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Color of Changeorg Education Fund

Color of change.org education fund exists to empower our members - black americans and our allies to make decision makers more responsive to the concerns of black americans and to bring about positive social change for everyone.

$313k
Granted FY2021
13
Itemized grants FY2021
13
Organizations funded FY2021
92%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$285k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Total assets, FY2021
$24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 92% of the organizations Color of Changeorg Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202113$285k92%
FY201910$353kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$456kCivil Rights$87kEducation$22kPublic Benefit$20kEnvironment$15kReligion$15kPhilanthropy$13kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
PA
CA
MO
TN
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Macro Media LLC$155,0002n/a
Wanderluxxe LLC$86,0001n/a
Rada Film Group$50,0001n/a
Blackstar Projects Inc$50,00011%
Firelight Media Inc$35,00011%
Organization for Human Rights and Democracy$34,71818%
The Blackhouse Foundation$25,00023%
UltraViolet Education Fund$25,00011%
The Artistic Standard Productions$25,0001n/a
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd$20,00010%
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All grantees of Color of Changeorg Education Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Macro Media LLC$155,0002n/a
Wanderluxxe LLC$86,0001n/a
Rada Film Group$50,0001n/a
Blackstar Projects Inc$50,00011%
Firelight Media Inc$35,00011%
Organization for Human Rights and Democracy$34,71818%
The Blackhouse Foundation$25,00023%
UltraViolet Education Fund$25,00011%
The Artistic Standard Productions$25,0001n/a
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd$20,00010%
Nich Cultural Arts$20,0001n/a
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$17,17010%
Netroots Nation (F/K/A Bloggerpowerorg)$15,00013%
Riverside Church in the City of New York$14,6261n/a
Precious Dreams Foundation$13,20024%
Target Corporation$10,2331n/a
Rooftop Films Inc$10,00010%
Bonnti Inc$10,0001n/a
Diverse Representation LLC$7,0001n/a
DC Public Schools$5,0001n/a
Catalyst California$5,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Color of Changeorg Education Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlackstar Projects Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFirelight Media Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOrganization for Human Rights and Democracy: $34,718 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetThe Blackhouse Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDemos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $17,170 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNetroots Nation (F/K/A Bloggerpowerorg): $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPrecious Dreams Foundation: $13,200 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetRooftop Films Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCatalyst California: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA6.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Color of Changeorg Education Fund

How much does Color of Changeorg Education Fund give?
Color of Changeorg Education Fund reported 13 itemized grants totaling $284,918, out of $312,915 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Color of Changeorg Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (70%), Civil Rights (13%), Education (3%).
Who are Color of Changeorg Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Macro Media LLC ($155k), Wanderluxxe LLC ($86k), Rada Film Group ($50k).
Does Color of Changeorg Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Color of Changeorg Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Color of Changeorg Education Fund based?
Color of Changeorg Education Fund is based in CA.

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 23 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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