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Impact Charitable

IMPACT CHARITABLE unites catalytic philanthropists with community partners, financial institutions, foundations, social enterprises, and governmental bodies.

$9.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$11MCommunity Improvement$7.0MPhilanthropy$1.2MEnvironment$1.0MPublic Benefit$746kHousing & Shelter$639kFood & Nutrition$289kInternational$183kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $7,404,988, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,730,237 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,325,249 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $630k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $601k
  • $250k+5 grants · $6.1M
$25,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION DRIVEN FINANCE$2,970,750
TGC IMPACT$1,596,689
NEXT STREET$946,200
PSL FOUNDATION$300,000
DEARFIELD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT$300,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE FUND LLC$237,500
BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS$108,000
ARCA FOUNDATION$105,000
YELLOWSTONE FOREVER$100,000
AFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$50,000
BANUSKIN$35,625
ABI AME$35,625
SIENNA NATURALS$35,625
HARLEM PERFUME CO$35,625
KATINI SKIN$35,625
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $10.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER: $10.7M → 8%THE VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $13k → 8%COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $10k → 8%OPEN ARMS HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $7k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 12%DENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $25k → 12%HOPE IN OUR CITY: $5k → 12%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
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 22 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
55

Total granted

$5.2M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+32%

Still filing today

59%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • CE
    Cal-Wood Education Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +94%
  • DC
    DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • VE
    VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $11M · revenue -61% · 80% of their budget
  • TI
    TOCABE INDIGENOUS MARKETPLACE
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • AI
    ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +51%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
2
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
8
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
9
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
10
Transform Finance Inc

To align capital with social justice values, and help activists and community leaders access capital as a tool for transformative social change. we empower community leaders to shape how capital flows affect them - both in terms of holding…

Community Improvement
11
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
12
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Papagayo. 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

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 123 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $10,746,396 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC+8 more: $126,352 · Human ServicesMISSION DRIVEN FINANCE: $3,468,250 · OtherMISSION DRIVEN FINANCENEXT STREET FINANCIAL LLC: $946,200 · OtherNEXT STREET FINANCIAL LLCDEARFIELD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: $600,000 · OtherDEARFIELD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT+79 more: $2,440,096 · Other+79 moreCAPITAL COLLECTIVE: $1,596,689 · Community ImprovementCAPITAL C…+8 more: $219,812 · Community Improvement+8 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $692,380 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $100,363 · PhilanthropyDONNELL-KAY FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHINOOK FUND INC: $35,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $112,040 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $490,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $250,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $100,000 · EnvironmentCal-Wood Education Center: $50,000 · EnvironmentPSL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitGround Game Fund: $30,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,500 · Public BenefitASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $110,000 · InternationalMAIA: $30,000 · InternationalTIGRAI COMMUNITY OF COLORADO: $13,683 · International
Human Services$10,872,748Other$7,454,546Community Improvement$1,816,501Philanthropy$1,046,783Environment$890,000Public Benefit$460,500International$153,683

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $10,746,396 over 1y, 80% of budgetCAPITAL COLLECTIVE: $1,596,689 over 1y, 94% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $692,380 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO EDUCATION FUND: $490,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPSL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arca Foundation: $120,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $108,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $100,363 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTH DETROIT INC: $80,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANGEL INVESTOR FOUNDATION: $62,340 over 1y, 13% of budgetCHANGE LABS: $60,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetDONNELL-KAY FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $51,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAffiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetDANCE TO BE FREE: $50,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetCal-Wood Education Center: $50,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $45,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHINOOK FUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33,007 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $33,007 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImpactMatters Inc: $30,284 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGround Game Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMAIA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINSPIRE ACCESS: $27,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBreakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDENVER BASIC INCOME PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetANISHINAABE AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCitizen Science Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetONAWAY CAMP TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBENET HILL MONASTERY OF COLORADO SPRINGS INC: $23,700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES FUND: $20,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetDREAM TANK: $20,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetMOUNT EVANS HOSPICE INC DBA MOUNT EVANS HOME HEALTH CARE AND HOS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAMASTE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetOUTLIER MEDIA: $16,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIGRAI COMMUNITY OF COLORADO: $13,683 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTd for Breast Cancer: $13,494 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE VILLAGE INSTITUTE: $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

The Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Community Foundation …ImpactassetsincThe Women's Foundatio…Kenneth Kendal King F…Caring for Denver Fou…Mile High United Way …Nextfifty InitiativeThe Colorado Trust
The Denver FoundationCO32.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Impactassetsinc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Caring for Denver Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Nextfifty Initiative · The Colorado Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corporation: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Impact Charitable?

Find your warmest path to Impact Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 123 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 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home