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Flock Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$9.7MCivil Rights$8.9MPhilanthropy$7.6MEnvironment$7.3MArts & Culture$3.2MFood & Nutrition$2.4MPublic Benefit$2.1MEducation$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $6.6M
  • $250k+19 grants · $17M
$150,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIVE MOVEMENT$2,585,000
SEED COMMONS$2,300,000
OPEN BUFFALO INC$1,777,311
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC$1,300,000
URBAN TILTH$1,235,000
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$1,100,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK$1,000,000
APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND$970,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$825,000
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE DBA LABOR NETWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY$650,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$570,000
PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC$500,000
PROTEUS FUND$500,000
INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$387,500
EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE$375,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ROOTS COLLECTIVE: $3k → 15%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $375k → 18%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $150k → 6%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $25k → 18%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $150k → 6%EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $25k → 18%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $65k → 6%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $10k → 6%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $50k → 29%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES: $25k → 27%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES: $25k → 27%REDBUD FINANCIAL ALTERNATIVES: $18k → 27%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $40k → 29%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC: $75k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC: $30k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC: $30k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT INC: $30k → 13%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $20k → 29%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $20k → 29%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $18k → 29%CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES: $15k → 29%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $1.8M → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $125k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $125k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $125k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO: $125k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $125k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $75k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $60k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $11k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO2019-2021 CROSSROADS COLLECTIVE: $11k → 13%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $11k → 13%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

AK
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 67 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
78

Total granted

$36M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+17%

Still filing today

84%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • NM
    NATIVE MOVEMENT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +282% · 27% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WORKING WORLD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +131%
  • Open Buffalo Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +257% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • NV
    NEW VENTURE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $329k
  • MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -36%
  • MB
    MONDO BIZARRO PRODUCTIONSANOTHER GULF IS POSSIBLE COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
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
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
4
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
5
Next River

Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.

Social Science
6
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
9
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
10
Netroots Nation (F/K/a Bloggerpowerorg)

To promote activism toward a progressive policy agenda.

Civil Rights
11
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
12
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy. 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

97 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. 97 of the 167 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/97
Grantees still filing
62/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIVE MOVEMENT: $3,143,332 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENTTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $2,707,008 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING WORLD INCMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,630,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION …CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $470,000 · Community Improvement+11 more: $883,325 · Community Improvement+11 moreAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $1,925,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific Envi…Urban Tilth: $1,869,583 · EnvironmentUrban TilthCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $1,010,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A …VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $855,000 · EnvironmentVOICES FOR A SUSTA…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $447,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTICE AL…NATIVE CONSERVANCY: $400,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $396,450 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 · Environment+6 more: $644,825 · Environment+6 moreJustice Funders: $1,228,674 · OtherJustice FundersKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $1,383,850 · OtherKENTUCKY COALITION INCGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $701,500 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $575,000 · OtherPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $1,191,855 · OtherPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HO…GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $460,000 · Other+91 more: $7,815,698 · Other+91 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $1,300,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $1,056,250 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN …Solidaire Network Inc: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Ne…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $825,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COM…EDGE FUNDERS ALLIANCE: $310,000 · PhilanthropyEDGE FUNDERS…RESOURCE GENERATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $180,800 · Philanthropy+1 more: $53,000 · PhilanthropyINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $1,047,500 · EducationINDIGENOUS …SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $650,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…THE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $625,000 · EducationTHE RUCKUS …PROTEUS FUND INC: $610,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUN…Movement Generation: $425,000 · EducationMovement Ge…NORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION: $405,000 · EducationNORTH AMERI…Smartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy: $375,000 · EducationSmartmeme D…Indigenous Peoples Power Project Inc: $275,000 · EducationIndigenous …+4 more: $343,800 · Education+4 moreOpen Buffalo Inc: $2,568,811 · Human ServicesOpen Buff…EKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $425,000 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEF…AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN …Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc: $165,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR RURAL STRATEGIES INC: $162,600 · Human Services+3 more: $145,933 · Human ServicesAPPALSHOP INC: $1,412,700 · Arts & CultureNative Peoples Action Community Fund: $459,000 · Arts & CultureMondo Bizarro Productions: $400,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $194,050 · Arts & CultureUJIMA COMPANY INCORPORATED: $180,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $155,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$8,833,665Environment$7,848,358Other$13,356,577Philanthropy$4,975,050Education$4,756,300Human Services$3,842,344Arts & Culture$3,255,750

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 budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $3,143,332 over 5y, 27% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $2,707,008 over 5y, 23% of budgetOpen Buffalo Inc: $2,568,811 over 5y, 53% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $1,925,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUrban Tilth: $1,869,583 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,630,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $1,412,700 over 4y, 50% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $1,383,850 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $1,300,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJustice Funders: $1,228,674 over 4y, 20% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $1,191,855 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $1,056,250 over 3y, 63% of budgetINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $1,047,500 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $1,010,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $855,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $825,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $701,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $650,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $625,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $610,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $575,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $470,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $460,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNative Peoples Action Community Fund: $459,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $447,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMovement Generation: $425,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $425,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION: $405,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetMondo Bizarro Productions: $400,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $400,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $396,450 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $375,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSmartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy: $375,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CITIZENS LAW CENTER INC: $350,200 over 5y, 18% of budgetTanana Chiefs Conference: $333,332 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDGE FUNDERS ALLIANCE: $310,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Power Project Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $250,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $220,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNOT AN ALTERNATIVE INC: $205,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetFriends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration: $200,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTaproot Earth: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLYRIC THEATRE & CULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $194,050 over 5y, 18% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $187,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincCommon Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationRsf Social Finance IncSolutions Project IncWindward FundPatagoniaorgSurdna Foundation IncThe Schmidt Family Fo…Movement Strategy Cen…Tides Center
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC61.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Solutions Project Inc · Windward Fund · Patagoniaorg · Surdna Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Tides Center

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 Flock Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flock Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
27report 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, 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 Flock Inc?

Find your warmest path to Flock 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 167 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
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