{"ein":"956092354","name":"W.M. Keck Foundation","identifier":"US-EIN-956092354","dossier":"/dossier/956092354","register":{"code":"US-IRS","label":"Internal Revenue Service (US)","country":"US","files_in":"USD","kind":"DOCUMENT","why":"A nine-digit Employer Identification Number, which is what a body files a Form 990 series return under.","url":"https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/form-990-series-downloads"},"register_link":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/956092354","register_method":{"kind":"METHOD","claim":"Funders are grouped by the register they file with, not by where they are.","how":"Read from the identifier: a GBCHC prefix is a Charity Commission for England and Wales registration, an NDPB prefix is a UK non-departmental public body, and nine digits is a US Employer Identification Number.","wrong_if":"Wrong if read as the country a funder operates in. Wellcome files in England and funds on every continent, and an American 990 filer can be a US arm of a body headquartered elsewhere. It answers which regulator holds the filing behind the numbers on this screen, which is the question the currency turns on.","not_covered":"Scotland (OSCR) and Northern Ireland (CCNI) keep separate registers. Neither is ingested, so a Scottish or Northern Irish funder is absent rather than mislabelled."},"filed":{"by_currency":[{"currency":"USD","total":206098087.0,"rows":725}],"currencies":["USD"],"mixed":false,"unrecoverable_rows":0,"unrecoverable_stamped_usd":0.0,"unclassified_rows":0,"label":"All 725 rows filed in USD."},"filed_view":{"currency":"USD","note":"","kind":"METHOD","wrong_if":"Wrong if a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures."},"filed_accounts":{"held":false,"why":"No filed accounts summary is held for this funder. The corpus carries filed accounts only where a regulator publishes them as a financial summary — today that is the Charity Commission for England and Wales. A US 990 filer is not missing from this panel because we failed to read it: the 990 publishes the grant list, which is on this page already, and its financial pages are not in this corpus.","registers_not_covered":"Scotland (OSCR) and Northern Ireland (CCNI) keep separate registers. Neither is included here."},"stats":{"grants":725,"total_usd":206098087.0,"avg_usd":284273.2234482759,"first_year":2021,"last_year":2023,"years_active":3},"funding_flow":[{"year":2021,"total":73780948.0,"count":228,"total_filed":73780948.0},{"year":2022,"total":67830470.0,"count":259,"total_filed":67830470.0},{"year":2023,"total":64486669.0,"count":238,"total_filed":64486669.0}],"top_grantees":[{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA","grants":8,"total_usd":25272000.0,"stars":151,"key":"951642394","has_page":false,"key_refused":null,"page_refused":"This organisation is identified, and the corpus holds no grant line it paid out — only lines paid to it. The page opens on the money-in side, which is being built; until then it would open empty.","total_filed":25272000.0},{"name":"CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE","grants":6,"total_usd":12442000.0,"stars":37,"key":"951664101","has_page":false,"key_refused":null,"page_refused":"This organisation is identified, and the corpus holds no grant line it paid out — only lines paid to it. The page opens on the money-in side, which is being built; until then it would open empty.","total_filed":12442000.0},{"name":"PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY","grants":5,"total_usd":10250000.0,"stars":36,"key":"951644037","has_page":false,"key_refused":null,"page_refused":"This organisation is identified, and the corpus holds no grant line it paid out — only lines paid to it. The page opens on the money-in side, which is being built; until then it would open empty.","total_filed":10250000.0},{"name":"CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY","grants":6,"total_usd":6780000.0,"stars":55,"key":"951643307","has_page":false,"key_refused":null,"page_refused":"This organisation is identified, and the corpus holds no grant line it paid out — only lines paid to it. The page opens on the money-in side, which is being built; until then it would open empty.","total_filed":6780000.0},{"name":"CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY","grants":4,"total_usd":6300000.0,"stars":40,"key":"951643992","has_page":false,"key_refused":null,"page_refused":"This organisation is identified, and the corpus holds no grant line it paid out — only lines paid to it. The page opens on the money-in side, which is being built; until then it would open empty.","total_filed":6300000.0},{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES","grants":8,"total_usd":6300000.0,"stars":32,"key":null,"has_page":false,"key_refused":"This name never resolved to an organisation record, so there is no identity to open a page on. 141,706 of the 545,510 distinct recipient names in this corpus are in the same state — that is our matching, not a fact about them.","page_refused":null,"total_filed":6300000.0},{"name":"LINFIELD UNIVERSITY","grants":6,"total_usd":6075000.0,"stars":7,"key":"930391586","has_page":false,"key_refused":null,"page_refused":"This organisation is identified, and the corpus holds no grant line it paid out — only lines paid to it. 