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Borealis Philanthropy

BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY directs resources to people building powerful, thriving communities that serve all of us, with those most impacted by injustice leading the way.

$40M
Granted FY2024still arriving
360
Grants FY2024still arriving
43
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$68MPhilanthropy$31MArts & Culture$22MCrime & Legal$19MCommunity Improvement$17MHuman Services$14MHealth$11MEducation$8.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 360 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 360 grants below total $37,308,475, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,129,865 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,821,390 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $125k
  • $10k–50k101 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k217 grants · $26M
  • $250k+24 grants · $9.2M
$80,000
Median grant
43
States reached
$78M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$1,283,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$988,000
HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY$558,000
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER$529,000
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$452,400
FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES$329,000
TIDES CENTER$329,000
THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY$321,000
MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND$304,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK$300,000
BEYOND THE BARS$300,000
EQUITY IN THE CENTER$294,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$289,000
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES$279,000
EMERGING PRACTITIONERS IN PHILANTHROPY$279,000
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 (FY17–24, $24.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CITY SCHOOL: $150k → 16%SILICON VALLEY DE-BUG: $165k → 8%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $150k → 17%MANO AMIGA: $365k → 10%AUSTIN JUSTICE COALITION: $150k → 10%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $173k → 23%SWOP BEHIND BARS INC: $158k → 13%TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERING: $265k → 16%THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY: $321k → 33%FREEDOM INC: $490k → 10%HMONG AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $220k → 17%IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $200k → 8%JUVENILE JUSTICE COALITION: $150k → 15%JUNTOS: $150k → 22%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $200k → 11%EL CENTRO DE IGUALDAD Y DERECHOS: $173k → 14%FREEDOM INC: $155k → 10%SISTERS PGH: $208k → 11%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $150k → 11%MANO AMIGA: $165k → 10%AUSTIN JUSTICE COALITION: $240k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $150k → 10%BARRED BUSINESS FOUNDATION: $230k → 14%SISTERS PGH: $174k → 11%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS: $300k → 16%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS: $279k → 16%UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $150k → 11%DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED: $200k → 20%FREEDOM INC: $500k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $250k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $166k → 10%OPERATION RESTORATION: $312k → 23%DOCUMENTED: $250k → 17%OPERATION RESTORATION: $250k → 23%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $270k → 20%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $150k → 20%COLEMAN ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH: $150k → 10%TGI JUSTICE PROJECT: $260k → 10%TGI JUSTICE PROJECT: $200k → 10%YA-YA NETWORK: $150k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $1.9M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $1.2M → 10%TIDES CENTER: $470k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $325k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $300k → 10%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $250k → 17%CENTRAL AMERICAN MARTYRS CENTER: $200k → 14%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $185k → 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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Borealis Philanthropy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Borealis Philanthropylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173M · 459 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

459 repeat relationships: 243 still active in FY2024, 216 since wound down; 111 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

459
350

Total granted

$173M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+16%

Still filing today

87%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +490%
  • Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +24% · 63% of their budget
  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • GU
    GuideStar USA Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -91%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $265k · revenue +174%
  • AS
    ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +13%
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.

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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
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
3
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
4
Queer Power Alliance

Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…

Human Services
5
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
6
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
7
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
8
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
9
Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance

AMOR is an alliance of community based grassroots organizations mobilizing at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and immigration status to prevent, to respond to, and to end state violence against our community.

Human Services
10
Civil Liberties Defense Center

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.

Civil Rights
11
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

We demand health, dignity, and justice for our communities. We center and amplify Latine voices as we work to transform oppressive systems and narratives and to reclaim control over our bodies and lives. We build power by organizing our…

Health
12
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Voice News Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

825 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. 825 of the 937 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.

