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Ananda Fund 009146-000

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$7.6MHuman Services$1.6MArts & Culture$1.6MEnvironment$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.1MPublic Benefit$625kCommunity Improvement$566kYouth Development$510kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $800k
  • $250k+3 grants · $900k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT SOUTH FOR THE ELIMINATION$300,000
TAPROOT EARTH$300,000
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER$300,000
SPIRITHOUSE SOUTH INC$150,000
SISTER SONG INC$150,000
SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND$150,000
POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE$150,000
BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE$100,000
UNITED HOUMA NATION INC$50,000
THE AFIYA CENTER$50,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$45,000
COMMUNITY MOVEMENT BUILDERS INC$45,000
PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC$45,000
TIDES CENTER$45,000
SOUTH CAROLINA PROGRESSIVE NETWORK$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE HOPI FOUNDATION: $10k → 26%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE AFIYA CENTER: $145k → 14%THE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $58k → 16%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $25k → 23%DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $10k → 11%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $10k → 10%THE AFIYA CENTER: $125k → 14%THE AFIYA CENTER: $125k → 14%THE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $50k → 16%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $116k → 10%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $10k → 17%THE AFIYA CENTER: $100k → 14%MAINE IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION: $10k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%THE AFIYA CENTER: $50k → 14%THE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $20k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $45k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
MI
NY
CA
DE
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 26 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
50

Total granted

$13M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

73%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TE
    Taproot Earth
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +30%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $775k · revenue +11%
  • SI
    SISTERSONG INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $695k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • PS
    PROJECT SOUTH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue -44%
  • TR
    THE RUCKUS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -95%
  • KR
    KIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -10%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
3
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
5
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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6
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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8
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
9
The Black Organizing Project Inc

The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.

Human Services
10
Nh Center for Justice & Equity

We elevate and empower people of color in New Hampshire by fostering connections, changing systems, and meeting community needs to make a better Granite State where all belong.

Civil Rights
11
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
12
New Georgia Project Action Fund

New georgia project action find is on a mission to increase the civic participation of the new georgia majority and other historically marginalized communities by building grassroots political power in support of progressive leaders,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Louisiana; the most unlike its peers is Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe. 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
32/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT SOUTH FOR THE ELIMINATION: $1,795,500 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH FOR THE ELIMINATIONUNITED HOUMA NATION INC: $420,000 · OtherUNITED HOUMA NATION INCPROJECT SOUTH INC: $275,000 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCRE-THINK NEW ORLEANS: $270,000 · OtherRE-THINK NEW ORLEANSISLE DE JEAN CHARLES BAND OF BILOXI: $183,000 · Other+39 more: $1,811,000 · Other+39 moreBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $775,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING…SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $775,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GR…POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $570,000 · Civil RightsPOWER COALITION FOR E…PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $470,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TABL…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT I…+3 more: $85,000 · Civil RightsHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,542,500 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH …Taproot Earth: $1,305,500 · EnvironmentTaproot EarthSISTERSONG INC: $695,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INCTHE AFIYA CENTER: $545,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFIYA CENTERTIDES CENTER: $461,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSpirithouse South Inc: $445,000 · Human ServicesSpirithouse South…THE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $128,000 · Human Services+11 more: $192,500 · Human Services+11 moreAlternate RootsInc: $1,050,000 · Arts & CulturePointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe: $140,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $415,000 · EducationDallas Local Organizing Committee Inc: $270,000 · EducationTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $150,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $100,000 · EducationGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 · EducationEMBODIMENT INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $35,000 · EducationCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $261,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,754,500Civil Rights$2,975,000Environment$2,848,000Human Services$2,466,500Arts & Culture$1,225,000Education$1,120,000Public Benefit$261,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,542,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTaproot Earth: $1,305,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetAlternate RootsInc: $1,050,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $775,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $775,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $695,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetPOWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $570,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHE AFIYA CENTER: $545,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $470,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $461,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpirithouse South Inc: $445,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC: $420,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $415,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $275,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetDallas Local Organizing Committee Inc: $270,000 over 2y, 83% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $261,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $150,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe: $140,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY: $128,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE HIVE COMMUNITY CIRCLE: $128,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $128,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBLACK LIBERATION FUND: $128,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetKIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $125,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $125,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSowing Seeds into the Midlands: $115,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLOWLANDER CENTER: $58,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $57,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR FULL ACCEPTANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBODIMENT INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEAN CHARLES CHOCTAW NATION: $15,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetNAEVA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Common Counsel Founda…NEO Philanthropy IncImpactassetsincNew Venture FundRsf Social Finance IncTides FoundationProteus Fund IncBorealis PhilanthropyWomen Donors NetworkWindward FundTides Center
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC42× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · New Venture Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Women Donors Network · Windward Fund · Tides Center

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ananda Fund 009146-000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ananda Fund 009146-000. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ananda Fund 009146-000?

    Find your warmest path to Ananda Fund 009146-000 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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