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General Service Foundation at a glance

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General Service Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
87
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$9.9MPhilanthropy$9.0MCommunity Improvement$1.7MPublic Benefit$1.5MEmployment$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$800kHuman Services$639kOther$0
02FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k72 grants · $9.6M
$100,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING$200,000
FAIR ELECTIONS CENTER$200,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS$200,000
SOUTHER COALITION FOR SOCIAL$200,000
STORY STRATEGY GROUP LLC$200,000
PREGNANCY JUSTICE$200,000
BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER$200,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$200,000
WE ARE DOWN HOME$200,000
TIDES CENTER$200,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$200,000
MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE$200,000
NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING$200,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$200,000
NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE$200,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $100k → 7%United for a New Economy: $65k → 10%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 17%SOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $40k → 15%United for a New Economy: $85k → 7%BOLD FUTURES NEW MEXICO: $125k → 14%United for a New Economy: $75k → 7%United for a New Economy: $40k → 7%INSTITUTO LAB: $100k → 11%INSTITUTO LAB: $100k → 11%Colorado People's Alliance: $75k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%COLORADO PEOPLES ALLIANCE: $44k → 12%Colorado People's Alliance: $35k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $200k → 14%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
RI
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
LA
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 90 repeat orgs$5.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
50

Total granted

$24M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+4%

Still filing today

80%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • NF
    Neighborhood Funders Group
    6× · 2019–2025 · $898k · revenue +398%
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $849k · revenue +58%
  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $745k · revenue +290%

Funded once

  • NF
    NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $210k
  • AC
    Action Center on Race & the Economy Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $155k · revenue +30%
  • BF
    BOLD FUTURES NM
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -23%
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
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
2
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
3
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
6
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
7
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
8
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
9
South Asian Americans Leading Together

South Asian Americans Leading Together is a national movement strategy and advocacy organization committed to racial justice through structural change.

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10
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
11
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
12
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
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 Instituto Lab. 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

120 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. 120 of the 171 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/120
Grantees still filing
67/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Neighborhood Funders Group: $897,500 · OtherNeighborhood Funders GroupNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING: $485,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $848,500 · OtherNEO Philanthropy IncForward Together: $562,500 · Other+88 more: $11,742,575 · Other+88 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $2,505,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHR…Groundswell Fund: $1,060,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell FundAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,040,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…TIDES FOUNDATION: $965,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONSolidaire Network Inc: $770,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc+11 more: $725,500 · Philanthropy+11 moreNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $745,000 · Civil RightsNational Domesti…Transgender Law Center: $500,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law …UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $490,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM …SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $330,000 · Civil RightsSOUTHERNERS ON N…PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $330,000 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUSTIC…BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $328,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUI…JOLT INITIATIVE: $320,000 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVESPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $270,000 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $240,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $230,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center: $200,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $190,000 · Civil Rights+15 more: $1,297,500 · Civil Rights+15 morePROTEUS FUND INC: $1,450,000 · EducationPROTEUS FU…WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $518,000 · EducationWORKERS DE…United for Respect Education Fund: $380,000 · EducationUnited for…NEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC: $337,000 · EducationNEW AMERIC…WAY TO RISE: $255,000 · EducationWAY TO RIS…Movement Generation: $225,000 · EducationMovement G…WE ARE DOWN HOME: $200,000 · EducationWE ARE DOW…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · Education+1 more: $40,000 · EducationBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $1,135,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $510,000 · Arts & CultureMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE: $505,000 · Arts & CultureEQUIS INSTITUTE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureBlack Feminist Future Inc: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $90,000 · Arts & CultureNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,555,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $375,000 · Environment+4 more: $165,000 · EnvironmentPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $470,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $265,000 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $173,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $150,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $115,000 · Community ImprovementFAIR COUNT INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $90,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $103,000 · Community Improvement
Other$14,536,075Philanthropy$7,065,500Civil Rights$5,470,500Education$3,580,000Arts & Culture$2,680,000Environment$2,595,000Community Improvement$1,716,000

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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $2,505,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,555,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $1,450,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $1,135,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $1,060,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,040,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $965,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $897,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $848,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $770,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $745,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetForward Together: $562,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $518,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $510,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE: $505,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $500,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $500,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $490,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $470,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER: $440,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT: $415,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUnited for Respect Education Fund: $380,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $375,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $365,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetNEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC: $337,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $330,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $330,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $328,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJOLT INITIATIVE: $320,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $310,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $270,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $265,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWAY TO RISE: $255,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $240,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $235,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $230,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMovement Generation: $225,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $211,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRO DE LOS DERECHOS DEL MIGRANTE INC: $210,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetInstituto Lab: $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE: $200,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $196,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $190,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $175,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Black Worker Center: $175,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute: $175,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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 ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds Forward Together ↗
  • Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN STATES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds United for Respect Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ↗
  • Who funds NEW AMERICAN LEADERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Womens March Network ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOLT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
  • Who funds SPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…The Ford FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncWellspring Philanthro…Rockefeller Philanthr…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationNew Venture FundFoundation to Promote…The William & Flora H…The Libra FoundationGroundswell Fund
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC76.3× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Libra Foundation · Groundswell Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report 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 General Service Foundation?

Find your warmest path to General Service 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 171 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home