· Public charity
Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc
See schedule othe cfe fund's mission is to leverage municipal engagement to improve the financial stability of households by embedding financial empowerment strategies into local government infrastructure.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of CITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k28 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS | $280,000 |
| CITY OF CHARLESTON SC | $200,000 |
| CITY OF PHILADELPHIA | $185,000 |
| POLK COUNTY | $100,000 |
| CITY OF KANSAS CITY MO | $100,000 |
| CITY OF LITTLE ROCK AR | $100,000 |
| CITY OF MEMPHIS TN | $100,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY WI | $100,000 |
| MILWAUKEE COUNTY WI | $100,000 |
| CITY OF SPRINGFIELD MA | $100,000 |
| CITY OF ST PETERSBURG FL | $100,000 |
| CITY OF SAVANNAH | $100,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY | $100,000 |
| CITY OF PUEBLO CO | $100,000 |
| CITY OF COLUMBUS | $90,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES7× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
- EAECONOMIC AWARENESS COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $696k · revenue +232% · 42% of their budget
- MMyPath5× · 2017–2022 · $478k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF WAYNE MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $337k
- ININVEST NEWARK A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $256k · revenue +264%
- TOTREASURER OF THE CHARTER COUNTY OF WAYNE MICHIGANone grant, 2019 · $181k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
To eradicate poverty and to increase social mobility through the power of partnerships.
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Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greater Capital Region and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
122 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. 122 of the 236 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: National League of Cities Institute Inc · National Recreation and Park Association · The Recycling Partnership Inc · FitLot · AARP · Wells Fargo Foundation · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · Prosperity Now · US Green Building Council Inc · American Public Health Association · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life
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 Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc — 78% of income from government
- Wealth Watchers Inc — 58% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of North Floridainc — 1% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc — 0% of income from government
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.