· Private foundation
Change Create Transform Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRINNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (EDWARDSVILLE) | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| ASCEND FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS AT MINNEAPOLIS | $2,500 |
| BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| READ ALLIANCE | $750 |
| MINORITY BAR ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +103% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +207%- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +138%
- RAREAD ALLIANCE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
- CHChicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential forgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +103%
- WFWOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wilberforce university is a historically black college and university and the primary mission is to engage, support, and assist students in identifying and preparing for their respective purposes in life as social change agents, social…
Breakthrough new york empowers motivated students from low-income backgrounds to graduate from college and pursue a fulfilling career. our ten-year, tuition-free program provides students with the opportunities, resources, and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds African American Men of Westchester Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL URBAN TECHNOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TODAY'S STUDENTS TOMORROW'S TEACHERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Change Create Transform Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Change Create Transform Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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