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Confluence Advocacy Inc

The organization's mission is to create a vibrant, competitive public education system, protect the environment and water resources and promote healthy communities for generations to come.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Public Benefit$5.6MInternational$850kEducation$600kCivil Rights$145kCommunity Improvement$125kHuman Services$100k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $695k
  • $250k+1 grant · $425k
$125,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
State Government Leadership Foundation$425,000
The Welcome Party Inc$200,000
Center for Innovative Policy$150,000
Republican Governors Public Policy Committee Inc$125,000
State Democracy Action Fund$100,000
Committee on States$65,000
Progressive State Leaders Committee$55,000
The NewDEAL$25,000
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 (FY19–19, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $100k → 16%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 11 repeat orgs$800k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$6.7M
$700k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+137%
+259%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCivil RightsEducationInternationalCommunity 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

  • SG
    STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +137%
  • WH
    WITH HONOR ACTION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +295% · 29% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $850k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • YE
    Yes Every Kid Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue ×13,222
  • LP
    LA PROMISE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +114%
  • NP
    NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +259%

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
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
2
State Policy Network

State policy network's (spn) mission is to catalyze thriving, durable freedom movements in every state, anchored with high-performing, independent think tanks.

Civil Rights
3
State Government Affairs Council

To advance and support the state government affairs profession by fostering community among peers and elected officials, building knowledge, and promoting diverse perspectives in a nonpartisan environment.

Community Improvement
4
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
5
Economic Policy Institute

Epi uses the tools of economics to bring the interests of low- and middle-income workers into economic policy discussions. epi's rigorous research and transformative ideas fortify worker organizing, build a shared understanding of how…

Social Science
6
State Leadership Project

State leadership project (slp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that strengthens civic infrastructure by supporting the charitable efforts of state-based donor alliances and funder communities. slp helps build, resource, and sustain…

Public Benefit
7
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
8
R Street Institute

The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…

Education
9
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue. to actively promote bipartisanship and work to address the key challenges facing the nation including energy and infrastructure,…

Public Benefit
10
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
11
States Newsroom

States newsroom is the nation's largest state-focused nonprofit news organization, with reporting from every capital. every newsroom is led by a veteran local journalist with deep knowledge of the state's political history and media…

Arts & Culture
12
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is State Government Leadership Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Republican Main Street Partnership. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
14/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

STATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,600,000 · Public BenefitSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE INC — $725,000 · Public BenefitREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COM…REPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $125,000 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND — $100,000 · Public BenefitNEW DEMOCRACY — $600,000 · OtherNEW DEMOCRACYTHE WELCOME PARTY INC — $500,000 · OtherTHE WELCOME PARTY INCLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT — $450,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECTPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC — $95,000 · OtherPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADER…WITH HONOR ACTION INC — $1,250,000 · Civil RightsWITH HONOR ACTION INCCOMMITTEE ON STATES — $145,000 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE ON STATESCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY — $850,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR I…Yes Every Kid Foundation — $500,000 · EducationYes Every…LA PROMISE FUND — $100,000 · EducationLA PROMIS…NEWDEAL — $325,000 · Community ImprovementNEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · Human Services
Public Benefit$2,550,000Other$1,645,000Civil Rights$1,395,000International$850,000Education$600,000Community Improvement$325,000Human Services$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTATE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,600,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetWITH HONOR ACTION INC — $1,250,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetCENTER FOR INNOVATIVE POLICY — $850,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE INC — $725,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetTHE WELCOME PARTY INC — $500,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT — $450,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetNEWDEAL — $325,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON STATES — $145,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetREPUBLICAN MAIN STREET PARTNERSHIP — $125,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC — $95,000 over 2y, 3.5% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · National Education Association of the United States

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 Confluence Advocacy 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Confluence Advocacy Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Confluence Advocacy 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 15 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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