How much did BE THE CHANGE INC grant in FY2017?

BE THE CHANGE INC reported 27 grants totaling $1,081,567 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is BE THE CHANGE INC based?

BE THE CHANGE INC is based in MA.

BE THE CHANGE INC

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· Public charity

BE THE CHANGE INC

To foster citizen participation in civic discourse, community action, and policy development.

$1.1M

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$90k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

$10k–50k15 grants · $377k
$50k–250k12 grants · $705k

$35,067

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG COURT PROFESSIONALS$90,000
VETERANS IN FILM & TELEVISION$90,000
THE 6TH BRANCH$70,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$55,000
TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION$50,000
THE MISSION CONTINUES$50,000
THE TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY$50,000
TEAM RUBICON$50,000
US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$50,000
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$50,000
TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC$50,000
GIVE AN HOUR$50,000
BLUE STAR FAMILIES$46,000
MILITARY CHILD EDUCATION COALITION$35,067
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC$35,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

NextOp Inc

NextOp works one-on-one with veterans to help them understand how their military training and experiences translate into valued qualifications in the business community, connecting veterans to job openings that match their skill sets and…

Public Benefit

Amvets (American Veterans)

Provide support for vets/ military that enhance the quality of life for citizens/vets alike.

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About Face Veterans Against the War

We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and american society.

Public Benefit

22KILL

To combat the high rate of suicide in veterans & first responders by fostering mental wellness.

Philanthropy

Usvets - Arizona

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Housing & Shelter

Veterans Navigation Network

Transition for service members.

Health

Special Operators Transition Foundation

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit

Platoon 22 Inc

To end veteran suicide through the successful reintegration of service members and their families by assembling critical resources, providing peer support, and offering best in class transitional programs.

Health

Usvets - Texas

The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Human Services

Vetality Corp

Services for veterans

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The Warrior's Journey

The military creates a set of unique challenges that most people don't recognize. these invisible wounds often lead to isolation, addiction, and suicide. the warrior's journey is dedicated to raising awareness and creating preventative…

Religion

Military Officers Association of America

To preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education, and service.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tragedy Assistance Program for and the most unlike its peers is Points of Light Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,538

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$260,000Other$350,500Public Benefit$131,000Education$105,067Philanthropy$95,000Arts & Culture$90,000Employment$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wounded Warrior Project IncFL22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wounded Warrior Project Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · THDF II Inc DBA · Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust · New York State Health Fdn · Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BE THE CHANGE INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARMED SERVICES ARTS PARTNERSHIP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474007504 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ARMED SERVICES ARTS PARTNERSHIP, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Be the Change Inc?

Find your warmest path to Be the Change Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BE THE CHANGE INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Be the Change Inc?

More from the funding graph

BE THE CHANGE INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Be the Change Inc?

More from the funding graph