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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.

$344k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$516kEducation$329kSocial Science$117kPublic Benefit$76kCivil Rights$26kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $321,322, the rows itemized in this filing. The $344,414 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,092 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $284k
$75,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $29k → 23%LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $9k → 23%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
NE
MO
KS
AR
SC
OK
LA
AL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 10 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK APPLESEED INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $329k · revenue +153% · 38% of their budget
  • NA
    NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    3× · 2022–2025 · $235k · revenue +91%
  • MA
    MISSOURI APPLESEED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $117k · revenue +48% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • MA
    MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +51%
  • PI
    PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF NJ INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • GA
    GEORGIA APPLESEED INC
    one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -50%
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
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.

Philanthropy
2
The Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice inc

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Nebraska Appleseed Action Fund

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.

Civil Rights
4
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
6
District of Columbia Access to Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
7
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Lavender Legal Center

Public interest law firm

Crime & Legal
9
Appellate Project Inc

Our mission is to foster emerging leaders as they build a more just and representative appellate field.

Education
10
Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice

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…

Human Services
11
Equal Justice Center

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…

Civil Rights
12
Austin Justice Coalition

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK APPLESEED INC: $328,556 · Public BenefitNEW YORK APPLESEED INCALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $84,750 · Public BenefitALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTIC…NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $235,435 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN TH…OKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $87,000 · Crime & LegalOKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND J…MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $25,750 · Crime & LegalMASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW …Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $20,250 · Crime & LegalKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Jus…+1 more: $9,000 · Crime & LegalMISSOURI APPLESEED: $116,750 · Social ScienceMISSOURI APP…Arkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center: $33,575 · Civil RightsPUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF NJ INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $14,500 · Civil RightsGEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $9,000 · Civil RightsTexas Appleseed: $44,000 · Community ImprovementLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $38,000 · Human Services
Public Benefit$413,306Crime & Legal$377,435Social Science$116,750Civil Rights$82,075Community Improvement$44,000Human Services$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK APPLESEED INC: $328,556 over 4y, 38% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $235,435 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMISSOURI APPLESEED: $116,750 over 4y, 27% of budgetOKLAHOMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $87,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $84,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $44,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $38,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetArkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center: $33,575 over 2y, 19% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $25,750 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetPUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER OF NJ INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $20,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $14,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGEORGIA APPLESEED INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFund for Justice: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Shriver Center on Pov…Annie E Casey Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shriver Center on Poverty LawIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Appleseed Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appleseed Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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