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Looking Out Foundation

To amplify the impact of music by empowering those without a voice.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$819kInternational$451kArts & Culture$319kHealth$279kCrime & Legal$190kCommunity Improvement$135kReligion$100kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $220,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,283,912 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,063,412 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $205k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$329k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Equality Florida Institute Inc$20,000
Exalt Youth$20,000
Head Count$20,000
PEN American Center$20,000
Thrive Youth Center Inc$20,000
Outright Vermont$20,000
South Carolina Philharmonic$15,000
Queen Ann Nzinga Center$10,000
Americana Music Foundation$10,000
Children's Home Society of Idaho$10,000
Vine Maple Place$10,000
Tulsa Community Foundation$10,000
Make Shift Art Space$10,000
Serve Your City$10,000
Batala New York$8,000
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 (FY21–24, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Youth Haven Inc: $10k → 10%Queen Ann Nzinga Center: $10k → 11%OUTMemphis: $135k → 17%GCAPP: $25k → 8%I Support the Girls: $10k → 8%Vine Maple Place: $10k → 9%Children in Conflict: $250k → 17%Children in Conflict: $100k → 17%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
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $961k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$658k · 68% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To support humanitarian aid and relief in Gaza.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$293k · 30% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: To support rural and indigenous women in addressing social, economic, and gender inequalities across the global south · To support educational and charitable activities in Mexico and across the world for LGTBQ+ communities

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$10k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: To support funding initiatives for vulnerable and marginalized women around the world facing violence and extreme poverty

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 14% of Looking Out Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 23%.

Looking Out Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% 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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$529k · 5 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
36

Total granted

$529k
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
-10%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CI
    CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +80%
  • U
    UNMANAGEABLE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue ×17 · 36% of their budget
  • OI
    OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2020–2022 · $54k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $140k · revenue -36%
  • TE
    TENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue +20% · 41% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue -33%
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.

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Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
2
Human Rights Campaign Foundation

The human rights campaign foundation is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of promoting public education and welfare for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq+) community. the hrc foundation envisions…

Civil Rights
3
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
4
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
5
UltraViolet Education Fund

Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…

Civil Rights
6
Girls for Gender Equity Inc

Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…

Crime & Legal
7
Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc

Over 9,000 clients are served by gmhc's programs each year. gmhc provides a broad array of programs through the efforts of clinicians, trained volunteers, and professional staff who identify undiagnosed cases on hiv, ensure access and…

Health
8
Immigration Equality

Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Civil Rights
9
Gender Justice

Gender justice is a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization working to advance gender equity through the law.

Crime & Legal
10
Ibis Reproductive Health Inc

Ibis reproductive health drives change through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships that advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices and health worldwide.

Health
11
Health Global Access Project Incorporated

Health gap is an international advocacy organization working to accelerate the end of the aids pandemic by eliminating the barriers to affordable lifesaving treatment for people living with hiv around the world.

Health
12
Rainbow Health Minnesota

To work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hello in There Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Grimalkin Records 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

58 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. 58 of the 59 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)
58/58
Grantees still filing
29/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INCOUTMEMPHIS: $135,000 · Human ServicesOUTMEMPHISGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $40,000 · Human Services+4 moreTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATI: $135,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE EQUALITY PRO…WE THE PROTESTERS INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsWE THE PROTESTERS INCTREVOR PROJECT INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INCHOLLER HEALTH JUSTICE INC: $55,494 · Civil RightsHOLLER HEALTH JUSTICE …MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $55,494 · Civil RightsMIDWEST ACCESS COALITI…EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTI…TRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $135,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $34,000 · InternationalINTERNATIO…AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $33,333 · InternationalAMNESTY IN…CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $33,333 · InternationalCAMPAIGN F…UNMANAGEABLE: $65,000 · Arts & CultureUNMANAGEAB…TKDUBS PRODUCTIONS: $64,000 · Arts & CultureTKDUBS PRO…NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $33,413 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT FE…PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERIC…SOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CARO…Makeshift: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRIMALKIN RECORDS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICANA MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBATALA NEW YORK INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EducationTRUTH FOR JUSTICE RIGHTS IN IRAN: $33,333 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 · EducationEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $140,112 · Crime & LegalTHE IF PROJECT: $30,000 · Crime & LegalCAROLINA ABORTION FUND: $55,494 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $55,494 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $10,000 · HealthNOISE FOR NOW: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF IDAHO INC: $10,000 · HealthNAMI-NEW YORK STATE INC: $10,000 · HealthOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $54,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONALFANNYS SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $40,000 · OtherFANNYS SCHOOL OF MUSICTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · OtherTAKEACTION MN EDUCATIO…KALEIDOSCOPE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 · OtherKALEIDOSCOPE MINISTRIE…ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $33,413 · OtherENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY…PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $20,000 · OtherHONOR THE EARTH: $20,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $20,000 · OtherEXALT YOUTH: $20,000 · Other+9 more: $84,500 · Other+9 more
Human Services$570,000Civil Rights$515,988International$235,666Arts & Culture$235,413Education$188,333Crime & Legal$170,112Health$150,988Other$511,913

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC: $350,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $140,112 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE EQUALITY PROJECT FOUNDATI: $135,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE JUSTICE: $135,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetOUTMEMPHIS: $135,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTENNESSEE PRIDE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetWE THE PROTESTERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNMANAGEABLE: $65,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetTKDUBS PRODUCTIONS: $64,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCAROLINA ABORTION FUND: $55,494 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOLLER HEALTH JUSTICE INC: $55,494 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION: $55,494 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $55,494 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $54,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $33,413 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $33,413 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH FOR JUSTICE RIGHTS IN IRAN: $33,333 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $33,333 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IF PROJECT: $30,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE YOUTH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXALT YOUTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor the Girls Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOISE FOR NOW: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSERVE YOUR CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUPPORT AND FEED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEPULSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHELLO IN THERE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMakeshift: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetQUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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…Tides FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodEnterprise Holdings F…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Looking Out Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Looking Out Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report 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 Looking Out Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Looking Out Foundation 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 59 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home