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Diamond Mind Foundation

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.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$135kAnimals$108kHuman Services$62kCivil Rights$49kArts & Culture$45kHealth$30kPublic Benefit$26kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
$2,875
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMANILITY$30,000
DR NAOMI WOLF (SHERMAN P BENNETT AWARD RECEPIENT)$20,000
FORMERFEDSGROUP FREEDOM FOUNDATION$15,000
PUBLIUS NON PROFIT INC$7,500
SMART TANDEM LLC$5,005
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL$5,000
CODE OF VETS INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
GIVESENDGO$2,875
TRINITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY$2,500
GEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
MTVA$900
Individual grant recipient$675
ALLOGRAPH LLC$650
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM S FUND USA: $1k → 11%HUMANILITY: $30k → 17%CODE OF SUPPORT: $1k → 9%BRAVER ANGELS: $5k → 17%LIFE ASSET INC: $5k → 14%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
VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
SC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$257k · 15 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
52

Total granted

$257k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $27k · revenue +143%
  • MF
    Moms for Liberty
    2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue ×16
  • AS
    Arborlea Study Center
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • DF
    DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue -94%
  • BA
    BETTER ANGELS NEW YORK
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
3
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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4
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
Freedom Research Foundation

The mission of the freedom research foundation is to send americans to confront our enemies by empowering those who share our values. we believe in the foundational principles that made america the greatest political achievement in human…

International
8
Hudson Institute Inc

Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.

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9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies Inc

To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cana Academy. 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

45 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. 45 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CODE OF VETS INC: $107,500 · OtherCODE OF VETS INCGEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $59,800 · OtherGEORGETOWN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION: $26,000 · OtherDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATIONDR NAOMI WOLF (SHERMAN P BENNETT AWARD RECEPIENT): $20,000 · OtherDR NAOMI WOLF (SHERMAN P BENNETT AWARD RECEPIENT)BETTER ANGELS NEW YORK: $20,000 · OtherBETTER ANGELS NEW YORKIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · Other+53 more: $76,264 · Other+53 moreCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,672 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FO…Moms for Liberty: $20,498 · EducationMoms for LibertyUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHER…THE REASON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDATIONFAUSTINA ACADEMY: $5,000 · Education+8 more: $13,455 · Education+8 moreHumanality: $30,000 · Human ServicesHumanalit…Braver AngelsInc: $5,000 · Human ServicesBraver An…LIFE ASSET INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIFE ASSE…+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesFormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation: $15,000 · Crime & LegalAmerica First Legal Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & LegalArborlea Study Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEVERY BLACK LIFE MATTERS INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · HealthNAMI National: $519 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $442 · Health
Other$320,564Education$95,625Human Services$42,000Crime & Legal$20,000Arts & Culture$14,500Youth Development$5,000Health$3,961

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumanality: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $26,672 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMoms for Liberty: $20,498 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFormerFedsGroup Freedom Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetArborlea Study Center: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerica First Legal Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ASSET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAUSTINA ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY BLACK LIFE MATTERS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRELIGIOUS FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC: $2,557 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANA ACADEMY: $2,298 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChristians Engaged: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget1792 Exchange: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMS FUND USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCode of Support Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLEXIT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercury One Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 30 DAY FUND INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD FUTURE SOCIETY: $600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $519 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Horse Rescue: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $50 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.

Donors Trust IncBradley Impact Fund I…The Signatry Charitab…Christian Community F…California Community …Servant FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Donors Trust IncVA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · California Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Diamond Mind Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Diamond Mind Foundation 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 87 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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