· Public charity
Civil Society Institute Inc
The institute was founded with a mission to support the sectors of the civil society at the local and international levels by promoting community development efforts, human and civil rights, and social and economic equity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $82,000 |
| SOVERIGN ENERGY | $75,000 |
| BAGLY INC | $10,331 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- MEMAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $656k · revenue +56%
- TCTRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC5× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +107%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +49%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +11%
Rocky Mountain Institutegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $80k · revenue +52%
MOTHERS OUT FRONT INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -1%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Lucretia Philanthropic Foundation Inc C/O Stanton & Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds SOVEREIGN ENERGY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BOSTON THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds Vital Impacts ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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.
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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 Society Institute 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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