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$13M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
127
Grants FY2024
87
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,531,226
Organizations funded a year
4 to 94
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
32
Total assets, FY2024
$116M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Policylink funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving121$13M58%
FY202387$9.1M57%
FY202294$16M78%
FY202183$16M93%
FY202044$1.6M98%
FY20194$304kn/a
100% 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$21MCommunity Improvement$14MPhilanthropy$4.0MArts & Culture$2.7MPublic Benefit$2.2MEducation$2.2MHuman Services$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 315 grantees
All grantees of Policylink by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Black Ambition Opportunity Inc$10,002,453255%
Project South Inc$7,697,989427%
Liberation in a Generation$4,965,514257%
Center for Community Change Action$2,266,667115%
Liberation Ventures Inc$1,669,986145%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$1,317,34821%
Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management$1,252,50541%
The Urban Institute$1,210,00021%
The Stories of Us Inc$1,044,218176%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$940,00011%
The Ford Foundation$829,46610%
Just Capital Foundation Inc$824,25533%
Results for America$752,04513%
Livegistics LLC$750,0001n/a
California Calls Education Fund$600,00014%
ACCE Institute$570,00046%
Coalicion de Coaliciones Pro Personas Sin Hogar de Puerto Rico$450,000124%
Liga de Ciudades de Puerto Rico$450,000128%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley$431,6202n/a
Free Press$402,50042%
Local Progress Policy Institute$400,00023%
Fsg Inc$319,72931%
Northeastern Illinois University Foundation$305,00044%
The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc$305,000414%
Forward Justice$303,43032%
Northeastern University$302,50030%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$285,81312%
Get Free Movement Fund Inc$280,000224%
Firstrepair$257,500223%
Community Partners$251,08320%
City and County of San Francisco Finance Corporation$250,0001n/a
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$250,00032%
Equity and Transformation$230,00024%
The California Endowment$228,20410%
Kreative Arts Collective Inc$227,5002n/a
Institute of the Black World 21st Century$227,500210%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$219,20320%
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County$202,50034%
The New School$200,00010%
City and County of San Francisco$200,0001n/a
Center for Community Change$200,00011%
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls$182,00023%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$180,00031%
Possibility Labs$170,00010%
Allied Media Projects Inc$157,50020%
Kinfolk Tech Foundation$155,00025%
Redress Movement$155,00028%
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc$155,00022%
California Black Power Network$152,50019%
Equal Justice Society$152,50016%
Be Great Together$150,000168%
People United for Sustainable Housing Inc$146,66624%
Partnership for Southern Equity$132,50031%
Jobs with Justice Education Fund$132,11011%
Third Sector New England Inc$130,00020%
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children$129,00022%
Dosso Beauty LLC$125,0001n/a
Quirktastic Inc$125,0001n/a
Alodia Healthy Hair LLC$125,0001n/a
Beereaders Inc$125,0001n/a
Community Water Center$120,00041%
Rgisc Inc$117,50027%
Housing California Inc$112,50021%
Bayou City Waterkeeper Inc$110,00036%
Urban Habitat Program$106,50033%
Reparation Education Project$105,000229%
African-American Community Trust NFP$105,000228%
Black Veterans Project$105,000283%
El Enjambre Colectivo Inc$103,500122%
Fair Count Inc$102,50011%
Racial Justice Coalition of Asheville Inc$102,500110%
Level Ground$102,500123%
Kqed Inc$102,50010%
Eagle Market Streets Development Co$102,50015%
Live Free Chicago$101,50019%
Education Justice Academy$100,0001n/a
The Watershed Center Inc$100,000212%
Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance$100,00016%
We the People of Detroit$99,00035%
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform$95,00013%
Mapping Police Violence Inc$95,0001100%
Centro Para la Reconstruccion del Habitat$90,0001n/a
United Houma Nation Inc$90,00024%
West Street Recovery$85,00022%
Verde Inc$79,00041%
North Lawndale Employment Network$75,00040%
Right to the City Alliance$75,00010%
Race Forward$75,00020%
The Heising-Simons Foundation$71,29810%
Oakland Promise$70,00050%
Hatch$67,50017%
Lilac$66,0762n/a
Sacred Heart Community Service$65,00010%
Girl Scouts of Northern California$65,00010%
Community Action Board$65,00011%
Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans$60,00021%
The Accomplis Collective Inc$55,00020%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County$55,00011%
Ujima Cooperative Inc$55,0001n/a
Choices Inter-Linking$55,000217%
Save The Bay$55,00011%
Humanitarian Social Innovations$55,00023%
Imoyase Community Support Services$52,50013%
Vine Street Community Center Counci$52,50016%
Creative Agents of Change Foundation Inc$52,50016%
Marijuana Justice$52,5001n/a
African American Edu & Research Org at Melchor-Quick Meeting House$52,5001n/a
Justice for Greenwood Foundation Inc$52,50014%
Resist Inc$52,50020%
National Black Cultural Information Trust Inc$52,500130%
Center for Community Stewardship$50,00011%
King County Department of Community & Human Services$50,0001n/a
Rotorx LLC$50,0001n/a
School of Arts and Culture at Mhp$50,00011%
City of Saint Paul$50,0001n/a
City of Durham$50,0001n/a
City of Chicago$50,0001n/a
Kansas Action for Children Inc$50,00013%
City of Sacramento$50,0001n/a
Center for Disability Rights Inc$50,00010%
Inland Empire Community Collaborative Inc$50,00014%
Health in Her Hue$50,0001n/a
Avec Drinks Co$50,0001n/a
Emagine Solutions Technology LLC$50,0001n/a
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence$50,00021%
City of Philadelphia$50,0001n/a
Shea'D$50,0001n/a
Providence School Department$50,0001n/a
Allegheny County Department of Human Services$50,0001n/a
Alive and Well Communities$50,00012%
Grand Caillou Dulac Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Choctaw$50,0001n/a
City of Dallas$50,0001n/a
Ltsc Community Development Corporation$48,00010%
United Way of New York City$47,50010%
Alabama Rivers Alliance Inc$45,00017%
Harpeth Conservancy$45,00013%
No Exceptions$45,000132%
East Palo Alto Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development Org$43,43921%
Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund Dba the Gro Fund$42,50011%
Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors Inc$42,500112%
Sv Home$40,40014%
Protect Our Aquifer$40,00016%
Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc$40,00011%
Native American Indian Association of Tennessee$40,00014%
Oregon Law Center$40,00010%
Alliance for Affordable Energy$40,00011%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada$40,00011%
Florida Rising Together Inc$40,00010%
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance$40,00014%
Blackbelt Women Rising Inc$40,000114%
Urban Revival Inc$40,00011%
Harlem Stage Inc$40,00031%
Tribal Images Museum Inc$40,00014%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$40,00010%
Healthy Gulf$40,00012%
Young Gifted & Green$40,00016%
Sacramento Area Congregations Together$38,00013%
Taproot Earth$37,50011%
Mumtails LLC$37,5001n/a
Gaba Inc$37,5001n/a
Fonbnk LLC$37,5001n/a
Public Allies Inc$37,50010%
National Assembly of American Slavery Descendants Inc$37,5002n/a
Coffeepreneur LLC Dba Sip and Sonder$37,0001n/a
Indivisible Aurora$37,0002n/a
Unkitawa$35,00021%
Independent Sector$35,00040%
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto$35,00021%
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy$33,7281n/a
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$32,75020%
Next City Inc$32,50012%
CoNECTINC$31,667218%
Council of Community Housing Organizations$30,00034%
NPH Action Fund$30,00010%
Somos Mayfair Inc$29,90010%
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County$29,90011%
DC Justice Lab$27,50012%
Anti-Violence Safety and Accountability Project$27,5001n/a
Community Capital Fund$27,50011%
Young Foundation for Social Justice and the Arts Inc$27,5001n/a
Descendants of Enslaved Communities at the University of Virginia$27,500124%
Multiplier$27,50010%
Lowcountry Gullah Foundation$27,500114%
Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress$27,500115%
Commonwealth Foundation Inc$27,50013%
United by Equity$27,5001n/a
Mt Zion Greater Faith Apostolicministries$27,5001n/a
La Voice$25,00011%
Destination Innovation Inc$25,00015%
Community Aid and Development Corp$25,00012%
Family Tree Inc$25,00011%
Boddle Learning$25,0001n/a
Wesleyan Church Corporation$25,0001n/a
Faith for Justice$25,00014%
People Power Media$25,000120%
Yap Global LLC$25,0001n/a
Yeuma Inc$25,0001n/a
Takeaction Minnesota$25,00010%
Openfield Co$25,0001n/a
Black United Fund of Illinois Inc$25,00011%
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization$25,00012%
The Aspen Institute Inc$25,00010%
National Institute for Peer Support$25,00012%
Lifemoves$25,00010%
Thursday Labs$25,0001n/a
Northern California Grantmakers$24,50010%
Communities In Partnership$22,00021%
Blackroots Alliance$22,00012%
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc$21,65021%
Community Legal Services Inc$20,00010%
