· Private foundation
Imagine Learning Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION | $100,000 |
| CATIE'S CLOSET | $100,000 |
| OUR HOUSE INC | $100,000 |
| GIVING THE BASICS INC | $50,000 |
| UPSPRING | $50,000 |
| OUR MINDS MATTER | $50,000 |
| ERIKA'S LIGHT HOUSE | $50,000 |
| HOMELESS YOUTH CONNECTION | $25,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN | $10,000 |
| NAMELESS SOUND | $10,000 |
| ACCESSIBLE ACADEMICS USA INC | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
A leader in social and emotional development, community engagement, and positive youth development, Youth Guidance has strategically created programs to address community needs across four delivery areas: Community & Afterschool Programs…
HYPE empowers historically underrepresented and underserved middle and high school students with technology skills and audience-centered programming to prepare them to become future leaders in tech careers. As a result, we are establishing…
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
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…
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…
World Youth Connect builds communities across cultures and beyond borders. By creating and encouraging civic engagement opportunities we help young people gain the skills and experience they need to be successful. World Youth Connect…
Our mission is to empower young adults to realize their professional aspirations by supporting their successful degree attainment and career preparation.
Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…
The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
Access youth's mission is to empower vulnerable youth with the tools they need to stay in school, graduate on time and avoid the justice system, through mediation and restorative justice.
Girls write nashville empowers expression through songwriting, production, mentorship and creative community for teen artists. we are an artist and educator-led 501(c)(3) creative youth development program in nashville, tn allied with…
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schoolhouse Connection and the most unlike its peers is Accessible Academics Usa Inc. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 23 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ↗
- Who funds OUR MINDS MATTER ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESYS WORKS ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds 826 NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Inspira Dance ↗
- Who funds Nameless Sound ↗
- Who funds COMPTON JUNIOR EQUESTRIANS ↗
- Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
- Who funds WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
- Who funds ACCESSIBLE ACADEMICS USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 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.
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Our House Inc — 1% of income from government
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.