· Public charity
PlusOnePlusOnePlusOne
PLUSONEPLUSONEPLUSONEs mission is to build and fuel a community of advocates from creative industries with a long-term commitment to the actions that catalyze and create systemic change for a more just and equal world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 120 grants below total $4,749,683 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,076,596 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $326,913 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 $10k40 grants · $274k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $755,809 |
| Charities Aid Fndt America | $276,371 |
| You Are the Portal Inc | $256,500 |
| First Peoples Fund | $192,038 |
| Rainbow Railroad | $169,591 |
| Individual grant recipient | $169,591 |
| Musicares Foundation Inc | $129,702 |
| Notes for Notes Inc | $121,979 |
| Musicians On Call | $121,979 |
| The Ally Coalition | $112,048 |
| Life Rolls On Foundation | $100,000 |
| LGBT National Help Center | $92,135 |
| Sweet Relief Musicians Fund | $90,405 |
| Charitable Trust UK | $89,043 |
| Transgender Law Center | $88,676 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.1M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Program Support
Stated purpose: Program Support
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 PlusOnePlusOnePlusOne’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.
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.
77 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 85 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- AIADCOLOR INC2× · 2021–2022 · $900k · revenue +30%
- CACALLING ALL CROWS INC2× · 2022–2023 · $837k · revenue +34%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $617k · revenue +120%
Funded once
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue -29%- ELEXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue -9%
- HFHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -36%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
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Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Australian Koala Foundation 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
347 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. 347 of the 469 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AAAA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ADCOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds CALLING ALL CROWS INC ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOLD HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST PEOPLES FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLBT NATIONAL HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN GRAMMY CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LATINAS IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NOISE FOR NOW ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND ↗
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds All Star Code Inc ↗
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: Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · The California Wellness Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Social Impact Fund · The California Endowment · Entertainment Industry Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · D'Addario Foundation Inc · Novo 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 PlusOnePlusOnePlusOne 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- National Park Trust Inc — 51% of income from government
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.