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$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RURAL PEOPLE'S VOICE$100,000
ISAIAH$100,000
COMMUNITY BUILDER'S NETWORK OF ST LOUIS$100,000
BRIDGING THE GAP INC$100,000
WASHINGTON INTERFAITH NETWORK$100,000
AFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$100,000
FRONT AND CENTERED$100,000
ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY$100,000
FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT$20,000
ACTION-HOUSING INC$20,000
NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$20,000
02The need
03

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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MO
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

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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
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
6
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
7
CarbonPlan

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

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
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
10
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
11
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
12
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 26 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…FIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementFIFTH WARD COMMU…NORTHWEST SIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST SIDE C…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetISAIAH: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRural Peoples Voice: $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCommunity Builders Network of Metro St Louis: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAFRICATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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 budgetFIFTH WARD COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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
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.

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

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 Institute for Market Transformation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Market Transformation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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 26 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 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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