200,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL: $187,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $185,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $168,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $168,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $167,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE: $166,667 over 7y, 22% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $147,500 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE OJAI FOUNDATION: $134,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $130,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS: $126,500 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNinos del Sol Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetDa Vinci Schools: $110,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY TRAILS COUNCIL: $110,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetDIGNITYMOVES: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $106,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOLD SPANISH DAYS IN SANTA BARBARA INC: $105,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA EQUINE ASSISTANCE AND EVACUATION TEAM: $100,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetSTATE STREET BALLET: $92,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMATRICULATE INC: $92,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $90,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA ROCHA USA INC A ROCHA USA: $83,667 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Ranches Conservancy: $78,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetCARE4Paws Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 1.5% 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 Greater Horizons ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
  • Who funds ELINGS PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS ↗
  • Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA BLANCA SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP PADDLE ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OJAI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Ninos del Sol Inc ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Mosher FoundationBrittingham Family Fo…The Kirby-Jones Found…G a Fowler Family Fou…Manitou FundWilliams-Corbett Foun…Patricia Bragg Founda…Schlinger Family Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA90.5× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Schlinger Family Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens 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 Www Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Www Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Www Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Www Foundation 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 340 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home