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Nia Community Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$347k
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through 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 FY2017–2025.

Environment$710kPhilanthropy$334kEducation$244kCommunity Improvement$210kCivil Rights$138kRecreation & Sports$133kArts & Culture$122kHuman Services$103kOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k57 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $179k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THRESHOLD FOUNDATION$37,000
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC$20,000
MOSAIC PROJECT$15,000
SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE$14,000
AMERICAN RIVERS INC$12,000
MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL$10,610
IGNITE$10,000
BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK$10,000
RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK$10,000
IGNITE$10,000
WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC$10,000
NDN COLLECTIVE INC$10,000
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE VILLAGE HEALING INC$10,000
GEORGE MARK CHILDRENS FUND$7,500
OAKLAND CHILDRENS FAIRYLAND INC$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIDGE: $5k → 12%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE INC: $10k → 7%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN IN AFRICA: $5k → 14%SDG IMPACT FUND INC: $5k → 10%LAST CHANCE ENDEAVORS INC: $3k → 18%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $3k → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $10k → 10%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 23%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $3k → 10%BRIDGE: $1k → 12%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE INC: $5k → 7%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $2k → 8%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN IN AFRICA: $5k → 14%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE INC: $3k → 7%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $2k → 8%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $10k → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION FUND FOR WOMEN IN AFRICA: $5k → 14%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $1k → 8%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $5k → 10%AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: $5k → 14%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $1k → 8%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $5k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $5k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $2k → 10%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%BAY AREA WOMEN LEADERS NETWORK: $1k → 10%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $10k → 17%100 WOMEN IN FINANCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%OMNI COMMONS: $3k → 10%OMNI COMMONS: $2k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $10k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $10k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $7k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5k → 10%GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $3k → 10%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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ID
MN
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NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
WV
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 94 repeat orgs$520k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
158

Total granted

$1.8M
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+10%

Still filing today

94%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • TF
    THRESHOLD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $197k · revenue +7%
  • TM
    THE MOSAIC PROJECT
    6× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +2%
  • AMERICAN RIVERS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • I
    ICAFUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +35%
  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • PF
    POWERPAC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -68%

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

04Your 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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
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
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
4
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
5
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
6
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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7
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
8
New Roots Institute

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

Food & Nutrition
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
11
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
12
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Chico Feminist Womens Health Center dba Womens Health Specialists. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…Domestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Mentoring ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Addiction Recovery ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChristian Youth CampsLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Development ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library OperationsCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…
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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%4/283
the rest of the field
14%
26,000/186,695

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.

04the grantee network

272 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. 272 of the 293 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)
82
Early backer (in before they grew)
261/272
Grantees still filing
167/272
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN RIVERS INC — $66,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INCRainforest Action Network — $62,500 · EnvironmentRainforest Action Net…OUTDOOR AFRO — $51,000 · EnvironmentOUTDOOR AFROThe Pachamama Alliance — $50,000 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Allianc…GREENPEACE FUND INC — $41,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INCEarth Island Institute Inc — $22,500 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER — $20,200 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $19,000 · Environment+22 more — $143,250 · Environment+22 moreBAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK — $57,050 · Human ServicesBAY AREA WOMEN…WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING M…TIDES CENTER — $47,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $34,500 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPOR…POSSIBILITY LABS — $20,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LA…AFRICAN WOMEN RISING — $20,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN WOMEN …SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE — $17,500 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY INS…EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesRealize Impact — $10,500 · Human Services+8 more — $37,000 · Human Services+8 moreTHE MOSAIC PROJECT — $110,200 · EducationTHE MOSAIC PR…IGNITE — $62,500 · EducationIGNITEThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $31,000 · EducationThe Edible Sc…United Roots — $21,500 · EducationUnited RootsSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $16,500 · EducationSPONSORS FOR …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationOAKLAND PROMISE — $11,000 · Education+9 more — $35,000 · Education+9 moreWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $40,000 · OtherUltraViolet Education Fund — $35,000 · OtherOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc — $41,800 · OtherPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $55,500 · OtherPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $42,500 · OtherGeorge Mark Childrens FundUNCOMMON LAW — $26,500 · Other+88 more — $552,155 · Other+88 moreTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $197,321 · InternationalTHRESHOLD …REBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE — $22,500 · InternationalREBECCA BE…+3 more — $10,750 · InternationalTIDES FOUNDATION — $73,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOU…WOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $49,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DON…Solidaire Network Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire…CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC — $12,950 · PhilanthropyCONFLUENC…ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $10,000 · Philanthropy+10 more — $41,800 · Philanthropy+10 moreDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $13,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST PEOPLES FUND — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNonprofit Information Networking Association — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 Ink — $9,500 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $7,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA HERITAGE INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PROJECT — $5,300 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $38,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$475,450Human Services$308,550Education$303,700Other$793,455International$230,571Philanthropy$217,250Arts & Culture$150,300

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION — $197,321 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MOSAIC PROJECT — $110,200 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $73,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $66,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIGNITE — $62,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $62,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK — $57,050 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $55,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOUTDOOR AFRO — $51,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $49,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $42,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc — $41,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $41,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $37,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUltraViolet Education Fund — $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $34,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $31,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNCOMMON LAW — $26,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetREBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE — $22,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES — $22,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCity Surf Project — $22,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Roots — $21,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $20,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAFUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEmpower Work Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WOMEN RISING — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE — $17,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE — $17,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS SAN FRANCISCO — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTen Strands — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL — $13,755 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC — $12,950 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds IGNITE ↗
  • Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
  • Who funds OUTDOOR AFRO ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
  • Who funds UNCOMMON LAW ↗
  • Who funds REBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds City Surf Project ↗
  • Who funds United Roots ↗
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds ICAFUND ↗
  • Who funds Empower Work Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
  • Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
  • Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
  • Who funds SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Amalgamated Charitabl…The California Wellne…The James Irvine Foun…ImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…The William & Flora H…Rsf Social Finance IncTides FoundationNew Venture FundThe California Endowm…
The San Francisco FoundationCA56.9× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · The California Endowment

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 Nia Community Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nia Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nia Community 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 293 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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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
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines