· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| TRUCULTURE LLC | $13,000 |
| GALLOWAY FAMILY FARM & EDUCATION CENTER | $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 |
| MARSH VIEW COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM | $8,000 |
| DEEP ROOTS COMMUNITY PLANNING SOLUTIONS | $8,000 |
| DREAM ROOM DESIGNS DBA ECO SUN FARMS | $8,000 |
| ILOGIC RED COLLECTIVE LLC | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +152% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
Black Farmers Collective exists to improve the health of communities through urban gardens and farming.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Inquiring Systems Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inquiring Systems Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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