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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $125,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,536,282 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,411,282 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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%
-3%

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
EnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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.

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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $6,000 · Public BenefitTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $6,000 · Public BenefitTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC: $100,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN: $6,000 · InternationalWin Without War Education Fund: $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 & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDandelion Dancetheater: $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 · EnvironmentCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $10,000 · Environment350ORG: $6,000 · 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$40,845

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE ONLINE PROGRESSIVE ENGAGEMENT NETWORK INC: $56,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $56,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTALENT SKATEPARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Power Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $8,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWin Without War Education Fund: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUMAN CENTER FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetT'RUAH: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY INC: $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Compton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Compton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 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-PF 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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