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The page opens on the money-in side, which is being built; until then it would open empty.","total_filed":4386375.0},{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO","grants":3,"total_usd":3600000.0,"stars":30,"key":null,"has_page":false,"key_refused":"This name never resolved to an organisation record, so there is no identity to open a page on. 141,706 of the 545,510 distinct recipient names in this corpus are in the same state — that is our matching, not a fact about them.","page_refused":null,"total_filed":3600000.0},{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN","grants":3,"total_usd":3600000.0,"stars":61,"key":null,"has_page":false,"key_refused":"This name never resolved to an organisation record, so there is no identity to open a page on. 141,706 of the 545,510 distinct recipient names in this corpus are in the same state — that is our matching, not a fact about them.","page_refused":null,"total_filed":3600000.0},{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN","grants":3,"total_usd":3600000.0,"stars":53,"key":null,"has_page":false,"key_refused":"This name never resolved to an organisation record, so there is no identity to open a page on. 141,706 of the 545,510 distinct recipient names in this corpus are in the same state — that is our matching, not a fact about them.","page_refused":null,"total_filed":3600000.0}],"biggest_grants":[{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA","amount":7500000.0,"year":2021,"purpose":"TO ACCELERATE GROUNDBREAKING MEDICAL, CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.","amount_filed":7500000.0},{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA","amount":7500000.0,"year":2022,"purpose":"TO ACCELERATE GROUNDBREAKING MEDICAL, CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.","amount_filed":7500000.0},{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA","amount":7500000.0,"year":2023,"purpose":"TO ACCELERATE GROUNDBREAKING MEDICAL, CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.","amount_filed":7500000.0},{"name":"OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE","amount":5000000.0,"year":2021,"purpose":"TO RENOVATE SPACE IN THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING TO CREATE A RESEARCH CENTER FOR STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH.","amount_filed":5000000.0},{"name":"PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY","amount":5000000.0,"year":2021,"purpose":"TO SUPPORT THE KECK DATA SCIENCE CENTER AND INITIATIVE.","amount_filed":5000000.0},{"name":"CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE","amount":4000000.0,"year":2023,"purpose":"TO ENHANCE CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE'S INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.","amount_filed":4000000.0}],"geography":[],"coverage":{"grants":725,"with_purpose":725,"placeholder_purpose":0,"with_recipient_id":0,"carries_unjoined_id":0,"distinct_recipients":397,"kind":"METHOD","how":"Counted over this funder's own grant rows in the corpus: how many carry a purpose the filing actually states, how many carry a register placeholder instead, and how many were joined to an organisation on an identifier the filing itself carries rather than on a name string. Only `filed_ein` resolves on an identifier; every other method matches a name.","wrong_if":"Wrong if a register introduces a placeholder string that is not in `funder_gaps.NON_PURPOSES`. It would be counted as a stated purpose and would overstate this by however many rows carry it — which is what happened here before 24 August 2026, by 4,637 rows on one funder. Wrong in the other direction if a loader starts resolving on an identifier under a method name other than `filed_ein` without adding it to `_IDENTIFIER_JOIN_METHODS`; the join count would then understate."