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Defy Ventures Inc

Defy ventures' mission is to shift mindsets to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance by providing them with personal development, career readiness, and entrepreneurship training. Defy's vision is to cut the recidivism rate in half by leveraging entrepreneurship to increase economic opportunity and…

$130k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
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Itemized, FY2024
$12k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin Foundation$12,00010%

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About Defy Ventures Inc

How much does Defy Ventures Inc give?
Defy Ventures Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $12,000, out of $129,610 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Defy Ventures Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Defy Ventures Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($12k).
Where is Defy Ventures Inc based?
Defy Ventures Inc is based in NY.

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 1 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 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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