How much did For Inspiration and Recognition of grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of For Inspiration and Recognition of’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

long beachmagnetlutherandesign campusenable studentsmemphiseducation district

2020

achieve twinpaulmaritimempscareer readinessotherwisewelfare

2021

leaguesstemboostconnectionsafricancontinuesolympiad teamscreate joyful

2022

novaaccessibleindependent co-educationalperryhollis brooklinegirl scoutingscouting builds

2023

creationtechtownmedicalmediapolis districtmeanspatrick henryorange library

2024

johnsonconfidenthumanityforcepeaceteams distributionspolicy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 550 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k403 grants · $1.6M
$10k–50k116 grants · $2.2M
$50k–250k23 grants · $2.5M
$250k+8 grants · $5.5M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$77M

Total assets

Largest grants

FIRST in Michigan$1,301,200
FIRST In Texas$1,039,450
Ingenuity New England Inc$882,000
FIRST Chesapeake$593,500
Washington FIRST Robotics$440,900
FIRST North Carolina$427,302
Mid Atlantic Robotics$417,400
Georgia FIRST Robotics Inc$412,600
Indiana FIRST Inc$240,700
FIRST Illinois Robotics$213,955
Wisconsin FIRST Robotics$186,971
American Indian Science & Eng Society$176,457
Pennsylvania FIRST Robotics$145,000
FIRST California Robotics$120,000
Ohio Education Outreach Foundation$115,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$39M · 846 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

846 repeat relationships — 396 still active in FY2024, 450 since wound down; 153 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

846

820

Total granted

$39M

$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+27%

Still filing today

28%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentScience & TechPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

FI
FIRST in Michigan
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +49% · 36% of their budget
IN
Ingenuity New England Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +36% · 51% of their budget
FI
FIRST In Texas
3× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +48% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

CR
Champion Robotics Boosters
2× · 2019–2020 · $79k
GL
GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -325% · 84% of their budget
WC
Wood Co Voc Tech Ctr
2× · 2019–2020 · $62k

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.

Perrybotics

High school students learning to make robots

Youth Development

Kss Robotics

STEM Education Grades K - 12

Youth Development

Port City Robotics

We mentor young people (Grades K through 12) as they learn to design, build and program robots, which are then taken to regional and national competitions. This practical, collaborative, hands-on experience in science and technology has…

Recreation & Sports

Ignite Robotics

To increase student interest and involvement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) by engaging students in hands-on programs and competitions in robotics, programming, engineering, math, and other stem-related areas.

Education

The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education

Girls in Stem

Human Services

Swift Robotics

STEAM Education for children ages 4-18, primarily using robotic platform and computer coding. Second objective is competition and soft skills in presentation of technical information. Third objective is community outreach as we involve…

Education

North Orange County Robotics

This is an educational booster club for a high school robotics team

Education

Elementary Einstein

Our primary program is the Titanium Tigers Robotics Team, which is a student run FIRST robotics team composed of students who work together to build robots for FIRST robotics competitions and based at Chapel Hill High School. Our goal is…

Education

Get Smart Robots Inc

To inspire an appreciation for mathematics and science technologies in the community while instilling a sense of teamwork and professionalism in its members, helping students develop interests for their future and building robots using the…

Education

P31Girls Incorporated

youth educational and enrichment programs for girls

Youth Development

Cybersonics Technology Team 103

Support students in robotic competition

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maharishi International University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%43/2,495

the rest of the field

11%

206,123/1,817,070

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

553 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

152

Early backer (in before they grew)

523/553

Grantees still filing

394/553

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$26,788,938Education$8,001,787Youth Development$5,579,152Recreation & Sports$2,070,305Science & Tech$1,993,458Human Services$1,784,340Philanthropy$561,695

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.

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.

Foundation for Inspiration & RecognTX94.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Inspiration & Recogn · Round It Up America Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Minnesota State High School League Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Washington First Robotics · Save the Music Foundation · The Broad Center

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 organisation For Inspiration and Recognition of 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Leland Quixilver Robotics Booster Club.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823662530 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Leland Quixilver Robotics Booster Club, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

For Inspiration and Recognition of

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

553 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to For Inspiration and Recognition of?

More from the funding graph

For Inspiration and Recognition of

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

553 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to For Inspiration and Recognition of?

More from the funding graph