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Lever for Change

We connect donors with problem solvers to find and fund bold, effective solutions to accelerate social change.

$706k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$150kInternational$125kPhilanthropy$100kEducation$60kCivil Rights$60kEmployment$50kCommunity Improvement$35kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $665,754, the rows itemized in this filing. The $705,754 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK$45,754
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA$20,000
HACK THE HOOD$20,000
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION$20,000
REALITY CHANGERS$20,000
WHATCOM CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING$20,000
BALTIMORE TREE TRUST$20,000
MOONSHOT EDVENTURES$20,000
ASIAN FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES (FKA SAHELI)$20,000
PROJECT WEBERRENEW$20,000
REEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC$20,000
SER FAMILIA INC$20,000
EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC$20,000
LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY$20,000
INTERNATIONAL FERTILIZER DEVELOPMENT CENTER$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT WEBERRENEW: $20k → 14%SER FAMILIA INC: $20k → 8%Task Force For Global Health: $25k → 14%DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $20k → 23%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

VT
WA
NY
MA
CA
NM
DC
GA
TX
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 26% of Lever for Change’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lever for Changelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% 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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 6 repeat orgs$866k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$355k
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $646k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • TB
    TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +40%
  • CH
    CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • O
    OneSky
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +73%
  • CI
    CalCef Innovationsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +212%
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
5
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
8
Pathfinder International

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…

International
9
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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10
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
11
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
12
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Election Reformers Network 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

47 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.

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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
25/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Power for All: $75,000 · InternationalPower for AllTALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES INC: $70,000 · InternationalTALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES I…CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · InternationalCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INIT…OneSky: $50,000 · InternationalOneSkyHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $25,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT…AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $20,000 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC IN…INTERNATIONAL FERTILIZER DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL FERTILIZER D…IGNITE: $60,000 · EducationIGNITEBARD COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIVERSITYMoonshot edVentures: $20,000 · EducationMoonshot edVenturesREALITY CHANGERS: $20,000 · EducationREALITY CHANGERSJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVER…One in Long Beach Inc dba The LGBTQ Center Long Beach: $20,000 · EducationOne in Long Beach In…DALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationDALLAS AFTERSCHOOLROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLE…CAMINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCAMINO COM…RURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL DEVE…NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO…PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS I…SAHELI: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSAHELIENLACE COMUNITARIO: $20,000 · Community ImprovementENLACE COM…JUST COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementJUST COMMU…INTERFAITH WORKS: $20,000 · OtherINTERFAITH WORKSFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $20,000 · OtherFLORENCE CRITTENTON INCThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $20,000 · OtherThe Eagle Academy Foundation I…EL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $20,000 · OtherEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INCLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $20,000 · OtherLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE…Whatcom Center for Early Learning: $20,000 · OtherWhatcom Center for Early Learn…Amethyst Place Inc: $20,000 · OtherAmethyst Place IncLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $20,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW…LAST MILE HEALTH: $20,000 · OtherLAST MILE HEALTHCalCef Innovations: $25,000 · OtherCalCef InnovationsBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INC: $20,000 · OtherBALTIMORE TREE TRUST INCNational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherNational Marine Mammal Foundat…ESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherESPERANZA COMMUNITY HOUSING CO…PACE INC: $20,000 · OtherPACE INCHack the Hood Inc: $20,000 · OtherHack the Hood IncREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $20,000 · OtherREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING I…RESTOREOKC INC: $20,000 · OtherRESTOREOKC INCTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE TASK …Wuqu Kawoq SA: $20,000 · Human ServicesWuqu Kawo…DISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $20,000 · Human ServicesDISABILIT…PROJECT WEBERRENEW: $20,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT W…SER FAMILIA: $20,000 · Human ServicesSER FAMIL…ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC: $45,754 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $35,000 · Civil Rights
International$310,000Education$235,000Philanthropy$120,000Community Improvement$120,000Other$350,000Human Services$105,000Civil Rights$80,754

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPower for All: $75,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetIGNITE: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOneSky: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalCef Innovations: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Marine Mammal Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TASK FORCE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMoonshot edVentures: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS LOUISIANA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREEL STORIES TEEN FILMMAKING INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eagle Academy Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENLACE COMUNITARIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS AFTERSCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWhatcom Center for Early Learning: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUST COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Rockefeller Found…Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincTides FoundationNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Rockefeller FoundationNY19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rockefeller Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lever for Change funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lever for Change. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lever for Change?

    Find your warmest path to Lever for Change 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.

    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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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