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Make The Road States Inc

Make the road states, inc.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$955k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Public Benefit$2.0MCivil Rights$1.9MEmployment$53kHealth$26kEnvironment$25kRecreation & Sports$25kPhilanthropy$22kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $1,737,629 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,879,895 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $142,266 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$22,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION$955,129
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$633,500
TIDES ADVOCACY$100,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$22,000
COMUNIDAD MIGRANTE$10,000
NEVADA ALLIANCE FOR STUDENT DIVERSITY$10,000
INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN NV$7,000
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Latino Action Network Foundation Inc: $10k → 6%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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 5 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$3.8M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHealthReligionOther

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

  • MT
    MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +132%
  • MT
    Make the Road New York
    2× · 2023–2024 · $834k · revenue -6%
  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $589k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +2%
  • RE
    Resistencia en Accion New Jerseygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +136%
  • WP
    WEEQUAHIC PARK ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

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
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
2
Latino Political Network
3
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

4
Latino Corporate Directors Association

Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.

Education
5
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
6
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

7
Alianza Americas

The mission of Alianza Americas is to bring about a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable way of life for Latino immigrant communities living in the United States and across the americas. By working transnationally with partners from…

International
8
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
9
Centro De Trabajadores Unidos

Educate workers on their rights,develope leadership in the immigrant community, organize and support al workers as they fight for their rights in the workplace and for changing policies policies that increase standards for all workers.

Human Services
10
The Hispanic Institute

The hispanic institute provides an effective education forum for an informed and empowered hispanic america regarding study of u.s. immigrant labor needs, digital divide, hispanic financial growth and civic engagement.

Arts & Culture
11
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement

To develop and promote the participation of workers of latin american descent in the trade union movement and the political process.

Civil Rights
12
Water Education for Latino Leaders

Well educates and trains local latino elected officials about california water policy to promote timely and equitable actions that serve to develop a robust economy, healthy communities, and a resilient environment for all californians.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York and the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Council of Southern Nevada. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $2,296,391 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC+1 more — $25,300 · Civil RightsMake the Road New York — $833,500 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New YorkCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $589,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPUL…TIDES ADVOCACY — $100,000 · OtherNEVADA ALLIANCE FOR STUDENT DIVERSITY — $28,000 · OtherWEEQUAHIC PARK ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · OtherIronbound Community Corporation — $25,000 · OtherComunidad Migrante — $20,000 · OtherCOMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS INC — $9,000 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc — $18,350 · OtherLatino Action Network Foundation — $9,898 · Other+1 more — $7,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC — $43,713 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $7,500 · EducationCLEAN WATER FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentTIDES FOUNDATION — $22,000 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$2,321,691Crime & Legal$833,500Public Benefit$589,000Other$242,248Education$51,213Environment$25,000Philanthropy$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $2,296,391 over 4y, 17% of budgetMake the Road New York — $833,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $589,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDUCATION & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC — $43,713 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetResistencia en Accion New Jersey — $25,300 over 1y, 13% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $18,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatino Action Network Foundation — $9,898 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMITE DE APOYO A LOS TRABAJADORES AGRICOLAS INC — $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $7,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

Geraldine R Dodge Foundation IncNJ15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Fund for New Jersey · Community Foundation of New Jersey

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 Make The Road States 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 19%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation100% of income from government
  • The Education & Training Institute Inc19% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Make The Road States Inc?

Find your warmest path to Make The Road States Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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