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· Public charity

Association for Better Living and Education International

To rid the world of its most devastating social ills -- drugs, crime, illiteracy and immorality.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$952k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.1MEducation$156kYouth Development$61kReligion$40k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $1,789,825, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,970,791 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $180,966 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $192k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$64,398
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NARCONON OF OKLAHOMA$952,196
SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INC$519,646
NARCONON SUNCOAST$127,575
NARCONON INTERNATIONAL$64,398
NARCONON PACIFIC COAST$40,210
APPLIED SCHOLASTICS INTERNATIONAL$39,000
THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL$31,200
COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC$15,600
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%NARCONON PACIFIC COAST: $40k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE & EDUCATION: $7k → 14%NARCONON OF OKLAHOMA: $51k → 17%NARCONON SUNCOAST: $128k → 12%NARCONON OF OKLAHOMA: $952k → 11%THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL: $31k → 14%COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC: $16k → 12%NARCONON OF OKLAHOMA: $86k → 11%THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION INT'L: $22k → 14%APPLIED SCHOLASTICS INTERNATIONAL: $82k → 11%SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INC: $520k → 14%APPLIED SCHOLASTICS INTERNATIONAL: $39k → 11%NARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $73k → 14%NARCONON OF OKLAHOMA: $22k → 11%NARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $70k → 14%APPLIED SCHOLASTICS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%NARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $64k → 14%APPLIED SCHOLASTICS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%NARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $31k → 14%THE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION INT: $8k → 11%SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INC: $22k → 14%SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INC: $10k → 14%NARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $9k → 14%SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INC: $7k → 14%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 5 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$2.1M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCommunity ImprovementScience & TechOther
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

  • NO
    Narconon of Oklahoma Inc dba Narconon Arrowhead
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue -17%
  • SB
    SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $559k
  • NI
    NARCONON INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $249k · revenue -28%

Funded once

  • NO
    NARCONON OF OKLAHOMA
    one grant, 2020 · $51k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +17%
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
International Narcotics Interdiction Assn Inc

The international narcotics interdiction association is a non-profit, educational, corporation dedicated to providing high quality interdiction training for narcotics professionals.

Employment
2
Narcotics Anonymous World Services Inc

Provider of communications and information for fellowship of narcotics anonymous. maintenance of fellowship intellectual property worldwide.

Health
3
National Council of Alcoholism & Drug

The Maryland Chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is a statewide organization that works to influence public and private policies on addiction, treatment and recovery, reduce the stigma associated with the…

Health
4
Cri-Help Inc

Substance use disorder treatment

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5
Harm Reduction Therapy Center

Harm Reduction Therapy Center is dedicated to providing treatment to people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental illness, and training mental health, drug treatment, and social service providers who work with complex…

Health
6
California Narcotic Officers Association

Educates the public and its membership on the dangers of narcotic and drug abuse, provides a medium for the exchange of ideas and the new techniques used by both criminals and investigators; and keeps the membership and the public informed…

—
7
Absolute Control Transitional Con Cen Inc

Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment

—
8
Comunidad Unida Para Rehabilitacion De Adictos (Cura)

Therapeutic rehabilitation of people with substance abuse disorder thru conseling, seminars, lectures & workshops in house & outpatient

Health
9
Pavillon International

To provide hope, healing, and lasting recovery to individuals and their families who suffer from alcoholism and other substance use related disorders.

Health
10
Narconon Louisiana New Life Retreat

A drug and alcohol rehabilitation program through withdrawal and educational residential program.

Health
11
Fight the New Drug Inc

Fight the New Drug is a non-religious and non-legislative organization that exists to provide individuals the opportunity to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness on its harmful effects using only science,…

Health
12
Addiction Recovery Care Association Inc

Arca provides a recovery program to chemically dependent people and their families and strives to educate employers and the community on substance use disorders.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Narconon International; the most unlike its peers is The Community Learning Center Inc. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Narconon of Oklahoma Inc dba Narconon Arrowhead: $1,059,739 · OtherNarconon of Oklahoma Inc dba Narconon ArrowheadSOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INTERNATIONAL: $559,387 · OtherSOCIAL BETTERMENT PROPERTIES INTERNATIONALNarconon Suncoast Incorporated: $127,575 · OtherNarconon Suncoast Incorporated+3 more: $152,544 · Other+3 moreNARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $248,763 · HealthNARCONON INT…Applied Scholastics International: $140,619 · EducationThe Community Learning Center Inc: $15,600 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: $7,165 · Science & Tech
Other$1,899,245Health$248,763Education$140,619Community Improvement$15,600Science & Tech$7,165

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 budgetNarconon of Oklahoma Inc dba Narconon Arrowhead: $1,059,739 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetNARCONON INTERNATIONAL: $248,763 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetApplied Scholastics International: $140,619 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNarconon Suncoast Incorporated: $127,575 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE WAY TO HAPPINESS FOUNDATION INT: $61,280 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetNARCONON PACIFIC COAST: $40,210 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Community Learning Center Inc: $15,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: $7,165 over 1y, 1.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Association for Better Living and Education International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association for Better Living and Education International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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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    Find your warmest path to Association for Better Living and Education International 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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