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Grants Paid by U.S. Private Foundations

Contributions, gifts and grants paid by private foundations, by tax year, $

$128B in 2024+$33B since 2020
Forecast availableOffContinuationForesight™
Current·Data to 2024

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Palanor calculation from IRS Form 990-PF e-file returns (public domain), one return per foundation per tax year. A tax year is published once the IRS has posted the two following years of returns. Tax year 2021 is left out: a large share of its returns is missing from the IRS's public e-file release.

How much America's private foundations give away each year, summed from every Form 990-PF they file with the IRS.

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Grants Paid by Private Foundations (U.S., Annual). Source: IRS Form 990 series e-file returns (Form 990-PF), tax years 2020 on, read and totalled by Palanor; one return per foundation per tax year, the latest filed. U.S. Government work, public domain. Source: Internal Revenue Service.

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