How much did MAKING CHANGE grant in FY2019?

Food & Nutrition$3.9MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$304kYouth Development$238kHousing & Shelter$172kEducation$166kCrime & Legal$102kCommunity Improvement$100kReligion$91kOther$3.1M

02FY2019 · 202 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

Under $10k79 grants · $521k
$10k–50k105 grants · $1.9M
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.3M
$250k+1 grant · $254k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$254,204
THE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$142,264
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$125,196
LOW COUNTRY FOOD BANK$100,000
BREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK$76,359
TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC$75,000
FEEDING AMERICA OF TAMPA BAY$75,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA$75,000
FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA$75,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$69,540
HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK$64,010
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST$60,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK$60,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTH ALABAMA$53,852
SALVATION ARMY HUNTSVILLE$53,852

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 43% of MAKING CHANGE’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

MAKING CHANGElessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.6M · 175 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

175 repeat relationships — 175 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175

Total granted

$9.6M

$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+65%

Still filing today

84%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

AC
Atlanta Community Food Bank
2× · 2018–2019 · $557k · revenue +78%
FS
Feeding South Florida
2× · 2018–2019 · $375k · revenue +55%
TC
The Community Food Bank of Central Alabama
2× · 2018–2019 · $331k · revenue +153%

Funded once

CH
Camillus House
one grant, 2018 · $30k
SS
Sun Sentinel Children's Fundgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +142%
PS
Powder Springs Senior Citizen Center
one grant, 2018 · $20k

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.

Faith Food Pantry

Provide food security to families in lee and monroe counties

Food & Nutrition

Food for People Inc

Food for people is a designated food bank committed to providing food for those in need.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services

Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry

The organization operates a food bank which provides food for at risk households.

Human Services

Hope Helps Inc

To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.

Human Services

Food Finders Food Bank Inc

To distribute surplus food and nonfood products.

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank for Central

Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.

Food & Nutrition

Augusta Food Bank

The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition

Coastal Harvest

Feed the hungry and assist our partner agencies free of charge.

Human Services

Christian Food Bank of Hopkins County

Provide food for the needy

Food & Nutrition

Arkansas Foodbank

The arkansas foodbank acquires, through local and national partnerships, large quantities of food and other resources to distribute to hungry people in the state of arkansas. the arkansas foodbank supports programs for children as well as…

Food & Nutrition

West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nourish Up. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/201

the rest of the field

14%

14,578/102,843

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

170 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

163/170

Grantees still filing

129/170

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Food & Nutrition$3,858,934Other$3,375,388Human Services$1,707,788Health$304,098Youth Development$238,000Housing & Shelter$172,202Education$166,351

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

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.

Community Foundation of Broward IncFL46.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Hfsf Grants Management Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · United Way of Broward County Inc

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 organisation MAKING CHANGE 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Camacol Development Council Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 562365255 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Camacol Development Council Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 70% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Making Change?

Find your warmest path to Making Change through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MAKING CHANGE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

170 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Making Change?

More from the funding graph

MAKING CHANGE

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

170 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Making Change?

More from the funding graph