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Axim Collaborative Inc

The axim collaborative, inc.

$9.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20232025.

Education$11MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPhilanthropy$600kYouth Development$600kEmployment$500kHuman Services$200kOther$2.5M
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $863k
  • $250k+14 grants · $8.4M
$498,625
Median grant
8
States reached
$808M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$1,000,000
CREDLENS LLC$1,000,000
SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC$840,780
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$606,220
TRESEARCH$600,000
DATAKIND INC$600,000
IVY TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$600,000
BRAVEN INC$600,000
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION$600,000
DIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION$500,000
COMPLETE COLLEGE AMERICA INC$498,625
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$350,000
SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC$325,500
THE MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC$250,000
MODERN STATES EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC$200,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REALIZE IMPACT: $200k → 10%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 edge
04Your 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.

1
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

2
Boston Architectural College

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

3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
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
6
Northeastern University
Education
7
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Ie New York College

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Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Modern States Education Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Education Equity LeadershipGovernment Accountability R…Elementary Literacy TutoringFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%44%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,531

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
13/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $1,550,955 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,074,841 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $937,266 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegePARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC — $905,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INCSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC — $840,780 · EducationSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INCMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $656,442 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTResearch — $600,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 · EducationEDUCATION DESIGN LAB — $554,875 · EducationDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $500,000 · EducationLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $500,000 · EducationComplete College America Inc — $498,625 · Education+5 more — $1,038,000 · Education+5 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $606,220 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UN…CAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $600,000 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNIT…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAS…The College of the Canyons Foundation — $287,485 · OtherThe College of th…Carnegie Mellon University — $280,992 · OtherCarnegie Mellon U…WASHINGTON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT COUNCIL — $200,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STUDEN…NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $108,200 · Other+3 more — $112,000 · OtherSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementDATAKIND INC — $600,000 · PhilanthropyBRAVEN INC — $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentMDRC — $500,000 · EmploymentRealize Impact — $200,000 · Human Services
Education$11,256,784Other$2,544,897Community Improvement$1,000,000Philanthropy$600,000Youth Development$600,000Employment$500,000Human Services$200,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $1,550,955 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,074,841 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $937,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC — $905,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC — $840,780 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $656,442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDATAKIND INC — $600,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $600,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDUCATION DESIGN LAB — $554,875 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMDRC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC — $325,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe College of the Canyons Foundation — $287,485 over 1y, 19% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $280,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRealize Impact — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $108,200 over 1y, 14% of budgetTECH FOUNDRY INC — $62,500 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Gates FoundationWA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Axim Collaborative Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Tech Foundry Inc6% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology5% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Axim Collaborative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Axim Collaborative 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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