· Public charity
Peace Development Fund
Promotion of Peace and Social Justice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 63 grants below total $2,143,136 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,339,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $195,974 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Womens Intl League for Peac | $274,413 |
| Individual grant recipient | $189,625 |
| Peoples Justice Project Grou | $180,875 |
| Heart and Hand Fund | $129,497 |
| Friends of Taghyeer Movemen | $121,624 |
| Otros Mundos Chiapas | $100,000 |
| Beloved Economies | $80,706 |
| The Vow from Hiroshima | $80,475 |
| The Black Sex Worker Collecti | $73,183 |
| DecrimSex Work CA | $71,225 |
| Lighthouse Foundation of Chic | $69,685 |
| Trans Asylum Seeker Support N | $58,284 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,938 |
| Western Mass Asylum Support | $40,655 |
| Decarcerate WMass Bailout P | $40,179 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LFLIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION OF CHICAGOLAND4× · 2022–2025 · $886k · revenue +196% · 64% of their budget
- JAJANE ADDAMS PEACE ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $780k · revenue +116% · 98% of their budget
- EJEDUCATION JUSTICE COALITION OF VT4× · 2021–2024 · $481k · revenue +52% · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- TPThe Prison Birth Projectone grant, 2017 · $235k
- PNProject Nadiya Incorporatedone grant, 2023 · $227k · 77% of their budget
- BBBAY-Peace Better Alternatives forone grant, 2017 · $139k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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,…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circumpolar Conservation Union. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 42% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
176 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 176 of the 264 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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 WOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI ↗
- Who funds I AM WHY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION OF CHICAGOLAND ↗
- Who funds JANE ADDAMS PEACE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION JUSTICE COALITION OF VT ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PI-TAP INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE & FREEDOM UNO INC ↗
- Who funds Project Nadiya Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WORTH RISES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUMPOLAR CONSERVATION UNION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Solidago Foundation · Windward Fund · 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 Peace Development Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Collaborative Resolutions Group Inc — 100% of income from government
- Palante Transformative Justice Inc — 52% of income from government
- Root Social Justice Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Impact Inc — 25% of income from government
- Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
- Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
- Education Justice Coalition of Vt — 9% of income from government
- The Nolumbeka Project Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nueva Esperanza Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nuestras Raices Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ourspace World Inc — 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
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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