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Bbt Inc

By building effective coalitions, building back together advances responsible and practical progressive solutions to major public policy challenges, continued on schedule o

$575k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
11
States reached
$75k
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, FY2021 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$1.3MCivil Rights$460kPublic Benefit$293kEnvironment$130kCommunity Improvement$120kSocial Science$50kHealth$30k
02FY2022 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $395k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE$75,000
MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND$75,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$75,000
FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND$60,000
SISTERS LEAD SISTERS VOTE$60,000
KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER$50,000
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND$30,000
INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY$25,000
CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC$25,000
NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION$25,000
FLORIDA WATCH INC$20,000
CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE$15,000
ADVANCING AZ$10,000
PROGRESSNOW EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ADVANCING AZ: $25k → 11%KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 8%TIDES ADVOCACY: $65k → 10%HEALTH ACCESS CALIFORNIA: $30k → 12%MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND: $75k → 14%FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION: $1.3M → 14%FLORIDA WATCH INC: $75k → 14%MIAMI FREEDOM PROJECT INC: $5k → 15%MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10k → 16%CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $80k → 17%NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND: $75k → 12%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE: $75k → 14%NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $20k → 9%NEVADA CONSERVATION LEAGUE EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: $25k → 8%ADVANCING AZ: $10k → 11%CAUSE CAMPAIGN PARTNERS LLC: $36k → 14%FLORIDA WATCH INC: $20k → 14%PROGRESSNOW EDUCATION CENTER: $10k → 16%CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $25k → 17%MI FAMILIA VOTA EDUCATION FUND: $32k → 11%FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $60k → 14%FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $60k → 14%SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $80k → 14%SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $30k → 14%NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $25k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE: $15k → 14%SISTERS LEAD SISTERS VOTE: $60k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NV
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 3 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$275k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Civil RightsEducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FO
    FOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND
    2× · 2021–2022 · $120k · revenue +154%
  • FW
    FLORIDA WATCH INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $120k · revenue +50%
  • AA
    ADVANCING AZ
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue -83%

Funded once

  • FF
    FUTURE FORWARD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue +200%
  • CA
    CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue -1%
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue +18%
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
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
2
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
3
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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4
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
5
New American Leaders Action Fund Inc

New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.

Civil Rights
6
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The asian american legal defense and education fund (aaldef), founded in 1974, is a national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of asian americans through litigation, advocacy, education, and organizing.

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7
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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8
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
9
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
10
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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11
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
12
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cause Effective Inc; the most unlike its peers is Native American Rights Fund 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

23 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUTURE FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 · Housing & ShelterFUTURE FORWARD FOUNDATION INCFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $120,000 · OtherFOR OUR FUTURE AC…CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $80,000 · OtherCITIZEN ACTION OF…TIDES ADVOCACY: $65,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYADVANCING AZ: $35,000 · OtherADVANCING AZHEALTH ACCESS OF CALIFORNIA: $30,000 · OtherHEALTH ACCESS OF …CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMERIC…MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $75,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXI…Sisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc: $60,000 · Civil RightsSisters Lead …MI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $32,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN…INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SOCIAL JUSTICE: $25,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE OF …+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA WATCH INC: $120,000 · EducationVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · EducationSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $110,000 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 · EnvironmentNevada Conservation League Ed Fund: $10,000 · EnvironmentASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $75,000 · Social ScienceKeystone Research Center Inc: $50,000 · Social ScienceCAUSE EFFECTIVE INC: $36,000 · Public BenefitNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $25,000 · Public Benefit
Housing & Shelter$1,250,000Other$355,000Civil Rights$272,000Education$140,000Environment$130,000Social Science$125,000Public Benefit$61,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $120,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFLORIDA WATCH INC: $120,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC: $80,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - CHICAGO: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSisters Lead Sisters Vote Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCAUSE EFFECTIVE INC: $36,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetADVANCING AZ: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $32,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTH ACCESS OF CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & SOCIAL JUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNevada Conservation League Ed Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIAMI FREEDOM PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

Hopewell FundTides FoundationTides AdvocacyUnited States Energy …New Venture FundStrategic Victory FundRockefeller Philanthr…Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesNational Education As…NEO Philanthropy IncAmerican Federation o…
Hopewell FundDC23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Tides Advocacy · United States Energy Foundation · New Venture Fund · Strategic Victory Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · National Education Association of the United States · NEO Philanthropy Inc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Bbt Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bbt 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 23 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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