How much did CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE grant in FY2023?

Health$2.4MEducation$560kFood & Nutrition$315kCommunity Improvement$312kYouth Development$283kCivil Rights$261kHuman Services$139kPhilanthropy$134kCrime & Legal$113kOther$515k

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

2021

advocate restaurantrestaurant kidshealthy checkoutkids mealhealthy eatingeating policiespolicies models

2022

advocate healthyhealthy snapexpandsugary

2023

powerbuildingaddressprocurementimplementationimmigrantmakefoods

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k7 grants · $187k
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M

$58,872

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants

MARYLAND STATE CONFERENCE NAACP$114,813
YOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT$86,100
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$84,409
KEEP YOUR FAITH CORPORATION INC$84,115
PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY$74,800
HEAL FOOD ALLIANCE (MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER)$74,750
BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES (BACR)$70,000
MOMSRISING$70,000
MERRIMACK COLLEGE$64,974
UNITED PARENTS AND STUDENTS$60,500
ROCK STEADY FARM (FISCAL SPONSOR GOOD WORK INSTITUTE)$60,000
AFRITHRIVE$59,920
CO-OP DAYTON$58,872
PG CHANGEMAKERS (FISCAL SPONSOR MISSIONEDGE)$58,679
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER$57,500

02The need

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 (FY21–23, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE’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. Read by recipient address, 2% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 5% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THElessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 16 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +129% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%

+73%

Still filing today

100%

90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

CF
CENTER FOR BLACK HEALTH AND EQUITY
2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +1579%
RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
2× · 2021–2022 · $410k · revenue +612%
AH
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION AHA WASHINGTON
2× · 2021–2023 · $236k · revenue +14%

Funded once

PH
PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCATESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $534k · revenue +246%
FI
FLORIDA IMPACT INC
one grant, 2021 · $141k · revenue -75% · 46% of their budget
UO
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS MEDICAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -45%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Health Markets Policy Network

Education and networking organization to promote fellowship and collaboration among health care leaders who studyeffects of health care policy on the health care marketplace. The organization will promote their work and engage media t…

Health

Food Empowerment Project

Food Empowerment Project seeks to create a more just and sustainable world by recognizing the power of one's food choices.

Food & Nutrition

Food Equality Initiative Inc

Food Equality Initiative fights for nutrition security and health equity for all through increasing access to nourishing food as medicine.

Food & Nutrition

Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services

Commonhealth Action

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

Health

Healthier Colorado

Healthier colorado is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the voices of coloradans in the public policy process to improve the health of our state's residents. we believe that every coloradan should have a fair…

Health

HealthImpact

To shape health care through workforce strategy, stakeholder convening, and policy advocacy.

Health

Eat Real Certified Inc

Transform the food industry and the food systems to reduce diet related diseases and planetary impact by performing REAL certifications of food service providers, including K-12 school programs and providing educational activities.

Public Benefit

Institute for Public Health Innovation

Iphi develops multi-sector partnerships and innovative solutions to improve the public's health and well-being across maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. our work strengthens health systems and policy, enhances conditions that…

Human Services

Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is a coalition of more than 50 executive leaders from diverse organizations across the state working together to improve the health and well-being of all South Carolinians. The Alliance focuses…

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Consumer Health Coalition

Consumer Health Coalition (CHC) is dedicated to inspiring a consumer movement to advance the health and enhance access to quality and affordable healthcare. We further our mission by targeting populations that are at risk for experiencing…

Health

Human Impact Partners

Human Impact Partners transforms the field of public health to center equity and builds collective power with social justice movements.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Merrimack College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 17 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/56

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,509

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.

06the grantee network

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/54

Grantees still filing

46/54

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$2,443,880Education$559,912Other$900,832Food & Nutrition$315,311Community Improvement$312,026Youth Development$283,328Civil Rights$260,803

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.

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.

American Heart Association IncTX41.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Cspi Action Fund · Share Our Strength · WK Kellogg Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Food Research & Action Center · Fair Food Network Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan 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 organisation CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE 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

4get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through 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: HEALTHY ACTIVE OREGON.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 421579435 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 HEALTHY ACTIVE OREGON, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 61% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Center for Science in The?

Find your warmest path to Center for Science in The 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.

CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Center for Science in The?

More from the funding graph

CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

54 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Center for Science in The?

More from the funding graph