· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $284,918 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $312,915 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,997 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL | $50,000 |
| RADA FILM GROUP | $50,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY | $34,718 |
| THE BLACKHOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE ARTISTIC STANDARD PRODUCTIONS | $25,000 |
| NICH CULTURAL ARTS INC | $20,000 |
| MACRO MEDIA LLC | $20,000 |
| NETROOTS NATION | $15,000 |
| PRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION | $13,200 |
| BONNTI INC | $10,000 |
| ROOFTOP FILMS INC | $10,000 |
| DIVERSE REPRESENTATION LLC | $7,000 |
| RON BROWN COLLEGE PREPATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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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To use digital media for the purpose of educating and engaging the public in topics regarding inequality and imbalance of power in america.
Blackfem partners with the nation's most forward-thinking governmental bodies and activists to reimagine wealth building opportunities for black women.
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Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.
The Organization is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Organization for Human Rights and Democracy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 BLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NETROOTS NATION (F/K/A BLOGGERPOWERORG) ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOFTOP FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYST CALIFORNIA ↗
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 Color of Changeorg Education Fund 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.
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.