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Driving Force Group Inc

Driving Force Group (DFG) is dedicated to providing the infrastructure and resources to create sustainable social impact Through fiscal sponsorship and compliance support, we ensure the philanthropic projects have the financial and operational foundation needed to create lasting social impact.

$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$10k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$322kPhilanthropy$187kCommunity Improvement$129kHuman Services$112kReligion$98kYouth Development$79k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,524 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,524 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$818k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tyronn Lue Fund$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Anthony Barr Foundation Inc: $112k → 14%Parent Power Lab Inc: $50k → 15%Moore Philanthropy Impact: $50k → 12%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

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AL
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 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.

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The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
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Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
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The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
Benedict College

Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…

Education
5
Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Minnesota State Bar Foundation

The minnesota state bar foundation mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.

Crime & Legal
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The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
10
National Basketball Association Foundation

To drive economic opportunity for under-resourced youth, ages 14-24, by funding programs that generate successful transitions from school to meaningful employment with priority being given to organizations operating in nba team markets.

Community Improvement
11
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
12
Arbor Brothers Inc Dba Arbor Rising

Arbor brothers seeks out the nation's most promising social entrepreneurs and helps them grow their ideas into powerful and sustainable forces for change.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baltimore Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alice Community Center. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAISE THE BARR: $111,592 · Human ServicesRAISE THE BARRMOORE IMPACT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMOORE IMPACT INCParent Power Lab Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesParent Power Lab IncSt Luke Methodist Church: $128,000 · OtherSt Luke Methodist ChurchJust Good Brands LLC: $50,000 · OtherJust Good Brands LLCUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $16,188 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAANOINTED LIFE SAVING MINISTRIES: $15,225 · OtherANOINTED LIFE SAVING MINI…BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $137,208 · PhilanthropyBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FO…PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY F…Driving Force Group Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDriving Force Group In…ALICE Community Center: $129,425 · Recreation & SportsALICE Community…NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $50,000 · EducationNACA-INSPIRED…BEYOND THE BOROUGHS INC: $28,875 · EducationBEYOND THE BO…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,867 · EducationMETROPOLITAN …THE 7UICE FOUNDATION INC: $79,477 · Youth DevelopmentTHE 7UICE…
Human Services$211,592Other$209,413Philanthropy$187,208Recreation & Sports$129,425Education$110,742Youth Development$79,477

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 budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $137,208 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALICE Community Center: $129,425 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE 7UICE FOUNDATION INC: $79,477 over 1y, 33% of budgetMOORE IMPACT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetParent Power Lab Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEYOND THE BOROUGHS INC: $28,875 over 1y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDriving Force Group Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,867 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Driving Force Group Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Driving Force Group Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get 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 · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Driving Force Group Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Driving Force Group 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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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