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Facebook Community Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Philanthropy$634kInternational$538kEducation$496kCommunity Improvement$263kHuman Services$80kYouth Development$70kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,025
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CFLEADS$12,025
ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC$12,025
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.

US giving: 58% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 42% that went abroad ($1.0M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHAPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%SUSIE QS KIDS INC: $10k → 10%REFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC: $10k → 14%EMPOWER YOUTH: $10k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES: $10k → 16%CARING FOR KIDS CLOTHING: $10k → 8%I AM MY SISTERS KEEPER: $10k → 10%BETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%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

MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
DE
DC
AL
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 42% of all-years giving ($1.0M)

7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Mexico$203k · 2 grants
Brazil$203k · 2 grants
Ireland$183k · 2 grants
Kenya$120k · 2 grants
Zambia$103k · 1 grant
South Africa$100k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$100k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of Facebook Community Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Facebook Community Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 42% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$842k · 5 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +177% since the first grant, against +101% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
54

Total granted

$842k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+177%
+101%

Still filing today

20%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • DR
    DOCKDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $203k
  • FP
    FUNDACION PARA UNIR Y DAR ASOCIACION CIVIL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $203k
  • IP
    INSTITUTO PHI PHILANTROPIA INTELIGENTE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $203k

Funded once

  • TM
    Thurgood Marshall College Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $243k · revenue -9%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR IRELAND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • GF
    GLOBAL FUND FOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…

Community Improvement
2
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
3
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
4
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network

DBCFSN works to build self-reliance and food security in Detroits black community by influencing public policy promoting urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating and encouraging youth to pursue careers in food related fields.

Food & Nutrition
5
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
6
Youth Ambassadors Inc

Youth Ambassadors is an educational program designed to empower underserved teenage youth with important life skills, soft job skills, creative expression, and adult mentors, helping them become future community leaders willing and able to…

Arts & Culture
7
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
8
Community Capacity Development Inc

Community Capacity Development is a Human Justice and Healing organization committed to addressing systemic challenges within marginalized communities of color.

Community Improvement
9
Coalition for Engaged Education

The Coalition for Engaged Education uses individualized mobile case management, internships, and enriching programs to empower system-impacted youth, ages 14-24, to transition into stable, fulfilling lives.

Education
10
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
11
Womens Employment Network

Our Mission is to help women raise their self-esteem and achieve economic independence through sustained employment. Our Vision is to advance positive change in the lives of women, their families and the community, one woman at a time.

Employment
12
Community Empowerment Network Corporation

CEN seeks to help facilitate a culture of collaboration and accountability among the people, local churches and schools, government, NGOs, and private partners in order to achieve success.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Renewport Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOCKDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $203,334 · OtherDOCKDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCYFUNDACION PARA UNIR Y DAR ASOCIACION CIVIL: $203,333 · OtherFUNDACION PARA UNIR Y DAR ASOCIACION CIVILINSTITUTO PHI PHILANTROPIA INTELIGENTE: $203,333 · OtherINSTITUTO PHI PHILANTROPIA INTELIGENTEKENYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherKENYA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR IRELAND: $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR IRELANDGLOBAL FUND FOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS: $100,000 · OtherGLOBAL FUND FOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSCFI: $83,333 · OtherCFI+30 more: $302,025 · Other+30 moreTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $130,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDA…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $120,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION …CFLEADS: $112,025 · PhilanthropyCFLEADSCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $31,700 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDAT…Stanislaus Community Foundation: $30,000 · PhilanthropyStanislaus Community …ONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyThurgood Marshall College Fund: $243,000 · EducationThurgood Mar…ACCENT PONTIAC INC: $10,000 · EducationAMANI WOMEN CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationGIVE2ASIA: $183,334 · InternationalEMPOWER YOUTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesI AM MY SISTERS KEEPER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCARING FOR KIDS CLOTHING: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHAPE Community Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesBETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUSIE QS KIDS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Allies: $10,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BROWN HOUSE EXPERIENCE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCollegeCommunityCareer Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENSHARP: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARCHEN SAGEN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOVEN OAK INITIATIVES OF NORWOODINC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLATINITAS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTINY WPA: $10,000 · Youth Development360 DETROIT INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRENEWPORT INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBY OUR HANDS: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,315,358Philanthropy$463,725Education$263,000International$183,334Human Services$80,000Youth Development$70,000Community Improvement$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $243,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $183,334 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCFLEADS: $112,025 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $31,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStanislaus Community Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC: $12,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budget360 DETROIT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCARING FOR KIDS CLOTHING: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNEW CANEY NEW HORIZONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCASA FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSHAPE Community Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS OF McHENRY COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWEST PHILADELPHIA ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRESTORING JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCollegeCommunityCareer Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTEENSHARP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MARCHEN SAGEN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWOVEN OAK INITIATIVES OF NORWOODINC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLATINITAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPraise Is The Cure Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetNeighborhood Allies: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFaith Hope & Love Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOREVER YOUR OVERWATCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetC-ASSIST: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTINY WPA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREFUGEE WOMENS NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFARMSHARE AUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHORUS OF DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMANI WOMEN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetJust Bakery of Atlanta Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

United Way of Greater…United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …The Philadelphia Foun…Rochester Area Commun…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Mightycause Charitabl…Good360Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
United Way of Greater HoustonTX13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Houston · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Philadelphia Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Good360 · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Facebook Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Facebook Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • I Am My Sisters Keeper Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Teensharp: 11% of income from government
  • Cfleads: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Facebook Community Fund?

Find your warmest path to Facebook Community Fund 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 67 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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