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Policylink
POLICYLINK is a national research and action institute working to build a future where all people in the united states of america can participate in a flourishing multiracial democracy, prosper in an equitable economy, and live in thriving communities of opportunity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $7.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERATION IN A GENERATION | $3,531,226 |
| LIBERATION VENTURES INC | $1,669,986 |
| THE STORIES OF US INC | $1,044,218 |
| LA LIGA DE CIUDADES DE PUERTO RICO | $450,000 |
| LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY | $183,203 |
| FSG - BOSTON | $171,000 |
| POSSIBILITY LABS | $170,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE SOCIETY | $152,500 |
| GET FREE MOVEMENT FUND | $152,500 |
| CALIFORNIA BLACK POWER NETWORK | $152,500 |
| JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND | $132,110 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $127,500 |
| EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION | $127,500 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
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.
81 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M 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
NEO Philanthropy Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +27%
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT4× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +22%- FPFREE PRESS4× · 2021–2024 · $403k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTIONone grant, 2021 · $2.3M · revenue -55%
- HCHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INCone grant, 2021 · $940k · revenue -55%
- TFTHE FORD FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $829k · revenue +128%
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 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,…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
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…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Heising-Simons Foundation. 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 20 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 36% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
273 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. 273 of the 333 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 Black Ambition Opportunity Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION IN A GENERATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Stories of Us Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RESULTS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ACCE Institute ↗
- Who funds COALICION DE COALICIONES PRO PERSONAS SIN HOGAR DE PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds LIGA DE CIUDADES DE PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds LOCAL PROGRESS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FSG INC ↗
- Who funds The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GET FREE MOVEMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTREPAIR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF THE BLACK WORLD 21ST CENTURY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
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: 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
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 Policylink 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.
- Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Oregon Law Center — 11% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% 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.