· Public charity
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
ACF is dedicated to supporting and increasing philanthropy by making grants to tax exempt organizations for their charitable, educational, scientific, literary or other 501c3 activities; promoting donor education and engagement, and civic and community events.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k89 grants · $626k
- $10k–50k903 grants · $18M
- $50k–250k585 grants · $61M
- $250k+227 grants · $151M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Decolonizing Wealth Project Inc | $4,029,318 |
| Tides Foundation | $3,656,097 |
| Kindle Project | $3,137,000 |
| Thousand Currents | $2,759,000 |
| Common Counsel Foundation | $2,722,000 |
| Proteus Fund | $2,560,500 |
| Highlander Research and Education Center | $2,161,500 |
| New Venture Fund | $2,137,500 |
| Taproot Earth | $2,125,000 |
| Borealis Philanthropy | $2,125,000 |
| Transgender Law Center | $2,052,750 |
| mRelief | $2,000,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $1,910,000 |
| Defending Democracy Together Institute | $1,790,000 |
| Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute Inc | $1,677,235 |
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 (FY20–24, $28.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
1247 repeat relationships — 925 still active in FY2024, 322 since wound down; 352 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52M 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
- AVALL VOTING IS LOCAL3× · 2022–2024 · $13M · revenue +71% · 100% of their budget
- WTWAY TO RISE3× · 2022–2024 · $10M · revenue +313%
- EIEQUIS INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2023 · $9.6M · revenue +17%
Funded once
- WTWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $1.6M · revenue -32%
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -40%- UDUS DIGITAL RESPONSEone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -24%
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.
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,…
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
To bring people together to develop and advance solutions for an inclusive, regenerative future.
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
A collective of black researchers equipping communities with research tools to be more civically engaged and policy informed.
Mobilizing passionate public service leaders.
A leadership and organizational development nonprofit committed to increasing the capacity of people to achieve thriving, self-determining, educated and just communities.
Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.
The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.
We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…
We are a coalition that connects community and labor.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders and the most unlike its peers is Jail Guitar Doors. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1901 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. 1901 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗
- Who funds EQUIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds BYP100 Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds STATE VOICES ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Taproot Earth ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NDN COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE FORCE ↗
- Who funds mRelief ↗
- Who funds KINDLE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILL GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF ACCOUNTABILITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds National Black Food and Justice Alliance ↗
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: Proteus Fund Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Groundswell Fund · Common Counsel Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · The Libra Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Windward Fund · Women Donors Network · Solidago Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc
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 Amalgamated Charitable 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.
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% 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.