· Public charity
Appleseed Foundation Inc
The appleseed foundation supports the appleseed network, a collaboration of 20 nonprofit justice centers across the us and mexico working together to reduce poverty, combat discrimination, and invigorate democracy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $321,322 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $344,414 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,092 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC | $78,000 |
| MISSOURI APPLESEED | $76,500 |
| ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $75,750 |
| NEW YORK APPLESEED INC | $54,072 |
| NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST | $31,250 |
| KANSAS APPLESEED | $5,750 |
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 (FY23–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NYNEW YORK APPLESEED INC4× · 2022–2025 · $329k · revenue +153% · 38% of their budget
- NANEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST3× · 2022–2025 · $235k · revenue +91%
- MAMISSOURI APPLESEED4× · 2022–2025 · $117k · revenue +48% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- MAMASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +51%
- PIPUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF NJ INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -18%
- GAGEORGIA APPLESEED INCone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -50%
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.
The appleseed foundation supports the appleseed network, a collaboration of 20 nonprofit justice centers across the us and mexico working together to reduce poverty, combat discrimination, and invigorate democracy.
Connecticut Appleseed's mission is to develop solutions for the causes, rather than the symptoms, of our state's social problems. We deploy volunteer lawyers and other professionals to achieve systemic changes through legal and legislative…
Ensure every Nebraskans' voice is heard in public decision making processes, whether that is in the halls of legislative bodies or at the ballot box.
To promote equal access to justice, to encourage self-sufficiency, to empower and to improve the lives of low income and other vulnerable people and families in eastern and south central Kentucky by providing them high quality legal…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…
Public interest law firm
Our mission is to foster emerging leaders as they build a more just and representative appellate field.
The hawaii appleseed center for law and economic justice (hawaii appleseed) is working to build a hawaii where everyone has genuine opportunities to achieve economic security and fulfill their potential. we change systems that perpetuate…
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…
Austin Justice Coalition educates, organizes, and empowers communities in Austin to build racial equity and dismantle systems of oppression through advocacy, policy change, and community programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fund for Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 NEW YORK APPLESEED INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI APPLESEED ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Appleseed ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Arkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF NJ INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA APPLESEED INC ↗
- Who funds Fund for Justice ↗
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: Shriver Center on Poverty Law · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · 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 Appleseed 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.
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.