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Boundless Futures Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$510k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$80k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRAVERSE CONNECT FOUNDATION$30,000
The Women's Impact Alliance$30,000
CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC$30,000
NOSH POSH LLC$25,000
ROSE CAT COFFEE COMPANY LLC$25,000
EVIE CO LLC$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER$25,000
10-42 TAC MED LLC (RESCUE IN COLOR)$25,000
VENTURE NORTH FUNDING & DEVELOPMENT$25,000
ARCHIE'S DOG CO LLC$20,000
SPECTACLE SOCIETY LLC$20,000
SPACERS INC$20,000
VERTIGREENS LLC$20,000
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%VALIS INSIGHTS INC: $20k → 11%CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $30k → 16%ROSE CAT COFFEE COMPANY LLC: $25k → 13%10-42 TAC MED LLC (RESCUE IN COLOR): $25k → 11%NOSH POSH LLC: $25k → 14%RECYCLE READ REPEAT: $25k → 7%MOTHER BUTTER LLC: $15k → 22%The Women's Impact Alliance: $30k → 8%PUREWILD CO INC: $20k → 10%BAKE ME HEALTHY: $20k → 6%RESIST NUTRITION INC: $20k → 17%SPACERS INC: $20k → 12%TRAVERSE CONNECT FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%ARCHIE'S DOG CO LLC: $20k → 10%SPECTACLE SOCIETY LLC: $20k → 21%VERTIGREENS LLC: $20k → 11%WORDS N MORE CREATIVE LLC (ARTISAN JOY DBA): $15k → 7%JOYFUL JARRA: $10k → 8%EVIE CO LLC: $25k → 12%WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 14%BALEENA CO: $25k → 22%VENTURE NORTH FUNDING & DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 7%VIETFIVE LLC: $20k → 14%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
PA
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
GA
TX
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 field
03the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25,000 · OtherWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVIE CO LLC: $25,000 · OtherEVIE CO LLCNOSH POSH LLC: $25,000 · OtherNOSH POSH LLCROSE CAT COFFEE COMPANY LLC: $25,000 · OtherROSE CAT COFFEE COMPANY LLCVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · OtherVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENTIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient10-42 TAC MED LLC (RESCUE IN COLOR): $25,000 · Other10-42 TAC MED LLC (RESCUE IN COLOR)ARCHIE'S DOG CO LLC: $20,000 · OtherSPECTACLE SOCIETY LLC: $20,000 · OtherVALIS INSIGHTS INC: $20,000 · OtherVERTIGREENS LLC: $20,000 · OtherVIETFIVE LLC: $20,000 · OtherRESIST NUTRITION INC: $20,000 · OtherSPACERS INC: $20,000 · OtherPUREWILD CO INC: $20,000 · OtherBAKE ME HEALTHY: $20,000 · OtherWORDS N MORE CREATIVE LLC (ARTISAN JOY DBA): $15,000 · OtherMOTHER BUTTER LLC: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $30,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR WO…THE WOMENS IMPACT ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EmploymentTHE WOMENS IM…TRAVERSE CONNECT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Other$420,000Employment$60,000Community Improvement$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOMENS IMPACT ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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 CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE CONNECT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMENS IMPACT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Boundless Futures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boundless Futures Foundation. 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 27%
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Boundless Futures Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Boundless Futures Foundation 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 23 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-PF 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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