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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 FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$269k
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
PA
CO
AZ
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
March On$100,00011%
The Human Trafficking Legal Center$25,00012%
Unmanageable$25,00017%
Black Male Voter Project$20,0001n/a
Georgia Strategic Alliance for New$20,00011%
Project Say Something$20,00015%
Mijente Support Committee$20,00011%
Mi Familia En Accion$20,00010%
Mississippi Votes$20,00011%
Power Interfaith Inc$20,0001n/a
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All grantees of Drum Major Institute by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
March On$100,00011%
The Human Trafficking Legal Center$25,00012%
Unmanageable$25,00017%
Black Male Voter Project$20,0001n/a
Georgia Strategic Alliance for New$20,00011%
Project Say Something$20,00015%
Mijente Support Committee$20,00011%
Mi Familia En Accion$20,00010%
Mississippi Votes$20,00011%
Power Interfaith Inc$20,0001n/a
We Are Down Home$20,00010%
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund$20,00010%
Abolitionist Law Center$20,00010%
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition$20,00011%
Forward Justice$20,00010%
Voces de la Frontera Inc$20,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Drum Major Institute supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarch On: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Human Trafficking Legal Center: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 budgetMi Familia En Accion: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMississippi Votes: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWe Are Down Home: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Freedom Network Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

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

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.

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About Drum Major Institute

How much does Drum Major Institute give?
Drum Major Institute reported 16 grants totaling $335,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Drum Major Institute fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (32%), Public Benefit (18%), Crime & Legal (15%).
Who are Drum Major Institute's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: March On ($100k), The Human Trafficking Legal Center ($25k), Unmanageable ($25k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Drum Major Institute?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is Drum Major Institute based?
Drum Major Institute is based in GA.

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 17 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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