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Penney Family Fund

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.

$414k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Civil Rights$720kEnvironment$566kPublic Benefit$532kEducation$201kPhilanthropy$193kYouth Development$163kCommunity Improvement$141kHuman Services$86kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $395k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
We Are Down Home$35,000
Somos Un Pueblo Unido$25,000
We Are Down Home$25,000
OL Education Fund$25,000
Rural Arizona Engagement RAZE$25,000
Somos Siembra$25,000
Momentum Community$25,000
Chinese Progressive Association$25,000
Black Voters Matter Capacity Bld In$25,000
No Carolina Climate Justice Collect$25,000
Tides Foundation$25,000
One Arizona$20,000
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$20,000
Imagine North Carolina First$20,000
Center for Civic Policy$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Black Organizing Project: $25k → 10%NAVA Education Project: $30k → 14%Black Organizing Project: $13k → 10%NAVA Education Project: $30k → 14%Black Organizing Project: $13k → 10%Instituto Lab: $30k → 11%Instituto Lab: $25k → 11%Instituto Lab: $15k → 11%Instituto Lab: $10k → 11%Latino Network: $5k → 12%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

NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 34 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
32

Total granted

$2.3M
$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • GS
    GEORGIA SHIFT INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $130k · revenue +12%
  • RA
    RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +131%
  • WA
    WE ARE DOWN HOME
    2× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • SR
    Sowega Risinggraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +84%
  • LO
    League of Conservation Voters Educa
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
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
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
3
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

We demand health, dignity, and justice for our communities. We center and amplify Latine voices as we work to transform oppressive systems and narratives and to reclaim control over our bodies and lives. We build power by organizing our…

Health
4
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
5
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
6
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
7
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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8
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
9
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
10
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
11
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
12
South Asian Americans Leading Together

South Asian Americans Leading Together is a national movement strategy and advocacy organization committed to racial justice through structural change.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Youth Organizing and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental 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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%40%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

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

57 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. 57 of the 73 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
34/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GEORGIA SHIFT INC — $130,000 · OtherGEORGIA SHIFT INCNo Carolina Climate Justice Collect — $85,000 · OtherNo Carolina Climate Justice CollectBlack Voters Matter Capacity Bld In — $85,000 · OtherBlack Voters Matter Capacity Bld InT Nizhn n — $80,000 · OtherT Nizhn nIndividual grant recipient — $55,000 · OtherMexican American Legal Defense & Educatio — $50,000 · OtherSomos Siembra Siembra NC — $47,000 · OtherAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS — $40,000 · OtherMOMENTUM ALLIANCE — $90,000 · OtherMOMENTUM ALLIANCEKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $50,000 · OtherOREGON RURAL ACTION INC — $75,000 · OtherOREGON RURAL ACTION INCCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $60,000 · OtherCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLORSowega Rising — $40,000 · Other+21 more — $228,700 · Other+21 moreTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND — $115,000 · Civil RightsTHE OLE EDUCATION FU…ONE ARIZONA — $92,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONARURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $90,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGE…SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $85,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNID…SOMOS SIEMBRA — $50,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS SIEMBRAALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $40,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH O…SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $25,000 · Civil Rights+5 more — $30,000 · Civil Rights+5 moreAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $80,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific …Environmental Health Coalition — $75,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental …Community Water Center — $75,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Wate…Beyond Toxics — $60,000 · EnvironmentBeyond ToxicsEARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO — $25,000 · EnvironmentEARTH CARE INT…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONS…SOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $12,702 · Environment+2 more — $13,000 · EnvironmentMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC — $130,000 · EducationMOMENTUM COM…WE ARE DOWN HOME — $90,000 · EducationWE ARE DOWN …CAUSE Inc — $55,000 · EducationCAUSE IncGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 · EducationGEORGIA ALLI…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationNAEVA — $85,000 · Human ServicesInstituto Lab — $80,000 · Human ServicesThe Black Organizing Project Inc — $50,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTIDES FOUNDATION — $117,250 · PhilanthropyOUR CHILDREN OREGON — $37,500 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $130,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $30,000 · Health+1 more — $2,000 · Health
Other$1,115,700Civil Rights$527,000Environment$380,702Education$321,000Human Services$220,000Philanthropy$167,750Health$162,000

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 budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY INC — $130,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetGEORGIA SHIFT INC — $130,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $117,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND — $115,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $92,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $90,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMOMENTUM ALLIANCE — $90,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO — $85,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNAEVA — $85,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetInstituto Lab — $80,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition — $75,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOREGON RURAL ACTION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCommunity Water Center — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBeyond Toxics — $60,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCAUSE Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSOMOS SIEMBRA — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS — $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSowega Rising — $40,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetOUR CHILDREN OREGON — $37,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $12,702 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING — $5,000 over 1y, 22% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationNew Venture FundWindward FundMarguerite Casey Foun…United States Energy …Rockefeller Philanthr…ImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…Movement Strategy Cen…The San Francisco Fou…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC60.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Windward Fund · Marguerite Casey Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · The San Francisco 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 Penney Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Lomakatsi Restoration Project — 100% of income from government
  • Latino Network — 15% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Penney Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Penney Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 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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