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Peak6 Foundation at a glance

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Peak6 Foundation

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.

$366k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Employment$325kPublic Safety & Disaster$285kEducation$34kScience & Tech$30kInternational$20kHuman Services$12kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$21,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greenwood Project$300,000
Harvard University$30,000
Hope Chicago Inc$21,000
Cradles to Crayons Inc$10,876
Harmony Community Development$3,000
Global Giveback Circle$1,125
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $11k → 8%For Oak Cliff: $1k → 14%Kids In Distress Inc: $794 → 13%Greenwood Project: $300k → 14%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.
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 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
Girls Education Collaborative Inc

GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.

International
2
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
3
Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Girls Global Academy Public Charter School

Girls global academy public charter school (gga) was incorporated in the district of columbia in june 2019 and opened its doors in august 2020 fostering pathways to lead and learn. as an all-girls public charter high school, gga ignites…

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7
Growth Through Learning Inc

Growth through learning (gtl) is a secular organization that supports education and development in east africa by providing full secondary education scholarships for exceptional young women in kenya, uganda, and tanzania who would…

Education
8
Onegoal

Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.

Youth Development
9
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
10
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Established in 2014, the nasdaq entrepreneurial center (the "center") is an independent charity dedicated to educating the public about entrepreneurship and educating individual entrepreneurs on subjects useful to them and beneficial to…

Arts & Culture
11
Girls Who Code Inc

To educate, inspire and equip girls from underserved communities with the skills and resources necessary to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math ("stem"). girls who code is on a mission to close the gender gap in…

Human Services
12
Black Girls Code Inc

Black girls code empowers learners with responsive, high-impact programs that build tech and professional skills, confidence, and community. in 2024, new leadership expanded access and strengthened our mission to develop the next…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Chicago Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wall Street Bound Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENWOOD PROJECT: $300,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD PROJECTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,876 · Human Services+2 more: $1,928 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $285,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCEDUCATE GIRLS: $20,000 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLSPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 · EducationInvstr Foundation Inc: $8,000 · EducationTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,125 · EducationHOPE CHICAGO INC: $21,000 · OtherHarmony Community Development Corporation: $3,000 · OtherCrown Community Academy of Fine Arts: $1,701 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,310 · Other+2 more: $1,134 · OtherWALL STREET BOUND INC: $25,000 · EmploymentCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC: $1,157 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$312,804International$305,000Education$44,125Other$28,145Employment$25,000Crime & Legal$1,157

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 budgetGREENWOOD PROJECT: $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $285,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALL STREET BOUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHOPE CHICAGO INC: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $10,876 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRAY MATTER EXPERIENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHarmony Community Development Corporation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN OF PROMISE NYC: $1,157 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $1,134 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL GIVE BACK CIRCLE: $1,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS INC: $794 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Peak6 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peak6 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Peak6 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peak6 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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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