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Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc

Our goal is to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities.

$10.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
426
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$413k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$11MCivil Rights$4.7MCommunity Improvement$2.6MReligion$2.4MHuman Services$2.1MInternational$1.7MYouth Development$1.7MEducation$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 426 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 426 grants below total $8,605,926, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,999,653 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,393,727 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 $10k95 grants · $693k
  • $10k–50k302 grants · $5.6M
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+1 grant · $413k
$14,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harvard Kennedy School$412,500
Black Belt Community Foundation$150,000
Community Initiatives$100,000
A Phillip Randolph Institute$100,000
Arizona Coalition for Change$100,000
THE PENNY FOUNDATION$75,000
FAITH FOR BLACK LIVES ACTION FUND$75,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY INC$75,000
Equal Ground Education Fund$70,000
412 JUSTICE$67,000
FDK Foundation$65,000
OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION$60,000
One Fair Wage Action Inc$60,000
Community Movement Builders$60,000
The Sixth Episcopal District AME Church$60,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Casa San Jose: $15k → 11%Corazon Ministries: $16k → 16%The H2G Empire Inc: $15k → 30%National Council of Negro Woman: $20k → 12%Clara White Mission Eartha s Farm & Market: $16k → 14%Movement for Change: $50k → 16%Mothers of Hope: $59k → 12%The Ordinary People Society: $28k → 17%ANTONIO BLOW MINISTRIES: $16k → 25%Urban League of Greater Columbus: $121k → 18%One Voice: $50k → 25%Open Buffalo Inc: $25k → 13%Corazon Ministries: $15k → 16%The H2G Empire Inc: $15k → 30%Mothers of Hope: $54k → 12%One Love Global Inc: $25k → 16%The Ordinary People Society: $20k → 17%The Ordinary People Society: $18k → 17%Heros for Success Inc: $15k → 28%Mothers of Murdered Angels (MOMA s): $27k → 11%HARRIET TUBMAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS: $40k → 14%The Ordinary People Society: $15k → 17%FB Foundation: $20k → 17%Mothers of Murdered Angels (MOMA s): $20k → 11%Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters: $38k → 14%Together We Weather Inc: $16k → 16%Mothers of Hope: $23k → 12%The Power Coalition: $30k → 17%Change For The Community Inc: $40k → 13%Mothers of Hope: $23k → 12%Power Coalition: $30k → 17%All Streets All People: $38k → 22%Louisville Urban League: $32k → 15%Change for the Community: $26k → 13%Mothers of Hope: $22k → 12%Metcalfe Park Community Bridges Inc (MPCB): $16k → 17%All Streets All People ASAP: $30k → 22%Change for the Community: $25k → 13%All Streets All People: $25k → 22%Capital Rebirth Inc: $18k → 12%Change For The Community Inc: $18k → 13%Workers Interfaith Network: $18k → 17%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR JUSTICE: $20k → 13%The Better Men Outreach Program: $22k → 21%THE AFIYA CENTER: $15k → 14%The First Coast Leadership Foundati: $55k → 14%Philadelphia Reparations Task Force: $50k → 22%Barred Business: $40k → 13%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
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DC
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 400 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

400 repeat relationships: 257 still active in FY2024, 143 since wound down; 148 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

400
507

Total granted

$22M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+10%

Still filing today

36%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • P4
    Pick 42 Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue ×14 · 70% of their budget
  • Community Movement Builders Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $203k · revenue +975%
  • PC
    PEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $196k · revenue +109% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • MT
    Me Too International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.7M · revenue +208%
  • JM
    JPR Medical LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $215k
  • ML
    MS Legislative Black Caucus
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
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
Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

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2
Haitian American Professional Coalition Inc

Civic Engagement for the Haitian Community

Religion
3
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

—
4
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
5
Network for Developing Conscious Communities Inc

NDCC works collaboratively with partners to conduct and contract with others to conduct general organizational training activities including engaging in conferences and membership solicitation to educate, organize and distribute leadership…

Housing & Shelter
6
The Black Collaborative Inc
Community Improvement
7
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
8
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
9
Pro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute
Philanthropy
10
Woke Vote

Mobilize and engage registered voters in marginalized communities through multifacted approaches.

—
11
United Women of the Horn

United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…

Civil Rights
12
Collective Renaissance Action

The mission of the collective renaissance guild is to educate, inform and train young leaders to build community and serve black communities and communities across the globe. we do this by elevating blac

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Educate Empower Elevate; the most unlike its peers is Abundance of Life. 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

335 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. 335 of the 1,062 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.

