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Mediators Foundation Inc

To foster leadership for a peaceful, just and sustainable world by identifying, supporting and connecting visionary leaders who build bridges across the great social, political and cultural divides of our time.

$755k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$504k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$351,499
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$977k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Mediators Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesPublic BenefitEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropySocial ScienceOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$479k100%
FY20236$129k100%
FY20229$230k89%
FY20201$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$462kCrime & Legal$351kPublic Benefit$152kArts & Culture$83kPhilanthropy$39kCivil Rights$30kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Mediators Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Side3 Inc$351,499150%
Api Arts & Outreach Inc$52,500166%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$35,00020%
University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association Inc$34,85613%
Listen First Project Inc$30,000110%
Millennial Action Project Dba Future Caucus$28,00012%
Duke University$25,00010%
Onepeople Inc$25,00012%
Braver AngelsInc$25,00011%
Mormon Women For Ethical Government$25,000122%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$25,00010%
University of Illinois Latina Latino Alumni Association$20,3011n/a
United Religions$20,00011%
The Aspen Institute Inc$19,50010%
Emida Roller Productions LLC$15,0001n/a
Golden Bridge$15,00012%
Ania Flamenco LLC$15,0001n/a
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat$13,00010%
Care Lab$10,00012%
Essential Partners Inc$10,00010%
Common Ground Committee Inc$10,0001n/a
More in Common Inc$9,26410%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Mediators Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSide3 Inc: $351,499 over 1y, 50% of budgetApi Arts & Outreach Inc: $52,500 over 1y, 66% of budgetUniversity of California Berkeley Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association Inc: $34,856 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetListen First Project Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetMillennial Action Project Dba Future Caucus: $28,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDuke University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOnepeople Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMormon Women For Ethical Government: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Religions: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Bridge: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVirginia Commonwealth University Foundat: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCare Lab: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEssential Partners Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMore in Common Inc: $9,264 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors IncNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Mediators Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mediators Foundation 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.

About Mediators Foundation Inc

How much does Mediators Foundation Inc give?
Mediators Foundation Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $504,499, out of $754,695 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Mediators Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Crime & Legal (29%), Public Benefit (13%).
Who are Mediators Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Side3 Inc ($351k), Api Arts & Outreach Inc ($53k), University of California Berkeley Foundation ($35k).
Does Mediators Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mediators Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, John E Fetzer Institute Inc, Impactassetsinc.
Where is Mediators Foundation Inc based?
Mediators Foundation Inc is based in CO.

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 28 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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