How much did Civic Space Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of Civic Space Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2023

social

2024

night marketspilotadopt blockdragsummer musicdedicatedsustains

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k11 grants · $230k
$50k–250k13 grants · $922k
$250k+3 grants · $3.0M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

Into the Streets$2,060,000
Noise Pop Industries LLC$643,563
Broke But Grand LLC$289,441
Chris & Greg Events LLC$126,340
BEChinatown$120,000
Community Youth Center of SF$100,000
North Beach Business Assoc$100,000
Excelsior Action Group$75,174
Hot and Cool Inc$50,000
SF Black Wallstreet Fdn$50,000
Cole Valley Merchants Assoc$50,000
Little Secret LLC$50,000
LA Mas Inc$50,000
American Journalism Project$50,000
Wah Mei School$50,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 12% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Streets for All Los Angeles

To promote the common good and general welfare by promoting the equitable use of public streets.

Environment

California Arts Advocates

California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative

Los angeles neighborhood initiative was formed in 1994 as an agency designed to be a catalytic program that initiates and encourages neighborhood revitalization in transit-dependent urban neighborhoods.

Community Improvement

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

Our City Forest

To cultivate a greener, healthier urban environment and a renewed sense of community by involving silicon valley residents in the understanding, planting, and care of the urban forest.

Environment

Calle 24 Latino Cultural District

To preserve, enhance, and advocate for latino cultural continuity, vitality, and community in san francisco's touchstone latino cultural district and the greater mission neighborhood.

Arts & Culture

Asian Americans Advancing Justice -

The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…

Crime & Legal

Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts. we serve as the only cross-discipline, cross-sector convenor for the arts and culture…

Arts & Culture

The American Institute of Architects

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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Yerba Buena Arts & Events

YBAE enhances the vitality & quality of life in public spaces of Yerba Buena Gardens through the presentation of free performing arts programs, reflecting the cultures & creativity of the region. Excellence, inclusion, & innovation are…

Arts & Culture

Southern California Streets Initiative

California Streets Initiative is a non-profit organization that publishes Streetsblog Los Angeles Streetsblog San Francisco Streetsblog California Santa Monica Next and Longbeachize.

Arts & Culture

Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill

The organizations mission is to create, expand, enhance, clean, and maintain open spaces, parks, play areas, plazas, gardens, sidewalk greenspaces, and other such physical public realm areas within the boundaries of the Dogpatch and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Instituto Familiar De La Raza and the most unlike its peers is Greening Projects. 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

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

17/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,832,466Community Improvement$156,174Arts & Culture$96,900Science & Tech$50,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Civil Rights$25,000Environment$17,500Philanthropy$10,000

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.

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 San Francisco FoundationCA18× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · SF New Deal · Stupski Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 organisation Civic Space Foundation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Cole Valley Merchants Assoc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 933341513 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Cole Valley Merchants Assoc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Civic Space Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Civic Space Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Civic Space Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Space Foundation?

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Civic Space Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Space Foundation?

More from the funding graph