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Community Services Unlimited Inc

To create justice-driven community-based programs.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
45
Grants FY2024
47
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 47
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Community Services Unlimited Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving44$3.0M30%
FY202347$3.4M89%
FY202210$740k100%
FY20211$475k100%
FY20191$926kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Traphealsorg$475,0001n/a
Hmong American Farmers Association$225,00024%
Resident Association of Greater Englewood$225,000218%
Loiter$220,000335%
Simply Yours LLC$200,0002n/a
Community Outreach Center$200,000227%
Urbanmission Community Partners$200,000294%
Luz de la Luna LLC Dba El Sereno Greengrocer$200,0002n/a
Venice Family Clinic$200,0002n/a
Avenue 33 Farm LLC$200,0002n/a
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All grantees of Community Services Unlimited Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Traphealsorg$475,0001n/a
Hmong American Farmers Association$225,00024%
Resident Association of Greater Englewood$225,000218%
Loiter$220,000335%
Simply Yours LLC$200,0002n/a
Community Outreach Center$200,000227%
Urbanmission Community Partners$200,000294%
Luz de la Luna LLC Dba El Sereno Greengrocer$200,0002n/a
Venice Family Clinic$200,0002n/a
Avenue 33 Farm LLC$200,0002n/a
Alma Backyard Farm$200,00028%
Urban Comfort Foods$200,0002n/a
Eastmont Community Center$200,00026%
Memories of El Monte Inc$200,0002n/a
Heart of Ida$200,000225%
Cruzitas Deli and Cafe$200,0002n/a
Paradise Natural Foods LLC$200,0002n/a
Ras Karim Cuisine$200,0002n/a
Gu Grocery LLC$200,0002n/a
Alston Empire Inc$200,0002n/a
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc$200,00025%
Prosperity Collective$200,0002n/a
Straight Up Fast Food$200,0002n/a
Growgood Inc$200,000228%
Communities In Partnership$125,00015%
Community Services Unlimited Inc$125,00012%
Community Agroecology Network$125,000113%
Dream of Wild Health$125,00013%
Rocky Acres Community Farm$125,0001n/a
Institute for Washingtons Future$125,00018%
Planting Justice$125,00012%
La Semilla Food Center$125,00013%
Rid-All Foundation Inc$100,00017%
Fountain Heights Cooperative LLC$100,0001n/a
Sankofa Community Development Corporation$100,0001n/a
Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living$100,00024%
Chilkoot Indian Association$75,0001n/a
Agroecology Commons$75,00019%
Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc$75,00013%
Inclusive Action for the City$75,00011%
Sticky Rice Club$75,000134%
Centro del Obrero Fronterizo Inc$75,00015%
Southeast Michigan Producers Association$70,0001n/a
Floreciendo$50,000119%
Kheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI$50,00013%
North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems$50,00011%
Urban Growers Collective Inc$50,00011%
Fresh Future Farm Inc$50,00016%
Sola Community Peace Center$40,000226%
Carla's Fresh Market$20,0002n/a
Kids Art by Momo LLC$20,0002n/a
Lake Avenue Foundation Inc Dba Stars Illuminate Educate Advocate$20,00021%
Full Moon Pickles LLC$20,0002n/a
World Food Distribution LLC$20,0002n/a
The Plant Plug$20,0002n/a
Crenshaw Juice Co LLC$20,0002n/a
Thai Community Development Center$20,00021%
Jackson K Ehad Corporation$20,0002n/a
Alegria Alchemy & Xocolatl$20,0002n/a
Nobes Pb Foods$10,0001n/a
Nikkimomo LLC$10,0001n/a
Shef Sannys Kitchen$10,0001n/a
San Pedro Sourdough$10,0001n/a
Peculiar Pig Farm$9,2621n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($946k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Services Unlimited Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUrbanmission Community Partners: $200,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetAlma Backyard Farm: $200,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetEastmont Community Center: $200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetHeart of Ida: $200,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetHunger Action Los Angeles Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGrowgood Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $125,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCommunity Services Unlimited Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCommunity Agroecology Network: $125,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $125,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetInstitute for Washingtons Future: $125,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPlanting Justice: $125,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLa Semilla Food Center: $125,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRid-All Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBlack Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAgroecology Commons: $75,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetInclusive Action for the City: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSticky Rice Club: $75,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCentro del Obrero Fronterizo Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFloreciendo: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetKheprw Institute dba KI NuMedia CCFI: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNorth American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUrban Growers Collective Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFresh Future Farm Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% 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

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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 32.

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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.

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

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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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.

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About Community Services Unlimited Inc

How much does Community Services Unlimited Inc give?
Community Services Unlimited Inc reported 45 grants totaling $3,034,577 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 47 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Community Services Unlimited Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (48%), Community Improvement (19%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are Community Services Unlimited Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Traphealsorg ($475k), Hmong American Farmers Association ($225k), Resident Association of Greater Englewood ($225k).
Does Community Services Unlimited Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Services Unlimited Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Partners, Clif Family Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
Where is Community Services Unlimited Inc based?
Community Services Unlimited Inc 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 67 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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