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Axim Collaborative Inc

The axim collaborative, inc.

$9.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$14MHealth$606kYouth Development$600kScience & Tech$600kEmployment$563kCommunity Improvement$200k
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $863k
  • $250k+14 grants · $8.4M
$498,625
Median grant
8
States reached
$808M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$1,000,000
CREDLENS LLC$1,000,000
SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC$840,780
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$606,220
DATAKIND INC$600,000
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$600,000
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION$600,000
TRESEARCH$600,000
BRAVEN INC$600,000
DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION$500,000
COMPLETE COLLEGE AMERICA INC$498,625
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$350,000
SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC$325,500
THE MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC$250,000
MODERN STATES EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC$200,000
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 (FY24–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REALIZE IMPACT: $200k → 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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
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
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
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
6
Northeastern University
Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Ie New York College

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Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc; the most unlike its peers is Modern States Education Alliance 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

27 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. 27 of the 34 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,550,955 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,074,841 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $937,266 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegePARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC: $905,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INCSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $840,780 · EducationSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INCMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $656,442 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTResearch: $600,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · EducationEDUCATION DESIGN LAB: $554,875 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $500,000 · EducationBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $500,000 · EducationDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationComplete College America Inc: $498,625 · Education+5 more: $1,038,000 · Education+5 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $606,220 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UN…CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $600,000 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNIT…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAS…The College of the Canyons Foundation: $287,485 · OtherThe College of th…Carnegie Mellon University: $280,992 · OtherCarnegie Mellon U…WASHINGTON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT COUNCIL: $200,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STUDEN…NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $108,200 · Other+3 more: $112,000 · OtherSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementDATAKIND INC: $600,000 · PhilanthropyBRAVEN INC: $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentMDRC: $500,000 · EmploymentRealize Impact: $200,000 · Human Services
Education$11,256,784Other$2,544,897Community Improvement$1,000,000Philanthropy$600,000Youth Development$600,000Employment$500,000Human Services$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $1,550,955 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,074,841 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $937,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC: $905,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $840,780 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $656,442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDATAKIND INC: $600,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $600,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATION DESIGN LAB: $554,875 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMDRC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC: $325,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe College of the Canyons Foundation: $287,485 over 1y, 19% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $280,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRealize Impact: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $108,200 over 1y, 14% of budgetTECH FOUNDRY INC: $62,500 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Gates FoundationLumina Foundation for…Ascendium Education S…Boston Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Gates FoundationWA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Axim Collaborative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Axim Collaborative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Tech Foundry Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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 Axim Collaborative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Axim Collaborative Inc 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 34 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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