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Center for Civic Innovation Inc

The Center for Civic Innovation uses local data and research to strengthen civic engagement and scale community-driven solutions in order to ensure that local public policy reflects the needs and the voices of people in Atlanta.

$45k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Employment$583kCommunity Improvement$225kPublic Benefit$100kCivil Rights$40kYouth Development$17kReligion$17kHuman Services$12kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$865k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cure Violence Atlanta Inc$6,000
Hopeful Change Project Inc$6,000
Wii Care Atlanta$5,500
Tyme to Thrive beyond Grief$5,500
Mothers Against Gang Violence$5,500
Freedom is a Choice Inc$5,500
Girrosol Wellness Inc$5,500
Corner of Hope at Lakewood$5,500
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 (FY23–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cure Violence Atlanta Inc: $6k → 13%Girrosol Wellness Inc: $6k → 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.
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

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
Project Kilimanjaro

Promote health and wellness globally for women and kids

Health
2
Urban Youth Ministry of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Youth

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3
Rewire Community

Rewire Community is a grassroots organization dedicated to creating awareness, dialog and action to help prevent and break cycles of gender-based violence (GBV), especially intimate partner violence. Along with providing financial support…

Human Services
4
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
5
J-Jireh Services

promote and open community resources

Religion
6
Grow Home Inc

Assist community members in capacity building, program development, fiscal sponsorship and organizational development for the general improvement in quality of life plus green space and community organiz.

Arts & Culture
7
Love Activists

Provide educational services to underserved youth encouraging health sustainability respect social justice and love through fun and engaging instructional videos as well as short lessons and music-based learning tools for the classroom

Education
8
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
9
Endangered Kind Inc

Endangered Kind mission is to reduce gun violence using a community-driven approach that fosters trust to reach, restore, and sustain quality of life for high-risk youth and young adults ages 15-27 in the City of Philadelphia.

Human Services
10
Hope Whispers Community Organization Inc

Combat community deterioration

Community Improvement
11
Safe Space Organization

Safe Space Organization is a community safe space that strives to change the conversation around mental health by educating, connecting and supporting others through a peer-to-peer network. Safe Space is a community hub with therapeutic…

Health
12
Helping Hands Healing Hearts Ministries Inc

HHM Supports children in crisis situations who need a safe refuge assistance an intervention trauma informed care psychosocial support medical help and someone to advocate for their rights.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ketchmore Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is SwemKids International Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PREVISIO: $357,000 · OtherPREVISIOIndividual grant recipient: $147,162 · OtherIndividual grant recipientATLANTA SEED EQUITY INITIATIVE LLC: $100,000 · OtherATLANTA SEED EQUITY INITIATIVE LLCATLANTA SEED EQUITY INITIATIVE LLC: $100,000 · OtherATLANTA SEED EQUITY INITIATIVE LLCTHE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE LLC: $34,827 · OtherBLUE IN GREEN CONSULTING GROUP: $32,827 · Other+12 more: $119,125 · Other+12 moreCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $32,827 · Public BenefitRENFORCE: $25,000 · EmploymentKETCHMORE KIDS INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Hopeful Change Project Inc: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentWii Care Project: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: $15,000 · Civil RightsCURE VIOLENCE ATLANTA: $6,000 · Human ServicesGIRASSOL WELLNESS INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSwemKids International Inc: $6,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$890,941Public Benefit$32,827Employment$25,000Youth Development$17,500Civil Rights$15,000Human Services$11,500Recreation & Sports$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $32,827 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGIRASSOL WELLNESS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 5.5% 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 Community Movement Builders Inc ↗
  • Who funds RENFORCE ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ↗
  • Who funds SwemKids International Inc ↗
  • Who funds CURE VIOLENCE ATLANTA ↗
  • Who funds KETCHMORE KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Hopeful Change Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIRASSOL WELLNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds Wii Care Project ↗

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.

Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Edward Charles Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta 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 Center for Civic Innovation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Civic Innovation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Center for Civic Innovation Inc 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 27 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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