131
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
264
Early backer (in before they grew)
792/825
Grantees still filing
501/825
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC: $2,804,000 · OtherNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: $2,479,000 · OtherTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $2,852,000 · Other+93 more: $52,502,337 · Other+93 moreFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $1,589,000 · Civil RightsFUNDERS FOR LES…Transgender Law Center: $1,386,700 · Civil RightsTransgender Law…Native Americans in Philanthropy: $1,364,000 · Civil RightsNative American…MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,275,200 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICA…EQUITY IN THE CENTER: $1,129,000 · Civil RightsEQUITY IN THE C…SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $1,061,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $1,005,000 · Civil RightsBYP100 Education Fund: $980,000 · Civil RightsSPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $962,845 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action: $715,060 · Civil Rights+22 more: $9,262,858 · Civil Rights+22 moreTIDES CENTER: $4,831,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERFREEDOM INC: $1,955,900 · Human ServicesFREEDOM INCTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $879,100 · Human ServicesBOLD FUTURES NM: $821,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION: $783,000 · Human ServicesDocumented LTD: $750,000 · Human ServicesTransgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering: $688,800 · Human ServicesFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $629,000 · Human Services+14 more: $6,216,275 · Human Services+14 moreAsian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc: $3,019,000 · PhilanthropyAsian Ameri…TIDES FOUNDATION: $2,335,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUND…UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM: $1,870,600 · PhilanthropyUNITED PHIL…GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $1,301,500 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS…CFLEADS: $1,114,000 · PhilanthropyCFLEADSASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $1,029,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION…PEAK GRANTMAKING INC: $1,011,500 · PhilanthropyPEAK GRANTM…CANDID: $894,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID+6 more: $2,571,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreNonprofit Information Networking Association: $1,644,000 · Arts & CultureNonprofit I…BOARDSOURCE: $1,423,500 · Arts & CultureBOARDSOURCEALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,299,600 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDI…THE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $1,133,920 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY …DANCERS GROUP: $877,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GRO…MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE: $654,200 · Arts & CultureINDIJ PUBLIC MEDIA: $650,000 · Arts & CultureACCION LATINA: $620,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD: $600,000 · Arts & CultureVISIONARIES OF THE CREATIVE ARTS: $547,500 · Arts & CultureAlternate RootsInc: $535,000 · Arts & CultureSOUND THEATRE COMPANY: $510,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $3,814,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $6,194,160 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $2,904,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Diversity and the Environment: $472,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,580,285 · EducationWomens Funding Network: $829,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $805,000 · EducationSahan Journal: $705,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS MEDIA FREEDOM ALLIANCE: $650,000 · EducationEVERYBLACKGIRL INC: $646,500 · EducationScalawag: $450,000 · EducationDISABILITY LEAD: $430,000 · EducationCOMMUNICATION FIRST: $345,000 · EducationFREE ALAS: $340,000 · EducationTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $305,000 · Education
Other$60,637,337Civil Rights$20,731,163Human Services$17,554,075Philanthropy$15,145,600Arts & Culture$14,309,220Environment$9,570,160Education$9,085,785

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $6,194,160 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $4,831,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,580,285 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetAsian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc: $3,019,000 over 6y, 63% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $2,904,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $2,852,000 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC: $2,804,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY: $2,479,000 over 6y, 48% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $2,335,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM INC: $1,955,900 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $1,918,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetUNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM: $1,870,600 over 6y, 30% of budgetNonprofit Information Networking Association: $1,644,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $1,589,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $1,489,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBOARDSOURCE: $1,423,500 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $1,386,700 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetNative Americans in Philanthropy: $1,364,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetWomen With A Vision: $1,326,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $1,317,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $1,301,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,299,600 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,275,200 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $1,133,920 over 4y, 59% of budgetEQUITY IN THE CENTER: $1,129,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCFLEADS: $1,114,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetPoder in Action: $1,075,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $1,061,500 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $1,035,700 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS: $1,029,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetPEAK GRANTMAKING INC: $1,011,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $1,009,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $1,005,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetBYP100 Education Fund: $980,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetAUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK: $965,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetSPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $962,845 over 8y, 14% of budgetCANDID: $894,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $889,300 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC: $879,100 over 8y, 40% of budgetDANCERS GROUP: $877,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $855,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetWomens Funding Network: $829,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM: $821,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC: $820,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $812,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetCHAINLESS CHANGE INC: $807,000 over 5y, 82% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $805,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetHELPING EDUCATE TO ADVANCE THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAF: $793,500 over 5y, 70% 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.

  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM INC ↗
  • Who funds HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED PHILANTHROPY FORUM ↗
  • Who funds Nonprofit Information Networking Association ↗
  • Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOARDSOURCE ↗
  • Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
  • Who funds Native Americans in Philanthropy ↗
  • Who funds Women With A Vision ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUITY IN THE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CFLEADS ↗
  • Who funds Poder in Action ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF SMALL FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds PEAK GRANTMAKING INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BYP100 Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds AUTISTIC WOMEN AND NONBINARY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW ↗
  • Who funds CANDID ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds THE KNIGHTS & ORCHIDS SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗

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.

Groundswell FundProteus Fund IncNEO Philanthropy IncSolidaire Network IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Ms Foundation for Wom…The Astraea Foundatio…Common Counsel Founda…Wellspring Philanthro…Solidago FoundationMarguerite Casey Foun…Fwdus Education Fund …
Groundswell FundCA166.7× affinity128 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Groundswell Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · The Astraea Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Solidago Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Fwdus Education Fund 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 Borealis Philanthropy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Borealis Philanthropy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Baltimore Safe Haven Corp: 28% of income from government
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
  • Justice for Housing Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Chainless Change Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Cfleads: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 937 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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