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Change Elemental

The primary program of Change Elemental involves providing individualized, in depth support to nonprofit groups that are grappling with organizational problems, challenged by change or growth, or striving to become stronger.

$410k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Education$138kCivil Rights$80kYouth Development$65kEmployment$40kCommunity Improvement$40kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$10kMembership Benefit$8k
02FY2022 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $380,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $410,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,000 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cheyenne River Youth Project$65,000
Californians for Justice Education Fund$65,000
Association of Interior Native Educators$65,000
Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)$65,000
Mission Language and Vocational School$40,000
CLLCTIVLYFusion Partnerships Inc$40,000
Chicana Foundation of Northern California$15,000
Central American Resource Center of Northern California$10,000
Morgan State University Foundation$7,500
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority PsiPhiOmega$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Central American Resource Center of Northern California: $10k → 8%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.
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.
03Its 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
Coalition for Racial & Educational Justice

Coalition for racial and educational justice (formerly oregon campus compact) provides civic and community engagement as a core educational approach for student development as citizens, leaders, and lifelong learners.

Education
2
Central Valley Partnership

The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…

Civil Rights
3
Community Learning Partnership Inc

Mission is to contribute to progresive community and social change by expanding the credentialed workforce of knowledge and skilled leaders and organizers coming from low-income communities and communities of color.

Employment
4
Latin American and Caribbean Community Center

Please provide explanation of organizations mission.

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5
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

To transform systems, structures and public narratives to advance race equity and excellence in education.

Housing & Shelter
6
California Language Teachers Assoc

We encourage world language professionals to participate in our endeavors by creating and maintaining a dialog within affiliates to vigorously share the clta mission and vision. (see sched o for complete mission statement)

Education
7
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
8
Literacy Design Collaborative Inc

Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…

Education
9
Kairospdx

Kairospdx's singularly focused mission is to close the racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, compassionate leaders exceeding academic standards at each developmental milestone from ages 0-10.

Education
10
Central Valley Latino Leadership Academy

CVLLA's mission is to cultivate the talents of Latino leaders to represent and serve the Central Valley

Human Services
11
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
12
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central American Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is Acorn Center for Restoration & Freedom. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION: $65,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFININ…ASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATORS: $65,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATO…THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION…Californians For Justice Education Fund: $65,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For J…CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHEYENNE RIVER YOU…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PART…MISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC: $40,000 · EmploymentMISSION LAN…CHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC: $7,500 · OtherACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services
Education$137,500Civil Rights$65,000Youth Development$65,000Community Improvement$40,000Employment$40,000Other$22,500Arts & Culture$20,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $65,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION: $65,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC: $65,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATORS: $65,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The California Wellne…The San Francisco Fou…Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · 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 Change Elemental funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Change Elemental. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 11 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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