· Private foundation
Activist Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSIC SUSTAINABILITY ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| AKICHITA YOUTH ATHLETIC ACADEMY INC | $10,000 |
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $6,848 |
| CONSCIOUS ALLIENCE | $6,000 |
| SUNDANCE INSTITUTE | $5,250 |
| SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DO IT FOR THE LOVE | $4,500 |
| INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND | $4,000 |
| MICHEAL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| US UNITED INC | $1,000 |
| ONE VOICE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +78%
- CSCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC2× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +8%
- DMDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- MFMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue -11%
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -44%- BABEL AIR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Soundexchange is the premier music tech organization on a mission to power the (see schedule o)
Miami music project uses music as an instrument for social transformation, empowering children to acquire values and achieve their full potential, positively affecting their society through the study and performance of music. our vision is…
Deeply rooted within the music and environmental communities, reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans to take action toward a more sustainable future.
Found sound nation (fsn) is a collective of artists who use the collaborative power of music to connect people across political, cultural and economic divides. we've found that engaging in music creation is an important way for creative…
The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.
Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musicares Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nashville Book Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MUSIC SUSTAINABILITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Akichita Youth Athletic Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds META FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL-ANN RUSSELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUMI SEHAT FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEUROPONG ↗
- Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE BOOK CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Reverb Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Activist Foundation Inc 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.