· Public charity
Ploughshares Fund Inc
Our mission is to reduce and eventually eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $2,816,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,119,923 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $303,923 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $205,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK | $190,000 |
| ARMS CONTROL ASSOCIATION | $178,000 |
| INKSTICK MEDIA | $125,000 |
| FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMERICA | $125,000 |
| RETHINK MEDIA | $125,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $120,000 |
| FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION | $110,000 |
| HORIZON 2045 FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WIN WITHOUT WAR EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE | $100,000 |
| FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS | $90,000 |
| NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON NORTH KOREA | $85,000 |
| MARSHALLESE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE | $80,000 |
| RAND CORPORATION | $80,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Ploughshares Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 12% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k 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
- FPForeign Policy For America5× · 2021–2025 · $840k · revenue +4%
- IMInkstick Media Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $560k · revenue +188%
- NTNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $456k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- GZGLOBAL ZEROone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
- VFVeterans For Peace Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +31%
- FAFULCRUM ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $86k · revenue +56%
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 nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
The partnership for global security (pgs) is a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy developing actionable responses to 21st century security challenges by engaging international,…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The mission of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is to develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies building on the the expertise and experience of its staff and advisors. CNAS engages policy…
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Research and education of United Nations activities
The Forum connects civil society experts to strengthen public efforts on arms transfers, security, and weapons issues, offering a hub for expertise, analysis, and resources.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
Nbr conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, energy, globalization, and health issues affecting u.s. relations with asia. drawing upon an extensive network of the world's leading specialists and leveraging…
FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is The Open Mind Legacy Project Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 103 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
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 GLOBAL ZERO ACTION ↗
- Who funds The Arms Control Associations ↗
- Who funds Foreign Policy For America ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Inkstick Media Inc ↗
- Who funds ReThink Media ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds J STREET ↗
- Who funds VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MoveOnorg Civic Action ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds NIAC Action ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Win Without War Education Fund ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR A LIVABLE WORLD ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS ↗
- Who funds SECURE FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR TRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for a Civil Society LTD ↗
- Who funds Marshallese Educational Initiative ↗
- Who funds Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
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: Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Jubitz Family Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Spectemur Agendo Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Colombe Peace Foundation · The Arca Foundation · The Samuel Rubin Foundation Inc
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 Ploughshares Fund Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% 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.