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Community Services Unlimited Inc

To create justice-driven community-based programs.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Food & Nutrition$4.1MCommunity Improvement$1.7MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$410kHealth$220kHousing & Shelter$200kEnvironment$170kCrime & Legal$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.9M
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKY ACRES COMMUNITY FARM$125,000
DREAM OF WILD HEALTH$125,000
COMMUNITY AGROECOLOGY NETWORKTIERRAS MILPERAS$125,000
INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTON'S FUTURE$125,000
AVENUE 33 FARM LLC$100,000
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC$100,000
RAS KARIM CUISINE$100,000
EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
LUZ DE LA LUNA LLC DBA EL SERENO GREENGROCER$100,000
THE HEART OF IDA$100,000
ALMA BACKYARD FARMS$100,000
COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER$100,000
STRAIGHT UP FAST FOOD$100,000
GROWGOOD INC$100,000
GU GROCERY LLC$100,000
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 (FY23–24, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GROWGOOD INC: $100k → 14%THE HEART OF IDA: $100k → 14%GROWGOOD INC: $100k → 14%THE HEART OF IDA: $100k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 14%EASTMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 14%LAKE AVENUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%LAKE AVENUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%THAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%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

AK
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
CA
NC
SC
LA
AL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 35 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
19

Total granted

$5.0M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+8%

Still filing today

37%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $954k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • RA
    RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD
    2× · 2022–2023 · $225k · revenue +50%
  • HO
    Heart of Ida
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +24% · 25% of their budget
  • HA
    HUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $926k
  • T
    TRAPHEALSORG
    one grant, 2021 · $475k
  • LS
    LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +8%

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
Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm is an urban farm in Washington, DC, where community members source fresh food, see sustainable urban agriculture in action, and learn healthy skills. Our mission is to sustain and support a more equitable community…

Food & Nutrition
2
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
3
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
4
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
5
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
6
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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7
Farm2People

Farm2People's mission is to secure local harvests and fight hunger in Greater Los Angeles.

Food & Nutrition
8
Garfield Community Farm Inc

To increase access to fresh produce and educational opportunities and demonstrate ecological restoration through urban agriculture in the local neighborhood.

Food & Nutrition
9
Soulful Seeds

To increase access to fresh, healthy food for the most vulnerable by building and maintaining gardens in their neighborhoods where we teach people to plant, grow, and harvest.

Environment
10
Cultivating Community

To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.

Food & Nutrition
11
Civil Eats

Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.

Food & Nutrition
12
Sprout City Farms

Sprout city farms collaborates with communities to pursue food justice by cultivating innovative, restorative, and educational farms. sprout city farms envisions a thriving and equitable food system supported by a network of farms and…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Semilla Food Center and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Ida. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%19%5–10yr20%44%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%9%35–55yr13%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%17%5–10yr20%55%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,914

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 67 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
18/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $926,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRAPHEALSORG — $475,000 · OtherTRAPHEALSORGSIMPLY YOURS LLC — $200,000 · OtherMEMORIES OF EL MONTE INC — $200,000 · OtherVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $200,000 · OtherURBAN COMFORT FOODS — $200,000 · OtherPARADISE NATURAL FOODS LLC — $200,000 · OtherLUZ DE LA LUNA LLC DBA EL SERENO GREENGROCER — $200,000 · OtherPROSPERITY COLLECTIVE — $200,000 · OtherALSTON EMPIRE INC — $200,000 · OtherRAS KARIM CUISINE — $200,000 · OtherSTRAIGHT UP FAST FOOD — $200,000 · OtherGU GROCERY LLC — $200,000 · OtherCRUZITAS DELI AND CAFE — $200,000 · OtherAVENUE 33 FARM LLC — $200,000 · Other+26 more — $1,269,262 · Other+26 moreHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION — $225,000 · Food & NutritionHMONG AMERICA…COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER — $200,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY OUT…ALMA BACKYARD FARM — $200,000 · Food & NutritionALMA BACKYARD…LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $125,000 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA FO…Agroecology Commons — $75,000 · Food & NutritionAgroecology C…Southeast Michigan Producers Association — $70,000 · Food & NutritionSoutheast Mic…FRESH FUTURE FARM INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionNorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems — $50,000 · Food & NutritionRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $225,000 · Community ImprovementRESIDENT ASS…Loiter — $220,000 · Community ImprovementLoiterCommunities In Partnership — $125,000 · Community ImprovementCommunities …Community Agroecology Network — $125,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Ag…INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY — $75,000 · Community ImprovementINCLUSIVE AC…Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc — $75,000 · Community ImprovementMandela Part…Sticky Rice Club — $75,000 · Community ImprovementSticky Rice …Heart of Ida — $200,000 · Human ServicesEastmont Community Center — $200,000 · Human ServicesGROWGOOD INC — $200,000 · Human Services+2 more — $40,000 · Human ServicesHUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC — $200,000 · EducationKheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI — $50,000 · EducationPlanting Justice — $125,000 · EnvironmentBLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING — $100,000 · EnvironmentURBANMISSION COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $200,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,270,512Food & Nutrition$1,045,000Community Improvement$920,000Human Services$640,000Education$250,000Environment$225,000Housing & Shelter$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION — $225,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetRESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ENGLEWOOD — $225,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetLoiter — $220,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER — $200,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetHeart of Ida — $200,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetHUNGER ACTION LOS ANGELES INC — $200,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM — $200,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetEastmont Community Center — $200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetURBANMISSION COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $200,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetGROWGOOD INC — $200,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE — $125,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCommunities In Partnership — $125,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC — $125,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDream of Wild Health — $125,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPlanting Justice — $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCommunity Agroecology Network — $125,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBLACK OAKS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE RENEWABLE LIVING — $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetRID-ALL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSticky Rice Club — $75,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetAgroecology Commons — $75,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCENTRO DEL OBRERO FRONTERIZO INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetKheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFLORECIENDO — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSola Community Peace Center — $40,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLAKE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC DBA STARS ILLUMINATE EDUCATE ADVOCATE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

Community PartnersClif Family FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Amalgamated Charitabl…American Heart Associ…Rsf Social Finance IncThe Schmidt Family Fo…Cedars-Sinai Medical …The Kresge FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…PatagoniaorgLiberty Hill Foundati…
Community PartnersCA22.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Partners · Clif Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The Kresge Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Liberty Hill 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 Community Services 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Community Services Unlimited Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Community Services Unlimited Inc 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 67 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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