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Be the Change Inc

Be the change, inc. Is a charitable organization that creates national issue based campaigns driven by broad cross-partisan coalitions that inspire culture change and accelerate public policy development to bring about positive change in our society.

$1.1M
Granted FY2017
27
Grants FY2017
27
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$35,067
Largest grant, FY2017
$90,000
States reached, FY2017
15
Total assets, FY2017
$1.0M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Be the Change Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAll Rise for Justice: $90,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorthern California Institute for Research and Education Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mission Continues: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Give an Hour Nonprofit Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTeam Red White & Blue Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChamber of Commerce of the USA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Star Families Inc: $46,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMilitary Child Education Coalition: $35,067 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Solutions International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerica's Warrior Partnership Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPat Tillman Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGlobal War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Commit Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetService to School: $24,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPoints of Light Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutward Bound California: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetService Year Exchange Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVeteran Tickets Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Wounded Warrior Project IncFL20× affinity7 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 · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Be the Change Inc

How much does Be the Change Inc give?
Be the Change Inc reported 27 grants totaling $1,081,567 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Be the Change Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Arts & Culture (8%), Crime & Legal (8%).
Who are Be the Change Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: All Rise for Justice ($90k), Veterans in Media & Entertainment ($90k), Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc ($70k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Be the Change Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wounded Warrior Project Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Community Foundation.
Where is Be the Change Inc based?
Be the Change Inc is based in MA.

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 27 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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