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All Ways Up Foundation

All ways up helps first-generation and low-income youth get to and through college. By providing scholarships, support for other non-profit organizations and annual leadership summits, we are working to bridge the gap between ambition and opportunity to break the generational cycle of poverty.

$169k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2022
45%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$20k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 45% of the organizations All Ways Up Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’22
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$50k50%
FY202211$160k45%
FY20201$10k100%
FY201917$311k53%
FY201811$239k64%
FY20178$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$461kEducation$235kYouth Development$148kCommunity Improvement$34kCivil Rights$25kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
SC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks$115,7303n/a
The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc$112,250327%
College Access Plan$70,00033%
Catharine Street Community Center Inc$68,2003n/a
The Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware County$55,52530%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc$36,20720%
Minds Matter National Inc$35,00023%
The Salvation Army$30,4952n/a
Community Partners$30,00020%
826la$29,00021%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of All Ways Up Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks$115,7303n/a
The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc$112,250327%
College Access Plan$70,00033%
Catharine Street Community Center Inc$68,2003n/a
The Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware County$55,52530%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc$36,20720%
Minds Matter National Inc$35,00023%
The Salvation Army$30,4952n/a
Community Partners$30,00020%
826la$29,00021%
Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)$28,60010%
Bethel World Outreach Center Inc$26,2301n/a
Youth Life Foundation of Tennessee Inc$25,0001n/a
Minds Matter of Los Angeles Inc$25,00013%
Social Justice Learning Institute$25,00010%
Upper Room of Greater Gainesville Church of God in Christ Inc$24,7101n/a
Los Angeles Urban Foudation$23,50023%
Young Eisner Scholars$20,00021%
Provided Care Transportation$19,9002n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel$18,40011%
Boys and Girls Club of the Pikes Peak Region$17,55521%
City of Burlington - Rec Cntr$12,5001n/a
BOSS Inc$10,00012%
Academy of Media Arts Foundation$10,000133%
Krimson and Kreme Inc$10,0001n/a
Thrive Scholars$9,12510%
Charity Navigator$7,50010%
Mentoring and Partnership for Youth Development$7,00012%
Town of Thompson$6,7501n/a
Rowan-Cabarrus Young Men's Christian Association$5,78010%
Young Men's Christian Association Inc Randolph-Asheboro$5,09210%

Where it is load-bearing

All Ways Up Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Mustard Seed Foundation Inc: $112,250 over 3y, 27% of budgetCollege Access Plan: $70,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware County: $55,525 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana Inc: $36,207 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMinds Matter National Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCommunity Partners: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget826la: $29,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273): $28,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinds Matter of Los Angeles Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSocial Justice Learning Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLos Angeles Urban Foudation: $23,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel: $18,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Pikes Peak Region: $17,555 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOSS Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAcademy of Media Arts Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetThrive Scholars: $9,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMentoring and Partnership for Youth Development: $7,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRowan-Cabarrus Young Men's Christian Association: $5,780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Inc Randolph-Asheboro: $5,092 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Perlman Family FoundationCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Perlman Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Community Partners · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community 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.

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Find your warmest path to All Ways Up Foundation 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.

About All Ways Up Foundation

How much does All Ways Up Foundation give?
All Ways Up Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $169,040 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does All Ways Up Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (50%), Education (25%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are All Ways Up Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks ($116k), The Mustard Seed Foundation Inc ($112k), College Access Plan ($70k).
Does All Ways Up Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as All Ways Up Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Perlman Family Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, California Community Foundation.
Where is All Ways Up Foundation based?
All Ways Up Foundation is based in CA.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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