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Painted Flower Foundation Inc at a glance

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Painted Flower Foundation 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.

$201k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$881kCivil Rights$173kReligion$92kCrime & Legal$59kPublic Benefit$35kArts & Culture$29kHuman Services$24kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$888k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IN UNION USA FOUNDATION$35,000
FUTURE NOW INSTITUTE$30,000
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE INC$20,650
RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$20,000
AL OTRO LADO$20,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$15,000
WHITE BIRD PRODUCTIONS INC$10,040
TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION$7,500
NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION$5,000
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SOLIDARITY FUND$5,000
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC$5,000
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$5,000
PREGNANCY JUSTICE$5,000
GRASSROOTS POWER PROJECT$2,500
THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC$2,500
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 (FY22–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $500 → 8%AL OTRO LADO: $20k → 11%AL OTRO LADO: $5k → 11%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $13k → 17%AL OTRO LADO: $3k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $2k → 20%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $3k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $2k → 17%PEOPLE IN NEED INC: $2k → 20%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $5k → 17%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

WI
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 43% of Painted Flower Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Painted Flower Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$273k · 24 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
19

Total granted

$273k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • AJ
    A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +169%
  • PJ
    PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +65%
  • AO
    AL OTRO LADO
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANU-EL
    one grant, 2023 · $27k
  • CE
    CONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • BM
    BLACK MALE INITIATIVE GEORGIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +461%
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.

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New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc

Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.

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2
Community Development Project Inc

Takeroot justice provides legal, participatory research and policy support to strengthen the work of grassroots and community-based groups in new york city to dismantle racial, economic and social oppression.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice Action Inc

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action (JFREJ Action or JFREJ) is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with our neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy for all of us.…

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Institute for Americas Future Inc

Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…

Education
7
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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8
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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9
Towards Justice of Colorado

Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. we were founded in response to the…

Civil Rights
10
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
11
Global Ties Us

Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.

International
12
Institute for Sound Public Policy Fka Progressives for Immigration Re

Progressives for immigration reform's mission is to protect low wage american workers from unemployment and wage suppression caused by unfair labor and trade practices, including importation of large numbers of low wage foreign workers who…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York; the most unlike its peers is White Bird Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 54 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $561,636 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELESJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $297,249 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND+2 more: $47,500 · PhilanthropyIN UNION USA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherIN UNION USA FOUND…RUTGERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherRUTGERS PRESBYTERI…TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $27,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU…Individual grant recipient: $16,250 · OtherIndividual grant r…TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherTEAMSTER RANK AND …NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $10,000 · OtherSocial Justice and Solidarity Fund: $10,000 · OtherMake the Road New York: $10,000 · Other+16 more: $39,862 · Other+16 moreAL OTRO LADO: $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesYouth Justice Network Inc: $4,500 · Human Services+4 more: $6,807 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $27,500 · Civil RightsBLACK MALE INITIATIVE GEORGIA INC: $12,500 · Civil RightsJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $5,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,000 · Civil RightsA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $32,650 · InternationalFRIENDS OF PROJECT RENEW: $4,994 · InternationalGLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC: $1,500 · InternationalWHITE BIRD PRODUCTIONS INC: $20,040 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society: $1,250 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,200 · Arts & CultureGrassroots Power Project: $7,500 · EducationLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationUS AFRICA CHILDRENS FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $517 · Education
Philanthropy$906,385Other$223,112Human Services$71,307Civil Rights$62,000International$39,144Arts & Culture$26,490Education$17,017

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $561,636 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $297,249 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $32,650 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FUTURE NOW INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $27,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE BIRD PRODUCTIONS INC: $20,040 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK MALE INITIATIVE GEORGIA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMake the Road New York: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Justice and Solidarity Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrassroots Power Project: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PROJECT RENEW: $4,994 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $4,695 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS AFRICA CHILDRENS FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $2,307 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE IN NEED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Jewish Communal FundTides FoundationThe Ford FoundationWay to RiseNEO Philanthropy IncFjcImpactassetsincThe William & Flora H…The New York Communit…New Venture FundVanguard Charitable E…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Way to Rise · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Fjc · Impactassetsinc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The New York Community Trust · New Venture Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Painted Flower Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Painted Flower Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 81%
  • Cape Abilities Inc: 81% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 54 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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