· Public charity
Center for Expanding Leadership and Opportunity Inc
To create opportunity ecosystems of evidence-based tools, learning experiences, and practices that exponentially increase access, optimize program quality, and accelerate impact for every young person.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64 grants below total $835,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $940,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $776k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ADVOCACY | $50,000 |
| WHAT WE ALL DESERVE (WWAD) | $27,200 |
| YOUTH ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE | $26,650 |
| HARBOUR | $26,100 |
| HER RISING | $25,000 |
| YOUNG LEADERS FOR CHANGE DBA UNITED BY SERVING | $25,000 |
| CAMPUS COMPACT | $25,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| GRIOT ARTS INC MERAKI ROASTING CO | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE STORM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YOUTH TECHNOLOGY CORPS NFP INC | $25,000 |
| VIRTUTEM POPULO INC | $11,100 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EASTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NEW VOTERS ORG | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Portland and the most unlike its peers is Charles Koch Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 49 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 66 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 NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY - SAN MARCOS RESEARCH FOUNDATION % DARRYL BORGONAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
- Who funds Seattle Storm Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH TECHNOLOGY CORPS NFP INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CHARLES KOCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Goodhue County 4-H Federation MN ↗
- Who funds NEW VOTERS ORG ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
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: Interfaith America · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Allstate Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Center for Expanding Leadership and Opportunity 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.
- Mental Health Connecticut Inc — 82% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Campus Compact — 1% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
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.
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