How much did IMAGINE LEARNING FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$210kHealth$150kYouth Development$143kRecreation & Sports$110kHuman Services$100kHousing & Shelter$25kArts & Culture$20kCrime & Legal$10kOther$470k

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

2022

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2023

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2024

connection

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

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$50k–250k7 grants · $500k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

OUR HOUSE INC$100,000
SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION$100,000
CATIE'S CLOSET$100,000
UPSPRING$50,000
ERIKA'S LIGHT HOUSE$50,000
GIVING THE BASICS INC$50,000
OUR MINDS MATTER$50,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$25,000
HOMELESS YOUTH CONNECTION$25,000
NAMELESS SOUND$10,000
NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN$10,000
ACCESSIBLE ACADEMICS USA INC$7,000

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 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.

Youth Guidance

Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.

Education

Yes Every Kid Inc

yes. every kid. is a leading advocacy team with a families-first approach to transform America's education policy landscape.

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Youthroots

Unleashing the power of youth to change the world.

Education

Youth Activism Project

The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…

Youth Development

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education

MyPath

MyPath designs, tests & scales Financial Capability for young people; shares lessons & best practices with the field; & engages policy makers to advance policy & systems-level changes that will improve the economic rights/opportunities for…

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Alternatives Inc

Youth agency providing comprehensive services for youth, their families and community.

Health

Notmykid

Notmykid's mission is to ensure every kid thrives by inspiring positive life choices.

Human Services

Youthbuild Usa Inc

To create a world where all young people are seen for their potentialwith love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild…

Employment

Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston provides research-based programming for girls ages 6-18 covering topics such as anti-bullying, leadership, teamwork, financial literacy, media literacy, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and…

Youth Development

Youth Ambassadors Inc

Youth Ambassadors is an educational program designed to empower underserved teenage youth with important life skills, soft job skills, creative expression, and adult mentors, helping them become future community leaders willing and able to…

Arts & Culture

Kids Upstate

Kids upstate seeks to engage young people after school and during the summer to build belonging, competence and purpose into their lives.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schoolhouse Connection and the most unlike its peers is 826 New Orleans. 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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/21

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,544

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

20 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)

19/20

Grantees still filing

17/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$500,400Education$210,000Health$150,000Youth Development$143,000Recreation & Sports$110,000Human Services$100,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

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.

Seattle FoundationWA12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation IMAGINE LEARNING FOUNDATION 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

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

04Through 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: OUR MINDS MATTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 18.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454313590 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 OUR MINDS MATTER, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% 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 Imagine Learning Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Imagine Learning Foundation 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.

IMAGINE LEARNING FOUNDATION

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?

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Imagine Learning Foundation?

More from the funding graph

IMAGINE LEARNING FOUNDATION

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?

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Imagine Learning Foundation?

More from the funding graph