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Inherent 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MInternational$1.7MEnvironment$1.1MHuman Services$649kPhilanthropy$584kHealth$213kEmployment$205kYouth Development$175kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $477k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMAGINE WORLDWIDE$500,000
ALL OUR KIN$250,000
EDUCATE GIRLS$250,000
CERES$176,750
JOIN FREEWORLD INC$75,000
LABHYA USA INC$75,000
PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC$50,000
FATHERS' UPLIFT INC$50,000
SIDDARTHA SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP$50,000
BUILDING TOMORROW INC$25,000
CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$17,320
SISTERS OF ST URSULA$15,000
EASTERSEALS$6,500
WE DO IT INC$5,180
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Lustgarten Foundation: $929 → 6%United Help Ukraine Inc: $3k → 8%Emma's Torch: $15k → 20%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $50k → 16%Fathers' UpLift Inc: $25k → 16%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $45k → 16%City Living NY: $3k → 17%City Living NY: $625 → 17%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

ME
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 31 repeat orgs$930k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
32

Total granted

$6.7M
$810k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+17%

Still filing today

81%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • IW
    IMAGINE WORLDWIDE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +338%
  • CI
    CERES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $682k · revenue +37%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2022 · $408k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • KA
    KEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $162k · revenue -87%
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +243%
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
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
2
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
3
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
6
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
7
Teach for All Inc

Develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Education
8
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
9
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
10
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is The Soar Foundation. 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

62 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. 62 of the 73 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
40/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCATE GIRLS: $1,250,000 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLSTASIS FOUNDATION INC: $368,237 · InternationalTASIS FOUNDATION INC+5 more: $82,500 · InternationalIndividual grant recipient: $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAS YOU SOW: $400,000 · OtherAS YOU SOWKidogo Early Years Inc: $300,000 · OtherKidogo Early Years IncB LAB COMPANY: $160,000 · OtherB LAB COMPANYJOIN FREEWORLD INC: $150,000 · OtherJOIN FREEWORLD INCRATTAPALLAX INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · Other+32 more: $617,058 · Other+32 moreIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $1,100,000 · Community ImprovementIMAGINE WORLDWID…ALL OUR KIN INC: $500,000 · EducationALL OUR KIN IN…PURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $190,380 · EducationPURSUIT TRANSF…WITHIN REACH INC: $150,000 · EducationWITHIN REACH I…ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $100,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FI…Siddhartha School Partnership: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $37,500 · EducationCERES INC: $681,750 · EnvironmentCERES INC+2 more: $30,000 · EnvironmentROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $407,500 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOO…TIDES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES…PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $30,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $28,640 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC: $161,683 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · Health+4 more: $11,500 · Health
International$1,700,737Other$2,377,058Community Improvement$1,100,000Education$1,027,880Environment$711,750Philanthropy$651,140Health$198,183

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 budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $1,250,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE: $1,100,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCERES INC: $681,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $500,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $407,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $400,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTASIS FOUNDATION INC: $368,237 over 2y, 99% of budgetKidogo Early Years Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPURSUIT TRANSFORMATION COMPANY INC: $190,380 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKEEP A CHILD ALIVE INC: $161,683 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetB LAB COMPANY: $160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWITHIN REACH INC: $150,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetJOIN FREEWORLD INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRATTAPALLAX INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $53,913 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS GLOBALLY: $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetSiddhartha School Partnership: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $28,640 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBUILDING TOMORROW INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICH: $10,928 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN FRIENDSHIP FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetCITY LIVING NY INC: $3,125 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $2,605 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…Robin Hood FoundationJewish Communal FundMulago FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The New York Communit…Draper Richards Kapla…Stand Together Founda…Brooklyn Community Fo…Tides FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Fjc
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY22.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Robin Hood Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Mulago Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation · Stand Together Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Fjc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Jewish Family Services of Greenwich: 41% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Inherent Foundation 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 73 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home