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Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc

Black lives matter global network foundation ("blmgnf") is working inside and outside of the system to heal the past, re-imagine the present, and invest in the future of black lives through policy change, investment in our communities, and a commitment to arts and culture.black lives matter global network foundation imagines a world…

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
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 2024.

Civil Rights$9.8MCommunity Improvement$4.2MHuman Services$3.8MFood & Nutrition$2.3MArts & Culture$1.5MCrime & Legal$900kHealth$750kEmployment$500kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.4M
$702,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND & THE WORLD ENTERPRISES INC$1,000,000
HIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC$740,000
LOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPAIGN$702,500
NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION ACTION FUND INC$60,000
WAYFINDER FOUNDATION$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $200k → 10%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $200k → 11%GRIFFIN-GRACY EDUCATIONAL RETREAT & HISTORICAL CENTER: $200k → 17%THE TRAYVON MARTIN FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 15%BLACK LIVES MATTER LANSING & BLACK LIVES MATTER MICHIGAN ICO ONE LOVE GLO: $500k → 16%TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERING: $400k → 16%THE MICHAEL OD BROWN WE LOVE OUR SONS & DAUGHTERS FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 11%HIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC: $740k → 14%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $200k → 14%THE TRAYVON MARTIN FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 15%THE MICHAEL OD BROWN WE LOVE OUR SONS & DAUGHTERS FOUNDATION: $89k → 11%HIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC: $180k → 14%CENTER ON HALSTED: $200k → 14%FII NATIONAL (FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE DBA UPTOGETHER): $68k → 10%FII - NATIONAL DBA UPTOGETHER (FKA FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE): $25k → 10%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 6 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -21% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
52

Total granted

$5.7M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-21%
-30%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • LN
    LOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPAIGN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.7M · revenue -21% · 79% of their budget
  • MO
    Michael OD Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.5M · revenue -98%
  • HH
    HIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $920k · revenue +2% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • LT
    LIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2.3M · revenue -47% · 75% of their budget
  • TB
    TEAM BLACKBIRD LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $900k · revenue -50%
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
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
2
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
3
Pro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute
Philanthropy
4
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
7
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

The organization provides public education on the issues related to fair and just immigration policies.

Arts & Culture
8
Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights
9
The Black Organizing Project Inc

The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.

Human Services
10
Black Feminist Future Inc

The Organization is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation.

Arts & Culture
11
Carribean Equality Project Inc

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Human Services
12
Aapf Action Fund

Action to advance and expand racial justice, gender equality and all human rights.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Trayvon Martin Foundation. 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

55 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. 55 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
17/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Michael OD Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesMichael OD Brown We …HIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC: $920,000 · Human ServicesHIGHER HEIGHTS HOME …ONE LOVE GLOBAL: $500,000 · Human ServicesONE LOVE GLOBALTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $400,000 · Human ServicesTransgender Advocate…The Trayvon Martin Foundation: $250,000 · Human ServicesThe Trayvon Martin F…EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $200,000 · Human ServicesGRIFFIN-GRACY EDUCATIONAL RETREAT & HISTORICAL CENTER: $200,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $200,000 · Human ServicesHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $200,000 · Human Services+1 more: $93,250 · Human ServicesLOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPAIGN: $2,702,500 · Civil RightsLOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPA…CENTER FOR BLACK POWER: $800,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR BLACK POW…SOUTH BEND BLACK EMPOWERMENT FUND INC: $505,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH BEND BLACK EMP…BYP100 Education Fund: $200,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $200,000 · Civil RightsAnti Police-Terror Project Inc: $200,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $50,000 · Civil RightsTEAM BLACKBIRD LLC: $1,500,000 · OtherTEAM BLACKBIRD LLCCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC: $500,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INCBLACK LIVES MATTER DC ICO GRASSROOTS DC: $500,000 · OtherBLACK LIVES MATTER DC ICO GRASSROOTS D…URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $297,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $400,000 · OtherHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $400,000 · OtherST JAMES INFIRMARY: $400,000 · OtherBUILDING AUDACITY: $500,000 · OtherBUILDING AUDACITYFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE: $500,000 · OtherFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCETAMIR RICE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Other+21 more: $3,247,999 · Other+21 moreLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,300,000 · Food & NutritionLIVING THR…ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $900,000 · Arts & CultureMemphis Artists for Change: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND & THE WORLD ENTERPRISES INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $500,000 · Community ImprovementArts Business Collaborative: $200,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for Third World Organizing: $533,200 · InternationalROCKY MOUNTAIN PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER: $500,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $200,000 · InternationalTRUSTAFRICA: $200,000 · International+1 more: $15,000 · International
Human Services$4,663,250Civil Rights$4,657,500Other$8,644,999Food & Nutrition$2,300,000Arts & Culture$1,960,000Community Improvement$1,710,000International$1,448,200

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 budgetLOVE NOT BLOOD CAMPAIGN: $2,702,500 over 4y, 79% of budgetLIVING THROUGH GIVING FOUNDATION: $2,300,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetMichael OD Brown We Love Our Sons and Daughters: $1,500,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetOAKLAND & THE WORLD ENTERPRISES INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetHIGHER HEIGHTS HOME CARE INC: $920,000 over 2y, 72% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $900,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR BLACK POWER: $800,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $533,200 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMemphis Artists for Change: $500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC: $500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBUILDING AUDACITY: $500,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE: $500,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetONE LOVE GLOBAL: $500,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCANGRESS DBA LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetST JAMES INFIRMARY: $400,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTAMIR RICE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $400,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $400,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $297,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetEQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $200,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEER SUPPORT: $200,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetGEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION GEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetGRIFFIN-GRACY EDUCATIONAL RETREAT & HISTORICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetBYP100 Education Fund: $200,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTRANS HOUSING COALITION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST ELMO VILLAGE: $200,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAnti Police-Terror Project Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArts Business Collaborative: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTRUSTAFRICA: $200,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHOUSE OF TULIP: $200,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $93,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWACO THEATER CENTER: $60,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE BLACK PANTHER: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCommittee to Support the Los Angeles Equity Fund Initiative: $49,999 over 1y, 30% of budgetHOLLYWOOD CARES FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 33% 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.

Borealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…Common Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationGroundswell FundSolidaire Network IncTides CenterImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…Rockefeller Philanthr…Proteus Fund IncNEO Philanthropy Inc
Borealis PhilanthropyMN41.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Groundswell Fund · Solidaire Network Inc · Tides Center · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc

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 Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Building Audacity: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation 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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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