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Change Happens Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit Organization

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$1.2MInternational$466kEnvironment$302kHealth$278kScience & Tech$225kFood & Nutrition$178kCivil Rights$165kCrime & Legal$150kHuman Services$145kOther$620k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCIENCE BUDDIES$50,000
SOLAR SISTER INC$40,000
WHITE PONY EXPRESS$35,000
BRIGID ALLIANCE$30,000
COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES$25,000
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING$20,000
SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE$15,000
OPENAQ$15,000
COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS$10,000
LET'S GO COMPOST$10,000
URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$5,000
TOXIC-FREE FUTURE$250
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $35k → 9%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $10k → 10%THORN: $50k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $10k → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE: $30k → 17%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of Change Happens Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit Organization’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Change Happens Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit Organizationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 24 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
62

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+18%

Still filing today

96%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $400k · revenue +21%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +31%
  • MM
    MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
    2× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +18%
  • V
    VOTEORG
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -83%
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +11%

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

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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
4
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
5
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
6
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
7
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
8
The Commons Inc

To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.

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9
Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

Animals
10
Terraset

Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…

Environment
11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Solar Sister Inc. 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 backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Elementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Construc…Local Food System Organizat…Community College Foundatio…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%20%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%0/93
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,472

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.

05the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/92
Grantees still filing
56/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORMATIVE FOUNDATION — $275,000 · EducationFORMATIVE FOUNDATIONMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $210,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technolog…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $200,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $150,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICACALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $100,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $85,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LA…+14 more — $205,000 · Education+14 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $400,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL …SOLAR SISTER INC — $40,000 · InternationalSOLAR SISTER I…+4 more — $26,000 · International+4 moreEverybody Solar — $70,000 · EnvironmentEverybody…TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentTOXICS AC…VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION — $30,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERD…COALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION…Global Forest Generation — $20,000 · EnvironmentGlobal Fo…California Ocean Science Trust — $15,000 · EnvironmentOpenAQ Inc — $15,000 · Environment+12 more — $97,250 · Environment+12 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $200,000 · HealthFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp — $50,000 · HealthStewart Memorial Community Hospital — $28,400 · HealthRAINFOREST CONNECTION — $225,000 · Science & TechSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherVOTEORG — $100,000 · OtherVOTEORGVOTEAMERICA — $50,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · OtherSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $75,000 · OtherBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOL…THORN — $50,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · OtherCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUNDGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $50,000 · OtherSCIENCE BUDDIES — $50,000 · Other+38 more — $480,000 · Other+38 moreCITY HARVEST INC — $133,333 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $40,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,225,000International$466,000Environment$302,250Health$278,400Science & Tech$225,000Other$1,080,000Food & Nutrition$178,333

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORMATIVE FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetRAINFOREST CONNECTION — $225,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $133,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOTEORG — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY — $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEverybody Solar — $70,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Cottage Rehab and Goleta Valley Cottage Hosp — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSCIENCE BUDDIES — $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetVOTEAMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHORN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF HAWAII — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOLAR SISTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTOXICS ACTION CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetStewart Memorial Community Hospital — $28,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITIONS & COLLABORATIVES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGlobal Forest Generation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOSAIC PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCivil Liberties Defense Center — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCalifornia Ocean Science Trust — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOpenAQ Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarthcorps — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ENVIROLUTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

PatagoniaorgSilicon Valley Commun…Clif Family FoundationTides FoundationTeichert FoundationThe Nordson Corporati…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…The San Francisco Fou…Resources Legacy FundRsf Social Finance IncLisa & Douglas Goldma…
PatagoniaorgCA28.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Francisco Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund

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 Change Happens Foundation a Delaware Nonprofit Organization 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 · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • See Turtles — 11% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 99 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines