· Public charity
Campaign for Black Male Achievement Inc
Established in 2008 as an initiative of the open society foundations, the campaign for black male achievement (cbma) is a national membership network that seeks to ensure the growth, sustainability, and impact of leaders and organizations committed to improving the life outcomes of black men and boys.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k14 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES CENTER | $29,167 |
| OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $26,550 |
| ISLES MEDIA LLC | $20,000 |
| THE BROTHERHOOD SISTERSOL | $15,000 |
| GREENSBORO CHILDREN MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| WILL AND JADA SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CAZEMBE BEKTEMBA NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT | $12,500 |
| SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,500 |
| MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATION INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| STUDENT AFRICAN AMERICAN BROTHERHOOD NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS | $10,000 |
| COALITION OF SCHOOLS EDUCATING BOYS OF COLOR | $10,000 |
| THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK BLACK MALE INITIATIVE CENTRAL OFFICE OF STU | $7,500 |
| FLAMBOYAN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION FUND | $5,000 |
| THE MUHAMMAD ALI | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Campaign for Black Male Achievement Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT2× · 2017–2018 · $38k
- TCTHE COALITION OF SCHOOLS EDUCATING BOYS OF COLOR INC2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue -100%
- IMISLES MEDIA LLC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k
Funded once
FIRELIGHT MEDIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +117%- MBMy Brother's Keeper Allianceone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PLPreparing Leaders of Tomorrowone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds My Brother's Keeper Alliance ↗
- Who funds Preparing Leaders of Tomorrow ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION OF SCHOOLS EDUCATING BOYS OF COLOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NEW WORLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FELLOWSHIP BMEC INC ↗
- Who funds WILL AND JADA SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds Black Mental Health Alliance for Education and Consultation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Cares Mentoring Movement Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Journi Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FLAMBOYAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Eagle Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK MEN UNITED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Casey Family Programs · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Novo Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The California Endowment · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
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 organization Campaign for Black Male Achievement 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.
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 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.