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Initiative for a Better Society at a glance

· Private foundation

Initiative for a Better Society

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$10kReligion$9kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$1kEnvironment$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chabad Lubavitch Center$1,000
Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Inc$1,000
Messianic Times Inc$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Messianic Jewish Alliance of Americ: $2k → 10%HILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE: $105 → 7%CHABAD OF FREMONT: $4k → 10%Messianic Times Inc: $1k → 13%Chabad Lubavitch Center: $1k → 20%Amazing Animals Inc: $500 → 13%Florida Keys Wild Bird Center: $250 → 13%Friends of the Port St Lucie Botani: $200 → 13%The Edison Institute Inc: $500 → 21%DISCOVERY PLACE INC: $9k → 11%Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Inc: $1k → 14%Friends of the Lost River Inc: $500 → 18%CHABAD OF FREMONT JEWISH COMMUNITY: $3k → 10%Dolphin Research Center: $1k → 13%Shalom Preschool: $1k → 10%Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental: $300 → 13%CHABAD OF FREMONT JEWISH COMMUNITY: $500 → 10%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.
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
Florida Wildlife Hospital & Sanctuary Inc

Florida wildlife hospital & santuary, inc is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping florida wildlife and migratory birds with the mission of returning them to their place in the environment.

Animals
2
Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. wildlife rescue rescues and cares for all wildlife, including native and nonnative species believing all animals are deserving of care,…

Animals
3
Florida Keys History of Diving Museum Inc

The florida keys history of diving museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving, displaying and interpreting artifacts, antiques, books, documents, photographs and oral history relative to the history of diving. we tell the international…

Arts & Culture
4
The Ark Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Inc

Rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured orphaned and displaced wildlife in northeast florida.

Animals
5
Central Florida Wildlife Centerinc

The mission is to rescue and rehabilitste all native florida turtles and tortoises.

Animals
6
Rescuing Ocala Wildlife Inc

Wildlife rehabilitation in Central Florida

Animals
7
Bird Gardens of Naples Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
8
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Inc

Education, conservation, and rehabilitation for the welfare of floridas natural fauna.

Animals
9
Florida Oceanographic Society Inc

To inspire environmental stewardship of florida's coastal ecosystems through education, research and advocacy.

Science & Tech
10
Pelican Harbor Seabird Station Inc

Pelican harbor seabird station is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and release of sick, injured or orphaned native wildlife.

Animals
11
Marine Animal Rescue Rehabilitation & Release Into the Natural Environment

Rescue and rehabilitate marine animals

Animals
12
Animal Wonders Inc

Rescue displaced wild animals and provides educational programs for the public.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Edison Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Messianic Times 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

11 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. 11 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $3,575 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHABAD OF FREMONT JEWISH COMMUNITY: $3,390 · OtherCHABAD OF FREMONT JEWISH COMMUNITYMessianic Jewish Alliance of Americ: $2,165 · OtherMessianic Jewish Alliance of AmericSHALOM PRESCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherSHALOM PRESCHOOLCHABAD LUBAVITCH CENTER: $1,000 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH CENTERAMAZING ANIMALS INC: $500 · Other+2 more: $500 · OtherDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $9,025 · HealthDISCOVERY PLACE INCCOUNCIL FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $1,000 · HealthCOUNCIL FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES IN…DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC: $1,025 · AnimalsFlorida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc: $250 · AnimalsMESSIANIC TIMES INC: $1,000 · ReligionTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC: $500 · Arts & CultureHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE: $105 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF LOST RIVER INC: $500 · Environment
Other$12,130Health$10,025Animals$1,275Religion$1,000Arts & Culture$605Environment$500

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 budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $9,025 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC: $1,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZING ANIMALS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOST RIVER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE: $105 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 Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Initiative for a Better Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Initiative for a Better Society. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Dolphin Research Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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