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National Association For Community Mediation

Aggregating the wisdom of community mediation and amplifying the voice of community mediators.

$279k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$24k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$743kCivil Rights$73kHuman Services$64kEducation$36kHousing & Shelter$31kHealth$11kReligion$9kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $268,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $278,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $246k
$12,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$408k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MEDIATION CENTER$23,500
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIV$20,000
CLEVELAND MEDIATION CTR$19,500
CLEVLAND MEDIATION CTR$19,500
MEDIATION WEST$19,000
ATHENS AREA MEDIATION SVS$15,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD MED PROG$15,000
SOUTH FULTON COMM MED CTR$15,000
NEBRASKA MEDIATION CTR$15,000
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MEDIATION$12,000
RESTOR JUSTICE COMM ACTION$12,000
CORA SERVICES INC$12,000
DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER$12,000
THE CENTER FOR MEDIATIO$12,000
COMMUNITY MEDIATION CTR$12,000
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 (FY17–24, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CREATIVE MEDIATION AT: $13k → 12%COMM RESOURCE CENTER: $12k → 9%THE SOUTHEASTERN DISPUTE: $13k → 13%MID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER: $9k → 10%COMMUNITY MEDIATION - BALTIMORE: $15k → 19%CREATIVE MEDIATION AT WILSHIRE COMMUNITY: $9k → 12%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CTR: $8k → 9%THE SOUTHEASTERN DISPUTE RESOLUTION SERVICES: $9k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 38 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+33%

Still filing today

84%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +111%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +90%
  • SV
    SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MEDIATION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +252%

Funded once

  • CM
    COMMUNITY MEDIATION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • CO
    CITY OF DAYTON DAYTON MEDIATION CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +152%
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
Center for Conflict Resolution

To empower communities, organizations and individuals to handle disputes constructively by developing and designing appropriate and creative solutions that address all interests, needs, and values.

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2
Community Mediation Inc

Community mediation helps people, organizations, and communities transform conflict into constructive solutions through mediation, facilitation, and training.

Crime & Legal
3
Community Dispute Settlement Program of Delaware County Inc

The organization provides alternative dispute resolution services through delaware and chester counties.

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4
Conflict Resolution Center St Louis City

Conflict Resolution Center St. Louis empowers people to resolve conflict through accessible mediation, coaching, and education.

Human Services
5
Midlands Mediation Center

Midlands Mediation Center promotes the voluntary resolution of disputes through the process of mediation conducted by volunteers. MMC also trains community members on the availability and technique of medication and other forms of conflict…

Community Improvement
6
Wayne Mediation Center

Wayne mediation center strives to provide the community served with a process for resolving disputes through empowerment, education, and effectiveness.

Civil Rights
7
Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center Inc

Provide widely accessible and affordable conflict resolution services and education that help all members of the community manage conflict and have difficult conversations in a meaningful, proactive way.

Human Services
8
Mediation Services of N Cntl Ma Inc

To empower people to resolve conflicts peacefully through mutual understanding and respect

—
9
Dispute Resolution Center of West Michigan

We bring peaceful resolution to conflicts by providing expert and affordable mediation and training services. we also provide restorative practices training, facilitation, and consultaiton.

Crime & Legal
10
Dispute Resolution Centers of Michigan Inc

Provide affordable or free mediation services and conflict resolution trainings to support the transforming of our society into a collaborative and problem-solving one.

Crime & Legal
11
Resolution Center Inc

Conflict Resolution/Mediation Services

Housing & Shelter
12
Community Mediation Maryland Inc

To advance community mediation in Maryland through educating the public, providing training and quality assurance, conducting research and creatively applying mediation to social challenges.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dispute Resolution Center; the most unlike its peers is Athens Area Mediation Service. 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

41 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. 41 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
30/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY MEDIATION SERVICE: $37,700 · OtherCOMMUNITY MEDIATION SERVICECALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $28,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILL…MARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INC: $26,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INCATHENS AREA MEDIATION SERVICE: $26,000 · OtherATHENS AREA MEDIATION SERVICEWE ARE GROUNDSWELL: $25,000 · OtherMONTANA MEDIATION ASSOCIATION: $22,500 · OtherHOME SHARE NOW INC: $22,000 · OtherDISPUTE RESOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $21,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER: $20,500 · OtherJOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 · OtherFULCRUM INSTITUTE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLINIC ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherCLEVELAND MEDIATION CENTER: $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DIALOGUE RESOLUTION: $20,000 · OtherSIX RIVERS DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $20,000 · Other+14 more: $145,000 · Other+14 moreTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $98,500 · Crime & LegalTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE…CLEVELAND MEDIATION CENTER: $71,000 · Crime & LegalCLEVELAND MEDIATION CENTERSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MEDIATION INC: $40,500 · Crime & LegalSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MEDIATION INCMEDIATION WEST: $33,500 · Crime & LegalMEDIATION WESTCOMMUNITY MEDIATION OF ST MARYS COUNTY INC: $31,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY MEDIATION OF ST MARYS COUNTY…COMMUNITY MEDIATION DC: $22,000 · Crime & LegalConflict Resolution Center: $22,000 · Crime & LegalDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $20,500 · Crime & LegalRESTORATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ACTION: $20,500 · Crime & LegalCommunity Justice Center: $20,000 · Crime & LegalINLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD: $17,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $27,000 · Crime & Legal+3 moreCOMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER: $70,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY …NEBRASKA MEDIATION CENTER: $26,000 · Civil RightsNEBRASKA M…CONFLUENCE RISING: $25,000 · Civil RightsCONFLUENCE…SOUTHEASTERN DISPUTE RESOLUTION SER: $22,000 · Human ServicesWILSHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $22,000 · Human ServicesHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY MEDIATION PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESTORATIVE CENTER INC: $23,500 · EducationCORA SERVICES INC: $20,500 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationWest Texas Community Mediation Center: $19,000 · EducationPIEDMONT DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureCalifornia Lawyers for the Arts: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island: $29,000 · Community Improvement
Other$474,200Crime & Legal$423,500Civil Rights$121,000Human Services$87,000Education$83,000Arts & Culture$44,000Community Improvement$29,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC: $98,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCLEVELAND MEDIATION CENTER: $71,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER: $70,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetSUSQUEHANNA VALLEY MEDIATION INC: $40,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetMEDIATION WEST: $33,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION OF ST MARYS COUNTY INC: $31,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetThe Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island: $29,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS TORO AUXILIARY PARTNERS: $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INC: $26,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNEBRASKA MEDIATION CENTER: $26,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetATHENS AREA MEDIATION SERVICE: $26,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCONFLUENCE RISING: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWE ARE GROUNDSWELL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPIEDMONT DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER INC: $24,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RESTORATIVE CENTER INC: $23,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION DC: $22,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN DISPUTE RESOLUTION SER: $22,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetWILSHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHOME SHARE NOW INC: $22,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $21,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER: $20,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $20,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ACTION: $20,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCORA SERVICES INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Lawyers for the Arts: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFULCRUM INSTITUTE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLINIC ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSIX RIVERS DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCommunity Justice Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT/MAMARONECK INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWest Texas Community Mediation Center: $19,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetINLAND FAIR HOUSING AND MEDIATION BOARD: $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY MEDIATION PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVolunteers of America Western Washington: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATION CENTER INC: $9,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMediation Services For Anoka County: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

California Community …Tides FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 National Association For Community Mediation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Association For Community Mediation. 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 63%
  • Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Mid Shore Community Mediation Center Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Community Mediation Program Inc: 17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 National Association For Community Mediation?

Find your warmest path to National Association For Community Mediation 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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home