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Drum Major Institute

To focus on working to eradicate poverty, racism and militarism/violence, through advocacy, empowerment and education, to work together to create a vibrant, community-based society focused on social justice, peace, enriching lives and working to further realize the dream.

$335k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Civil Rights$140kPublic Benefit$80kCrime & Legal$65kArts & Culture$45kCommunity Improvement$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kEducation$20kHuman Services$20k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HICKMAN HOLLER APPALACHIAN RELIEF FUND$25,000
HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER$25,000
UNMANAGEABLE$25,000
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA$20,000
FORWARD JUSTICE$20,000
MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE$20,000
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND$20,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$20,000
MISSISSIPPI VOTES (MS VOTES)$20,000
PROJECT SAY SOMETHING$20,000
BLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT EDUCATION$20,000
MI FAMILIA VOTA EDUCATION FUND$20,000
FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION$20,000
POWER INTERFAITH$20,000
WE ARE DOWN HOME$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
2
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
3
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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4
Puente Human Rights Movement

The puente human rights movement is a migrant worker justice foundation based in phoenix, az. we develop, educate, and empower migrant communities to protect and defend our families and ourselves.

Human Services
5
Civic Tn

Civictn and its partners are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by lifting up the voices of the disenfranchised, restoring the power and accessibility of the vote, and…

Civil Rights
6
Action Tn

Action tn is dedicated to helping grassroots groups across tennessee expand and coordinate their civic and political engagement efforts in service of building power around our shared values, with a particular focus on empowering…

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7
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
8
Latino Political Network
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9
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
10
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

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11
Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc

We are texas lawyers for texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts.

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12
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mi Familia En Accion and the most unlike its peers is Unmanageable. 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

17 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.

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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
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARCH ON — $100,000 · OtherMARCH ONBLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT — $20,000 · OtherBLACK MALE VOTER PROJECTWE ARE DOWN HOME — $20,000 · OtherWE ARE DOWN HOMEVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $20,000 · OtherVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INCProject Say Something — $20,000 · Civil RightsProject Say SomethingMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $20,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI VOTESTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUC…MI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $20,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCIONFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION — $20,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION…THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER — $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE HUMAN TRAFFI…ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $20,000 · Crime & LegalABOLITIONIST LAW…FORWARD JUSTICE — $20,000 · Crime & LegalFORWARD JUSTICEUNMANAGEABLE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureUNMANAGEABL…MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMIJENTE SUP…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New — $20,000 · EmploymentPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$160,000Civil Rights$100,000Crime & Legal$65,000Arts & Culture$45,000Philanthropy$25,000Employment$20,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARCH ON — $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNMANAGEABLE — $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetGeorgia Strategic Alliance for New — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProject Say Something — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationWay to RiseNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Telescope FundAll Hands on Deck Net…Silicon Valley Commun…Windward FundSolidago Foundation
NEO Philanthropy IncNY25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Way to Rise · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Telescope Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Windward Fund · Solidago 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 Drum Major Institute 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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