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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.

$577k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$457kHuman Services$175kHousing & Shelter$150kYouth Development$113kEducation$110kRecreation & Sports$110kEmployment$83kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATIE'S CLOSET: $100k → 8%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

NH
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
KS
DC
LA
GA
TX
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 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
Youth Guidance

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…

Education
2
Hope for Youth Inc

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…

Youth Development
3
Global Kids Inc

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 Development
4
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
5
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
6
World Youth Connect

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…

Youth Development
7
Network for Young Adult Success

Our mission is to empower young adults to realize their professional aspirations by supporting their successful degree attainment and career preparation.

Education
8
Los Angeles Youth Network

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…

Human Services
9
Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
10
Access Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Girls Write Nashville

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…

Arts & Culture
12
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Schoolhouse Connection; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $200,000 · HealthErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Ho…OUR MINDS MATTER: $150,000 · HealthOUR MINDS MATTERPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $100,400 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSI…OUR HOUSE INC: $100,000 · OtherOUR HOUSE INCGIVING THE BASICS INC: $50,000 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS INC+5 more: $50,000 · Other+5 moreSCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION: $100,000 · EducationSCHOOLHOUSE CONNECT…GENESYS WORKS: $83,000 · EducationGENESYS WORKS826 NEW ORLEANS: $10,000 · EducationWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $10,000 · EducationACCESSIBLE ACADEMICS USA INC: $7,000 · EducationBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $58,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY YOUTH…UPSPRING: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentUPSPRINGHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHomeless Yout…GIRLFORWARD: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARDUP2US INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsUP2US INCCOMPTON JUNIOR EQUESTRIANS: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMPTON JU…Catie's Closet Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesCatie's C…SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$350,000Other$300,400Education$210,000Youth Development$143,000Recreation & Sports$110,000Human Services$100,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetErikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression: $200,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetOUR MINDS MATTER: $150,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetOUR HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUP2US INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $83,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC: $58,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUPSPRING: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLFORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNameless Sound: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget826 NEW ORLEANS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCESSIBLE ACADEMICS USA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

Seattle FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Seattle FoundationWA12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Imagine Learning Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imagine Learning Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Our House Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 23 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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