How much did ILLUMINATIVE INC grant in FY2025?

ILLUMINATIVE INC reported 24 grants totaling $2,613,954 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is ILLUMINATIVE INC based?

ILLUMINATIVE INC is based in DC.

ILLUMINATIVE INC

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· Public charity

ILLUMINATIVE INC

Illuminative is a native woman-led racial and social justice organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of and challenging the narrative about native peoples.

$2.6M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$425k

Largest

01What you fund

0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.1MCommunity Improvement$627kEducation$330kCivil Rights$305kHealth$169kEnvironment$65kHuman Services$30kOther$1.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2023

harnessfutureenvisionstrongsolutionsconsultantsleaders allies

2024

natives votenewsmediariversindigenousenterpriseworked

2025

rightsmenominiskydocumentaryprotect sovereigntyprimarybuilding

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k10 grants · $270k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
$250k+4 grants · $1.3M

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

AMPLIFIER FOUNDATION$425,000
THE CENTER FOR NATIVE HEALTH INC$300,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$300,000
UNITED SOUTH & EASTERN TRIBES INC$300,000
NATIVE MOVEMENT$200,000
LONE WOLF DOCUMENTARY GROUP$160,000
ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY$150,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$105,000
BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE$100,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$75,000
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS$63,000
YOUTH FORWARD$60,000
RED AMBITION PRODUCTIONS LLC$50,000
NATIVE AMERICANS IN PHILANTHROPY$50,000
CALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR URBAN INDIAN HEALTH INC$40,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 10 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +446% since the first grant, against +86% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+446%

+86%

Still filing today

100%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

NM
NATIVE MOVEMENT
2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +945%
YF
YOUTH FORWARD
2× · 2024–2025 · $169k · revenue +595%
CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
2× · 2024–2025 · $127k · revenue +278%

Funded once

PL
PSFFLP LLC
one grant, 2024 · $750k
IP
INDIJ PUBLIC MEDIAgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +68%
NP
NATIVESOUTDOORS PBC
one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Indigenous Voices Nevada

Empowering nevadas native communities from the ground up. by us, for us. amplifying indigenous voices of change.

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Western Native Voice Education Project

We inspire Native leadership so our communities flourish. We foster positive change through leadership, civic engagement, education, and advocacy.

Unclassified

International Indian Treaty Council Inc

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples working for self-determination and the recognition and protection of human rights, treaties, traditional cultures, and sacred lands and waters.

Civil Rights

Migizi Communications Inc

MIGIZI acts as a circle of support that nurtures the development of American Indian youth in education, employment, and cultural and social connectivity, and advances a message of success, well-being, and justice.

Education

Northwest Indian Community Development

To identify, coordinate and deliver resources that promote wellness and equity for American Indian families in Northwest and North-central Minnesota.

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Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Inc

Arizona indian tribe advocate

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Indigenous Women Rising

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American Indian Community Development

To provide culturally unique initiatives, housing & entrepreneurial programs that will strengthen the american indian community

Housing & Shelter

Indigenous Regeneration

Indigenous Regeneration exists to inspire Native Communities on re-generative living concepts, through food cultivation, medicinal farming, culture, and eco-village educational programs, to achieve re-indigenization and true Tribal…

Youth Development

Native Americans in Philanthropy

Native Americans in Philanthropy advocates, educates, convenes and innovates to dramatically increase philanthropic investments in Native communities and transform the philanthropic sector's relationship with Indigenous communities.

Civil Rights

American Indian Services

We're dedicated to helping Native Americans have access to a quality education, while still preserving their culture and honoring their heritage. Our mission is to provide preparatory programs for youth and financial assistance for those…

Human Services

American Institute of Indian Studies

Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about India and the promotion of intellectual engagement with India in American universities by providing research fellowship support, training in Indian languages, knowledge of Indian culture, and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Indian Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indij Public Media. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/38

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,527

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/31

Grantees still filing

24/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,573,000Arts & Culture$1,120,000Community Improvement$626,500Education$330,000Civil Rights$305,000Health$168,675Environment$65,000Human Services$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Common Counsel FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Common Counsel Foundation · Ndn Collective Inc · Seventh Generation Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ILLUMINATIVE INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: YOUTH FORWARD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 815343876 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on YOUTH FORWARD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Illuminative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Illuminative Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ILLUMINATIVE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Illuminative Inc?

More from the funding graph

ILLUMINATIVE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Illuminative Inc?

More from the funding graph