· Public charity
Inquiring Systems Inc
Implementing ethical social change through training, technical assistance, business and financial management, and fiscal sponsorship services to nonprofit organizations and socially responsible businesses.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $419,651 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $696,970 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $277,319 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC INTEGRAL LLC | $150,000 |
| RAINWALK REWILD | $50,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $27,589 |
| GALLOWAY FAMILY FARM & EDUCATION CENTER | $13,000 |
| TRUCULTURE LLC | $13,000 |
| TIERRA NEGRA FARMS | $12,800 |
| CENTAURUS FOUNDATION | $12,352 |
| HIGH HOG FARM | $10,500 |
| VETS IN VANS | $9,180 |
| MYSTIC PINE FARM | $8,400 |
| VCA PETCARE EAST | $8,308 |
| SEJAH FARM OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS | $8,000 |
| MARSH VIEW COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM | $8,000 |
| ILOGIC RED COLLECTIVE LLC | $8,000 |
| DREAM ROOM DESIGNS DBA ECO SUN FARMS | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +152% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $73k
- VAVCA ANIMAL CARE CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY3× · 2023–2025 · $59k
- SFSEJAH FARM OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS2× · 2023–2025 · $49k
Funded once
- FCFORESTREE COLLECTIVE LLCone grant, 2023 · $90k
- SESUBTLE ENERGY GROUP LLCone grant, 2024 · $68k
Center for Third World Organizinggraduatedone grant, 2024 · $32k · revenue ×17
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Connect people with land, water, and culture. provide education and resource connections. grow the farmers and food producers of tomorrow.
We provide education and resources for veterinary professionals to be more environmentally sustainable in their work.
We are a feline foster home based rescue organization providing rescue, rehoming, low-cost spay & neutur services, vaccinations, and farm colony management.
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
prove asset to organic food
One Village Project is a model of visionary education and regenerative living that unites a global community in service to the highest expressions of life one another and the earth. Grown out of 25+ years of global humanitarian projects…
The NWF2F DBA Minority Growers Collective is a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit founded in February of 2021 to meet the education, training, and financial assistance needs of agricultural growers and producers of color and meet the needs of…
Village earth helps reconnect communities to the resources that promote human well-being by enhancing social and political empowerment, community self-reliance and self-determination. we do this by strengthening intermediate and grassroots…
The mission is to reconnect sustainable food and natural medicine practices to the community through the development of community land providing edible and medicinal gardens, organic farm to table food, education and regenerative land…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Path Collective Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 45 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 Center for Third World Organizing ↗
- Who funds VETS IN VANS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds WILD PATH COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARSHVIEW COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM ↗
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: Rural Advancement Foundation Internation · Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless · Resist Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Inquiring Systems Inc 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.
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.
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