· Public charity
Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc
Ideas42 uses behavioral science - the science of human behavior - to improve lives, build better systems, and drive social change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $638,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $811,306 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,706 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $386k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| GEORGIA OPPORTUNITY AND RESILIENCE FUND | $121,500 |
| HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $64,100 |
| NORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $30,500 |
| NAVICORE SOLUTIONS GARDEN STATE CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING INC | $30,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN | $27,500 |
| SELF FINANCIAL INC | $25,000 |
| MONEY MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL INC | $25,000 |
| ARROFI INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY (A DELAWARE CORPORATION) | $25,000 |
| CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE INC | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES | $15,000 |
| PRISM DATA TECHNOLOGIES INC | $12,500 |
| THE TRIGGER PROJECT | $10,000 |
| TAKE CHARGE AMERICA INC | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $523k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2020 · $176k · revenue +1%- GSGARDEN STATE CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING INC3× · 2022–2024 · $74k · revenue +19%
- NSNORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $72k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MUMETROPOLITAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $186k
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $122k · revenue -7%- TUTHE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Democracy Works. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UVA SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN STATE CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS ↗
- Who funds TAKE CHARGE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds MONEY MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE TRIGGER PROJECT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Foundation for Credit Counseling Inc · Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco Dba Balance · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Behavioral Ideas Lab 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Garden State Consumer Credit Counseling Inc — 10% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 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.