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$208k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$41k
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 2025.

International$527kScience & Tech$488kCivil Rights$467kCrime & Legal$255kHealth$165kPublic Benefit$161kEnvironment$136kFood & Nutrition$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $184,395, the rows itemized in this filing. The $208,114 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,719 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
$11,747
Median grant
7
States reached
$388k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$40,844
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$30,393
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC$23,287
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC$14,974
AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY$13,396
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND INC$11,747
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC$10,473
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC$10,255
VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER$9,778
NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY$7,624
PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC$5,868
HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CNTR FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDU IN ISRAEL$5,756
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 (FY19–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $8k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $18k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $15k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $14k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $13k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $13k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $12k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER INC: $10k → 11%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

MT
MN
IL
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 23 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+28%

Still filing today

96%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalCivil RightsHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • EF
    Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +24%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $308k · revenue +78%
  • VP
    VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • US
    UKRAINIAN STUDIES CHAIR FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue -84%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +36%
  • IL
    INDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +126%
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
3
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
4
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
5
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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6
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
7
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
10
Center for Justice and International Law

To contribute to the full enjoyment of human rights in the americas through effective use of the tools of the inter-american system and international human rights law

Crime & Legal
11
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 34 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $366,425 · OtherElectronic Frontier Foundation IncAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $121,823 · OtherAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SO…AMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY: $69,929 · OtherAMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITYNATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY: $65,544 · OtherNATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND PO…UKRAINIAN STUDIES CHAIR FUND INC: $47,103 · OtherPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $72,560 · OtherPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $65,898 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INCPoverty and Race Research Action Council: $38,217 · Other+7 more: $81,964 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $161,828 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAG…POLARIS PROJECT: $158,411 · InternationalPOLARIS PROJECTTHE ADVOCACY PROJECT: $50,352 · InternationalTHE ADVOCACY PROJECTHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $46,402 · InternationalHAND IN HAND AMERICAN F…Tibet Fund Inc: $32,930 · InternationalTibet Fund IncEZER MIZION: $23,463 · InternationalTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $17,043 · International+2 more: $19,521 · InternationalANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $308,090 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUETHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $77,653 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CE…CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $64,090 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PR…ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $29,559 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICANS ADVANC…VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $165,533 · Crime & LegalTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $131,924 · HealthSUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC: $10,000 · HealthRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $124,202 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $94,176 · Human ServicesLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $7,770 · Human Services
Other$929,463International$509,950Civil Rights$479,392Crime & Legal$165,533Health$141,924Environment$124,202Human Services$101,946

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 budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $366,425 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $308,090 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER: $165,533 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $161,828 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $158,411 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $131,924 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $124,202 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY: $121,823 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER: $94,176 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $77,653 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $72,560 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY: $69,929 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $65,898 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY: $65,544 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $64,090 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADVOCACY PROJECT: $50,352 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetUKRAINIAN STUDIES CHAIR FUND INC: $47,103 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA: $46,402 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPoverty and Race Research Action Council: $38,217 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTibet Fund Inc: $32,930 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $29,559 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $24,379 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEZER MIZION: $23,463 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $17,043 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $14,348 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN LAW RESOURCE CENTER: $11,801 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPFLAG: $10,502 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUkrainian Resistance Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSUPERHUMANS UKRAINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING INC: $8,234 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $7,770 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $5,536 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $5,173 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Ford FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationNetwork for GoodSilicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
The Ford FoundationNY16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Network for Good · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Human & Civil Rights Organizations of America 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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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