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Center for Transformative Action
To establish and conduct programs for the understanding and promotionof transformative action and its relation to social change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $137,488 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,593 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $122,105 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROOTWORK HERBALS | $58,000 |
| CHOICE MATTERS INC | $35,376 |
| SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $26,360 |
| FINGER LAKES REUSE INC | $17,752 |
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 (FY20–20, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $39k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RE-GRANTING OF FUNDS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- WCWESTCHESTER COALITION FOR LEGAL ABORTION - CHOICE MATTERS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue 0%
- YFYOUTH FARM PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $58k · revenue -35%
Cornell University4× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- DCDiscover Cayuga Lake Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $118k · revenue +50% · 34% of their budget
- UPUNBROKEN PROMISE INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $47k · 71% of their budget
- TCTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +135%
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.
Cade's mission is to increase the number and diversity of successful farm enterprises and related businesses in new york.
The organization's mission is to foster creation, retention and expansion of agriculture, food and related research and development enterprises to benefit the new york economy, and to strengthen the geneva experiment station by fostering…
The goal of Farm School NYC is to train the next generation of farmers in New York City and beyond, with a focus on limited resourced and socially disadvantaged individuals and communities, and to increase access to healthy, local food in…
Downtown Binghamton Courtyard Market is a farmers market serving local farm and food producers and residents and community members in and around Binghamton, New York. The market served over 15 different businesses or vendors and over 500…
A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.
(see schedule o)
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…
East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…
New York Sustainable Agricultural Working Group (NYSAWG) is a not-for-profit organization located in western New York to raise awareness of issues affecting the sustainability of the food and agriculture system. The Organizations mission…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plant Powered Metro New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Madrassi Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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.
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 Discover Cayuga Lake Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER COALITION FOR LEGAL ABORTION - CHOICE MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNBROKEN PROMISE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PLANT POWERED METRO NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The History Center in Tompkins County Inc ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES REUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds CARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED MADRASSI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Park Foundation Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Amazonsmile 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 Center for Transformative Action 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.
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