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Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Crime & Legal$356kEducation$105kEmployment$95kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$25kFood & Nutrition$25kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$671k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY$30,000
THORN$25,000
TELEVERDE FOUNDATION$25,000
STOP SCAMS ALLIANCE$25,000
NEW EARTH$25,000
IMPACT JUSTICE$25,000
NATIONAL ELDER FRAUD COORDINATION CENTER$25,000
NATIONAL REENTRY WORKFOCE COLLABORATIVE$10,000
AROUET FOUNDATION$10,000
CROP$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AROUET FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AROUET FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THORN: $25k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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 10% of Checkrorg’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.

Checkrorglessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$165k · 4 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$165k
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
0%

Still filing today

50%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k
  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +15%
  • C
    CROP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k

Funded once

  • BA
    Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +68%
  • TJ
    THE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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.

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Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
The Justice Reform

The justice reform is answering the cry for justice by bringing reformation from city to city. we seek to be a voice for the voiceless, bring hope to the hopeless, and bring light into the darkness.

Arts & Culture
5
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
6
Alliance for Safety and Justice

Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…

Crime & Legal
7
After Innocence

After Innocence provides free re-entry assistance to individuals nationwide who have been released from prison after having been convicted of crimes they did not in fact commit, and advocates with them for a justice system that is more…

Crime & Legal
8
Root & Rebound

Root & rebound's mission is to restore power and resources to the families and communities most harmed by mass incarceration through legal advocacy, public education, policy reform and litigation model rooted in the needs and expertise of…

Crime & Legal
9
Life After Justice

Life After Justice (LAJ) fights to free the wrongfully convicted and provides support in reclaiming their lives after justice. Created by exonerees, the majority exoneree-led Board of Directors' approach is rooted in the knowledge,…

Crime & Legal
10
Unify Us

Unify.US is a public policy organization dedicated to formulating, promoting, and delivering solutions based on the principles of individual freedom, limited government, free enterprise, and traditional American values.

Civil Rights
11
Out for Justice Inc

Out for Justice Inc. OFJ is an organization comprised of individuals who are directly or indirectly impacted by the criminal justice system advocating for the reform of policies & practicesthat adversely affect successful reentry to…

Crime & Legal
12
Fair Chance Institute Inc

FCI creates better access to the workforce for jobseekers with past convictions, yielding better outcomes for companies and communities. By centering our efforts on employer practices - generating new tools and resources and elevating…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Justice and the most unlike its peers is Justice Reform Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 27 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc — $50,000 · Crime & LegalBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado IncTHE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION — $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATIONTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITIONSafer Foundation — $25,000 · Crime & LegalSafer FoundationSTOP SCAMS ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalSTOP SCAMS ALLIANCE INCTeleverde Foundation — $25,000 · Crime & LegalTeleverde FoundationTHE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE — $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE AHIMSA COLLECTIVENational Reentry Workforce Collaborative — $10,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $2,000 · Crime & LegalIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCROP — $35,000 · OtherCROPUC BERKELEY — $30,000 · OtherUC BERKELEYNATIONAL ELDER FRAUD COORDINATION CENTER LIMITED — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ELDER FRAUD COORDINATION CEN…NEW EARTH — $25,000 · OtherNEW EARTHTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INCIMPACT JUSTICE — $25,000 · OtherIMPACT JUSTICE+4 more — $15,500 · Other+4 moreDEFY VENTURES INC — $50,000 · EducationDEFY VENTUR…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEE…JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $50,000 · EmploymentPersevere Inc — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHORN — $25,000 · Human ServicesArouet Foundation — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Crime & Legal$237,000Other$240,500Education$75,000Employment$50,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$45,000Philanthropy$25,000

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 budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE JUST TRUST FOR EDUCATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPersevere Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ELDER FRAUD COORDINATION CENTER LIMITED — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafer Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOP SCAMS ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArouet Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOperation New Hope Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH — $2,000 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.

ImpactassetsincMD13.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Bob Barker Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Checkrorg 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Operation New Hope Inc13% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Checkrorg?

Find your warmest path to Checkrorg 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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