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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 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.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,737,629, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,879,895 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $142,266 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 $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
NEVADA ALLIANCE FOR STUDENT DIVERSITY$10,000
COMUNIDAD MIGRANTE$10,000
INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF SOUTHERN NV$7,000
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 (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. Its 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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
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
4
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
5
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
6
Latinas Usa
Community Improvement
7
Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno

Building Indigenous power through collective action to achieve economic, social and cultural development.

International
8
Center for the study of the Americas

Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security

—
9
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
10
Tides Network

The tides entities work in partnership with community leaders, nonprofits, donors, foundations, and corporations to provide fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, grantmaking, and other philanthropic services.

Philanthropy
11
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.

—
12
Latin American Coalition

The Coalition is dedicated to educating Latino immigrant newcomers, celebrating hispanic culture, and advocating for underserved segments of the population. Programs and initiatives include economic development, legal counsel, community…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tides Advocacy; 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 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. 14 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Fund for New JerseyCommunity Foundation …
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

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 Make The Road States Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Make The Road States Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Ironbound Community Corporation: 100% of income from government
  • The Education & Training Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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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