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Network For Strong Communities Inc

We develop initiatives and infrastructure to help communities address the big problems of our society: From climate change to poverty to racial injustice, no matter the problem, we recognize that by caring for each others needs we are all stronger.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.7MEducation$220kCommunity Improvement$99kHuman Services$49kEmployment$36kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$20kFood & Nutrition$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $37,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $39,005 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,505 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.
$37,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Library of the Commons$37,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SISKIYOU MUTAL AID COOPERATIVE: $49k → 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.
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 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.

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Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
2
Seeds of the Beloved Community
Human Services
3
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
4
Daria Services

Empower reproductive justice movement

Civil Rights
5
The Black Collaborative Inc
Community Improvement
6
Center for Emerging Media Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Common Good Alliance

Founded by a group of passionate individuals, CGA champions the cause of economic and cultural equity within our vibrant communities. Since its inception, CGA has committed itself to fostering flourishing neighborhoods, ensuring that every…

Community Improvement
9
Black Sheep Collective
Arts & Culture
10
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
11
Community Organization for Resource Equity
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12
Democracy Unlimited

Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Economic Democracy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mariposas Rebeldes Co. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dignity Georgia Inc: $1,700,000 · Crime & LegalDignity Georgia IncLibrary Of The Commons Co: $130,000 · EducationLibrary Of…Black Sustainability Inc: $70,000 · EducationBlack Sust…INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD: $36,119 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherMURMUR MEDIA INC: $20,000 · OtherCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $20,000 · OtherSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $20,000 · OtherMariposas Rebeldes Co: $12,450 · OtherCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $70,000 · Public BenefitSiskiyou Mutual Aid Cooperative: $48,865 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $21,812 · Community ImprovementBeloved Community Ministries Inc: $7,000 · Community ImprovementRADIO FREE GEORGIA BROADCASTING ORGANIZATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Crime & Legal$1,700,000Education$200,000Other$138,569Public Benefit$70,000Human Services$48,865Community Improvement$28,812Arts & Culture$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDignity Georgia Inc: $1,700,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetLibrary Of The Commons Co: $130,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBlack Sustainability Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $21,812 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRADIO FREE GEORGIA BROADCASTING ORGANIZATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Aid and Development Corp: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMariposas Rebeldes Co: $12,450 over 1y, 89% of budgetBeloved Community Ministries Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Network For Strong Communities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Network For Strong Communities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Network For Strong Communities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Network For Strong Communities 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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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