},"stated_purposes":[{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA","amount":7500000.0,"year":2023,"purpose":"TO ACCELERATE GROUNDBREAKING MEDICAL, CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.","amount_filed":7500000.0},{"name":"OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE","amount":5000000.0,"year":2021,"purpose":"TO RENOVATE SPACE IN THE CHEMISTRY BUILDING TO CREATE A RESEARCH CENTER FOR STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH.","amount_filed":5000000.0},{"name":"PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY","amount":5000000.0,"year":2021,"purpose":"TO SUPPORT THE KECK DATA SCIENCE CENTER AND INITIATIVE.","amount_filed":5000000.0},{"name":"CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY","amount":4000000.0,"year":2023,"purpose":"TO ESTABLISH THE ENDOWED EDWARD C. STONE PROFESSORSHIP.","amount_filed":4000000.0}],"book":{"kind":"METHOD","how":"Read from this funder's own grant rows. The middle cheque is the amount at the midpoint of every priced row ordered smallest to largest — not the average, which one very large grant moves and the middle one does not. Shares are of the same column top and bottom, so they hold whatever currency the column is in. Recipients are grouped by normalised name.","wrong_if":"Wrong if two spellings of one organisation are read as two organisations — they are counted twice here, and 6,410 organisations in this corpus were in exactly that state until 22 August 2026. Wrong if “funded again” is read as a renewal decision: it counts a recipient appearing in more than one tax year inside the few years this corpus holds, so a twenty-year relationship that started before our window reads as new, and one grant paid in instalments either side of a year end reads as two.","held":true,"priced_rows":725,"unpriced_rows":0,"middle":{"held":true,"amount":20000.0,"currency":"USD"},"largest":{"held":true,"amount":7500000.0,"currency":"USD"},"smallest":{"held":true,"amount":25.0,"currency":"USD"},"largest_recipient":{"name":"UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA","share_pct":12.3},"top10_share_pct":43.6,"top10_of":10,"funded_again":{"recipients":182,"of_recipients":397,"share_pct":68.0}},"recipient_places":{"kind":"METHOD","how":"The registered address of each organisation that was paid, joined from the recipient identifier on the grant row to the reference set of organisations. Counted only over the rows where that join resolved; the denominator is printed beside it.","wrong_if":"Wrong if a registered address is read as the place the work is done. Mastercard Foundation's largest line is CAD 252,674,252 to a body registered in Ontario that exists to fund a university in Ghana — so on this panel that money is in Ontario, and in the world it is not. Wrong also if the resolved rows are assumed to look like the unresolved ones: nothing here establishes that they do.","held":true,"grants":725,"says":"An address on a register, not where the programme runs.","joined_rows":404,"rows":[{"country":"US","place":"CA","name":"California","count":242,"total":100298759.0},{"country":"US","place":"OR","name":"Oregon","count":26,"total":6272000.0},{"country":"US","place":"NY","name":"New York","count":32,"total":4324150.0},{"country":"US","place":"WA","name":"Washington","count":3,"total":3600000.0},{"country":"US","place":"MA","name":"Massachusetts","count":18,"total":1718000.0},{"country":"US","place":"OH","name":"Ohio","count":1,"total":1200000.0}],"placed_rows":322},"data_gaps":["No board records — needs 990 Part VII / web enrichment","Recipients name-matched, not EIN-verified — knowledge graph is Phase 2","Risk appetite not yet AI-assessed","SDG alignment not yet tagged"],"not_held":{"items":[{"key":"mission","label":"What they say they exist to do","present":true,"why":null,"refused":false,"unlocks":null},{"key":"purpose","label":"What each grant was for","present":true,"why":null,"refused":false,"unlocks":null},{"key":"themes","label":"What they fund, by theme","present":true,"why":null,"refused":false,"unlocks":null},{"key":"financials","label":"Balance sheet and financials","present":false,"why":"We parse the grant schedules of the 990-PF and 990 Schedule I, not the financial pages, so this funder has a grant list and no balance sheet.","refused":false,"unlocks":"With them, giving can be read against capacity — what a funder pays out beside what it holds — which is the question behind 'could they do more'."},{"key":"leadership","label":"Who runs it","present":false,"why":"No leadership page on this funder's own site has been read. Form 990 Part VII lists officers and their compensation and is a separate source that is still not ingested — this field is filled from what an organisation publishes about itself, not from a return.","refused":false,"unlocks":"With it, an adviser walks into the room knowing who decides, and a project holder knows whose published priorities to read before writing a word."},{"key":"proposals","label":"Whether they accept proposals","present":false,"why":"No 990 line carries it. It would come from the funder's own site.","refused":false,"unlocks":"With it, the marketplace can tell a project holder whether there is any point approaching this funder at all, which is the single most asked question on that screen."},{"key":"record","label":"Their own record on the register","present":true,"why":null,"refused":false,"unlocks":null}],"missing":3,"total":7,"register":"US-IRS","kind":"METHOD","claim":"A gap here is our coverage, not a fact about this organisation.","how":"Each field is checked against this funder's own rows, and each absence is explained against the register they file with rather than against a US Form 990.","wrong_if":"Wrong if a register changes its forms, or a new source starts carrying a field this list says no register carries. The counts are measured; the sentences are not."