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Affirm Cares

AFFIRM CARES foundation aims to make a positive impact in the communities in which we work and live by sharing our expertise and funding across three impact pillars: financial literacy and inclusion, technology training and education, and vibrant communities.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Civil Rights$303kEducation$95kHealth$60kHuman Services$48kSocial Science$30kCommunity Improvement$30kYouth Development$26kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,580 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,580 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$225k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LAST MILE (TURN2U)$10,000
JUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER$10,000
TIDES CENTER$10,000
10000 DEGREES$10,000
THE GOOD SHEPHERD GRACENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$10,000
GIRLSTART$10,000
CHRISTOPHER HOUSE INC$10,000
REWRITING THE CODE INC$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GIRLS WHO CODE: $8k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%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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IL
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AZ
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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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AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
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Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
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Dress for Success San Francisco

Dress for success san francisco/san jose empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help them thrive in work and in life.

Civil Rights
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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
5
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
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Junior Achievement of Chicago

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

International
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Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
First Graduate

First graduate's mission is to help students become the first in their families to graduate from college ready to pursue a career that is meaningful to them. we are a 12-year+ free program-recruiting students in 6th grade. offerings…

Youth Development
11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
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College Summit Inc

College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rrrcomputer Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Development ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsSenior Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%48%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 44 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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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
24/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $100,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVENAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INCThe Black Star Project — $50,000 · EducationThe Black Star Proj…San Francisco Education Fund — $12,000 · EducationSan Francisco Educa…LATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationLATINO EDUCATION AD…University of San Francisco — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of San F…10000 DEGREES — $10,000 · Education10000 DEGREESREWRITING THE CODE INC — $10,000 · EducationREWRITING THE CODE …SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $9,697 · EducationSPARK SF PUBLIC SCH…COLLEGE TRACK — $7,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKYEAR UP INC — $7,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION — $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS …LAST MILE INC — $10,000 · OtherCHRISTOPHER HOUSE INC — $10,000 · OtherThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco — $10,000 · Other100 BLACK MEN OF WESTERN PA INC — $10,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherFoster Love Project — $10,000 · OtherPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $9,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC — $10,000 · OtherJunior Achievement of Northern California — $10,000 · OtherRRRCOMPUTER INC — $10,000 · OtherFree Code Camp Inc — $9,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER — $10,000 · OtherGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $8,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $10,000 · OtherJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $10,000 · OtherGIRLSTART — $10,000 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherPER SCHOLAS INC — $8,000 · Other+3 more — $17,000 · Other+3 morePrevention Institute — $53,344 · Arts & CulturePrevention …Hack the Hood Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHack the Ho…Mission Bit — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMission BitBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $30,000 · Social ScienceEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementAPEX FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$200,000Education$125,697Other$223,500Arts & Culture$73,344Health$35,000Social Science$30,000Community Improvement$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPrevention Institute — $53,344 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Black Star Project — $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE WOMEN'S CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRRRCOMPUTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budget10000 DEGREES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLSTART — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHack the Hood Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF WESTERN PA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetREWRITING THE CODE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF ARIZONA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoster Love Project — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMission Bit — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $9,697 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Code Camp Inc — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOSE THE GAP FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES — $5,000 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.

Crankstart FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Salesforce FoundationThe Yelp FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Golden State Communit…Alaska Airlines Found…Tipping Point Communi…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…Tides Foundation
Crankstart FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crankstart Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Golden State Community Foundation · Alaska Airlines Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides 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 Affirm Cares 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Christopher House Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Affirm Cares?

Find your warmest path to Affirm Cares through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines