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Equis Institute

EQUIS INSTITUTE's mission is to create a better understanding of latinx communities, invest in innovative approaches to reach and engage them, and convene latinx leaders for the growth and long-term sustainability of the sector.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$670k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Public Benefit$2.2MCivil Rights$1.7MEmployment$435kPhilanthropy$266kArts & Culture$150kHuman Services$120kEducation$35kEnvironment$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $1,545,636 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,580,636 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOMOS VOTANTES EDUCATION FUND$670,000
DIGITAL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS$255,636
PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION$250,000
PODERISTAS COMMUNITY FUND$50,000
INCLUDUS FUND$40,000
DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION$35,000
VALLEY VOICES$35,000
NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE$35,000
NUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION$35,000
THE SEMILLA PROJECT$35,000
MAKE THE ROAD PA$35,000
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO$35,000
CENTRAL VALLEY WORKERS CENTER$35,000
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, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PODERISTAS COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 10%MAKE THE ROAD PA: $35k → 20%NM COMUNIDADES EN ACCION Y DE FE: $35k → 23%INCLUDUS FUND: $40k → 6%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO: $35k → 23%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.

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
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 4 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
-23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEmploymentOther

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

  • PU
    PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $530k · revenue +82%
  • CV
    CENTRAL VALLEY WORKERS CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $435k · revenue -80%
  • VV
    VALLEY VOICES
    2× · 2022–2024 · $235k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CA
    Cafe Accion
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue -30%
  • CE
    CIVIC EMPOWERMENT COALITION
    one grant, 2022 · $631k · revenue -23% · 54% of their budget
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF FRESNO
    one grant, 2022 · $344k · revenue -75% · 44% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
2
Center for Community Advocacy

Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.

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3
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
4
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
5
Central Valley Partnership

The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…

Civil Rights
6
Central Valley Journalism Collaborative

We grow local news for and from the Valley to help you live a healthy and informed life. We connect Central Valley communities with the support needed to grow and sustain local journalism.

Philanthropy
7
Latinas Usa
Community Improvement
8
Voces Unidas Action Fund

Building and growing latina and latino political power in the mountain region.

Community Improvement
9
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
10
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
11
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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12
California Calls Action Fund

An alliance of community based organizations to engage, educate and motivate california's electorate.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dolores C Huerta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Central Valley Workers Center. 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

21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
6/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cafe Accion — $1,130,000 · Civil RightsCafe AccionPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION — $530,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF FRESNO — $343,714 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF FRESNOVALLEY VOICES — $235,000 · Civil RightsVALLEY VOICESHARNESS COMMUNITY — $150,000 · Civil RightsHARNESS COMMUNITY+2 more — $32,500 · Civil RightsNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $670,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH MAIN STREET FUN…DIGITAL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS — $255,636 · Community ImprovementDIGITAL DEMOCRACY INS…DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCIVIC EMPOWERMENT COALITION — $630,680 · Public BenefitCIVIC EMPOWERM…CENTRAL VALLEY WORKERS CENTER — $435,000 · EmploymentCENTRAL V…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $258,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyPODERISTAS COMMUNITY FUND — $50,000 · Human ServicesINCLUDUS FUND — $40,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesMake The Road States Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEMILLA PROJECT — $35,000 · EducationNUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT — $35,000 · Other
Civil Rights$2,421,214Community Improvement$960,636Public Benefit$630,680Employment$435,000Philanthropy$265,500Human Services$195,000Education$35,000Other$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $670,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCIVIC EMPOWERMENT COALITION — $630,680 over 1y, 54% of budgetPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION — $530,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCENTRAL VALLEY WORKERS CENTER — $435,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF FRESNO — $343,714 over 1y, 44% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $258,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDIGITAL DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE OF THE AMERICAS — $255,636 over 1y, 42% of budgetVALLEY VOICES — $235,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHARNESS COMMUNITY — $150,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPODERISTAS COMMUNITY FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetINCLUDUS FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SEMILLA PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe — $35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNUESTRA TIERRA CONSERVATION PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDolores Huerta Action Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…WK Kellogg FoundationWestern Conservation …Tides FoundationNew Venture FundThe Ford FoundationEquislabsSilicon Valley Commun…Tides CenterRockefeller Philanthr…Impactassetsinc
NEO Philanthropy IncNY19.2× affinity7 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 · WK Kellogg Foundation · Western Conservation Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Equislabs · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Center · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc

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 Equis Institute 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Equis Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Equis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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