Freedom Community Center$20,00011%
Boston Tenant Coalition Inc$20,00017%
United for a New Economy$20,00012%
The Freedom Forum Inc$20,00020%
Title Track$20,00024%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc$20,00010%
Hope Community Inc$20,00020%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley$20,00010%
Latino Prosperity$20,00015%
Northern California Land Trust$19,10010%
Housing Justice League Inc$19,00023%
Resources for Community Development$18,80010%
Chainbreaker Collective$17,50021%
Efforts of Grace Inc$17,00020%
Partnership For the Public Good Inc$16,66712%
Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston Inc$16,00023%
Center for Neighborhood Technology$16,00020%
Community College League of California$15,50020%
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights$15,00010%
Safer Foundation$15,00010%
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated$15,00010%
Hijra House Association$15,00016%
Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation$15,0002n/a
Fair Future Movement Inc$15,00012%
Community Service Care Inc$15,00011%
Black Youth Project 100 NFP$15,00011%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund$15,00010%
Starting Over Inc$15,00010%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc$15,00010%
California Forward$15,00011%
BYP100 Education Fund$14,35011%
Solidarity Arts & Education Decolonial Initiatives C/O Saedi Collective$12,5001n/a
House of Tulip$12,50011%
Milpa$12,00010%
Mission Economic Development Agency$11,03620%
Justice Committee Inc$10,00011%
Pupusas for Education$10,0001n/a
Philadelphia Community Land Trust$10,000111%
Causa Justa Just Cause$10,00010%
First Peoples Fund$10,00010%
United Way Inc$10,00010%
Bridge Housing Corporation$10,00010%
Floreciendo$10,00012%
Southeast Asian Community Alliance$10,00011%
American Friends Service Committee$10,0001n/a
Khmer Girls in Action$10,00011%
GreenLatinos$10,00011%
International Documentary Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Brotherhood of Elders Network$10,00010%
Nine Mile Run Watershed Association$10,00011%
Uc Riverside Foundation$10,00010%
Head and Heart Philanthropy$10,00011%
National Academy of Social Insurance$10,00011%
Proyecto Azteca Inc$10,00011%
New Liberty Road Community Development Corporation$10,0001n/a
Stridelabs Step Up$10,0001n/a
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$10,00010%
Forward Through Ferguson$10,00011%
Urban Ed Academy$10,00010%
The Policy Academies Inc$10,00013%
Center for Empowered Politics$10,00010%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice$10,00010%
Filantropia Puerto Rico Inc$10,00011%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$10,00010%
Root Cause Research Center Inc$10,00014%
Appalshop Inc$10,00010%
Urban Affairs Coalition$10,00010%
Thrive Santa Ana$10,00014%
One Degree$10,0001n/a
Chinatown Community Land Trust Inc$10,00013%
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc$10,00010%
E3 Alliance$9,50010%
Evergreen Collaborative$8,00010%
Transport for Nola Dba Ride New Orleans$8,00012%
Equiticity$8,00010%
League of American Wheelman Inc$8,00010%
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy$8,00010%
International Transportation Learning Center$8,00010%
Center on Policy Initiatives$8,00011%
Rails to Trails Conservancy$8,00010%
National Organizations for Youth Safety$8,00012%
Vagiome LLC$7,5001n/a
Clean Water Legacy$7,50014%
California Immigrant Policy Center$7,50010%
Reach Ai Inc$7,5001n/a
Okay Girlfriend LLC$7,5001n/a
Valia Shoes$7,5001n/a
Nal - Naylilly LLC$7,5001n/a
Daye Enterprises$7,5001n/a
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc$7,50010%
Families and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children$7,50010%
Tanoshi Inc$7,5001n/a
Rofhiwa Books LLC$7,5001n/a
Femly$7,5001n/a
Catalyst Miami Inc$7,50010%
The Future Happens Everyday Inc$7,5001n/a
Stereotheque$7,5001n/a
Springboard to Opportunities$7,50010%
Realtourhub Inc$7,5001n/a
Extruo LLC$7,5001n/a
La Union del Pueblo Entero$7,50010%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund$7,50010%
Growing Kings Inc$7,50011%
California State Council of Service Employees$5,0001n/a
