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Illumine Service Foundation Inc

Illumine service foundation's mission is to support activities for peace, sports for peace and arts for peace.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$1.2MArts & Culture$561kInternational$260kCommunity Improvement$251kHuman Services$188kHealth$175kCrime & Legal$120kEducation$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $1,080,440 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,348,792 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $268,352 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $776k
$29,440
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS$215,000
IMMIGRANT DEFENDERS LAW CENTER$145,000
MEDICINE WHEEL RIDE$80,000
NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIET$78,000
PAYDAY REPORT NEWSLLC(DBA PAYDAY R$55,000
BLACK GIRL VENTURES$53,000
NEW VENTURE FUND (CIVIC RESPONSIIBI$50,000
AUROVILLE INTERNATIONAL - USA$50,000
POVERTEES INC(DBA RESIDENCY)$50,000
SISTERS IN CINEMA$40,000
THE CHILDREN'S STOREFRONT$30,000
CIVIL RIGHTS CORP$29,440
STONE & WARD INC$25,000
BARNARD COLLEGE(ATHENA FILM FESTIVA$25,000
BROWN GIRL DOC MAFIA (BGDM)$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%POVERTEES INC(DBA RESIDENCY): $50k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES LTD: $20k → 14%POVERTEES INC(DBA RESIDENCY): $50k → 14%NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIET: $90k → 17%NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIET: $78k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
OR
NV
SD
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
AR
SC
DC
HI
AL
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $240k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $235k to organizations and $5k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$235k · 98% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: EDUCATION,FILM · EDUCATION/LEADERSHIP · EDUCATION ECONOMIC

Botswana$5k · 2% · 1 person

Stated purpose: OUTREACH-INDIGENOUS COMMU

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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24
Civil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • ID
    Immigrant Defenders Law Center
    3× · 2022–2024 · $310k · revenue +222%
  • ND
    NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $168k · revenue +55%
  • AI
    Auroville International USA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • IR
    ILLUMINE RUNNING LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $359k
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $198k · revenue +33%
  • GM
    GEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0%

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.

1
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
2
She's the First Inc

She's the first (stf) teams up with grassroots leaders to make sure girls everywhere are educated, respected, and heard. our vision is a world where every girl can choose her own future.

Human Services
3
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
4
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights
5
The Conversationalist
6
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
7
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
8
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
9
Rules Foundation

/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.

10
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
11
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
12
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Medicine Wheel Ride. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Lgbtq+ Community Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%31%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%27%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,519

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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
14/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ILLUMINE RUNNING LLC — $358,875 · OtherILLUMINE RUNNING LLCFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $197,812 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEMOMI PRODUCTIONS — $100,000 · OtherMOMI PRODUCTIONSYA MOMZ HOUSEINC — $100,000 · OtherYA MOMZ HOUSEINCPAYDAY REPORT NEWSLLC(DBA PAYDAY R — $95,000 · OtherPAYDAY REPORT NEWSLLC(DBA PAYDAY RSan Carlos Apache Tribe V00523 — $75,000 · OtherECESIS FILMS LLC(DBA TWENDE PICTUR — $75,000 · OtherTIME WARP FILMS LLC — $75,000 · Other+23 more — $605,000 · Other+23 moreImmigrant Defenders Law Center — $310,000 · Crime & LegalImmigrant D…TREVOR PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PRO…Medicine Wheel Ride — $80,000 · Civil RightsMedicine W…GRASSROOTS CONNECT — $50,000 · Civil RightsGRASSROOTS…CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS — $44,440 · Civil RightsCIVIL RIGH…DIRT ROAD ORGANIZING — $25,000 · Civil RightsDIRT ROAD …NIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY — $168,114 · Human ServicesNIDO DE ES…RESIDENCY — $100,000 · Human ServicesRESIDENCYRAINBOW SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW SE…Auroville International USA — $150,000 · InternationalAuroville…GEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · InternationalGEORGES M…ORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION — $10,000 · InternationalThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $215,000 · EmploymentNEW VENTURE FUND — $50,000 · EnvironmentCIVILIZATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE — $30,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK CORPORATION — $22,500 · Environment
Other$1,681,687Crime & Legal$310,000Civil Rights$299,440Human Services$288,114International$260,000Employment$215,000Environment$102,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center — $310,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc — $215,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $197,812 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNIDO DE ESPERANZA CHARITABLE SOCIETY — $168,114 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAuroville International USA — $150,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRESIDENCY — $100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedicine Wheel Ride — $80,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT — $55,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCIVIL RIGHTS CORPS — $44,440 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSisters in Cinema NFP — $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEast Side Riders Bike Club — $32,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCIVILIZATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROWN GIRLS DOC MAFIA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRT ROAD ORGANIZING — $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK CORPORATION — $22,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetRAINBOW SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KINDLING GROUP — $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetGIRLS HEALTH ED — $20,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget1000 DREAMS FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE EARTH CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetORAM - ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGE ASYLUM & MIGRATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Tides FoundationCA16.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 organization Illumine Service Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Illumine Service Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Illumine Service Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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