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Our Part co Marsha Soffer

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$1.2MCrime & Legal$400kPhilanthropy$169kHuman Services$121kEducation$97kPublic Benefit$80kArts & Culture$42kYouth Development$40kCommunity Improvement$31kOther$703k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
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States reached
$644k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Youth Services America$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Ekvnv Yefolecvike: $15k → 18%Tides Center: $80k → 10%Windwalkers: $20k → 6%Windwalkers: $2k → 6%Windwalkers: $2k → 6%Windwalkers: $2k → 6%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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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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 34 repeat orgs$699k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
42

Total granted

$1.9M
$689k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+22%

Still filing today

82%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • WR
    Western Resource Advocates
    3× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +15%
  • WW
    WILDERNESS WORKSHOP
    4× · 2017–2022 · $155k · revenue +149%
  • CE
    CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +408%

Funded once

  • NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -44%
  • HS
    Humane Society of the US
    one grant, 2020 · $63k
  • CF
    CLIMATE FINANCE ACTION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +22%

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
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
4
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
5
Cascade Climate Inc

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

Environment
6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
8
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
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350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
10
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
11
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
12
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Equine Therapy ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,499

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

64 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. 64 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
45/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $665,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INCCLIMATE FINANCE ACTION INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $51,500 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $47,500 · EnvironmentASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $42,500 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH — $40,000 · Environment+13 more — $186,650 · Environment+13 moreWILDERNESS WORKSHOP — $155,000 · OtherWILDERNESS WORKSHOPVoces Unidas — $65,000 · OtherVoces UnidasHumane Society of the US — $62,500 · OtherHumane Society of the USPlanned Parenthood — $44,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodNRDC — $40,000 · OtherThe Giving Back Fund (Nexus) — $40,000 · OtherPartnership for Criminal Justice Fund — $35,000 · OtherHighwater Farm — $30,000 · Other+37 more — $343,900 · Other+37 moreWestern Resource Advocates — $400,000 · Crime & LegalWestern Resourc…HOPEWELL FUND — $104,205 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES CENTER — $80,000 · Human ServicesWINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND — $25,500 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE — $15,000 · Human ServicesEnglish in Action — $40,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationThe Farm Collaborative — $10,000 · EducationTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME — $10,000 · EducationNUEVA ESPERANZA INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationCLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION — $75,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLE'S SOLAR ENERGY FUND — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Environment$1,193,150Other$815,400Crime & Legal$400,000Philanthropy$169,205Human Services$120,500Education$97,000Public Benefit$80,000

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 budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $665,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $400,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP — $155,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $104,205 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY FOR THE REGION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCLIMATE FINANCE ACTION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $51,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $42,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEnglish in Action — $40,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHighwater Farm — $30,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS — $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND — $25,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAspen Journalism — $21,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoaring Fork Safe Passages — $20,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNKITAWA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBig Sunday — $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINDEPENDENCE PASS FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetECOFLIGHT — $16,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCIVIC INFLUENCERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInnovations in Reproductive Health Access — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Service America — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Farm Collaborative — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350ORG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 2Forks Club — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSMILING GOAT RANCH INC — $9,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BREAST & HEART INITIATIVE FLORIDA AFFILIATE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S SOLAR ENERGY FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget350 COLORADO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Aspen Community Found…Colorado Gives Founda…Aspen Business Center…Brady FoundationAspen Skiing Company …Western Colorado Comm…PatagoniaorgRose Community Founda…Pathfinder FundImpactassetsincAlpenglow FoundationTides Foundation
Aspen Community FoundationCO37.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Brady Foundation · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Rose Community Foundation · Pathfinder Fund · Impactassetsinc · Alpenglow Foundation · Tides 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Our Part co Marsha Soffer 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 · 40%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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How do I get to Our Part co Marsha Soffer?

Find your warmest path to Our Part co Marsha Soffer 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 83 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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