· Public charity
Elevate USA
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELEVATE LOUISVILLE | $50,000 |
| ELEVATE NAVAJO | $50,000 |
| ELEVATE TAMPA BAY | $50,000 |
| ELEVATE WEST ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| ELEVATE BRIDGEPORT | $39,453 |
| ELEVATE GREATER ATLANTA INC | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE ORLANDO | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE METRO KC | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE AUGUSTA | $25,000 |
| COLORADO UPLIFT | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE JACKSONVILLE | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE INDIANAPOLIS | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE SAVANNAH | $25,000 |
| ELEVATE NEW YORK | $19,949 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- EBELEVATE BRIDGEPORT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $131k · revenue +149%
- ETELEVATE TAMPA BAY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +79%
- EWELEVATE WEST ALABAMA2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +99% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- EAELEVATE AUGUSTA INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Embrace, educate and encourage our youth
Teaching and mentoring
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
To provide athletic and academic training and mentoring to children between the ages of 12-18.
Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.
Empower underserved youth through outdoor programs.
Motivating underserved urban youth to excel in their academics and character to empower them to be leaders who bring about positive changes in their schools, communities and the world.
Building long-term, life changing relationships with urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
Education
Public Education.
We deliver long-term, life-changing relationships with urban youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Bridgeport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elevate West Alabama. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ELEVATE NAVAJO ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE WEST ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds COLORADO UPLIFT INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NJ ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE DALLAS ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LEADERSHIP VENTURE ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE METRO KC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Elevate Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE SAVANNAH ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE AUGUSTA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Elevate USA 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.
- Elevate Bridgeport Inc — 21% of income from government
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.
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