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New Visions Foundation

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.

$599k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Community Improvement$695kEnvironment$418kEducation$396kHuman Services$317kFood & Nutrition$310kInternational$263kSocial Science$150kCivil Rights$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $518,807 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $599,421 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,614 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–50k21 grants · $469k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Partners Fund$50,000
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)$40,000
Ebenezer Baptist Church$37,500
Peace Development Fund$35,000
Cooperative Development Institute$30,000
Institute For Local Self-Reliance$30,000
Vermont Community Foundation$26,000
Ebenezer Baptist Church$25,000
New Economy Coalition$25,000
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership$25,000
Highlander Research & Education Center$25,000
Claflin University$20,000
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation$20,000
United for a Fair Economy$20,000
Shaw University$20,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 39 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
31

Total granted

$2.5M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NE
    NEW ECONOMY COALITION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $173k · revenue +73%
  • UF
    United for A Fair Economy Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +35%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WORKING WORLD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +131%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -50%
  • MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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.

1
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
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
5
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.

—
6
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
7
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
8
Good Work Institute Inc

The charitable activities of the Good Work Institute are designed to strengthen collaboration; address legacies of unequal power; and encourage a transition to regenerative ecological and social systems.

Human Services
9
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Art Story Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Education Equity InitiativesCommunity FoundationsCollege Foundation SupportJewish Community FederationsPregnancy Support CentersCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …United Way AffiliatesUrban Agriculture EducationGovernment Accountability &…Environmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/67
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,498

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.

03the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
38/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW ECONOMY COALITION INC — $173,000 · OtherNEW ECONOMY COALITION INCEbenezer Baptist Church — $87,500 · OtherEbenezer Baptist ChurchCROSSROADS FUND INC — $71,000 · OtherCROSSROADS FUND INCYes! Youth For Environmental Sanity — $57,500 · OtherYes! Youth For Environmental SanityTSNE Missionworks--Carrot Project — $45,000 · OtherIDEA — $40,000 · OtherUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $150,000 · OtherUnited for A Fair Economy IncTHE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS CTR TO NURTURE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP — $133,000 · OtherTHE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS CTR TO NU…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $41,307 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION — $67,500 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION+21 more — $208,950 · Other+21 moreHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $130,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RES…ECOAMERICA — $75,000 · EnvironmentECOAMERICAMETAFOUNDATION DBA POST CARBON INSTITUTE — $57,500 · EnvironmentMETAFOUNDATION…Infact DBA Corporate Accountability — $40,000 · EnvironmentInfact DBA Cor…GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentGLOBAL JUSTICE…CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY — $22,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR NEI…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $20,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $15,000 · Environment+6 more — $17,500 · EnvironmentUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $81,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO C…GODDARD COLLEGE — $57,800 · EducationGODDARD COLLEG…THE SHAW UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationTHE SHAW UNIVE…CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationCLAFLIN UNIVER…BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationBETHUNE-COOKMA…DILLARD UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVER…Organic Growers School Inc — $22,500 · EducationOrganic Grower…CHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $22,500 · EducationCHICAGO FREEDO…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationRETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED — $17,500 · EducationTougaloo College — $15,000 · Education+3 more — $20,000 · EducationPeace Development Fund — $226,000 · InternationalPeace Develop…RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $92,000 · InternationalRURAL ADVANCE…INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $35,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR…+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $110,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR…COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $105,000 · Community ImprovementCOOPERATIVE D…Martin Luther King Sr Community Resources Collaborative — $50,000 · Community ImprovementMartin Luther…Rural Coalition — $40,000 · Community ImprovementRural Coaliti…THE WORKING WORLD INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING W…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $25,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRA…SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC — $315,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PA…+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE — $45,000 · Food & NutritionAgricultural Justice Project — $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,074,757Environment$400,000Education$396,300International$355,000Community Improvement$355,000Human Services$317,000Food & Nutrition$185,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC — $315,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $226,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEW ECONOMY COALITION INC — $173,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTHE JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS CTR TO NURTURE COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP — $133,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $110,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC — $105,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION — $92,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $81,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetECOAMERICA — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCROSSROADS FUND INC — $71,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HUMANE EDUCATION — $67,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetANGELIC ORGANICS LEARNING CENTER INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CORNUCOPIA INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetGODDARD COLLEGE — $57,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMETAFOUNDATION DBA POST CARBON INSTITUTE — $57,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMartin Luther King Sr Community Resources Collaborative — $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS STEWARDSHIP ALLIANCE — $45,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $41,307 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRural Coalition — $40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FUND OF THE NORTHEAST INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTalladega College — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrganic Growers School Inc — $22,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC — $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY — $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL — $22,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED — $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAgricultural Justice Project — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTougaloo College — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFOREFRONT — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

ImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncThe Vermont Community…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationClif Family FoundationFarm Aid IncThe Chicago Community…Natural Resources Def…PatagoniaorgThe Schmidt Family Fo…WK Kellogg Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD30.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Farm Aid Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Schmidt Family Foundation · WK Kellogg 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to New Visions Foundation?

Find your warmest path to New Visions Foundation 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 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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