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Accelerator for America

Accelerator for America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan do tank that delivers solutions, connections, and resources to mayors and other local leaders working to create greater economic mobility in underserved communities.

$10k
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
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States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Community Improvement$464kPhilanthropy$205kHuman Services$154kEmployment$125kHealth$51kInternational$51kHousing & Shelter$20kEnvironment$10k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Building Energy Exchange KC$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Family Independence Initiative: $51k → 10%La Paz Chattanooga: $51k → 12%Miami Valley Community Action Partn: $51k → 14%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

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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 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.

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United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
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The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
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Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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Mile High United Way Curtis Park

Construct, finance, and own the mile high united way morgridge center for community change.

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Tulsa Regional Chamber (Fka Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce)

The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.

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Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
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Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
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Housing Plus

Innovatively utilize resources to preserve & create quality affordable multi-family housing committed to fulfilling individual housing needs and stabilize neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
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The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
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Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles and the most unlike its peers is La Paz De Dios Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Inland Regions LLC — $300,000 · OtherInland Regions LLCIndividual grant recipient — $125,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOUISVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS — $51,366 · OtherLOUISVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS+1 more — $10,000 · OtherThe Community Foundation of Utah — $51,366 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundat…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $51,366 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER…COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA — $51,366 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATIO…HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING — $50,000 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION F…+1 more — $1,366 · PhilanthropyMIAMI VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $51,366 · Human ServicesMIAMI VALLEY COM…LA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $51,366 · Human ServicesLA PAZ DE DIOS I…FII - NATIONAL — $51,366 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALFUSE Corps — $140,000 · Public BenefitFUSE CorpsDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $51,366 · InternationalMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $23,625 · Community ImprovementTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$486,366Philanthropy$205,464Human Services$154,098Public Benefit$140,000International$51,366Community Improvement$43,625

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFUSE Corps — $140,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah — $51,366 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $51,366 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $51,366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC — $51,366 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $51,366 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $51,366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA — $51,366 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL — $23,625 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS — $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES — $1,366 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Accelerator for America 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
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    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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