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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$351k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Education$462kCrime & Legal$351kPublic Benefit$152kArts & Culture$83kPhilanthropy$39kCivil Rights$30kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $504,499 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $754,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,196 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

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
  • $250k+1 grant · $351k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$977k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIDE3 INC$351,499
LISTEN FIRST PROJECT$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$25,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$25,000
UNITED RELIGIONS INITIATIVE (URI)$20,000
ANIA FLAMENCO LLC$15,000
EMIDA ROLLER PRODUCTIONS LLC$15,000
VCU FOUNDATION$13,000
COMMON GROUND COMMITTEE INC$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–23, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%MORE IN COMMON INC: $9k → 17%MORMON WOMEN FOR ETHICAL GOVERNMENT FDN: $25k → 8%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $10k → 8%BRAVER ANGELS: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 30% of Mediators Foundation Inc’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.

Mediators Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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 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.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
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The University of British Columbia

Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.

Education
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Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Onepeople Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%32%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 32% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,538

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

24 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 28 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $293,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFOR…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIO…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $25,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College+5 more — $61,824 · Education+5 moreSIDE3 INC — $351,499 · InternationalSIDE3 INCCORNTEEN LLC — $50,000 · OtherCORNTEEN LLCUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $34,856 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAS…UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LATINA LATINO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $20,301 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILL…EMIDA ROLLER PRODUCTIONS LLC — $15,000 · OtherEMIDA ROLLER PROD…ANIA FLAMENCO LLC — $15,000 · OtherANIA FLAMENCO LLCUnited Religions — $20,000 · OtherUnited ReligionsTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $19,500 · OtherTHE ASPEN INSTITU…Common Ground Committee Inc — $10,000 · OtherCommon Ground Com…Braver AngelsInc — $25,000 · Human ServicesMormon Women For Ethical Government — $25,000 · Human ServicesESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMORE IN COMMON INC — $9,264 · Human ServicesLISTEN FIRST PROJECT INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitMILLENNIAL ACTION PROJECT DBA FUTURE CAUCUS — $28,000 · Public BenefitCare Lab — $10,000 · Public BenefitAPI ARTS & OUTREACH INC — $52,500 · Arts & CultureONEPEOPLE INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$465,324International$351,499Other$184,657Human Services$69,264Public Benefit$68,000Arts & Culture$52,500Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIDE3 INC — $351,499 over 1y, 50% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $293,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetONEPEOPLE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMormon Women For Ethical Government — $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetUnited Religions — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $15,000 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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMORE IN COMMON INC — $9,264 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYale University — $8,824 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Rockefeller Philanthr…John E Fetzer Institu…ImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors IncNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Mediators Foundation 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
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no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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: 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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 28 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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