· Private foundation
Journey Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNICEF | $50,000 |
| THE ASLAN PROJECT | $25,000 |
| TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES | $13,000 |
| YOUTHWORK | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| LOVE HOPE STRENGTH | $5,000 |
| COMBINED ARMS | $5,000 |
| MARGARET RYAN GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| WOLA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,657 |
| GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB | $1,250 |
| JUBILEE JOBS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TBTALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $664k · revenue +64% · 47% of their budget
- TATHE ASLAN PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +15%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF6× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CGCROSSROADS GLOBAL VILLAGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $18k
- RDREACT DC INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +376%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
To create employment opportunities for young people in the middle east and north africa through career training in vocational, technical, managerial and professional skills.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Assist international partners with changemakers around the world to provide solutions that save lives and build resilient communities. we accomplish our mission with actionable projects that make a lasting and sustainable impact on the…
We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foster Nation and the most unlike its peers is Hopestar Foundation. 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.
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 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 50% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASLAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BATONGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Combined Arms ↗
- Who funds LOVE HOPE STRENGTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRACYS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds REACT DC INC ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Energy for the Common Good ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOPESTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER NATION ↗
- Who funds JACARANDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Journey Fund 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.
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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Find your warmest path to Journey Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.