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Yale Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$797kPhilanthropy$472kHousing & Shelter$320kHuman Services$258kCrime & Legal$226kYouth Development$162kRecreation & Sports$131kEducation$99kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR METRO WEST$35,000
NEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$35,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$35,000
JETT FOUNDATION$30,000
PINE STREET INN$15,000
LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE$10,000
FATHER BILLS AND MAINSTAY INC$10,000
MSPCC$10,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST$10,000
WOMENS LUNCH PLACE$10,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$10,000
VARIOUS 1000 PER RECIPIENT$9,610
VETERANS LEGAL SERVICE$9,000
COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN$5,000
A TASK FORCE$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $9k → 11%COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS: $5k → 8%COMMUNITIES UNITED: $3k → 8%COMMUNITIES UNITED: $3k → 8%FRIENDSHIP HOME: $5k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $3k → 8%COMMUNITIES UNITED: $1k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $1k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $25k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%METROWEST YMCA: $3k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%METROWEST YMCA: $1k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF METROWEST: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $4k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $3k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $4k → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $3k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $4k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $3k → 8%WELLESLEY HILLS JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB: $2k → 7%KIDS CLOTHES CLUB: $5k → 7%BRYCE'S JOURNEY: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
NY
MA
RI
CA
MD
AZ
DC

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 — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 60 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
56

Total granted

$2.2M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+37%

Still filing today

63%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • PINE STREET INN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +123%
  • VL
    VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +179%
  • JF
    JETT FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +359%

Funded once

  • Dignity Matters Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • DB
    DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -29%

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.

1
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
2
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
3
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
4
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
5
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
6
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
7
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
8
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

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9
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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10
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
11
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
12
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
11%
2,782/24,332

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 127 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
49/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $134,000 · OtherVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INCMETROWEST FOUNDATION — $107,500 · OtherMETROWEST FOUNDATIONNEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONVARIOUS 1000 PER RECIPIENT — $86,062 · OtherVARIOUS 1000 PER RECIPIENTCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $85,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONPAPPAS REHABILIATION HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $75,848 · OtherPAPPAS REHABILIATION HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRENWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $58,070 · OtherFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASS — $53,500 · OtherTEAM HEALTH HEROS — $50,000 · Other+71 more — $639,350 · Other+71 moreCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $303,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Found…HALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC — $34,500 · PhilanthropyHALEY CREMER FO…Boston Bullpen Project Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Bullpen …+4 more — $29,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreJETT FOUNDATION INC — $109,000 · HealthJETT FOUNDATI…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $71,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER T…SMILE MASS INC — $33,500 · HealthSMILE MASS IN…Children's Hospital Corporation — $30,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…American Liver Foundation — $20,000 · HealthAmerican Live…VICTORY PROGRAMS INC — $11,500 · Health+8 more — $57,200 · Health+8 morePINE STREET INN INC — $145,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREE…Dignity Matters Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesDignity Ma…South Shore Young Men's Christian Association — $19,000 · Human ServicesSouth Shor…INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $15,738 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $8,663 · Human Services+9 more — $36,917 · Human Services+9 moreASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $61,158 · Crime & LegalMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $60,900 · Crime & LegalSTOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC — $34,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC — $30,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $2,300 · Crime & LegalRB FOUNDATION INC — $84,245 · EducationFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $37,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+1 more — $3,260 · EducationFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $95,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,389,330Philanthropy$391,500Health$332,200Human Services$250,318Crime & Legal$188,358Education$154,505Housing & Shelter$98,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $303,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $145,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $134,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC — $109,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRB FOUNDATION INC — $84,245 over 4y, 16% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $71,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $61,158 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $60,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $58,070 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $37,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC — $34,500 over 7y, 15% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores — $34,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC — $34,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSMILE MASS INC — $33,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Bullpen Project Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetDignity Matters Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation — $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association — $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $15,738 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY PROGRAMS INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC — $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING CIRCLE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATHANS ANGELS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS' MILK BANK NORTHEAST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED — $9,432 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $8,663 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC — $5,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARING PARTNERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOME INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS CLOTHES CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BREAST CANCER COALITION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONNECTION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budget
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 Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds RB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School ↗
  • Who funds HALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
  • Who funds STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Bullpen Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
  • Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust Charit…Cambridge Savings Cha…United Way Of Massach…Rockland Trust - Blue…The New England Patri…Arbella Insurance Fou…Combined Jewish Phila…American Tower Corpor…Suffolk Cares Charita…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA49.7× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organization Yale Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Communities United Inc — 89% of income from government
  • Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • South Boston Community Health Center in — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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: 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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Yale Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Yale Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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