How much did INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES grant in FY2024?

Environment$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$668kHousing & Shelter$555kInternational$484kHealth$470kArts & Culture$318kEmployment$243kOther$2.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

learningliving classroomsbenefitblockeducationalobjectivesstudent

2020

houstoncaresocialeducation

2021

—

2022

—

2023

positivetribalwayenvironmental justiceactionyouth leadershiphomebuyers

2024

leadersconnectsadaptation professionalsneighborssupportsriverenvironmental justice

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $200k
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.4M
$250k+1 grant · $484k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

ATMA CONNECT$484,441
EMERALD CITIES COLLABORATIVE$144,661
GROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY$129,583
TIDES CENTER$119,900
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA$117,500
PACOIMA BEAUTIFUL$117,500
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$100,000
JASTECH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC$97,000
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK$76,274
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$62,242
YOUTH MINISTRIES FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE$50,000
GREENROOTS$50,000
HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY$50,000
POWER 52$50,000
EASTSIDE COMMUNITY NETWORK$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 39% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 22 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +143% since the first grant, against +98% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+143%

+98%

Still filing today

86%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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

HG
HEALTHY GULF
6× · 2019–2024 · $710k · revenue +123%
WALNUT WAY
7× · 2018–2024 · $555k · revenue +83%
P5
POWER 52
6× · 2019–2024 · $453k · revenue +461%

Funded once

NATIONAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST NETWORK DBA GROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORKgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $470k · revenue +81%
EL
ELEVATE LLC
one grant, 2023 · $276k
TV
THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
one grant, 2023 · $143k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

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

Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize communit

Environment

Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment

CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment

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

North East Trees Inc

North East Trees (NET) heals decades of environmental injustice and disinvestment through community-based urban forestry, nature-based design-build of parks, community engagement, and youth workforce development. Our projects, which take…

Environment

The Urban Conservancy

Founded in 2001, The Urban Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and advocacy that promotes the wise stewardship of the urban built environment and local economies.

Community Improvement

Environmental Justice Community Action Network

NC has clean & safe air, water & soil.

Environment

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Community Greening Corp

Community Greening envisions an engaged community creating sustainable green spaces and a vibrant tree canopy to equitably strengthen our environment, economy, society and health.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grounded Solutions Network and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/52

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,513

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.

05the grantee network

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

40/43

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,031,065Environment$1,600,532Community Improvement$1,547,365Human Services$1,203,981Education$668,331Housing & Shelter$555,139International$484,441

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.

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 FoundationCA32.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Windward Fund · The Kresge Foundation · Water Foundation · Solutions Project Inc · The Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Resources Legacy 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 organisation INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824941170 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND ADVOCACY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Institute for Sustainable Communities?

Find your warmest path to Institute for Sustainable Communities through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Institute for Sustainable Communities?

More from the funding graph

INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

43 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Institute for Sustainable Communities?

More from the funding graph