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$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$90k
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.

Community Improvement$9.7MPhilanthropy$2.3MCrime & Legal$2.1MCivil Rights$2.0MHuman Services$1.4MEmployment$1.2MEducation$569kPublic Benefit$337kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
African Advocacy Network$90,000
Tides Center VietRise$90,000
Central Valley Immigrant Inte$90,000
Inland Coalition For Immigran$90,000
Social Good Fund Contra Costa$90,000
CA Collaborative for Immigran$90,000
Pangea Legal Services$75,000
Centro Binacional Para El Des$75,000
Todec Legal Center$75,000
Partnership for the Advancet$75,000
Texas Civil Rights Project$50,000
Este Poder$50,000
Texas Latino Pride$50,000
Asian & Pacific Islander Amer$50,000
Progressive Lship Alliance$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Multicultural Center of Marin: $63k → 8%Latino Health Access: $24k → 10%La Familia Counseling Ctr: $316k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SVCS COMM SVC: $40k → 11%KOREAN RESOURCE CENTER: $9k → 14%North Coast Opportunity: $9k → 18%Central Valley Immigrant Inte: $90k → 19%Mano Amiga: $47k → 10%Tennessee Justice for Our Nei: $75k → 14%Maine IniativesImmigrant &: $68k → 7%On the Move: $6k → 9%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE: $73k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SVC OF SAN DIEG: $15k → 11%Jakara Movement: $105k → 19%Tennessee Justice for Our Nei: $68k → 14%Maine IniativesImmigrant &: $45k → 7%Immigrant Legal Resource Ctr: $65k → 10%Partnership for the Advancet: $75k → 11%Todec Legal Center: $75k → 11%Immigrant Legal Resource Ctr: $50k → 10%Immigrant Legal Resource Ctr: $25k → 10%Tides Center VietRise: $90k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE: $20k → 10%African Advocacy Network: $90k → 10%Thai Community Devt Ctr: $426k → 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

ME
IL
MI
NV
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 16 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +181% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
46

Total granted

$9.5M
$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+181%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $982k 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • NB
    North Bay Organizing Project
    5× · 2017–2021 · $7.3M · revenue +22% · 89% of their budget
  • CT
    CALIFORNIANS TOGETHER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $226k · revenue +261%
  • TA
    Texas Access to Justice Foundation
    2× · 2018–2022 · $210k · revenue +764%

Funded once

  • KI
    KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +223% · 65% of their budget
  • CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $966k · revenue -15%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY
    one grant, 2020 · $896k · revenue +16%
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
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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2
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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3
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
4
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
5
Latino Community Foundation

Lcf exists to unleash the civic and economic power of latinos in california. lcf fulfills the mission by building a movement of critically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in latino-led orgs, and increasing civic participation of…

Human Services
6
Center for Community Advocacy

Provide Educational Programs, Health Services and Legal Services to Farm Workers at housing sites and throughout the Salinas Valley and promote improved living conditions.

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7
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
8
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
9
Southern California Immigration Project

Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.

International
10
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
11
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement
12
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health Foundation. 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

89 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. 89 of the 91 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
52/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

North Bay Organizing Project: $7,268,466 · Community ImprovementNorth Bay Organizing ProjectKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,336,294 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CA…+8 more: $410,017 · Community ImprovementTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $426,078 · Human ServicesTHAI COMMUNIT…VENTURES: $364,351 · Human ServicesVENTURESLa Familia Counseling Center Inc: $316,044 · Human ServicesLa Familia Co…Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative: $205,000 · Human ServicesCentral Valle…TENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $143,125 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE JUS…IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $118,000 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES: $113,125 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $112,033 · Human ServicesJAKARA MOVEMENT: $104,617 · Human ServicesAFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $90,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $90,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $88,016 · Human Services+8 more: $307,766 · Human Services+8 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $295,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $241,125 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNT…VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,513 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $193,125 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…Latino Community Fund Inc: $190,000 · PhilanthropyLatino Commu…Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab: $168,125 · PhilanthropyHouston Immi…CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $133,333 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA C…BALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $110,625 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $110,625 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $65,025 · PhilanthropyCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $966,278 · HealthCHINESE PRO…LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $896,206 · HealthLOS ANGELES…SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $133,333 · HealthSIERRA HEAL…+2 more: $17,047 · HealthInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $287,111 · OtherInland Congregati…CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $250,000 · OtherCENTRAL AMERICAN …Texas Access to Justice Foundation: $210,000 · OtherTexas Access to J…UFW FOUNDATION: $181,118 · OtherUFW FOUNDATIONCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherFathers and Families of San Joaquin: $124,820 · OtherSAFE TIME HOME SHARING INC: $114,042 · OtherNorCal Resist: $215,337 · OtherNorCal ResistMONUMENT IMPACT: $249,544 · OtherMONUMENT IMPACTLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $143,125 · OtherCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $181,033 · OtherCentro Binacional…The Edwin & Dorothy Baker Foundation: $155,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF INLAND EMPIRE: $133,333 · Other+20 more: $834,410 · Other+20 moreCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $767,299 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $250,000 · Crime & LegalPangea Legal Services: $75,000 · Crime & LegalCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $225,618 · EducationCentro Laboral de Graton: $151,618 · EducationVISION Y COMPROMISO: $102,011 · EducationINLAND COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $90,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $90,000 · Education
Community Improvement$9,014,777Human Services$2,478,155Philanthropy$2,197,496Health$2,012,864Other$3,203,873Crime & Legal$1,092,299Education$659,247

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 budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $7,268,466 over 5y, 89% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,336,294 over 1y, 65% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $966,278 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $896,206 over 1y, 17% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $767,299 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetTHAI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $426,078 over 1y, 40% of budgetVENTURES: $364,351 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetLa Familia Counseling Center Inc: $316,044 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $295,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $287,111 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT: $249,544 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $241,125 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIANS TOGETHER: $225,618 over 2y, 16% of budgetNorCal Resist: $215,337 over 1y, 11% of budgetTexas Access to Justice Foundation: $210,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative: $205,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,513 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $193,125 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLatino Community Fund Inc: $190,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUFW FOUNDATION: $181,118 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCentro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno: $181,033 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHouston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab: $168,125 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThe Edwin & Dorothy Baker Foundation: $155,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetCentro Laboral de Graton: $151,618 over 2y, 19% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY: $151,259 over 1y, 21% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $143,125 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE FOR OUR NEIGHBORS: $143,125 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF INLAND EMPIRE: $133,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $133,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFathers and Families of San Joaquin: $124,820 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $118,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE SERVICES: $113,125 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $112,033 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBALTIMORE CIVIC FUND INC: $110,625 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $110,625 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $104,617 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVISION Y COMPROMISO: $102,011 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINLAND COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $90,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $90,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAFRICAN ADVOCACY NETWORK: $90,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The California Endowm…Tides FoundationThe California Wellne…The James Irvine Foun…Latino Community Foun…Tides CenterImmigrant Legal Resou…Weingart FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncSierra Health Foundat…East Bay Community Fo…California Immigrant …
The California EndowmentCA58.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Tides Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Tides Center · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Weingart Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · East Bay Community Foundation · California Immigrant Policy Center

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 Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees 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 91 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 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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More from the funding graph

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