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Peace Development Fund

Promotion of Peace and Social Justice.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$274k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$7.9MCrime & Legal$4.3MInternational$3.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MEnvironment$1.4MArts & Culture$914kEducation$910kFood & Nutrition$732kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 63 grants below total $2,143,136, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,339,110 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $195,974 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $179k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $274k
$10,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Seeds of Harmony Inc: $7k → 28%Rosenberg Fund for Children: $6k → 12%The Afiya Center: $25k → 14%Sanctuary In The City: $25k → 10%Southern Partners Fund Inc: $50k → 13%The Parasol Cooperative: $12k → 5%Susu CommUNITY Farm: $10k → 11%Western Montanta Gay and Lesbian: $6k → 9%PaLante Transformative Justi: $25k → 17%YWCA: $5k → 12%Immigrant Legal Resource Cent: $15k → 10%RIP Medical Debt: $10k → 9%Power to Decide: $6k → 14%Camps in Common: $34k → 10%Camps in Common: $27k → 10%Camps in Common: $14k → 10%Camps in Common: $7k → 10%Camps in Common: $7k → 10%Camps in Common: $5k → 10%Camps in Common: $5k → 10%Possibility Labs: $10k → 10%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

AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 86 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
144

Total granted

$22M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+19%

Still filing today

51%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $810k 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
EnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LF
    LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION OF CHICAGOLAND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $886k · revenue +196% · 64% of their budget
  • JA
    JANE ADDAMS PEACE ASSOCIATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $780k · revenue +116% · 98% of their budget
  • EJ
    EDUCATION JUSTICE COALITION OF VT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $481k · revenue +52% · 80% of their budget

Funded once

  • TP
    The Prison Birth Project
    one grant, 2017 · $235k
  • PN
    Project Nadiya Incorporated
    one grant, 2023 · $227k · 77% of their budget
  • BB
    BAY-Peace Better Alternatives for
    one grant, 2017 · $139k
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.

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
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
3
Corporate Accountability Lab

The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.

International
4
Forward Together

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…

Health
5
The Conversationalist
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6
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
7
Center for Contemporary Documentation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Amazon Watch Inc

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…

Environment
9
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Civil Liberties Defense Center

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.

Civil Rights
11
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

176 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
170/176
Grantees still filing
100/176
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Beloved Economies: $1,931,585 · OtherBeloved EconomiesWHOSE KNOWLEDGE: $1,842,342 · OtherWHOSE KNOWLEDGERestoring Justice for Indigenous: $1,682,139 · OtherRestoring Justice for IndigenousFriends of Taghyeer Movement: $1,328,228 · OtherFriends of Taghyeer MovementHeart and Hand Fund: $1,029,566 · OtherHeart and Hand FundPeoples Justice Project Grou: $802,353 · OtherInsight-Out: $679,662 · OtherSouthern Farm Lab: $631,977 · Other+132 more: $7,769,188 · Other+132 moreWOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI: $1,398,931 · InternationalWOMEN CROSS …JANE ADDAMS PEACE ASSOCIATION INC: $779,917 · InternationalJANE ADDAMS …Project Nadiya Incorporated: $227,156 · InternationalProject Nadi…CAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS: $95,982 · International+8 more: $364,191 · International+8 moreI AM WHY INC: $1,143,480 · Youth DevelopmentENCAMPMENT FOR CITIZENSHIP: $66,000 · Youth DevelopmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $394,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $177,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $176,000 · EnvironmentCIRCUMPOLAR CONSERVATION UNION: $130,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $68,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY: $50,000 · Environment+11 more: $136,843 · EnvironmentLIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION OF CHICAGOLAND: $885,866 · Arts & CultureJustice Committee Inc: $81,000 · Arts & CultureYouth Outreach And Learning Institute: $50,875 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $102,997 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION JUSTICE COALITION OF VT: $480,819 · EducationWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE & FREEDOM UNO INC: $267,500 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $29,130 · Education+4 more: $85,600 · EducationWORTH RISES INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $125,000 · Civil RightsWhose Knowledge Question Mark: $92,500 · Civil RightsCHANGING WORLDS: $67,500 · Civil RightsAPIARY FOR PRACTICAL SUPPORT INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $20,492 · Civil Rights+4 more: $48,665 · Civil Rights
Other$17,697,040International$2,866,177Youth Development$1,209,480Environment$1,132,843Arts & Culture$1,120,738Education$863,049Civil Rights$604,157

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI: $1,398,931 over 5y, 73% of budgetI AM WHY INC: $1,143,480 over 4y, 93% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION OF CHICAGOLAND: $885,866 over 4y, 64% of budgetJANE ADDAMS PEACE ASSOCIATION INC: $779,917 over 9y, 98% of budgetEDUCATION JUSTICE COALITION OF VT: $480,819 over 4y, 80% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $394,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPI-TAP INC: $329,976 over 2y, 75% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE & FREEDOM UNO INC: $267,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetProject Nadiya Incorporated: $227,156 over 1y, 77% of budgetWORTH RISES INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $177,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $176,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $160,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCUMPOLAR CONSERVATION UNION: $130,500 over 3y, 74% of budgetCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $125,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRESIST INC: $104,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCamps in Common: $99,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetCAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS: $95,982 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $94,888 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $92,616 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWhose Knowledge Question Mark: $92,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $83,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJustice Committee Inc: $81,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $75,575 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $71,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $68,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGING WORLDS: $67,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetENCAMPMENT FOR CITIZENSHIP: $66,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTanka Fund: $65,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTogether in Service: $63,139 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYouth Outreach And Learning Institute: $50,875 over 1y, 48% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSuccess Stories Program: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE HOLIDAY HOUSE INC: $40,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLA COCINA: $40,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHANGE LABS: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWomen's Earth and Climate Action Network: $40,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $39,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEED THE HUNGER FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT INC: $33,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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…Common Counsel Founda…Proteus Fund IncBen & Jerry's Foundat…Rsf Social Finance IncBorealis PhilanthropySocial and Environmen…NEO Philanthropy IncSolidaire Network IncSolidago FoundationWindward FundTides Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC50× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Peace Development Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peace Development Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Peace Development Fund?

Find your warmest path to Peace Development Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 264 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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