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· Public charity

Center for Transformative Action

To establish and conduct programs for the understanding and promotionof transformative action and its relation to social change.

$260k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$181kCivil Rights$130kFood & Nutrition$102kHealth$69kEducation$36kCrime & Legal$26kArts & Culture$19kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $137,488, the rows itemized in this filing. The $259,593 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $122,105 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$35,376
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOTWORK HERBALS$58,000
CHOICE MATTERS INC$35,376
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$26,360
FINGER LAKES REUSE INC$17,752
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT: $9k → 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.

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$39k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RE-GRANTING OF FUNDS

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 3 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$178k
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+135%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WC
    WESTCHESTER COALITION FOR LEGAL ABORTION - CHOICE MATTERS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • YF
    YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $58k · revenue -35%
  • Cornell University
    4× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • DC
    Discover Cayuga Lake Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $118k · revenue +50% · 34% of their budget
  • UP
    UNBROKEN PROMISE INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · 71% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +135%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park Corporation

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Farm Training Collective Nyc Inc

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…

Education
3
Syracuse Grows Inc

A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.

Food & Nutrition
4
Binghamton Downtown Courtyard Market

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
6
East End Food Institute

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Common Good City Farm

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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9
New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…

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11
Uniondale Community Land Trust Inc

The Uniondale Community Land Trust, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization whose mission includes community renewal, revitalization, integration, and empowerment. Utilizing cooperative models of leadership and ownership, the Uniondale CLT,…

Community Improvement
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plant Powered Metro New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Discover Cayuga Lake Inc: $117,887 · EnvironmentDiscover Cayuga Lake IncTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTA…FINGER LAKES REUSE INC: $17,752 · EnvironmentFINGER LAKES REUSE INCWESTCHESTER COALITION FOR LEGAL ABORTION - CHOICE MATTERS INC: $74,886 · OtherWESTCHESTER COALITION FOR LEGAL ABO…ROOTWORK HERBALS: $58,000 · OtherROOTWORK HERBALSSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $26,360 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYThe History Center in Tompkins County Inc: $18,964 · OtherThe History Center in Tompkins Coun…YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC: $58,288 · EducationYOUTH FARM PROJECT INCCornell University: $44,414 · EducationCornell UniversityResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $11,225 · EducationResearch Foundation of…UNBROKEN PROMISE INITIATIVE INC: $47,000 · Civil RightsUNBROKEN …PLANT POWERED METRO NEW YORK INC: $34,899 · Food & NutritionCARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,433 · Crime & LegalUNITED MADRASSI ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Religion
Environment$180,639Other$178,210Education$113,927Civil Rights$47,000Food & Nutrition$34,899Human Services$8,500Crime & Legal$3,433Religion$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDiscover Cayuga Lake Inc: $117,887 over 1y, 34% of budgetWESTCHESTER COALITION FOR LEGAL ABORTION - CHOICE MATTERS INC: $74,886 over 2y, 22% of budgetYOUTH FARM PROJECT INC: $58,288 over 2y, 19% of budgetUNBROKEN PROMISE INITIATIVE INC: $47,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCornell University: $44,414 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANT POWERED METRO NEW YORK INC: $34,899 over 1y, 26% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $26,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe History Center in Tompkins County Inc: $18,964 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $11,225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARRIBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT INC: $8,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCHHAYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,433 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED MADRASSI ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 41% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Park Foundation IncLegacy Foundation of …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Park Foundation Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Transformative Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Transformative Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Center for Transformative Action?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Transformative Action 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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