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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
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Building Energy Exchange KC$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
2
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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3
Mile High United Way Curtis Park

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

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4
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
5
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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Tulsa Area United Way

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

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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
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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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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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Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $51,366 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATIO…The Community Foundation of Utah: $51,366 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundat…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $51,366 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFUSE Corps: $140,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $51,366 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIAMI VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $51,366 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $51,366 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $51,366 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $51,366 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Accelerator for America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accelerator for America. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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