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Fund II Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$668k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$45MEmployment$23MArts & Culture$11MCivil Rights$9.8MAnimals$5.5MEnvironment$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $385k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND$175,000
THE PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL$60,000
LEGAL DEFENSE FUND (NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC)$50,000
HOLLYWOOD CARES FOUNDATION INC$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
JUSTICE FOR BLACK GIRLS (EVERYBLACKGIRL)$25,000
NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION$21,700
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY$20,000
SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC$10,000
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
BLACK GRAVITY INC (DBA BLK GRVTY)$10,000
2GETHER-INTERNATIONAL$10,000
NATIONAL EDUCATION EQUITY LAB INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $5k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER ORLANDO: $5k → 13%THE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITIES AGAINST POVERTY INC: $5k → 11%YOUTH PASSAGEWAYS: $8k → 10%MAMATOTO VILLAGE: $5k → 14%MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $5k → 9%BLACK MOTHERS BREASTFEEDING ASSOCIATION: $5k → 21%THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 8%2GETHER-INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%UNITED PLANNING ORGANIZATION: $10k → 14%NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT INC: $50k → 17%WIN NYC: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $10k → 17%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
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$73M · 34 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
94

Total granted

$73M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

82%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity 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

  • NI
    NPOWER INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $9.3M · revenue +65% · 27% of their budget
  • RF
    ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6.7M · revenue +33% · 32% of their budget
  • SO
    SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +23% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    The Carnegie Hall Society Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY
    one grant, 2019 · $4.5M
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3.0M · revenue +102% · 35% of their budget

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
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
2
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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3
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…

Human Services
6
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
7
New Profit Inc

New profit is a venture philanthropy organization that catalyzes the impact of social entrepreneurs who are expanding access and opportunity in america. we provide capital, capacity, and community to a portfolio of organizations to…

Community Improvement
8
The Partnership Inc

The mission of the partnership, inc. is to ensure and enhance economic competitiveness by attracting, developing, retaining, and convening executives and professionals of color so that both individuals, and the companies they work for,…

Arts & Culture
9
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
10
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
11
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
12
The Brookings Institution

The brookings institution (brookings) is a nonprofit public policy organization that conducts in-depth, independent research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level.…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lr Cares. 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 FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%34%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/116
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,449

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

109 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. 109 of the 171 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
70/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $19,000,750 · OtherNATIONAL ACADEMY FOUNDATIONROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $6,699,969 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIG…The Carnegie Hall Society Inc — $5,000,000 · OtherThe Carnegie Hall Society IncUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY — $4,500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEYNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY — $1,500,000 · Other+120 more — $8,222,473 · Other+120 moreSTUDENT FREEDOM INITIATIVE INC — $22,010,750 · EducationSTUDENT FREEDOM INITIATIVE INCTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $3,001,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC…Ron Brown Scholar Fund — $2,001,000 · EducationRon Brown Scholar FundJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $2,000,000 · EducationJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUN…+21 more — $4,012,150 · Education+21 moreNPOWER INC — $9,270,100 · Community ImprovementNPOWER INCFAIR COUNT INC — $1,327,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR COUNT …+4 more — $52,650 · Community ImprovementSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $3,035,000 · Arts & CultureALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $500,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureWACO THEATER CENTER — $185,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $162,750 · Arts & CultureREWILD — $3,000,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $2,005,000 · AnimalsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more — $140,000 · Crime & LegalTOGETHER WE RISE — $1,306,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$44,923,192Education$33,024,900Community Improvement$10,649,750Arts & Culture$5,132,750Animals$5,005,000Crime & Legal$3,140,000Recreation & Sports$1,306,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTUDENT FREEDOM INITIATIVE INC — $22,010,750 over 5y, 65% of budgetNPOWER INC — $9,270,100 over 6y, 27% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $6,699,969 over 2y, 32% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $3,035,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $3,001,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetREWILD — $3,000,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $2,005,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund — $2,001,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $2,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $1,450,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFAIR COUNT INC — $1,327,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $1,306,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc — $1,193,200 over 4y, 32% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetNATIONAL MATH & SCIENCE INITIATIVE INC — $700,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $600,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $536,150 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSTREETWISE PARTNERS INC — $510,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWACO THEATER CENTER — $185,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $175,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPiney Woods School — $101,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJackson State University Development Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SPIRES FOUNDATION LIMITED — $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHOLLYWOOD CARES FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEVE & MARJORIE HARVEY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPOINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL COALITION OF SITES OF CONSCIENCE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWG MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGOS DE EL YUNQUE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDetroit Justice Center — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLR CARES — $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

WK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…New Venture FundTides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Pwc Foundation IncUniversal Music All T…Planned Parenthood Fe…National Basketball A…Groundswell FundThe Robert Wood Johns…
WK Kellogg FoundationMI24.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · National Basketball Association Foundation · Groundswell Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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 Fund II Foundation 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 · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • United Communities Against Poverty Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
29report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fund II Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fund II Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 171 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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