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Foundation for Systemic Change

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.

$750k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$382kArts & Culture$365kEducation$174kCivil Rights$172kPhilanthropy$30kPublic Benefit$25kFood & Nutrition$24kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $546k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$100,000
EDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$60,000
AZ ST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNI$30,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC$30,000
VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE$25,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC$25,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM$25,000
EDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$20,500
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$20,000
DOCS IN PROGRESS INC$20,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$20,000
THE INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC$20,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC$20,000
EDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$15,500
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $9k → 10%SIMA STUDIOS: $15k → 14%SIMA STUDIOS: $15k → 14%SIMA STUDIOS: $10k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR FARMWORKERS: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
IN
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC

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 — 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$689k · 11 repeat orgs$512k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$689k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-2%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • EI
    EDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +45%
  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +86%
  • OR
    OPEN ROADS ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $61k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue +192%
  • TV
    THE VII FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • VO
    VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +6%

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.

1
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
Moving Picture Institute

The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.

Arts & Culture
4
Women in Film

Promotion of equal rights for women in the entertainment industry. to serve as a repository for information on qualified women in the entertainment industry.

Arts & Culture
5
World Privacy Forum

The world privacy forum is dedicated to reimaging privacy in a digital era through ground-breaking, in-depth privacy research and consumer education of the highest quality. our vision is to empower people with the knowledge, rights, and…

Public Benefit
6
American Documentary Inc

A national non-profit media arts organization, american documentary strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. we collaborate with passionate filmmakers to amplify their voices, nuture the…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
International Intellectual Property Alliance

A coalition of tax-exempt trade associations representing producers and publishers of creative content working to improve international protection and enforcement of copyrighted materials and open up foreign markets closed by piracy and…

Community Improvement
9
International Documentary Foundation Inc

We are dedicated to the vision of a world where documentary creators flourish. through our work, we connect audiences with the best of the form, provide resources, create community, and defend the rights and freedoms of documentary…

Arts & Culture
10
Breaking Through the Lens

Advocate for gender equality in the film industry.

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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12
International Womens Writing Guild

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Pollen Initiative. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Public Library SupportDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Land Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Jewish Community Federations
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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,517

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.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
22/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $122,500 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONREPORTAGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $59,000 · Arts & CultureREPORTAGE INTERNATIONAL INCENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE — $35,000 · Arts & CultureENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGEINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $24,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCDOCS IN PROGRESS INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VII FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAFE SPACE PICTURES FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $43,250 · Arts & Culture+5 moreEDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN — $189,500 · InternationalEDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RI…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $45,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC — $30,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY …THE ADVOCACY PROJECT — $27,000 · InternationalTHE ADVOCACY PROJECTEVERY WOMAN TREATY INC — $15,000 · InternationalDEMOCRACY FOR THE ARAB WORLD NOW INC — $15,000 · International+3 more — $28,000 · International+3 moreDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $72,500 · Civil RightsDISABILITY RI…THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $37,500 · Civil RightsTHE AFRICAN A…VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO F…VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION — $15,000 · Civil RightsVOICE OF WITN…OPEN ROADS ACADEMY INC — $61,000 · EducationOPEN ROADS AC…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UN…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD F…NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationNC STATE NATU…+1 more — $3,000 · EducationAZ ST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNI — $30,000 · OtherAZ ST UNIVE…PUTNAM COUNTY COALITION FOR EDU AND THE CREATIVE — $15,000 · OtherPUTNAM COUN…MONSENOR ROMERO FOUNDATION — $12,000 · OtherMONSENOR RO…Rhinelander District Library Foundation Inc — $10,000 · OtherRhinelander…PROOF MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $10,000 · OtherPROOF MEDIA…INTERNATIONAL CHILD PROGRAM INC ICP — $10,000 · OtherINTERNATION…RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $15,000 · OtherRSF SOCIAL …ARTWORKS FOR FREEDOM — $10,000 · OtherARTWORKS FO…WILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS — $10,000 · OtherWILDLANDS R…+4 more — $7,000 · Other+4 moreSIMA STUDIOS — $40,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact — $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR FARMWORKERS — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$383,750International$349,500Civil Rights$150,000Education$144,000Other$129,000Human Services$52,000Food & Nutrition$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCATORS INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN — $189,500 over 4y, 25% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $122,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $72,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetOPEN ROADS ACADEMY INC — $61,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetREPORTAGE INTERNATIONAL INC — $59,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMA STUDIOS — $40,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $37,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetENTERTAINMENT 2 AFFECT CHANGE — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ADVOCACY PROJECT — $27,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $24,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE VII FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY WOMAN TREATY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDEMOCRACY FOR THE ARAB WORLD NOW INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRhinelander District Library Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPROOF MEDIA FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWILDLANDS RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetworld federalist movementinst for global policy Ltd — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRealize Impact — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTAFRICA — $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBUNTPORT THEATER COMPANY — $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL SCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION — $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR FARMWORKERS — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLE WISHES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…Wellspring Philanthro…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…ImpactassetsincGreater Washington Co…Amalgamated Charitabl…Seattle FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organization Foundation for Systemic Change 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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: 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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines