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E Pluribus Unum Institute

E PLURIBUS UNUM INSTITUTE is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to build a more just, equitable, and inclusive south, uprooting the barriers that have long divided the region by race and class.

$398k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Philanthropy$150kEducation$150kHuman Services$121kCommunity Improvement$113kCivil Rights$75kYouth Development$75k
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $248k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$37,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRINCE COMPLEX INC$75,000
ARLINGTON FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH$75,000
UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA$37,500
GSBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$37,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC$37,500
MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC$37,500
THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCACY GROUP$37,500
CHESTERFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$37,470
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA$23,203
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 (FY21–22, $75k) 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%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $38k → 17%MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $38k → 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

CA
VA
TN
SC
LA
AL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$421k · 6 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$421k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-14%
+104%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TP
    THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCACY GROUP
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k
  • MU
    MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue -14%
  • GC
    GSBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue +104%
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
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to generate private financial support to further the mission of central piedmont community college.

Education
2
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
3
Community Education Building Corp
Philanthropy
4
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
5
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
6
United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc

United way uses collective giving to build pathways to economic opportunity for all, primarily through neighborhood-based, grassroots and responsive solutions.continued on schedule o.united way was founded 90 years ago in mecklenburg…

Philanthropy
7
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
8
Capital Community Partners
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9
Collaborative Solutions for Communities

To be the leading solution-focused resource in building strong, sustainable families and communities through family support services, innovative training, community capacity building, economic development and social enterprise.

Crime & Legal
10
Peter Paul Development Center Inc

Peter paul development center is an outreach and community center serving children and families in church hill and neighboring communities in richmond's east end. founded by john coleman in 1979, peter paul is the oldest continually…

Human Services
11
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation

The nashville chamber public benefit foundation supports the work of the nashville area chamber of commerce through efforts to improve the quality of education, encourage public and private efforts around education, and to facilitate the…

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12
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chesterfield Public Education Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Memphis Urban League Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN CO…GSBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $75,000 · PhilanthropyGSBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREACHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $74,970 · PhilanthropyCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHE PEOPLE'S ADVOCACY GROUP: $75,000 · OtherTHE PEOPLE'S ADVOCAC…Catholic Charities of South Carolina: $46,406 · OtherCatholic Charities o…Arlington Foundation for Families & Youth: $75,000 · EducationArlington Fo…MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesMEMPHIS URBA…Prince Complex Inc: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentPrince Compl…CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE: $37,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$299,970Other$121,406Education$75,000Human Services$75,000Youth Development$75,000Public Safety & Disaster$37,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArlington Foundation for Families & Youth: $75,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetMEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPrince Complex Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGSBC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $75,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTERFIELD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $74,970 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of South Carolina: $46,406 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE: $37,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover 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 E Pluribus Unum Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Pluribus Unum Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%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
    1get 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
    ⤢ 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to E Pluribus Unum Institute?

    Find your warmest path to E Pluribus Unum Institute 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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $112k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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