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Feedback Labs

FEEDBACK LABS' mission is to support philanthropy, nonprofits, and other social sector organizations to regularly listen and act on feedback in high-quality, equitable, and inclusive ways.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
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02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$68kCrime & Legal$18kFood & Nutrition$18kHuman Services$18kCommunity Improvement$15kPhilanthropy$15kEmployment$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $57,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $72,564 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,064 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBALGIVING$17,500
GATHER FOR$10,000
YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA$7,500
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$7,500
POSSIBILITY LABS$7,500
INDIANA PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY24–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GATHER FOR: $10k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $8k → 10%YMCA OF METRO ATLANTA: $8k → 13%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $8k → 7%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
VA
DC
GA
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 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
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
2
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
3
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
4
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
5
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
6
Partners for Public Good

PPG is a non-partisan, not-for-profit team of doers, coaches, and advisors focused on making government work for its people. We help state and local governments optimize and streamline the most important work that they do: deliver public…

Community Improvement
7
The Good Food Institute Inc

To harness the power of food innovation and markets to make the global food system better for the planet, people, and animals by supporting efforts to make alternative proteins accessible, affordable, and delicious.

Food & Nutrition
8
Social Progress Imperative Inc

Social Progress Imperative mission is to scale and accelerate the use of data to influence policies and investments to better serve all of humanity.

Social Science
9
The Workers Lab

The Workers Labs purpose is to give new ideas about increasing worker power a genuine changce to succeed and flourish. We envison a society where workers are powerful drivers of economic, social, and political transformation. To bring…

Community Improvement
10
Progressive Technology Project Inc

Progressive technology project (ptp) is organizing resistance to oppressive corporate technologies through political education, movement building, and creating people-controlled technology that serves the needs of community organizations.…

Philanthropy
11
Upaya Social Ventures

Upaya Social Ventures' mission is to create dignified jobs for people living in extreme poverty by building scalable businesses with investment and consulting support.

International
12
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corporation for a Skilled Workforce; the most unlike its peers is Videoout 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC: $50,000 · InternationalBUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS …GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCGATHERFOR INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGATHERFOR INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $7,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRIST…Charity Navigator: $7,500 · Human ServicesCharity NavigatorPOSSIBILITY LABS: $7,500 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABSFRESHFARM MARKETS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFRESHFARM …NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL Y…SILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCORPORATION FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE: $10,000 · EducationMINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Public BenefitMY VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $7,500 · OtherMY VILLAGE PROJECT IN…Indiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc: $7,500 · OtherIndiana Philanthropy …SUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $7,500 · OtherSUSTAINABLE SEATTLETHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $7,500 · OtherTHE BAIL PROJECT INCVIDEOOUT INC: $7,500 · OtherVIDEOOUT INC
International$67,500Human Services$32,500Food & Nutrition$17,500Youth Development$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Education$10,000Public Benefit$10,000Other$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUSARA CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESHFARM MARKETS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGATHERFOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAYUDA LEGAL PUERTO RICO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORPORATION FOR A SKILLED WORKFORCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINORITY VETERANS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMY VILLAGE PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361): $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SEATTLE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Feedback Labs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feedback Labs. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 81%
  • My Village Project Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Feedback Labs?

Find your warmest path to Feedback Labs 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home