43
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
99
Early backer (in before they grew)
306/335
Grantees still filing
181/335
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPSICOPAL CHURCH INCORPORATED: $518,000 · Other+137 more: $12,215,790 · Other+137 morePEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $195,650 · Civil RightsPEACH CONC…PROTECT THE VOTE INC: $146,750 · Civil RightsPROTECT TH…EQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC: $140,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL GROU…MY VOTE MATTERS: $118,199 · Civil RightsMY VOTE MA…TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION: $117,000 · Civil RightsTRANSFORMA…Northside Coalition of Jacksonville Inc: $112,400 · Civil RightsNorthside …Workers Center For Racial Just NFP: $105,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI M O V E: $104,000 · Civil RightsA Better Glynn Inc: $100,500 · Civil RightsARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE: $100,000 · Civil RightsTransforming Georgia Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE DETROIT DOWNRIVER: $91,000 · Civil RightsSISTERS IN SERVICE OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA: $89,800 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $83,000 · Civil RightsNEXT GENERATION ACTION NETWORK FOUNDATION: $72,000 · Civil RightsMARCH ON MARYLAND: $72,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $288,454 · Civil Rights+5 moreMe Too International Inc: $1,700,000 · Crime & LegalMe Too Int…BLACK LIBERATION FUND: $74,250 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $73,500 · Crime & LegalTake Action Mon Valley: $70,900 · Crime & LegalTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $490,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $360,000 · PhilanthropyOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $286,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PENNY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $412,500 · EducationBEST KEPT SECRET-STOP THE VIOLENCE: $129,100 · EducationSOUTH GEORGIA VOTERS LEAGUE INC: $128,500 · EducationWC Chance East End School Alumni: $95,000 · Education412 JUSTICE: $82,300 · EducationKilombo Academic & Cultural Institute Inc: $78,100 · EducationSouthern Echo Inc: $78,000 · EducationSC PROGRESSIVE NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $58,000 · EducationLivingstone College: $57,500 · EducationTEAM GROW INC: $54,800 · EducationTRANSFORM ALABAMA: $51,000 · EducationOur Own Wall Street: $235,000 · Community ImprovementQUITMAN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ORG: $155,500 · Community ImprovementDETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE: $144,000 · Community ImprovementMASTERS TOUCH FS INC: $116,700 · Community ImprovementVANGUARDS MINISTRY: $113,100 · Community ImprovementSowega Rising: $109,000 · Community ImprovementDelta Foundation Inc: $108,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK PAGES INTERNATIONAL INC: $91,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BLACK COLLECTIVE INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementTWIN FORKS RISING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $54,500 · Community ImprovementMOTHERS OF HOPE: $181,350 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $126,000 · Human ServicesCHANGE FOR THE COMMUNITY INC: $108,350 · Human ServicesALL STREETS ALL PEOPLE - ASAP: $102,700 · Human ServicesHarriet Tubman Freedom Fighters Corp: $90,400 · Human ServicesMOVEMENT FOR CHANGE INC: $83,600 · Human ServicesTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS: $81,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesThe First Coast Leadership Foundation Jacksonville Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Impact Corporation: $54,000 · Human Services
Other$12,733,790Civil Rights$2,035,753Crime & Legal$1,918,650Philanthropy$1,336,000Education$1,224,800Community Improvement$1,181,800Human Services$1,004,900

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $490,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $412,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $286,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetOur Own Wall Street: $235,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetPick 42 Foundation: $205,453 over 5y, 70% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $203,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetPEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $195,650 over 5y, 48% of budgetMOTHERS OF HOPE: $181,350 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetQUITMAN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ORG: $155,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetPROTECT THE VOTE INC: $146,750 over 4y, 49% of budgetDETROIT CHANGE INITIATIVE: $144,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetEQUAL GROUND EDUCATION FUND INC: $140,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI DELTA COUNCIL F0R WORKERS OPPORTUNITIES INC: $140,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New: $132,600 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetBEST KEPT SECRET-STOP THE VIOLENCE: $129,100 over 4y, 62% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC: $126,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $121,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $121,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNITED STATES LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION: $120,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetMY VOTE MATTERS: $118,199 over 6y, 11% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION: $117,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGlendora Economic & Community Dvelop: $117,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMASTERS TOUCH FS INC: $116,700 over 4y, 99% of budgetVANGUARDS MINISTRY: $113,100 over 3y, 61% of budgetNorthside Coalition of Jacksonville Inc: $112,400 over 5y, 41% of budgetKINKEAD HOUSING FOUNDATION: $110,500 over 5y, 71% of budgetSowega Rising: $109,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetSoul Food Community Development Corporation Inc: $109,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetCHANGE FOR THE COMMUNITY INC: $108,350 over 4y, 100% of budgetDelta Foundation Inc: $108,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetSouthern Youth Leadership Development Institute: $107,750 over 5y, 19% of budgetS2S Facts INC: $107,300 over 5y, 67% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $105,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI M O V E: $104,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetNEW DIMENSIONS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $104,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetA Better Glynn Inc: $100,500 over 5y, 22% of budgetALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOLLA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTransforming Georgia Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWC Chance East End School Alumni: $95,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE DETROIT DOWNRIVER: $91,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetBLACK PAGES INTERNATIONAL INC: $91,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHarriet Tubman Freedom Fighters Corp: $90,400 over 3y, 31% of budgetSISTERS IN SERVICE OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA: $89,800 over 3y, 51% of budgetInstitute for the Development of African-American: $89,500 over 5y, 3.2% 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.

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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.

Black Voters Matter Fund IncGA148.8× affinity93 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Black Voters Matter Fund Inc · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Common Cause Education Fund · Michigan Voices · Blueprint North Carolina · Southern Partners Fund Inc · Hill-Snowdon Foundation · Civic Nation · Fair Count Inc · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · State Voices

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 Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
16report 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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How this is measured
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