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Arch Community Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$476k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$1.2MCommunity Improvement$377kEmployment$265kPhilanthropy$210kCrime & Legal$200kHuman Services$195kInternational$195kYouth Development$186kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $470k
$30,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELOVED COMMUNITY INCUBATOR INC$35,000
PEACE AND JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE$35,000
WE ARE FAMILY$35,000
BEYOND TRENCHES INC$35,000
NYTAG INC$35,000
JUSTICE CREAM COLLECTIVE$35,000
UNITED WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC$35,000
COMMON ROOTS$30,000
ABOUT FACE VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR$30,000
STRUGGLE FOR MIAMIS AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE HOU$30,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$25,000
EMBODIMENT INSTITUTE INCORPORATED$25,000
BUILDERS OF THE HIGHWAY FOUNDATION$25,000
CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING$25,000
LIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMON ROOTS: $30k → 14%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $25k → 24%COMMON ROOTS: $20k → 14%MEKONG INC: $500 → 28%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $20k → 24%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $25k → 17%AFFECT REAL CHANGE INC: $15k → 24%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $25k → 9%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $20k → 17%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $25k → 14%UTD TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WA-UTOPIA WA: $20k → 9%ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE: $20k → 17%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

AK
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 37 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
39

Total granted

$2.5M
$788k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+5%

Still filing today

95%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CR
    Critical Resistance
    6× · 2018–2023 · $155k · revenue +46%
  • Chinese for Affirmative Action
    5× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +235%
  • HT
    Healing to Action
    5× · 2019–2023 · $110k · revenue +473%

Funded once

  • RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • NN
    NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS - ACCESS REPROD
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • NL
    NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -70%
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
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
4
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
5
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
6
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
7
Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance

AMOR is an alliance of community based grassroots organizations mobilizing at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status to prevent, to respond to, and to end state violence against our community.

Human Services
8
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
9
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
10
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
11
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Transformative Action; the most unlike its peers is United Territories of Pacific Islanders Washington-Utopia Wa. 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

77 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. 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/77
Grantees still filing
46/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chinese for Affirmative Action: $120,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Ac…Communities United for People: $90,000 · Civil RightsCommunities United for Peo…UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK IN…RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $80,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECTAnti Police-Terror Project Inc: $75,000 · Civil RightsAnti Police-Terror Project…WE ARE FAMILY: $60,000 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMILYNYTAG INC New York Transgender Advocacy Group: $55,000 · Civil RightsNYTAG INC New York Transge…RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCEWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $45,000 · Civil RightsWorkers Center For Racial …FAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $35,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $115,000 · Civil Rights+5 moreCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $90,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONOWE AKU INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $70,000 · OtherNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS - ACCESS REPROD: $50,000 · OtherJustice Funders: $45,000 · OtherHealing to Action: $110,000 · OtherHealing to ActionBELOVED COMMUNITY INCUBATOR INC: $60,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONJUSTICE CREAM COLLECTIVE: $55,000 · OtherLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC: $75,000 · OtherLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INCPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $45,000 · OtherMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION: $45,000 · OtherGot Green: $45,000 · OtherBuilders of The Highway Foundation Inc: $50,000 · OtherTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $45,000 · Other+24 more: $421,600 · Other+24 moreINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $95,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING S…PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $95,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WO…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $95,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY P…Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $50,000 · Community ImprovementStruggle fo…Worcester Youth Cooperatives Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $500 · Community ImprovementAffect Real Change Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesAffect Re…Latino Community Fund of Washington State: $50,000 · Human ServicesLatino Co…COMMON ROOTS: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON RO…AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN C…TIDES CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CEN…EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesEQUITY AN…THE ACCOMPLIS COLLECTIVE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE ACCOM…UNITED TERRITORIES OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS WASHINGTON-UTOPIA WA: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED TE…+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesGEORGIA WAND EDUCATION FUND: $90,000 · Public BenefitUnited Workers Association Inc: $60,000 · Public BenefitABOUT FACE VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR: $50,000 · Public BenefitEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy: $25,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLE MATTER: $20,000 · Public BenefitCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $20,000 · Public BenefitCritical Resistance: $155,000 · Crime & LegalBEYOND TRENCHES INC: $75,000 · Crime & LegalASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $15,500 · Crime & LegalPEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE: $105,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Civil Rights$815,000Other$1,326,600Community Improvement$365,500Human Services$305,500Public Benefit$265,000Crime & Legal$245,500Arts & Culture$190,000

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 budgetCritical Resistance: $155,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action: $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHealing to Action: $110,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetPEACE & JUSTICE ACTION LEAGUE OF SPOKANE: $105,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $95,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities United for People: $90,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA WAND EDUCATION FUND: $90,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $80,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBEYOND TRENCHES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetLIVELIHOODS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetAnti Police-Terror Project Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Workers Association Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBELOVED COMMUNITY INCUBATOR INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY: $60,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAffect Real Change Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetJUSTICE CREAM COLLECTIVE: $55,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetNYTAG INC New York Transgender Advocacy Group: $55,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABOUT FACE VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMON ROOTS: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $45,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGot Green: $45,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $45,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetJustice Funders: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILIES FOR FREEDOM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMBODIMENT INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEast Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOLECTIVA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Proteus Fund IncBorealis PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationSolidaire Network IncCommon Counsel Founda…Groundswell FundNew Venture FundImpactassetsincSocial Justice Fund N…Tides Center
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC79.4× affinity49 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Groundswell Fund · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc · Social Justice Fund Northwest · 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 Arch Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arch Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
19report 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.
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How do I get to Arch Community Fund?

Find your warmest path to Arch Community Fund 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home