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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Rural Arizona Engagement RAZE$25,000
Black Voters Matter Capacity Bld In$25,000
Chinese Progressive Association$25,000
Momentum Community$25,000
Tides Foundation$25,000
Somos Un Pueblo Unido$25,000
No Carolina Climate Justice Collect$25,000
We Are Down Home$25,000
OL Education Fund$25,000
Somos Siembra$25,000
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$20,000
One Arizona$20,000
Center for Civic Policy$20,000
Imagine North Carolina First$20,000
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 (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 its 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
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

NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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%
69%

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
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

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

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • SR
    Sowega Risinggraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +84%
  • R
    RAZE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for Youth Organizing; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 73 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
34/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA SHIFT INC: $130,000 · OtherGEORGIA SHIFT INCBlack Voters Matter Capacity Bld In: $85,000 · OtherBlack Voters Matter Capacity Bld InNo Carolina Climate Justice Collect: $85,000 · OtherNo Carolina Climate Justice CollectT 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 …Community Water Center: $75,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Wate…Environmental Health Coalition: $75,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental …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 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 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 budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME: $90,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% 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 budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInstituto Lab: $80,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCommunity Water Center: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOREGON RURAL ACTION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $75,000 over 4y, 0.6% 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 budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $50,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSOMOS SIEMBRA: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAFFILIATED TRIBES OF NORTHWEST INDIANS: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSowega Rising: $40,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetOUR CHILDREN OREGON: $37,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetEARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $12,702 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $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 budgetLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLatino Network: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING: $5,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 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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