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Power2change Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$314kYouth Development$200kHousing & Shelter$25kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$2k
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,858
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NO BARRIERS USA$9,858
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DESIGN FOR CHANGE: $97k → 8%TOGETHER WE RISE: $2k → 14%MY SISTER'S PLACE INC: $3k → 9%HEARTS OF GOLD: $25k → 17%NO BARRIERS USA: $56k → 5%TX RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%GEORGE GERVIN YOUTH CENTER INC: $75k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEE COUNTY: $22k → 11%EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIV FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%LAKEWOOD FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 9%BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES: $12k → 10%DESIGN FOR CHANGE: $70k → 8%PENCIL INC: $1k → 17%NO BARRIERS USA: $10k → 5%FL GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LEE COUNTY: $3k → 11%FL GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%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

VT
WA
MI
NY
MA
CA
TX
FL
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 4 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +293% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$293k
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+293%
+43%

Still filing today

25%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2018 · $167k
  • NB
    NO BARRIERS USA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $65k
  • FG
    FL GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k

Funded once

  • TR
    TX RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • GG
    GEORGE GERVIN YOUTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -19%
  • EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +116%
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
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
2
Youth Guidance

A leader in social and emotional development, community engagement, and positive youth development, Youth Guidance has strategically created programs to address community needs across four delivery areas: Community & Afterschool Programs…

Education
3
Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc

Our mission is to provide a safe and stable experience that assures success is within reach of all our members - that they graduate from high school with plans for their futures and that they are living healthy lifestyles.

Youth Development
4
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.

Youth Development
5
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities

Our mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
7
Bronx Charter School for Better Learning

Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…

Education
8
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
9
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

Youth Development
10
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities

To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…

Youth Development
12
Girls Group

Girls group empowers middle and high school women to achieve emotional and economic security by graduating from high school and becoming first generation college graduates. girls group provides year round programming and mentoring to…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hearts of Gold Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $167,158 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTX RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTX RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATIONNO BARRIERS USA: $65,358 · OtherNO BARRIERS USAFL GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION: $35,300 · OtherFL GULF COAST UNIV FOUNDATION+2 more: $7,500 · OtherGEORGE GERVIN YOUTH CENTER INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterGEORGE GERVIN Y…EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $33,000 · EducationEASTERN M…BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL: $11,861 · EducationBUILDING …HEARTS OF GOLD INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPENCIL INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LEE COUNTY: $25,250 · Youth DevelopmentTOGETHER WE RISE: $1,560 · Recreation & Sports
Other$375,316Housing & Shelter$75,000Education$44,861Philanthropy$26,000Youth Development$25,250Recreation & Sports$1,560

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGE GERVIN YOUTH CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LEE COUNTY: $25,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHEARTS OF GOLD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL: $11,861 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $1,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Power2change Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Power2change Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Power2change Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Power2change Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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