},"source":{"kind":"DOCUMENT","name":"Filed grant records from three registers — the funder→grantee grant graph. IRS Form 990 series (US), Canada Revenue Agency T3010 and its T1236 gifts schedule, Charity Commission for England and Wales.","publisher":"Internal Revenue Service · Canada Revenue Agency · Charity Commission for England and Wales","url":"https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/form-990-series-downloads","document_url":"https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/form-990-series-downloads","registers":[{"register":"US-IRS","label":"Internal Revenue Service (US)","country":"US","files_in":"USD","url":"https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/form-990-series-downloads"},{"register":"CA-CRA","label":"Canada Revenue Agency — Charities Directorate","country":"CA","files_in":"CAD","url":"https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/05b3abd0-e70f-4b3b-a9c5-acc436bd15b6"},{"register":"GB-CHC","label":"Charity Commission (England & Wales)","country":"GB","files_in":"GBP","url":"https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/register/full-register-download"}],"receipt":"/receipt/corpus","licence":"IRS filings are a US Government work in the public domain. Canada Revenue Agency and Charity Commission data are published under their own open licences — see each register's url. One licence does not cover this corpus.","coverage":"Only recipients we could resolve to an organisation record carry a sector or a state, so every sector and geography figure here is computed over the resolved subset and not over all grant dollars. The mix of registers is not stable and is not the same by rows as by money: on 26 August 2026 the corpus was 48.7% US rows carrying 74.9% of the dollars, and 48.2% Canadian rows carrying 15.1%.","lag":"A filing for tax year Y typically reaches the public corpus during Y+2, so the most recent year is always partial. Each register runs to a different depth — the Canadian data reaches back to 1990, the IRS electronic filings to 2019."},"method":{"claim":"One organisation's position in the graph: who funds it, how much, over how many years, and how complete its record is.","how":"Summed from the grant rows naming that organisation as recipient. `stars` counts the distinct funders on record. Completeness scores what we hold about the organisation, and each missing item states what supplying it would unlock.","wrong_if":"Wrong if `stars` is read as endorsement. It counts funders whose 990 we hold and whose grant we could resolve to this organisation, so a well-supported organisation funded by individuals, a government, a corporate budget or a non-US foundation shows one star or none. A low count is a statement about our corpus first and about the organisation second.","also_wrong_if":"Wrong if `completeness` is read as quality or as diligence. It measures how much of a record exists, not whether any of it is true, and it rises when an organisation uploads material nobody has checked.","and_wrong_if":"Wrong if `total_usd` is read as the organisation's income. It is traced grant dollars only, over the years we hold filings for, and excludes earned revenue, individual giving, government contracts and anything routed through a vehicle that does not itemise.","impact_rating_is_not_impact":"The IMP dimensions shown here mark which questions have an answer on file, not what the organisation achieved. A dimension reading 'unlock' means nobody has supplied the evidence — not that the evidence is bad."},"website":"https://www.wmkeck.org","profile":{"headquarters":"Los Angeles, CA","mission":"To fund science, engineering, and medical research. Also supports education and community services in Southern California.","employees":"15"},"licence":{"data":"US IRS Form 990/990-PF e-file XML; Canada CRA T3010; England & Wales Charity Commission register. All public record.","reuse":"Free to read, quote and cite. Attribute to PhilaNova and link the page you took it from, so a reader can check it.","not_included":"No person is named on these pages. Board members, officers and individual grant recipients are held in the gated product and are deliberately absent here."},"not_published":{"held_back":["theme and cause classification","Impact Rating","Donor-Readiness Score","match scores and funder matching","portfolio construction","coalition detection"],"why":"These are our readings, not the filing's. The record is free because it is public; what we concluded from it is the product. Everything on this page is what a filer said, or arithmetic over what filers said, which you can check against the source."}}