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COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED INC
Communities Unlimited is committed to helping create self-reliance and resiliency in rural America.
$421k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
5
Communities
$206k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Public Benefit$206kSocial Science$111kEducation$90kHousing & Shelter$45kCommunity Improvement$15kHuman Services$10kOther$192k
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
2021
connectallowingeconomicremixideasqualifiedminority
2022
urgent primaryprimary carecare clarksdale
2024
farm healthyfood purchaseindustry
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $307k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
- United States Healthful Food$206,351
- Lamar State College Port Arthur$51,000
- Belzoni-Humphreys County$50,000
- Healthy Flavors Inc$30,623
- Trenton Special School District$11,126
- Paragould Schools$7,216
02The need
04
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 (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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 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.
34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$228k · 3 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
5
Total granted
$228k
$85k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+51%
+19%
Still filing today
67%
80%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $356k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterPublic BenefitSocial ScienceEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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
Urban Institute2× · 2020–2021 · $111k · revenue +51%- UOUniversity of Kentucky Research2× · 2020–2021 · $90k · revenue +47%
- UPUrgent & Primary Care of Clarksdale2× · 2021–2022 · $27k
Funded once
- FFahegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +191%
- RIRemix Ideasone grant, 2021 · $15k
- HPHigher Purpose Coone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +19%
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
Ar-Tx Redi
To bring new business and industry to the Texarkana Area Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Community Improvement
2
The Arkansas Regional Innovation
The innovation hub is a non profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of arkansans by inspiring innovation and expanding opportunities. we see an arkansas where, regardless of demographic identifiers or geographic location,…
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3
Innovate Mississippi
The purpose of the organization is to drive innovation and technology-based economic development for the state of Mississippi.
Science & Tech
4
You Decide Kentucky Inc
Educate citizens of commonwealth related to merits of amending constitution related to local revenue stream options
Education
5
Utah's Promise
We build powerful cross-sector partnerships to help every utahn achieve their potential.
Philanthropy
6
North Missindustrial Development a
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth
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7
Urban Strategies Council
To reduce urban persistent poverty.
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8
Urban Housing of America Inc Louisiana
Develop and manage multi-family low income housing.
Housing & Shelter
9
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc
Urban Neighborhood Initiatives, Inc. (UNI) engages in comprehensive action to address human and community development. Individuals and families are enthused as they prosper and become encouraged to invest in their homes and communities.
Human Services
10
Fair Housing Council of Oregon
FHCO is a statewide civil rights organization whose mission is to end illegal housing discrimination and promote equal access to housing choice through education and enforcement of fair housing law.
Unclassified
11
Jackson County Economic Development
Improving the economic development opportunities of jackson county, mississippi by unifying planning, economic & industrial development, and marketing activities in the county.
Community Improvement
12
New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kentucky Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Urban Institute. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Public Benefit$206,351Other$192,190Social Science$111,000Education$90,000Housing & Shelter$44,667Community Improvement$15,000Human Services$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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
05Through 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: Belzoni-Humphreys County.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 640740087 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 Belzoni-Humphreys County, 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 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% 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 Communities Unlimited Inc?
Find your warmest path to Communities Unlimited Inc 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.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines