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· Public charity
BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER INC
Because people matter's primary mission is to provide support to the poor, distressed, and underprivileged on both a local, national, and international basis.
$898k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants
3
Communities
$435k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $435k
$13,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHARIOTS 4 HOPE$434,830
- GLOBAL ASSIST$50,000
- NORTHWEST MO UNITED LABOR$40,000
- CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
- VISIONARY YOUTH$20,000
- FOSTER CARE CLOSET$13,000
- COMPASS$10,000
- SALVATION ARMY$10,000
- ABIDE NETWORK INC$10,000
- LINCOLN LANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$10,000
- FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$5,400
02The need
02
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.
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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
1
Children's Law Center of Central
We provide children with quality legal advocacy focusing on domestic violence issues, high conflict custody cases and the rights of children in public education. our vision is to increase children's potential to become emotionally healthy…
Crime & Legal
2
Focus On Youth Inc
Improve the lives of children by providing strengths-based foster care, adoption, and mental health services that promote the permanency, safety, and well-being of youth.
Human Services
3
Childhope Network
ChildHope Network shall exist to be an advocate for at-risk children in Latin America and the Caribbean. As such, it will identify and respond to the needs of at-risk children by collaborating with reputable organizations committed to a…
International
4
Childvoice International
ChildVoice's mission is to restore the hope of vulnerable children and young people, empowering them to lead safe, healthy, and productive lives, with the goal that they will make significant and lasting impacts in their families,…
International
5
Vision for Children At Risk
Strive to improve the well-being of children in the St. Louis region, especially those facing serious socio-economic risk.
Human Services
6
Global Child Advocates
Global child advocates mission is to strengthen the layers of protection around children to prevent abuse, trafficking, and exploitation.
International
7
Fostering Hope
Fostering hope is a volunteer-run, donation-based 501(c)(3) organization that serves the foster care community. our mission is to empower youth experiencing foster care, nurture families, and restore dignity to every child we serve. our…
Human Services
8
Children's Advocacy Center of Lc
Caclc offers child abuse intervention services in a safe, neutral and supportive environment for children who are suspected of being abused or neglected. caclc works with law enforcement and child welfare agencies to support child abuse…
Civil Rights
9
Central Georgia Casa Inc
Court appointed advocates for juveniles
Civil Rights
10
Advocacy Network for Children
To protect and uphold the rights of children when wrongs have been committed against them, to help abused or neglected children have safe permanent homes where they can thrive, to act as a powerful voice in these children's best interests…
Civil Rights
11
Possibilities Africa
Possibilities africa is a christ-centered ministry championing holistic transformation throughout rural communities in africa. possibilities africa provides hope and empowerment to families and communities.
International
12
Clovis Christian Schools Inc
The mission of clovis christian schools, in partnership with family, church, and community, is to transform each student into an emboldened christian disciple who demonstrates analytical thinking to articulate ideas, achieve academic…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chariots for Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Central Catholic Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
International$434,830Other$60,000Religion$50,000Human Services$43,000Education$25,000Crime & Legal$10,000Arts & Culture$5,400
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.
- Who funds CHARIOTS 4 HOPE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ASSIST ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MO UNITED LABOR ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISIONARY YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE CLOSET ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ABIDE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
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.
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 BECAUSE PEOPLE MATTER 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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: CHARIOTS 4 HOPE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 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 +82% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 270408312 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 CHARIOTS 4 HOPE, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 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 23% 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 Because People Matter Inc?
Find your warmest path to Because People Matter 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.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines