Giving is the clearest public record of what someone cares about and which institutions they're tied to. This article covers the Philanthropy and Political cards: foundations, gifts, board seats, affiliations, and party lean.
Two cards cover giving: Philanthropy (private foundations, public gifts, board seats, and other affiliations) and Political. They sit below the wealth cards on purpose — this isn't capacity, it's the public record of what someone cares about and which institutions they're tied to. That's usually what opens a conversation, and it's where board relationships turn up.
Here are both cards on a real profile — Eric Schmidt again. Expand grouped rows, sort columns, hover the charts, and click any citation to open its source:
Private foundations are the part of this card that's also a balance sheet. Each one shows its assets, its grants for the year, and the person's role in it — founder, president, trustee — so you're looking at a real pool of capital with a named decision-maker rather than a soft signal of interest. The same vehicles show up again on the Net Worth card.
Boards are the highest-value rows here. A board seat is a multi-year commitment, it's public, and it puts someone in a quarterly meeting with a specific group of people — which makes it the most reliable place to look for a warm introduction. Other Affiliations catches the lighter ties: memberships, clubs, and volunteering.
And the gifts themselves — the pie by issue, the average and largest gift, the years they've been active — tell you where attention has gone consistently, versus once.
Each donation carries a Category tag — the primary issue area of the receiving nonprofit, like — and a source icon that opens the page we found the gift on. Board seats and affiliations carry the same source icons, drawn mostly from IRS filings.
Example: you're prepping a first meeting and want a real opener. Twenty years of gifts tagged Environment and a seat on a conservation board tells you what to lead with — and, if you sell into that world, what to bring.
Click a nonprofit's name to open its page. Every nonprofit here links to its own page: finances, board members, IRS filings, and everyone else we know who funds it.
The Political card breaks the dollars down by party and by race type, charts them by election cycle, and lists the itemized gifts underneath. Read it for direction and consistency rather than for totals — whether the giving is steady or one-off, and whether it's local or national, usually tells you more than the dollar figure does.
Federal contributions aren't itemized. To comply with federal regulations, WealthAtlas doesn't itemize contributions to federal candidates. They still count in the aggregate charts, so someone's political totals can be higher than the itemized state-and-local table adds up to.
The people around a profile matter as much as the numbers on it. Your network turns those connections into a warm path in.