How much did Black Voters Matter Fund Inc grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of Black Voters Matter Fund Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

education advocacylgbtdetroitspoliticalwomenbettereconomic

2023

classhealthfairelectionpolicy advocacyactions

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k10 grants · $170k
$50k–250k3 grants · $186k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$507k

Total assets

Largest grants

Working Families Power$75,000
Act 4 SA Action Fund$61,400
National Coalition on Black Civic P$50,000
One Fair Wage Action Inc$30,000
Mass Liberation AZ$25,000
Asian American Advocacy Fund$25,000
Decarcerate Louisiana$20,000
We Vote We Win$15,000
Black Church Action Fund$15,000
Power to the Polls Wisconsin$10,000
Mt Zion John Lewis Get Out To Vote$10,000
Beauty and Barber Empowerment$10,000
The Freedom Bloc$10,000
Coalition of Concerned Families$5,000
Black Leadership Action Coalition$5,000

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 (FY18–22, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 67% 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 edge

repeat funding

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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 26 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

244

Total granted

$1.1M

$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+60%

Still filing today

31%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

WF
Working Families Power
2× · 2021–2023 · $230k · revenue +621%
MF
Memphis for All
2× · 2020–2021 · $60k · revenue +98%
1P
1Hood Power
2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +63%

Funded once

UF
United Fort Worth
one grant, 2021 · $155k
AN
Advance North Carolina
one grant, 2021 · $100k
AN
Advance North Carolina
one grant, 2021 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

Black Phoenix Organizing Collective is building a bigger, better, Blacker future in Phoenix, Arizona. We practice cultural organizing among intergenerational Black folks that centers queer and trans people, formerly incarcerated, disabled…

Food & Nutrition

Detroit Unity Fund

Aggressively concentrating on giving Black Americans a fundamental base that will help electrify them to vote through our community organizing, voter registration drives, canvassing voters and mobilization efforts.

Community Improvement

The Black Collective Inc

Centering the experiences of the African diaspora, the Black Collective is a movement committed to promoting a shared agenda to elevate political consciousness and amplify the economic power of Black communities.

Community Improvement

Southside Together Organizing for Power

Power seeks to stop the displacement of low-income and working class blacks from our comminities. We develop grassroots leadership to leverage our power to create more equitable and sustainable development.

Community Improvement

Step Up for Action

Organizing for education and economic justice.

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Power Rising Action Fund

To engage in civic engagement and organizing on a non partisan basis, promote awareness of and support for education regarding to strategies and best practices as it relates to community organizing and civic engagement, promote strategies…

—

Womens March Inc

Harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change

—

The Justice Workshop

(1) Community Outreach to educate on the interconnectivity of systems, and impact structural and systemic change in the areas of criminal, electoral, and economic justice in the United States; and (2) Policy Reform and Direct Lobbying…

Civil Rights

People Power and Light Inc

People Power and Light (PPL) is an organization dedicated to developing a healthy and vibrant economy in Louisiana, particularly in those areas devastated by the petrochemical industry. The primary purpose of PPL is to engage with people…

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BlackPush Inc

Our organization combats gun violence works to turn out the vote pushes for laws to help previously incarcerated and issues related to social injustice.

Religion

Black American Political Association of California

Educate and advocacy

Civil Rights

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Embrace Foundation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund close more than the field — 13% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

13%

22/175

the rest of the field

11%

206,155/1,819,390

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.

05the grantee network

56 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)

49/56

Grantees still filing

37/56

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,294,834Civil Rights$654,900Community Improvement$147,200Philanthropy$70,000Human Services$61,000Arts & Culture$50,000Environment$20,000

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.

Bvm Capacity Building Institute IncGA137× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Tides Advocacy · NEO Philanthropy Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · America Votes · NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Southern Partners Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Clean and Prosperous America · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Black Voters Matter Fund 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

1get 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.

05Through 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: Kinkead Housing Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205761971 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 Kinkead Housing Foundation, 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 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 55% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Black Voters Matter Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Black Voters Matter Fund 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.

Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Black Voters Matter Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Black Voters Matter Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph