Every grant a private foundation pays out is reported on IRS Form 990-PF with a one-line purpose in the funder’s own words. Bucketing 78,159 of those purposes into plain-English themes shows which foundations actually fund which causes — and, on the state pages, where.
Two buckets are deliberately missing: “general operating support” and unclassifiable purposes. They are the largest categories in the data and the least informative — a page about them would restate the whole corpus rather than tell you anything. 11 specific causes and 436 cause-by-state pages are published.
3,679 foundations · 18,244 grants · 13,867 organizations · $2.5B reported
2,744 foundations · 12,568 grants · 9,228 organizations · $4.1B reported
2,863 foundations · 10,488 grants · 6,827 organizations · $746.3M reported
1,528 foundations · 7,077 grants · 6,228 organizations · $989.5M reported
1,968 foundations · 6,569 grants · 5,314 organizations · $409.2M reported
1,856 foundations · 6,249 grants · 5,336 organizations · $493.7M reported
1,685 foundations · 6,198 grants · 5,141 organizations · $323.7M reported
1,458 foundations · 4,798 grants · 3,965 organizations · $296.9M reported
816 foundations · 3,052 grants · 2,264 organizations · $453.8M reported
799 foundations · 1,789 grants · 1,302 organizations · $432.3M reported
472 foundations · 1,127 grants · 929 organizations · $119.8M reported
Source: public IRS Form 990-PF Part XV filings. Theme classification is derived from each funder’s own purpose text and is a summary, not a legal categorization. Figures reflect historical reported giving, not open opportunities.
