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Alliance for Market Solutions Inc

The alliance for market solutions, inc.

$50k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
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 FY20172021.

Education$392kCommunity Improvement$328kPublic Benefit$213kEnvironment$160k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $50k → 9%TAX POLICY ADVISERS LLC: $25k → 16%R STREET INSTITUTE: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 13%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 13%THE EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $50k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 6%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $27k → 19%FTI CONSULTING INC: $139k → 11%TAX POLICY ADVISERS LLC: $25k → 16%TAX FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $50k → 16%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $27k → 6%INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $10k → 14%AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC: $63k → 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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IN
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VA
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DC
LA
GA
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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 edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$804k · 7 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +123% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$804k
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+123%
+43%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementReligionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $162k · revenue +108%
  • EE
    Evangelical Environmental Network
    3× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue +166%
  • IT
    Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • RS
    R STREET INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +43%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $63k · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

4
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
5
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
6
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
7
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Action Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evangelical Environmental Network. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FTI CONSULTING INC — $278,000 · OtherFTI CONSULTING INCEvangelical Environmental Network — $150,000 · OtherEvangelical Environmental NetworkGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY — $101,594 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITYTAX POLICY ADVISERS LLC — $50,000 · OtherTAX POLICY ADVISERS LLCGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $39,679 · OtherGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY — $27,232 · OtherGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $161,973 · EducationGeorgia State University Found…R STREET INSTITUTE — $75,000 · EducationR STREET INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA …WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $11,954 · EducationAMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC — $62,500 · Social ScienceInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTAX FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Public BenefitTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $10,000 · Religion
Other$646,505Education$298,927Social Science$62,500Community Improvement$50,000Public Benefit$25,000Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $161,973 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEvangelical Environmental Network — $150,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $11,954 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · 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 Alliance for Market Solutions 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alliance for Market Solutions Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Alliance for Market Solutions Inc 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 14 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 2021, released 2021. 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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