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Compton Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
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 FY2018–2024.

Community Improvement$16MHealth$6.2MCivil Rights$4.3MReligion$3.6MEnvironment$3.0MPublic Benefit$2.2MCrime & Legal$637kArts & Culture$257kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $125,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,536,282 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,411,282 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Proteus Funds$100,000
Community Resilience Organizations$10,000
Talent Skate Park$10,000
Shelburne Farms$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Proteus Funds: $100k → 12%see Cross-Movement detail: $855k → 10%Integrative groups see attached: $15.8M → 10%Every Voice Center: $100k → 14%Ascend Leadership Through Athletic: $17k → 19%Shelburne Farms: $5k → 10%Putney School: $5k → 11%see Peace detail: $567k → 10%see attached detail Integrative: $1.7M → 10%Talent Skate Park: $10k → 10%Putney School: $5k → 11%see Democracy detail: $455k → 10%Peace groups see attached: $1.5M → 10%Natural Mind Dharma Center: $2k → 10%see Reparative Action detail: $400k → 10%see attached detail: $1.2M → 10%Leopold Schepp Foundation: $2k → 17%see attached Reproductive Justice: $292k → 10%Environment groups see attached: $770k → 10%see attached Environment: $281k → 10%see attached detail Peace: $758k → 10%see attached Reparative Action: $237k → 10%see attached detail: $739k → 10%see Reproductive Justice detail: $197k → 10%see attached detail: $705k → 10%see attached Peace: $196k → 10%see attached detail Reproductive Ju: $532k → 10%see attached Integrative: $140k → 10%see attached detail Environment: $525k → 10%see Environment detail: $118k → 10%see attached detail: $508k → 10%see attached Democracy: $108k → 10%Reproductive justice groups see at: $490k → 10%see attached Cross-Movement: $105k → 10%see attached detail MIP: $365k → 10%see Integrative detail: $56k → 10%Money in politics groups see attac: $325k → 10%see Arts Grants detail: $35k → 10%Spritual awareness groups see atta: $103k → 10%see attached Arts: $30k → 10%Arts organizations see attached: $54k → 10%see Children Youth detail: $23k → 10%see attached detail Commun Welfa: $7k → 10%see attached Spiritual Awareness: $22k → 10%see attached detail: $7k → 10%see Community Welfare detail: $12k → 10%Community welfare see attached: $5k → 10%Tides Foundation Movement Voter Fun: $100k → 10%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.

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.

0%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14k · 3 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
61

Total granted

$14k
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

100%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • PS
    PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • BE
    Bend Endurance Academy
    2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +63%
  • LS
    Leopold Schepp Foundation
    2× · 2018–2022 · $2k · revenue -26%

Funded once

  • SC
    see Cross-Movement detail
    one grant, 2022 · $855k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $567k
  • RJ
    Reproductive justice groups see at
    one grant, 2018 · $490k

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
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
5
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
6
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
7
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
9
Global Greengrants Fund

Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…

Environment
10
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leopold Schepp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyGovernment Accountability &…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsIndigenous Community Develo…Community Arts CentersUrban Agriculture EducationCivil Legal ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Private Grantmaking Foundat…Environmental Advocacy and …Jewish Community FederationsCharter and Independent Sch…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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%0/46
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,932

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

44 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. 44 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
18/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

see Cross-Movement detail — $855,000 · Othersee Cross-Movement detailIndividual grant recipient — $566,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientReproductive justice groups see at — $489,875 · OtherReproductive justice groups see atIndividual grant recipient — $455,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientsee Reparative Action detail — $400,000 · Othersee Reparative Action detailMoney in politics groups see attac — $325,000 · OtherMoney in politics groups see attacsee Reproductive Justice detail — $196,575 · Other+39 more — $864,083 · Other+39 moreSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,000 · Public BenefitTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $6,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $6,000 · Public BenefitTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC — $100,000 · InternationalWin Without War Education Fund — $6,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN — $6,000 · InternationalFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC — $4,000 · International+1 more — $720 · InternationalTHE ONLINE PROGRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT NETWORK INC — $56,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $36,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureDandelion Dancetheater — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $56,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $11,000 · Environment350ORG — $6,000 · EnvironmentCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $5,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS — $5,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $5,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $3,845 · Environment
Other$4,152,133Public Benefit$118,000International$116,720Civil Rights$92,000Arts & Culture$75,000Health$66,000Environment$35,845

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $56,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ONLINE PROGRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT NETWORK INC — $56,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASCEND - LEADERSHIP THROUGH ATHLETICS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTALENT SKATEPARK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Power Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $8,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWin Without War Education Fund — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON DEFENSE EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget350ORG — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION — $3,845 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustice Funders — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBend Endurance Academy — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLeopold Schepp Foundation — $1,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIVE PHILANTHROPY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC — $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH — $720 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

ImpactassetsincThe William & Flora H…Amalgamated Charitabl…The David and Lucile …John D and Catherine …Foundation to Promote…The San Francisco Fou…The Libra FoundationFreedom Together Foun…The Nathan Cummings F…Wellspring Philanthro…New Venture Fund
ImpactassetsincMD23.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The San Francisco Foundation · The Libra Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · New Venture Fund

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 Compton Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Community Resilience Organizations — 25% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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How do I get to Compton Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Compton Foundation 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 69 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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