Critical Resistance$2,5001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Policylink supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBlack Ambition Opportunity Inc: $10,002,453 over 2y, 55% of budgetProject South Inc: $7,697,989 over 4y, 27% of budgetLiberation in a Generation: $4,965,514 over 2y, 57% of budgetCenter for Community Change Action: $2,266,667 over 1y, 15% of budgetLiberation Ventures Inc: $1,669,986 over 1y, 45% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $1,317,348 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management: $1,252,505 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Urban Institute: $1,210,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Stories of Us Inc: $1,044,218 over 1y, 76% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $940,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Ford Foundation: $829,466 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJust Capital Foundation Inc: $824,255 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetResults for America: $752,045 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCalifornia Calls Education Fund: $600,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetACCE Institute: $570,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCoalicion de Coaliciones Pro Personas Sin Hogar de Puerto Rico: $450,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetLiga de Ciudades de Puerto Rico: $450,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFree Press: $402,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLocal Progress Policy Institute: $400,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFsg Inc: $319,729 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNortheastern Illinois University Foundation: $305,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc: $305,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetForward Justice: $303,430 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNortheastern University: $302,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $285,813 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGet Free Movement Fund Inc: $280,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFirstrepair: $257,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetCommunity Partners: $251,083 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability: $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEquity and Transformation: $230,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThe California Endowment: $228,204 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute of the Black World 21st Century: $227,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $219,203 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County: $202,500 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetThe New School: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Community Change: $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls: $182,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $180,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPossibility Labs: $170,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $157,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKinfolk Tech Foundation: $155,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetRedress Movement: $155,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetThe New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc: $155,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCalifornia Black Power Network: $152,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetEqual Justice Society: $152,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBe Great Together: $150,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetPeople United for Sustainable Housing Inc: $146,666 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPartnership for Southern Equity: $132,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 Charitable Foundation IncDC81.5× affinity99 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Tides Center · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund · Surdna Foundation Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · United States Energy 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.

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About Policylink

How much does Policylink give?
Policylink reported 127 grants totaling $13,441,549 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 94 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Policylink fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (36%), Community Improvement (25%), Philanthropy (7%).
Who are Policylink's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Black Ambition Opportunity Inc ($10M), Project South Inc ($7.7M), Liberation in a Generation ($5.0M).
Does Policylink fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Policylink?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Common Counsel Foundation, NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Where is Policylink based?
Policylink is based in CA.

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 333 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 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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