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Fund II Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$323k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$45MEmployment$23MArts & Culture$11MCivil Rights$9.8MAnimals$5.5MEnvironment$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $148k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOSTER LOVE$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
THE EAGLE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
CORPORATION FOR BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT$10,000
PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
NOCCA FOUNDATION$10,000
BROWNGIRL VILLAGE$10,000
NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
BLACKPASTORG$5,000
INSTITUTO DE EDUCACION POPULAR DEL SUR DE CALIFORNIA$5,000
THE CHICAGO STEM FOUNDATION$5,000
BABY2BABY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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, $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 its 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
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
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73M · 48 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
118

Total granted

$73M
$30M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+8%

Still filing today

58%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • 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
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
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
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
5
Inroads Inc

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

Education
6
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
7
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
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
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
10
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
11
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc

The national network of public health institutes, inc. (nnphi) is a national public health organization chartered on june 21, 2001. its mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 196 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
72/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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-BERKELEY+143 more: $9,978,756 · Other+143 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: $4,062,150 · 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+6 more: $179,350 · 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$45,179,475Education$33,074,900Community Improvement$10,649,750Arts & Culture$5,149,350Animals$5,005,000Crime & Legal$3,140,000Recreation & Sports$1,306,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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: $1,218,200 over 5y, 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 budgetDOCS IN PROGRESS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJackson State University Development Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOLLYWOOD CARES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetTHE CATHEDRAL SPIRES FOUNDATION LIMITED: $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD PROJECTS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTEVE & MARJORIE HARVEY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWG MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAMIGOS DE EL YUNQUE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetDetroit Justice Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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 budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 196 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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