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Institute for Market Transformation

Imt believes better buildings improve lives.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$2.0MEducation$200kCommunity Improvement$146kHousing & Shelter$120kHealth$64kEmployment$24kCivil Rights$14k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $914k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES CTR-BEEP$300,000
PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY$113,750
AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$100,000
FRONT AND CENTERED$100,000
ISAIAH$100,000
BRIDGING THE GAP INC$100,000
WASHINGTON INTERFAITH NETWORK$100,000
RURAL PEOPLE'S VOICE$100,000
COMMUNITY BUILDER'S NETWORK OF ST LOUIS$100,000
ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY$100,000
NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$20,000
ACTION-HOUSING INC$20,000
FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT: $20k → 16%GROUNDWORK DATA: $10k → 17%ISAIAH: $100k → 14%ACTION-HOUSING INC: $20k → 11%CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $10k → 10%MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $190k → 10%SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRENEURS: $363k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $85k → 17%FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20k → 16%WASHINGTON INTERFAITH NETWORK: $100k → 14%GRASSROOTS IMPACT EDUCATION FUND: $14k → 13%MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL CSC: $8k → 15%COMMUNITY BUILDER'S NETWORK OF ST LOUIS: $100k → 21%NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $20k → 17%COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $11k → 12%FRONT AND CENTERED: $100k → 9%RURAL PEOPLE'S VOICE: $100k → 17%PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY: $114k → 14%ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $100k → 23%PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER: $200k → 14%STRATEGIC ACTIONS FOR A JUST ECONOMY: $64k → 14%BRIDGING THE GAP INC: $100k → 15%VERDE: $14k → 12%AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $100k → 9%PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER: $200k → 14%VERDE: $11k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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2
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
3
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
4
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement
5
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
6
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
7
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
8
Green Cities Accord

Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…

Environment
9
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
10
Nexus Community Partners

Nexus' mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities by supporting community building initiatives that expand community wealth and foster social and human capital.

Philanthropy
11
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…

Community Improvement
12
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington Interfaith Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%53%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,537

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
11/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $362,700 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENT…ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY — $100,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENER…Front and Centered — $100,000 · EnvironmentFront and CenteredNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $84,800 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE CO…PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC — $400,000 · EducationPUBLIC HEALTH LAW…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $190,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEG…Community Builders Network of Metro St Louis — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Builde…NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST SIDE C…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR…FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementFIFTH WARD COMMU…+2 more — $17,500 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY — $113,750 · OtherPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOV…BRIDGING THE GAP INC — $100,000 · OtherBRIDGING THE GAP INCSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — $85,000 · OtherSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARYISAIAH — $100,000 · OtherISAIAHRural Peoples Voice — $100,000 · OtherRural Peoples VoiceSAJE — $63,750 · OtherSAJE+3 more — $34,250 · Other+3 moreTIDES CENTER — $300,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERWashington Interfaith Network — $100,000 · EmploymentVerde Inc — $24,250 · EmploymentAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Environment$647,500Education$400,000Community Improvement$367,500Other$596,750Human Services$300,000Employment$124,250Housing & Shelter$120,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC — $400,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $362,700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $190,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY — $113,750 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetISAIAH — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Builders Network of Metro St Louis — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRural Peoples Voice — $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $84,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAJE — $63,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVerde Inc — $24,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $10,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

United States Energy …Movement Strategy Cen…Amalgamated Charitabl…Natural Resources Def…The Energy FoundationWindward FundThe Kresge FoundationInatai FoundationThe Schmidt Family Fo…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationNew Venture Fund
United States Energy FoundationCA27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Energy Foundation · Windward Fund · The Kresge Foundation · Inatai Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund

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 Institute for Market Transformation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines