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Civ Lab Inc

CIV:LAB connects local actors with the resources and funding required to launch bold responses to the most pressing challenges facing their communities.

$639k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$139k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Arts & Culture$303kHealth$213kEnvironment$204kEmployment$131kCommunity Improvement$124kFood & Nutrition$120kRecreation & Sports$100kEducation$98kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $604k
$96,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Smart World Productions LLC$138,695
Community Services Unlimited$96,000
Unite LA Inc$96,000
SolonQi LLC dba SmartAirLA$96,000
SAJE$66,500
Greener Way Associates Inc$60,500
Proyecto Pastoral$50,000
ClockShop$35,000
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 (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Proyecto Pastoral: $50k → 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.

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.

03Your 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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North East Trees Inc

In 2024, our work made a lasting impact on both people and the environment. Together with our community, we planted 2,739 new plants and trees, ensuring future shade, cleaner air, and greener neighborhoods. We also cared for 7,442 trees,…

Environment
2
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
3
Green Worker Inc

The organization is based in the south bronx and serves immigrants and communities of color by building, growing, and sustaining worker-owned green businesses to create a strong, local, and democratic economy rooted in racial and gender…

Environment
4
Veggielution

The mission of veggielution is to connect people from diverse backgrounds through food and farming to build community in east san jose. our aim is to help our east san jose neighbors experience a richness of community life and health that…

Community Improvement
5
Smart Yards Education

To improve the living standards of low income, unskilled workers in silicon valley by offering education in ecological landscaping and cooperative business models

Environment
6
Green Works in Kansas City

Through outdoor experiences, project-based learning, and STEM career exploration, we inspire the next generation of nature lovers and environmental leaders to care for our environment, create healthy communities, and contribute to our…

Education
7
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
8
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a Mesa andor Mesa Inc

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education
9
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
10
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
11
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health
12
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice

Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change govenment and corporate policies and practices to protect health and promote environmental, economic and social justice.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Services Unlimited Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greener Way Associates Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Smart World Productions LLC — $268,296 · OtherSmart World Productions LLCCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC — $96,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INCSolonQi LLC dba SmartAirLA — $96,000 · OtherSolonQi LLC dba SmartAirLACommunity TreeHouse Center — $75,000 · OtherCommunity TreeHouse CenterReBorn Farms — $70,000 · OtherReBorn FarmsIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRETI Center — $50,000 · OtherSanctuary Farms — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherJustAir Solutions — $48,000 · OtherHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $34,000 · OtherProyecto Pastoral — $50,000 · OtherCLOCKSHOP — $35,000 · Other+1 more — $25,000 · OtherGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC — $97,500 · Community ImprovementGOOD OLD LOWE…THE MADE INSTITUTE — $74,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MADE INST…DETROIT GREENWAYS COALITION — $37,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT GREEN…UNITE-LA INC — $96,000 · EmploymentUNITE-LA INCWE WANT GREEN TOO — $60,000 · EmploymentWE WANT GREE…GREEN GUERILLAS INC — $35,000 · EmploymentGREEN GUERIL…South Bronx United Inc — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC — $97,500 · Science & TechGreener Way Associates Inc — $60,500 · EducationTRUBEL&CO — $37,000 · EducationSAJE — $66,500 · Health
Other$1,007,296Community Improvement$208,500Employment$191,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Science & Tech$97,500Education$97,500Health$66,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSouth Bronx United Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC — $97,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC — $97,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC — $96,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITE-LA INC — $96,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MADE INSTITUTE — $74,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetSAJE — $66,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGreener Way Associates Inc — $60,500 over 1y, 51% of budgetWE WANT GREEN TOO — $60,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetProyecto Pastoral — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDETROIT GREENWAYS COALITION — $37,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTRUBEL&CO — $37,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGREEN GUERILLAS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCLOCKSHOP — $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $34,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSEEDS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

The Annenberg Foundat…California Community …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Annenberg FoundationPA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Civ Lab 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Civ Lab Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Civ Lab Inc 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 25 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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