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Hidden Leaf Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$4.4MPhilanthropy$3.2MCommunity Improvement$2.8MEnvironment$2.1MCrime & Legal$930kYouth Development$721kFood & Nutrition$715kPublic Benefit$710kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $256k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$75,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER$500,000
COACHING FOR HEALING JUSTICE AND LIBERATION$75,000
RYSE CENTER$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
YOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE$75,000
URBAN TILTH$75,000
ESSIE JUSTICE GROUP$75,000
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT NETWORK$75,000
THE EMBODIMENT INSTITUTE INCORPORATED$75,000
CHANGE ELEMENTAL$75,000
URBAN TILTH$75,000
NATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE (FS)$75,000
POWER CALIFORNIA$75,000
BLACK ORGANIZING FOR LEADERSHIP AND DIGNITY INC$75,000
MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS$75,000
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, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPI TUTSKWA PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE: $5k → 26%CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: $5k → 8%EL PUEBLO: $5k → 8%RUNNING STRONG FOR AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH: $40k → 6%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $40k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $40k → 22%BRAVE HEART SOCIETY: $40k → 22%COMMON MARKET: $5k → 22%SCOPE: $30k → 14%SCOPE: $20k → 14%SCOPE: $20k → 14%SCOPE: $20k → 14%SCOPE: $10k → 14%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $75k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $75k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $75k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $50k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $40k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $40k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $35k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $30k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $10k → 10%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

AK
VT
WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 62 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
61

Total granted

$14M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+41%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +21%
  • Forward Together
    7× · 2018–2024 · $540k · revenue +26%
  • PC
    POWER CALIFORNIA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • ST
    SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -60%
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • RL
    RICHMOND LAND
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -34%
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
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
3
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
4
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
5
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
6
New Roots Institute

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

Food & Nutrition
7
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
8
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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9
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
10
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
11
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
12
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute. 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

74 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. 74 of the 134 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
48/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Justice Funders: $345,000 · OtherTHE EMBODIMENT INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $335,000 · OtherPOWER U FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: $315,000 · OtherNATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE (FS): $300,000 · OtherSOCIAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT: $270,000 · OtherNATIVE ORGANIZERS ALLIANCE: $267,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $240,000 · OtherMujeres Unidas y Activas: $430,000 · OtherMujeres Unidas y ActivasYOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE: $315,000 · OtherRYSE INC: $255,000 · OtherMovement Generation: $430,000 · OtherMovement Generation+82 more: $3,598,000 · Other+82 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,112,335 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charita…Rockwood Leadership Institute: $470,000 · PhilanthropyRockwood Leadership…Heal Food Alliance: $315,000 · PhilanthropyHeal Food AllianceSolidaire Network Inc: $167,500 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network I…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $1,234,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY …POWER CALIFORNIA: $475,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIFORNIAChange Elemental: $415,000 · Community ImprovementChange ElementalNATIVE MOVEMENT: $265,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENTPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementPOWERSWITCH ACTIONPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $195,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION IN…+4 more: $162,500 · Community Improvement+4 moreSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $500,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAN…Asian Pacific Environmental Network: $395,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific …CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $345,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTIC…Urban Tilth: $300,000 · EnvironmentUrban TilthRainforest Action Network: $155,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Act…Solutions Project Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Proj…Daily Acts Organization: $140,000 · EnvironmentDaily Acts Org…CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $130,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR WHO…+6 more: $145,000 · Environment+6 moreGENERATIVE SOMATICS: $480,000 · Crime & LegalEssie Justice Group: $315,000 · Crime & LegalChicago Torture Justice Center: $240,000 · Crime & LegalFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $295,000 · Civil RightsBOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $275,000 · Civil RightsWindcall Institute: $190,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INC: $35,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsForward Together: $540,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $150,000 · HealthWorking Partnerships USA: $30,000 · Health
Other$7,100,500Philanthropy$3,064,835Community Improvement$2,946,500Environment$2,260,000Crime & Legal$1,035,000Civil Rights$855,000Health$720,000

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 budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,112,335 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $1,234,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetForward Together: $540,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGENERATIVE SOMATICS: $480,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA: $475,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetRockwood Leadership Institute: $470,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $430,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMovement Generation: $430,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetChange Elemental: $415,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $395,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $345,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJustice Funders: $345,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetYOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE: $315,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetEssie Justice Group: $315,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUrban Tilth: $300,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $295,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $275,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $265,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRYSE INC: $255,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $200,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $195,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWindcall Institute: $190,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $167,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $155,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $150,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $140,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDaily Acts Organization: $140,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $130,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSTAND: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRICHMOND LAND: $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE RUCKUS SOCIETY: $60,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRANSITION US: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetASHOKA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlourish Agenda: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFossil Free California: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Forward Together ↗
  • Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GENERATIVE SOMATICS ↗
  • Who funds POWER CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Rockwood Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
  • Who funds Movement Generation ↗
  • Who funds Change Elemental ↗
  • Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Justice Funders ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH UNITED FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds Heal Food Alliance ↗
  • Who funds Essie Justice Group ↗
  • Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds RYSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Chicago Torture Justice Center ↗
  • Who funds POWERSWITCH ACTION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Windcall Institute ↗
  • Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH RUNNING STRONG INC ↗

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…ImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncTides FoundationCommon Counsel Founda…The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…Movement Strategy Cen…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Ford FoundationThe California Endowm…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC48.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · The California Endowment

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report 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 Hidden Leaf Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hidden Leaf 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 134 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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