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Cfleads

We help community foundations build strong communities by advancing effective practices, sharing knowledge and galvanizing action on critical issues of our time.

$617k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Cfleads’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Rochester Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18
0
’19
2
’20
2
’21
0
’22
1
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.4MCommunity Improvement$2.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$200kInternational$59kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $500,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $617,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $117,000 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.

$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BUFFALO$50,000
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
INNOVIA FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER RICHMOND$50,000
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$50,000
SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION$50,000
ACT OF ALEXANDRIA$50,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Arizona Community Foundation: $15k → 11%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%The Boston Foundation: $20k → 16%Southwest Initiative Fdtn: $200k → 7%Saint Paul & Minn Fdtn: $150k → 14%SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%East Bay Community Foundation: $125k → 10%The San Francisco Foundation: $200k → 10%International Community Fdn: $15k → 11%Community Fdn forGrtr Buffalo: $325k → 13%ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $24k → 16%Southwest Florida Comm Fdn: $25k → 11%AYITI COMMUNITY TRUST: $24k → 15%Community Fdn of Grtr Dubuque: $200k → 11%Kalamazoo Community Fdn: $150k → 12%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT: $50k → 17%Fairfield Countys Comm Fdtn: $20k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $50k → 10%Greater Cincinnati Foundation: $200k → 16%INNOVIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%Chicago Community Trust: $200k → 14%ACT OF ALEXANDRIA: $50k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER RICHMOND: $50k → 9%Foundation for Lousiana: $200k → 19%Southwest Initiative Fdtn: $200k → 7%Saint Paul & Minn Fdtn: $125k → 14%The San Francisco Foundation: $200k → 10%Community Fdn forGrtr Buffalo: $200k → 13%San Antonio Area Foundation: $20k → 16%Southwest Florida Comm Fdn: $20k → 11%Ayiti Community Trust: $20k → 15%Community Fdn of Grtr Dubuque: $125k → 11%Kalamazoo Community Fdn: $125k → 12%GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%Greater Cincinnati Foundation: $200k → 16%INNOVIA FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%Chicago Community Trust: $200k → 14%Foundation for Lousiana: $200k → 19%Community Fdn forGrtr Buffalo: $200k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $50k → 11%KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FDN: $50k → 12%GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%Chicago Community Trust: $20k → 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BUFFALO: $50k → 13%COMMUNITY FDN OF GRTR DUBUQUE: $24k → 11%Community Fdn of Grtr Dubuque: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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Grants abroad, by region — $117k on the FY2024 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.

Brazil$117k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MAPPING GRANT

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.

03Your edge
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.

1
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
2
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
3
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
4
Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation

The greater cedar rapids community foundation (the community foundation) partners with donors, funders, and other community collaborators to achieve high-impact philanthropy, supports nonprofit organizations that address our community's…

Philanthropy
5
Central New York Community Foundation Inc

Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.

Philanthropy
6
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc

We serve the citizens of northeast florida through a range of charitable and civic activities while helping individuals achieve their philanthropic goals.

Philanthropy
7
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc

The community foundation of greater greensboro inspires giving, maximizes opportunities and strengthens communities for present and future generations.

Philanthropy
8
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…

Philanthropy
9
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
Coastal Bend Community Foundation

To enhance the quality of life in the coastal bend area of texas through charitable and educational grants.

Philanthropy
12
Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc

Community foundation raising funds for long term support of non-profit organizations, principally in local community.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Legacy 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,529

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.

04the grantee network

36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC — $775,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INCTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $450,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONThe Chicago Community Trust — $420,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Community TrustCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $419,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUETHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $325,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $275,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+23 more — $932,000 · Philanthropy+23 moreSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST …ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA — $50,000 · Community ImprovementACT FOR AL…FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA — $400,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOUNDATIO…AYITI COMMUNITY TRUST INC — $44,000 · InternationalTHE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $10,000 · Other
Philanthropy$3,996,000Community Improvement$450,000Public Safety & Disaster$400,000International$44,000Education$10,000Other$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC — $775,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chicago Community Trust — $420,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE — $419,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA — $400,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInnovia Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACT FOR ALEXANDRIA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAYITI COMMUNITY TRUST INC — $44,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $44,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

The Ford FoundationConrad N Hilton Found…Verizon FoundationRaymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Robert Wood Johns…Vanguard Charitable E…Tides FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…
The Ford FoundationNY16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Tides Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust

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 Cfleads 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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