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· Public charity
CENTER FOR INTERNET SECURITY INC
Cis is a non-profit that safeguards organizations against cyber threats.
$574k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
4
Communities
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Public Safety & Disaster$1.2MEducation$280kPublic Benefit$275kHuman Services$147kCommunity Improvement$120kOther$25k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
—
2021
—
2022
military
2023
trainingfusionsafetyjobseeker enrollmenteducationmilitary
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
$32,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$99M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WOMEN IN CYBER$250,000
- GLOBAL CYBER ALLIANCE INC$200,000
- WE THE VETERANS FOUNDATION$32,500
- BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$30,000
- VETERANS FIGHTING FASCISM INC$25,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Citizens Commission On National Security
Public Benefit
2
Cyber Defense Center
Providing cyber security for goverment and school agencies
Science & Tech
3
National Cyber Partnership Inc
Offering real-world training at the undergraduate and graduate levels for veterans and others for high-skill cyber jobs.
Education
4
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
5
Norad and Usnorthcom Enlisted Council
Public Benefit
6
Women in Cyber Security
To support recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the professional field of cybersecurity; help increase the number of women security professionals and strengthen the cybersecurity workforce; and bring together women in…
Education
7
Minorities in Cybersecurity Inc
Minorities in Cybersecurity (MiC) was developed out of a unique passion to help fill the gap that exists in the support and development of women and minority leaders in the cybersecurity field. It is our mission to provide practical…
Arts & Culture
8
Cyberhawaii
Cyberhawaii, an affiliate of cyberusa, is committed to creating a whole of community approach that expands awareness and educates about cyber risks and the need to be vigilant. it supports the development of educational and workforce…
Science & Tech
9
Applied Computer Security Associate
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10
Technology Policy Institute
International
11
Cyber Huntsville
Build a national cyber center with global reputation and global reach, leveraging the unique synergies amongst government, industry, and academia across the tennessee valley and building upon our proven capabilities in rdt&e to address…
Community Improvement
12
Center for Strategic and International
A bipartisan policy research organization dedicated to addressing the worlds greatest challenges
International
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Secure the Village and the most unlike its peers is Task Force Butler Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Public Safety & Disaster$1,225,000Education$280,000Public Benefit$275,000Human Services$146,500Community Improvement$120,000Other$25,000
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 GLOBAL CYBER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN CYBER ↗
- Who funds WE THE VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SECURE THE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FUSION CENTER ASSOCIATION INCQ ↗
- Who funds BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TASK FORCE BUTLER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation CENTER FOR INTERNET SECURITY 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SECURE THE VILLAGE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 811016295 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SECURE THE VILLAGE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 90% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Center for Internet Security Inc?
Find your warmest path to Center for Internet Security Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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