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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $604k
$96,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Smart World Productions LLC$138,695
Unite LA Inc$96,000
SolonQi LLC dba SmartAirLA$96,000
Community Services Unlimited$96,000
SAJE$66,500
Greener Way Associates Inc$60,500
Proyecto Pastoral$50,000
ClockShop$35,000
02The need
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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 (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 its 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
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.

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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
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
3
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
4
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
5
The Green Door Initiative

Ensure that everyone is environmentally literate and capable of promoting a sustainable lifestyle. We provide job training, youth development and awareness.

Environment
6
Green Technical Education and Employment

Green Tech develops a skilled, diverse workforce by training youth and young adults from frontline communities for careers that support environmental stewardship and economic mobility. Our programs emphasize hands on preparation for roles…

Education
7
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
8
Greenspace Ncr

Greenspace works to make affordable housing and its neighborhoods green. greenspace's major program is with washington dc's department general services sustainability and energy division where we developed a strategic plan and program…

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9
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
10
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
11
Green Arrow Colab

Our mission is to support young people harmed by systemic injustice structural racism and a societal disconnect as they reconnect to themselves and their future opportunities for success.

Crime & Legal
12
Groundwork Southcoast Inc

To bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Services Unlimited Inc; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTRUBEL&CO: $37,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetDETROIT GREENWAYS COALITION: $37,000 over 1y, 18% 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
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.

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

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 Civ Lab Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Civ Lab Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 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 2024, released 2024. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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