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Cs Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
129
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$7.3MEnvironment$4.9MCivil Rights$3.2MInternational$2.2MFood & Nutrition$1.6MPublic Benefit$1.3MCommunity Improvement$638kCrime & Legal$422kOther$0
02FY2025 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $1.8M
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $3.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$40,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$1,085,000
FRIENDS OF ACTION GROUP ON EROSION TECHNOLOGY AND CONCENTRATION INC$250,000
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$150,000
TIDES CENTER$145,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$145,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR CIVIL JUSTICE FUND$130,000
GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND$105,000
AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT$100,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK$100,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$100,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$100,000
PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC$100,000
DEFENDING RIGHTS & DISSENT$90,000
PROTEUS FUND INC$85,000
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAS$82,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $30k → 20%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $30k → 18%SOLIDARITY STL INC: $16k → 21%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATLANTA: $50k → 9%ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION: $20k → 8%ILLINOIS WORKERS IN ACTION: $16k → 8%CAFE PUENTE: $500 → 8%THE LIVING ROOM: $200 → 9%THE LIVING ROOM: $200 → 9%MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN: $500 → 8%THE LIVING ROOM: $200 → 9%TIDES CENTER: $445k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $145k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $100k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $50k → 10%EQUITABLE FOOD INITIATIVE: $50k → 14%POSSIBILITY LABS: $20k → 10%THE ENGINE ROOM: $16k → 17%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $50k → 17%THE ENGINE ROOM: $16k → 17%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $20k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
HI
AL
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of Cs Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cs Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 82 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
43

Total granted

$14M
$810k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

87%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $694k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +108% · 47% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $665k · revenue +228%
  • CF
    Center for the study of the Americas
    5× · 2020–2025 · $605k · revenue +12% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • GF
    Goodnation Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $85k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $61k
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -71%
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
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
2
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
3
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
6
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
11
New Roots Institute

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

Food & Nutrition
12
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ceres Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

145 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. 145 of the 169 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
145/145
Grantees still filing
79/145
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,940,050 · PhilanthropyMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTIDES FOUNDATION: $2,453,400 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONSolidaire Network Inc: $400,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc+7 more: $257,370 · PhilanthropyFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $1,591,500 · Food & NutritionFriends of A…Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula: $440,000 · Food & NutritionEcology Acti…Center for Food Safety: $240,000 · Food & NutritionCenter for F…National Black Food and Justice Alliance: $123,600 · Food & NutritionSEMILLERO DE IDEAS: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $100,700 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $665,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR …INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC: $225,500 · InternationalINSTITUTE F…NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE FUND INC: $215,000 · InternationalNATIONAL SE…TRADE JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $185,000 · InternationalTRADE JUSTI…INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $170,000 · InternationalINTERNATION…SOUTH AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $166,400 · InternationalSOUTH AFRIC…PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $150,000 · InternationalPHYSICIANS …GLOBAL EXCHANGE: $146,750 · InternationalGLOBAL EXCH…Just Vision Inc: $85,000 · International+11 more: $419,300 · International+11 moreGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $461,350 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GRE…FRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $380,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF…Pesticide Action Network North America: $307,500 · EnvironmentPesticide …GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $265,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL JUS…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $160,500 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $155,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JU…Central California Environmental Justice Network: $108,500 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Environment+10 more: $282,250 · Environment+10 moreCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $615,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR…PARTNERSHIPFORCIVILJUSTICEFUND: $545,000 · Civil RightsPARTNERSHI…DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $340,000 · Civil RightsDEFENDING …PEOPLE'S PARITY PROJECT INC: $160,000 · Civil RightsPEOPLE'S P…AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $135,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS …The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $95,000 · Civil Rights+9 more: $287,800 · Civil Rights+9 moreCenter for the study of the Americas: $605,100 · OtherCenter for the study of the Am…Justice Funders: $250,000 · OtherFJC: $219,200 · OtherPROTEUS FUND INC: $604,000 · OtherPROTEUS FUND INCINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $417,000 · OtherINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWO…TIDES CENTER: $710,000 · OtherTIDES CENTERAMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT: $400,000 · OtherAMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PR…INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $238,400 · Other+85 more: $2,829,750 · Other+85 morePUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $455,000 · Public BenefitPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $440,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $335,000 · Public BenefitGovernment Accountability Project: $280,000 · Public BenefitFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $105,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$6,050,820Food & Nutrition$2,595,800International$2,427,950Environment$2,220,100Civil Rights$2,177,800Other$6,273,450Public Benefit$1,615,000

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 budgetMARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,940,050 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $2,453,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $1,591,500 over 5y, 47% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $710,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $665,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $615,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for the study of the Americas: $605,100 over 5y, 50% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $604,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIPFORCIVILJUSTICEFUND: $545,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $461,350 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $455,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $440,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetEcology Action of the Midpeninsula: $440,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $417,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT: $400,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $380,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $340,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $335,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $307,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetGovernment Accountability Project: $280,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $265,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetJustice Funders: $250,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $240,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $238,400 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC: $225,500 over 4y, 38% of budgetNATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE FUND INC: $215,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $190,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTRADE JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $185,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $180,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCONSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER: $180,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR NOT-FOR-PROFIT LAW INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $170,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH AFRICA DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $166,400 over 3y, 14% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $160,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S PARITY PROJECT INC: $160,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $155,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetGLOBAL EXCHANGE: $146,750 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetAMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVALUES UNITED: $130,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance: $123,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCentral California Environmental Justice Network: $108,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA: $105,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSEMILLERO DE IDEAS: $100,000 over 2y, 46% 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.

Warsh-Mott LegacyThe Schmidt Family Fo…Amalgamated Charitabl…Rsf Social Finance IncFoundation to Promote…Marin Community Found…Common Counsel Founda…The San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationWallace Global Fund IIImpactassetsincRockefeller Philanthr…
Warsh-Mott LegacyCA76.3× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Warsh-Mott Legacy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Marin Community Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Impactassetsinc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 Cs Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cs Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cs Fund?

Find your warmest path to Cs Fund 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 169 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home