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Change Elemental

The primary program of Change Elemental involves providing individualized, in depth support to nonprofit groups that are grappling with organizational problems, challenged by change or growth, or striving to become stronger.

$410k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20212022.

Education$138kCivil Rights$65kYouth Development$65kCommunity Improvement$40kEmployment$40kArts & Culture$20kHuman Services$10kOther$23k
02FY2022 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $380,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $410,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,000 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Association of Interior Native Educators$65,000
Californians for Justice Education Fund$65,000
Cheyenne River Youth Project$65,000
Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)$65,000
Mission Language and Vocational School$40,000
CLLCTIVLYFusion Partnerships Inc$40,000
Chicana Foundation of Northern California$15,000
Central American Resource Center of Northern California$10,000
Morgan State University Foundation$7,500
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority PsiPhiOmega$7,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Central American Resource Center of Northern California: $10k → 8%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 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
Coalition for Racial & Educational Justice

Coalition for racial and educational justice (formerly oregon campus compact) provides civic and community engagement as a core educational approach for student development as citizens, leaders, and lifelong learners.

Education
2
Central Valley Partnership

The Central Valley Partnership (CVP) conducts and collaborates in training initiatives, including community organizer training, education on labor history and issues, messaging workshops, etc., aimed at fostering the establishment of new…

Civil Rights
3
Community Learning Partnership Inc

Mission is to contribute to progresive community and social change by expanding the credentialed workforce of knowledge and skilled leaders and organizers coming from low-income communities and communities of color.

Employment
4
Latin American and Caribbean Community Center

Please provide explanation of organizations mission.

5
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

To transform systems, structures and public narratives to advance race equity and excellence in education.

Housing & Shelter
6
California Language Teachers Assoc

We encourage world language professionals to participate in our endeavors by creating and maintaining a dialog within affiliates to vigorously share the clta mission and vision. (see sched o for complete mission statement)

Education
7
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
8
Literacy Design Collaborative Inc

Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…

Education
9
Kairospdx

Kairospdx's singularly focused mission is to close the racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, compassionate leaders exceeding academic standards at each developmental milestone from ages 0-10.

Education
10
Central Valley Latino Leadership Academy

CVLLA's mission is to cultivate the talents of Latino leaders to represent and serve the Central Valley

Human Services
11
Asian Law Caucus

The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…

Crime & Legal
12
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central American Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Acorn Center for Restoration & Freedom. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION — $65,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFININ…ASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATORS — $65,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATO…THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · EducationTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION…Californians For Justice Education Fund — $65,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For J…CHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHEYENNE RIVER YOU…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementFUSION PART…MISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC — $40,000 · EmploymentMISSION LAN…CHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INC — $7,500 · OtherACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 · Human Services
Education$137,500Civil Rights$65,000Youth Development$65,000Community Improvement$40,000Employment$40,000Other$22,500Arts & Culture$20,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $65,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION — $65,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $65,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF INTERIOR NATIVE EDUCATORS — $65,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION LANGUAGE AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Change Elemental 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc7% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 11 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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