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Kindred Futures Inc

At kindred futures, we activate shared prosperity for black people through impactful solutions, movement building, and catalytic capital.

$335k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$99k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.2MPhilanthropy$107kInternational$50kArts & Culture$40kPublic Benefit$40kYouth Development$40kRecreation & Sports$25kSocial Science$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXEMPT ME NOW INC DBA RESILIA$98,750
BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
THE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE$45,000
THE COME UP PROJECT$40,000
EXECUTIVE FINANCIAL PARTNERS LLC$25,000
GREATER SAVANNAH BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$25,000
STEP UP SAVANNAH$25,000
CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND: $50k → 13%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Kindred Futures Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 77%.

Kindred Futures Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$615k · 4 repeat orgs$778k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$615k
$642k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
-4%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VM
    VILLAGE MICRO FUND
    2× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue -13% · 25% of their budget
  • GM
    GEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK
    2× · 2021–2022 · $132k · revenue -71%
  • RA
    RESILIA ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $108k

Funded once

  • II
    IBEX IT EXPERTS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $210k
  • OV
    Our Village United Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue +138%
  • GR
    GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -66%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Georgia Organics Inc

Georgia Organics invests in organic farmers for the health of our communities and the land.

Environment
2
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
3
Webb Squared

To redress the racial wealth gap and build generational wealth by providing incubator and accelerator services to black and brown entrepreneurs in rural North Carolina.

Community Improvement
4
Bountiful Cities Project

Bountiful Cities is the urban agriculture resource in Asheville. We share and support agriculture resources and skills centered in equity, inclusion and economic viability. Bountiful Cities works collaboratively investing in re-development…

Environment
5
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
6
Collaboration for Good

Collaboration for Good is a capacity-building organization that focuses on accelerating economic equity. We believe the road to building a just and equal society lies in normalizing and stabilizing economic equity. Decent work, economic…

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7
Community Engagement Partners

To help funders and investors build authentic relationships with black community innovators. our work leads to stronger networks, greater resource equity, and powerful, mutually beneficial partnerships for more resilient and thriving black…

Education
8
Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc

Completed Rehab on 5 Properties & Sold to Program Participants Purchased, Gut & Began Rehab on 7 New Properties

Housing & Shelter
9
Urban Growers Collective Inc

Urban growers collective's work aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. rooted in growing food, ugc cultivates nourishing environments which support health, economic…

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Organizing for Racial Equity Core

Community Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE) works to deconstruct systemic inequities and achieve equitable outcomes for all people in Chatham County through education, organizing, and reconciliation.

Human Services
11
Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures

To empower talented, yet under-estimated Women and Communities of Color to build generational wealth through inclusive entrepreneurship, community wealth building, and integrated capital.

Education
12
Global Growers Network Inc

Global Growers Network partners with people from multiple cultures who grow fresh food for their families and local marketplaces, and grows leaders who strengthen our local food system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Civic Innovation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Goodie Nation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IBEX IT EXPERTS LLC: $209,908 · OtherIBEX IT EXPERTS LLCRESILIA ACADEMY: $108,230 · OtherRESILIA ACADEMYEXECUTIVE FINANCIAL PARTNERS LLC: $75,000 · OtherEXECUTIVE FINANCIAL PARTNERS LLCTHE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE: $45,000 · OtherTHE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVETHE COME UP PROJECT: $40,000 · OtherTHE COME UP PROJECTPORTRAIT COFFEE LLC: $40,000 · OtherPORTRAIT COFFEE LLCTHE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE: $30,000 · OtherGREATER SAVANNAH BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25,000 · OtherSWIM LIFE FITNESS: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $28,280 · OtherGEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK: $131,500 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRI…Our Village United Inc: $105,000 · Community ImprovementOur Village United IncGoodie Nation Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementGoodie Nation IncGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGROVE PARK FOUNDATION …VILLAGE MICRO FUND: $300,000 · EducationVILLAGE MICRO FUNDTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK BEL…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $67,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…URBAN OAK INITIATIVE: $40,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN OAK INI…GEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND: $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $40,000 · Public BenefitSTEP UP SAVANNAH INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceTruly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban: $8,500 · EnvironmentCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $1,000 · Environment
Other$626,418Community Improvement$301,500Education$300,000Philanthropy$182,000Human Services$50,000Public Benefit$40,000Social Science$25,000Environment$9,500

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 budgetVILLAGE MICRO FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetGEORGIA MICRO ENTERPRISE NETWORK: $131,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOur Village United Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $67,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN OAK INITIATIVE: $40,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGoodie Nation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSTEP UP SAVANNAH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTruly Living Well Ctr for Natural Urban: $8,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCenter for Civic Innovation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

The Community Foundat…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…United Way of Greater…The Kendeda FundThe Homestead Foundat…Fund for Southern Com…Food Well AllianceAEC TrustTruist Foundation IncAmalgamated Charitabl…WK Kellogg Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA25.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Kendeda Fund · The Homestead Foundation Inc · Fund for Southern Communities Inc · Food Well Alliance · AEC Trust · Truist Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation

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 Kindred Futures Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kindred Futures Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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, FY20–24
    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 24 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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