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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
WE ARE DOWN HOME$20,000
MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE$20,000
PROJECT SAY SOMETHING$20,000
TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND$20,000
MISSISSIPPI VOTES (MS VOTES)$20,000
MI FAMILIA VOTA EDUCATION FUND$20,000
FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION$20,000
POWER INTERFAITH$20,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$20,000
ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER$20,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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
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

WI
PA
CO
AZ
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
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 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
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
Mijente

We are latinx and chicanx people who want to see our entire community thrive, brought together by a shared consciousness of the challenges we face and a deep seated need for co-development and kinship across identity, generation, language…

Community Improvement
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
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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6
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
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
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
9
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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10
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
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
Miami Freedom Project for Democracy

Miami freedom project for democracy (mfp for democracy), a non-partisan 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging south florida's latino and immigrant communities through comprehensive civic education, leadership training, and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mi Familia En Accion; 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 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.

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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
3/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 SomethingMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $20,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCIONMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $20,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI VOTESTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUC…FLORIDA 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 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 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 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
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.

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

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 Drum Major Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drum Major Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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.

    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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