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Connect Humanity
CONNECT HUMANITY works to expand digital access in rural, low and moderate-income, and historically underserved communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $394,956 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $418,576 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,620 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENERATION WEST VIRGINIA | $78,000 |
| FOOTHILLS REGIONAL COMMISSION | $60,000 |
| BUFFALO TRACE AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT | $39,856 |
| ASHTABULA COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS | $30,000 |
| TRUMBULL COUNTY COMMISSIONERS | $30,000 |
| CITY OF PITTSBURGH | $30,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP | $30,000 |
| GARRETT COUNTY | $30,000 |
| WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS | $24,807 |
| SOUTHERN TIER 8 REGIONAL BOARD | $21,000 |
| ALLEGHENIES BROADBAND INC | $9,488 |
| DRIVE | $6,000 |
| BRADLEY COUNTY | $5,805 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GWGENERATION WEST VIRGINIA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $371k · revenue 0%
- VCVIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2024–2025 · $120k · revenue +52%
- IPISOTHERMAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION2× · 2024–2025 · $120k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- COCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -19%
- DIDELTA INTERFAITHone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -66% · 33% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $27k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Assist reliable businesses and industrial firms to locate to greene county, pa
Economic Development and Tourism Promotion in Eastern Kentucky
To procure, develop, and operate land and properties in order to create job opportunities and foster the economic development of connersville and fayette county.
Invest appalachia (ia) is a regional impact investment platform designed by and for the people of central appalachia. ia provides blended investment capital to strengthen business opportunities, build equitable local wealth, advance…
The edc is committed to serving new and existing businesses and industries, and to assist with the creation and retention of quality jobs through direct and collaborative funding of projects for the economic well being of franklin county.
Were on a mission to improve the quality of life for the citizens of dekalb county through the responsible growth of business and industry. our vision is to facilitate investment into making dekalb county a premier economic driver in…
Gaston Innnovation Group, Inc., dba TechWorks Gaston, was formed for the purpose of improving the socio-economic conditions for citizens of Gaston County, North Carolina, by stimulating job growth through digital inclusion, small business…
Build a world-class economy in northern kentucky through the expansion of existing businesses and the creation and attraction of high quality, primary industry employers.
The lagrange county economic development corporation is the single point of contact for economic development efforts in lagrange county, indiana. we work with regional, state and federal partners to support and encourgage our clients'…
The Corporation was formed to recruit and promote new and existing industrial business to Muhlenberg County and immediate area .
Economic development of wilkes county
The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center On Rural Innovation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meigs County Community Improvement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GENERATION WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ISOTHERMAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds DELTA INTERFAITH ↗
- Who funds RED BIRD MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEIGS COUNTY COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM REVITALIZATION ECONOMIC ACTION TEAM - GREAT ↗
- Who funds LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENIES BROADBAND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Connect Humanity 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.
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
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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