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New Place Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$186kEnvironment$155kHealth$20kYouth Development$20kInternational$17kEmployment$16kPublic Benefit$16kEducation$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pegasus Project$12,000
Abundant Earth Foundation$7,500
Concert Career Pathways$5,000
Long Way Home Inc$5,000
Berkeley Society Preservation Trad$4,000
Central Oregon Locavore$4,000
Essential Information Inc$4,000
Rainforest Action Network$4,000
Callisto$4,000
Windhorse Legacy ProjectWindhorse G$4,000
Movement Strategy Center$4,000
Cinnamon Girl$3,500
Sweetwater Music Hall Inc$3,500
Mt Shasta Bioregional Ecology Cente$3,500
Omnidawn Publishing Incorporated$3,000
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Remake: $5k → 10%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

ME
WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$312k · 23 repeat orgs$259k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
61

Total granted

$312k
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+11%

Still filing today

61%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $27k · revenue +125%
  • AS YOU SOW
    5× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +22%
  • IR
    International Rivers Network
    2× · 2017–2018 · $24k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • UC
    UCI Community Resilience Projects
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +152%
  • CE
    CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
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
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Earthworks

The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…

Public Benefit
4
Magic Canoe

Magic Canoe is a champion of a reimagined future that is driven by local-based bottom-up regenerative solutions for a more equitable and healthier bioregion that is Salmon Nation.

Environment
5
The Oakland Institute

The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
7
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
8
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
9
Collaborative Earth Institute

We are scientists and engineers, humanists and designers. Coming together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, we form focused teams to discover and co-create pathways to social and ecological regeneration.

Science & Tech
10
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
Movement Generation

MG advances a Just Transition away from profit and pollution, towards healthy and resilient local economies. We've engaged over 160 organizations and thousands of change agents through retreats, political education, skills workshops,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 96 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
35/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AS YOU SOW: $26,000 · OtherAS YOU SOWPegasus Project: $24,500 · OtherPegasus ProjectSF International Arts Festival: $21,000 · OtherSF International Arts FestivalIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientConcert Career Pathways: $16,000 · OtherConcert Career PathwaysUCI Community Resilience Projects: $10,000 · Other+47 more: $168,000 · Other+47 moreTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEP…BERKELEY MUSIC GROUP: $22,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY MUSIC GROUPOMNIDAWN PUBLISHING INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureOMNIDAWN PUBLISHING …Diaspora Arts Connection Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS INSTITUTE FOR COMTEMPORARY JOURNALISM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTogether: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $24,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreInternational Rivers Network: $24,000 · EnvironmentInternational Rivers…ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EnvironmentABUNDANT EARTH FOUND…CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FU…EARTHTEAM: $8,000 · EnvironmentEARTHTEAMGREENPEACE FUND INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INCDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $5,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Action Network: $4,000 · Environment+7 more: $18,000 · Environment+7 moreMaybeck High School Inc: $7,000 · EducationOPEN INC: $6,000 · EducationIndigenous Peoples Power Project Inc: $4,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $4,000 · EducationKALANIHALE: $4,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $3,000 · EducationCenter for Environmental Health: $20,000 · HealthUltimate Impact Inc: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentCinnamongirl Inc: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Public BenefitARANYA SOLUTIONS: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$285,500Arts & Culture$105,500Environment$103,500Education$28,000Health$20,000Youth Development$19,500Public Benefit$12,000

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 budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rivers Network: $24,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBERKELEY MUSIC GROUP: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOMNIDAWN PUBLISHING INC: $13,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHTEAM: $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMaybeck High School Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN INC: $6,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE LONG WAY HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDiaspora Arts Connection Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS INSTITUTE FOR COMTEMPORARY JOURNALISM: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRemake: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIAL INFORMATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Power Project Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALLISTO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALANIHALE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARTogether: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIK ESPERANZA: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSWEETWATER MUSIC HALL INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCinnamongirl Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENFAITH INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTracing Patterns Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCanticle Farm: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE & EXHIBITION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRASSROOTS AID PARTNERSHIP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Furthur FoundationImpactassetsincThe San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Rsf Social Finance IncMarin Community Found…PatagoniaorgJewish Community Fede…Clif Family FoundationThe Marisla Foundation
Furthur FoundationCA38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Furthur Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Clif Family Foundation · The Marisla 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 New Place Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Place Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to New Place Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to New Place Fund 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 96 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-PF 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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