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Civil Rights Corps

We work to shift power to community-led movements, particularly those led by black and brown people who are most affected by this legal system, so they can build sufficient power to create structural change.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Crime & Legal$837kPhilanthropy$460kCommunity Improvement$168kHuman Services$150kEducation$113kReligion$75kPublic Benefit$44kHealth$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $77,511 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $112,901 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,390 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$58,761
Median grant
2
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN JUSTICE$58,761
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE$18,750
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 (FY18–23, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SILICON VALLEY DEBUG: $80k → 8%SILICON VALLEY DEBUG: $70k → 8%TIDE FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%TIDE FOUNDATION: $23k → 10%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

NY
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX

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 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
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Total granted

$1.0M
$360k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
-51%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • WH
    W HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $355k · revenue +45%
  • SV
    Silicon Valley De-Bug
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +345%
  • THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $125k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • SI
    SILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASUREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +93% · 57% of their budget
  • TO
    TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue -51%
  • FI
    FAITH IN TEXAS - PICO
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -95%

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.

1
Transformative Justice of Williamson County
2
After Violence Project

The Texas After Violence Project is a community-based archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understanding of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities. Our mission is to do responsible, inclusive, and…

Civil Rights
3
Prison Policy Initiative

The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.

Civil Rights
4
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
5
The Promise of Justice Initiative

The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.

Crime & Legal
6
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
7
Grassroots Leadership Inc

Transforming the narrative of criminalization: an abolitionist approach. ending the reliance on the private prison industry decarceration: advocating for policies that reduce the prison population, such as bail reform and funding…

8
Dignity and Power Now

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. DPNs mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist…

Philanthropy
9
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
10
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

11
Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights
12
Texas Organizing Project

The Texas Organizing Project (TOP) is an explicitly pro-Black organization working to improve the lives of working class Black and Latino Texas families by building power through community organizing and civic engagement. We are a…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Transitional Housing & Work Program of Davison County. 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

17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

W HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE — $355,369 · Youth DevelopmentW HAYWOOD BURNS INSTI…TIDES FOUNDATION — $152,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY…HOPEWELL FUND — $75,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUND…Silicon Valley De-Bug — $150,000 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley D…TIDES CENTER — $132,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERPure Justice — $150,000 · Community ImprovementPure JusticeTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $80,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZ…SILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $124,500 · HealthJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS — $123,000 · Crime & LegalTransitional Housing & Work Program of Davison County — $112,644 · OtherTransitional Hous…URBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $58,761 · OtherURBAN JUSTICE CEN…ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $30,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY …FAITH IN TEXAS - PICO — $75,000 · OtherFAITH IN TEXAS - …SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $18,750 · OtherSOUTHERN VISION A…
Youth Development$355,369Philanthropy$352,500Human Services$282,500Community Improvement$230,000Arts & Culture$150,000Health$124,500Crime & Legal$123,000Other$295,155

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 budgetW HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE — $355,369 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $152,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley De-Bug — $150,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE — $150,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetPure Justice — $150,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $132,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC — $124,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS — $123,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTransitional Housing & Work Program of Davison County — $112,644 over 2y, 44% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND — $80,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH IN TEXAS - PICO — $75,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $58,761 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $18,750 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.

The Heising-Simons FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heising-Simons Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Civil Rights Corps 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
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no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    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 Civil Rights Corps?

    Find your warmest path to Civil Rights Corps 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 17 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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