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Foundation for a Just Society

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.

$63M
Granted FY2024still arriving
357
Grants FY2024still arriving
25
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$87MInternational$55MPhilanthropy$33MHuman Services$22MArts & Culture$16MYouth Development$10MPublic Safety & Disaster$6.3MEnvironment$6.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 357 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k199 grants · $25M
  • $250k+90 grants · $37M
$125,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$1.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FONDO DE ACCION URGENTE PARA AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE$1,100,000
URGENT ACTION FUND - AFRICA$1,100,000
BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY$1,000,000
INITIATIVE SANKOFA D'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST$1,000,000
CAPITAL FOR GOOD USA$1,000,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$1,000,000
FONDO CENTROAMERICANO DE MUJERES FOUNDATION$1,000,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$850,000
URGENT ACTION FUND ASIA AND PACIFIC$750,000
Individual grant recipient$750,000
IPAS$700,000
WOMEN'S FUND ASIA LIMITED$700,000
INITIATIVE SANKOFA D'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST$600,000
EQUALITY FUND$555,000
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.

US giving: 72% of grant dollars ($247M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($96M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $8.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC: $125k → 16%TRANSLASH MEDIA INC: $100k → 20%FREEDOM INC: $150k → 10%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $250k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $250k → 7%TRANSLASH MEDIA INC: $100k → 20%TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGABLE EMPOWERING: $75k → 16%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $250k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $150k → 7%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $300k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $40k → 7%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $200k → 14%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $200k → 14%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 17%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $50k → 17%SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $125k → 13%SAFE HORIZON: $200k → 17%SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $125k → 13%SAFE HORIZON: $150k → 17%SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $125k → 13%SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $125k → 13%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $520k → 17%SOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $50k → 13%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $480k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $125k → 10%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $33k → 17%WOMEN LEAD: $200k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $200k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $200k → 14%TRANSLASH MEDIA: $200k → 17%WOMEN LEAD: $50k → 14%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP: $150k → 17%KAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC: $150k → 17%WOMEN LEAD: $50k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $50k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $49k → 14%WOMEN LEAD: $35k → 14%TRANSLASH MEDIA INC: $100k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $225k → 17%WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION: $150k → 17%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
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MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
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OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 28% of all-years giving ($96M)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
Canada$14M · 48 grants
Australia$10M · 28 grants
Kenya$8.5M · 22 grants
Nepal$6.8M · 90 grants
Netherlands$6.3M · 28 grants
Thailand$6.3M · 63 grants
Burkina Faso$5.6M · 48 grants
Bangladesh$5.3M · 64 grants
United Kingdom$5.3M · 32 grants
South Africa$4.5M · 23 grants
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$225M · 276 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

276 repeat relationships: 183 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

276
169

Total granted

$225M
$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+13%

Still filing today

37%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.5M 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • CF
    Capital for Good USA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +24% · 32% of their budget
  • FF
    FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +33% · 27% of their budget
  • PG
    PANORAMA GLOBAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • UA
    URGENT ACTION FUND-AFRICA (UAF-AFRICA)
    one grant, 2022 · $1.7M
  • GF
    GIRLS FIRST FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $800k
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
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
2
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
5
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
6
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
International Womens Writing Guild

IWWG empowers women writers with workshops events and community gatherings to encourage writing speaking and publishing

Education
12
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy; the most unlike its peers is Womens March 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

195 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. 195 of the 515 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/195
Grantees still filing
95/195
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FONDO DE ACCION URGENTE PARA AMERICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE: $5,862,136 · Other+142 more: $156,959,703 · Other+142 moreFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $2,931,516 · Civil RightsFUNDERS F…National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $2,056,250 · Civil RightsNational …PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $1,925,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGI…SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $1,670,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNE…Transgender Law Center: $1,570,000 · Civil RightsTransgend…Women's Link Worldwide: $1,568,000 · Civil RightsWomen's L…IFWHENHOW: $1,100,000 · Civil RightsFONDO CENTROAMERICANO DE MUJERES FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $1,050,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL: $828,500 · Civil RightsJUST ASSOCIATES INC: $808,000 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $700,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $3,360,000 · Civil Rights+6 moreGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $3,156,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $2,369,000 · InternationalGIRL DETERMINED: $2,164,800 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL: $1,955,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,700,000 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $1,308,100 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,258,000 · InternationalDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $1,095,000 · InternationalADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $584,378 · InternationalROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $4,305,000 · PhilanthropyCapital for Good USA: $4,000,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell Fund: $2,169,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,410,100 · PhilanthropySEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,205,000 · PhilanthropyAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $1,025,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $900,000 · PhilanthropyBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $3,300,000 · Arts & CulturePartners Asia: $1,945,000 · Arts & CultureMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE: $1,750,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 · Arts & CultureMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $1,175,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $700,000 · Arts & CultureTYPE MEDIA CENTER INC: $650,038 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,583,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN LEAD INC: $1,273,500 · Human ServicesGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,260,000 · Human ServicesMississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC: $800,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $554,030 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC: $550,000 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT: $515,000 · Human ServicesTranslash Media Inc: $500,000 · Human ServicesKAIROS FELLOWSHIP INC: $425,000 · Human ServicesNEW VENTURE FUND: $5,100,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $1,415,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $920,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $525,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $475,000 · Environment
Other$162,821,839Civil Rights$20,642,266International$15,590,278Philanthropy$15,014,100Arts & Culture$10,820,038Human Services$9,460,530Environment$8,435,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $5,100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $4,950,833 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $4,416,700 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $4,305,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCapital for Good USA: $4,000,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $3,300,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $3,156,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES: $2,931,516 over 5y, 27% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,583,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetURGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $2,369,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $2,169,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetGIRL DETERMINED: $2,164,800 over 5y, 65% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $2,056,250 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $1,955,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC: $1,950,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetPartners Asia: $1,945,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC: $1,925,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE: $1,750,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,700,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $1,670,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $1,570,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetWomen's Link Worldwide: $1,568,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $1,415,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,410,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL LATINA INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $1,400,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $1,308,100 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWOMEN LEAD INC: $1,273,500 over 5y, 97% of budgetGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,260,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,258,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,205,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetMAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $1,175,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $1,110,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $1,100,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER: $1,100,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $1,095,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetFONDO CENTROAMERICANO DE MUJERES FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $1,060,667 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $1,050,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetWomen With A Vision: $1,050,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $1,025,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetMississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc: $1,000,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $920,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL: $828,500 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $820,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetJUST ASSOCIATES INC: $808,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC: $800,000 over 5y, 6.5% 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.

  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds Capital for Good USA ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
  • Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
  • Who funds GIRL DETERMINED ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds CREATING RESOURCES FOR EMPOWERMENT AND ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Partners Asia ↗
  • Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗

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.

The Ford FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Amalgamated Charitabl…Foundation to Promote…Novo FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncGroundswell FundTides FoundationProteus Fund IncThe Overbrook Foundat…Borealis PhilanthropyRockefeller Philanthr…
The Ford FoundationNY86× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Novo Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Groundswell Fund · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The Overbrook Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 Foundation for a Just Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for a Just Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Center for Food Action in New Jersey: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
51report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Foundation for a Just Society?

Find your warmest path to Foundation for a Just Society 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 515 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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