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Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc

INSTRUCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION, INC.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of INSTRUCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 41 grants below total $2,425,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,480,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,000 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

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND$225,000
PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC$125,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$100,000
ORGANIZE ACTION INC$100,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS$100,000
BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CE$100,000
MAKE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST$80,000
WOVEN ACTION INC$75,000
CHANGE THE GAME$75,000
WE MUST VOTE INC$75,000
OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN$75,000
LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION$75,000
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION$75,000
SOUTHERN RURAL BLACK WOMENS I$75,000
MS NAACP$75,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $100k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $50k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN: $75k → 14%URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $53k → 16%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATL: $50k → 9%CASA IN ACTION: $76k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $68k → 11%THINK SMALL: $50k → 14%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN: $75k → 14%URBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK: $35k → 16%HOPE HOUSE DAYCARE INC: $1k → 17%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATL: $25k → 9%CASA IN ACTION: $75k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN AZ: $61k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $50k → 14%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND: $225k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $50k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $61k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $45k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $25k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $50k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $15k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $19k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $45k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK IN: $15k → 14%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $30k → 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 14%JOLT ACTION: $20k → 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN AZ: $25k → 11%JOLT ACTION: $20k → 10%PROGRESSIVE MARYLAND: $25k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN A: $8k → 11%PUENTE: $50k → 11%COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD POWER: $30k → 17%PUENTE: $30k → 11%NILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND: $70k → 14%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

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

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 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 81 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

81 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
87

Total granted

$24M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +130%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $850k · revenue +42%
  • C
    COLOROFCHANGEORG
    6× · 2017–2022 · $809k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • CI
    CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $485k · revenue -39%
  • JC
    JOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $182k · revenue -53%
  • CI
    COMPETITION & INNOVATION INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $130k · revenue ×4,545

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.

1
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
5
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
6
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
7
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
8
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

9
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
10
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
11
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
12
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower and the most unlike its peers is Competition & Innovation Institute. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsLgbtq+ Community SupportElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsImmigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
13/179
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,386

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

151 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 151 of the 179 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
137/151
Grantees still filing
72/151
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $5,375,500 · OtherPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INCTIDES ADVOCACY — $1,081,858 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $808,556 · OtherFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC — $605,000 · OtherBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC — $575,820 · Other+86 more — $7,315,080 · Other+86 morePROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE — $1,167,750 · Civil RightsPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUEWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $850,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANI…WAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $795,000 · Civil RightsWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND …FREE PRESS ACTION FUND — $456,290 · Civil RightsFREE PRESS ACTION FUNDTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN — $225,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INC — $225,000 · Civil Rights+24 more — $2,435,020 · Civil Rights+24 moreCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $855,500 · EducationCENTER FO…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $362,000 · EducationSOCIAL GO…FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $245,000 · EducationFAIR FIGH…TALKINGPOINTS — $120,000 · EducationLENA FOUNDATION — $120,000 · EducationWeird Enough Company Inc — $120,000 · EducationCity Center for Collaborative Learning — $120,000 · EducationHBCU GREEN FUND INC — $90,500 · EducationEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC — $88,550 · Education+9 more — $368,750 · Education+9 moreLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $446,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC — $295,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN ACTION INC — $245,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc — $225,000 · Human ServicesURBAN COMMUNITY NETWORK — $87,500 · Human ServicesPUENTE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT — $80,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesSouthern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesNILC IMMIGRANT JUSTICE FUND — $70,000 · Human Services+5 more — $171,000 · Human ServicesREPOWER — $436,750 · Public BenefitPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE — $230,000 · Public BenefitWOVEN ACTION INC — $185,000 · Public BenefitBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4 — $169,276 · Public BenefitCOMPETITION & INNOVATION INSTITUTE — $130,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND — $120,000 · Public BenefitMCCE ACTION — $65,000 · Public Benefit+3 more — $40,500 · Public BenefitPEOPLE'S ACTION — $775,000 · Community ImprovementORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT — $120,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERSHIP FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION — $51,500 · Community ImprovementEngine Advocacy — $50,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTE — $50,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC — $485,028 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — $290,750 · Arts & CultureBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION — $125,000 · Arts & CultureSplinter Art and Community Fund — $63,730 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $5,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$15,761,814Civil Rights$6,154,060Education$2,490,300Human Services$1,844,500Public Benefit$1,376,526Community Improvement$1,261,500Arts & Culture$970,008

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $5,375,500 over 9y, 31% of budgetPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE — $1,167,750 over 8y, 29% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $1,081,858 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC — $855,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $850,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $808,556 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $795,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION — $775,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetFIGHT FOR THE FUTURE INC — $605,000 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER INC — $575,820 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetCHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC — $485,028 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFREE PRESS ACTION FUND — $456,290 over 7y, 21% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $446,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetREPOWER — $436,750 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $430,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $362,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDONORS OF COLOR ACTION INC — $300,750 over 4y, 100% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC — $295,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION FUND — $293,065 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY — $290,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFLIC VOTES INC — $272,650 over 4y, 19% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $265,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND — $251,050 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSouth Asian Americans Leading Together — $245,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $245,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC — $245,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC KNOWLEDGE — $230,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN — $225,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC — $225,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute — $201,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetORGANIZE ACTION — $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $200,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJOINT CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES INC — $181,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC — $176,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUPROSE INC — $175,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetBrave New Films Action Fund 501(c)4 — $169,276 over 6y, 87% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $165,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEQUISLABS — $155,250 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY ACTION — $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetVOTER FORMATION PROJECT — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAPITA SOCIAL INC — $148,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetThe Center For Nuleadership On Urban Solutions Inc — $130,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetChicago Votes Action Fund — $130,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCULTURAL ENGAGEMENT LABORATORY — $128,660 over 3y, 11% of budgetBLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION — $125,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND — $121,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $121,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

All Hands on Deck Network IncMA81.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · America Votes · Women Donors Network Action · Proteus Action League · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · North 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 Instructional Telecommunications Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
17report 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, FY2025

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 179 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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