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Project Redwood
PROJECT REDWOOD's mission is to provide funding, expertise, and connections to social entrepreneurs who address the challenge of global poverty.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $840,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $911,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,500 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORTAR CINCINNATI | $40,500 |
| COMER EDUCATION CAMPUS GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| TOMORROW'S LEADERS NYC (TLNYC) | $40,000 |
| READ 718 | $40,000 |
| VOCAL JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| WOMEN INITIATING SUCCESS ENVISIONED INC (WISE) | $40,000 |
| BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC (BOLT) | $40,000 |
| BREAKING THE CHAIN THROUGH EDUCATION (BTCTE) | $30,500 |
| CONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE (CLI) | $30,000 |
| MAIA | $30,000 |
| ONE VILLAGE PARTNERS | $30,000 |
| HATUA NETWORK | $30,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE AND FAIRNESS (PHF) | $30,000 |
| EDUCATE2ENVISION INTERNATIONAL (E2E) | $30,000 |
| WORLD CONNECT | $30,000 |
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, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- R7READ 718 INC2× · 2024–2025 · $95k · revenue +34%
- BOBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $90k · revenue +45%
- BTBREAKING THE CHAIN THROUGH EDUCATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $71k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- JVJUMA VENTURES INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- AAANDEAN ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
- LELOOMA EDUCATION CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +98%
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.
To strengthen young women's civic participation and leadership
The world is grappling with complex problems, including climate change, war, poverty, and ongoing human rights violations. These issues disproportionately impact women, particularly in developing countries. In nations recovering from…
Women in Progress dba Global Mamas works to achieve economic independence of African women and alleviate poverty at a grassroots level by creating jobs and income generation opportunities that generate a sustainable, living wage and at the…
To educate and empower the next generation of change agents, whose dreams and actions transform the future for Africa and the world.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Women Enabled Enterprises strives to help low income women of color artisans in African countries grow their craft business for self-sufficiency through a virtual, mobile-phone based, retail entrepreneurship skills building program, access…
GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.
Kula exists to eradicate poverty through the development of entrepreneurs in Rwanda's coffee communities. We operate at the intersection of economic development, environmental sustainability, and gender equality, providing a poverty…
Our mission is to equip underserved youthespecially women and girls with future-ready skills in technology Agile methodologies and entrepreneurship empowering them to access dignified work drive innovation and compete globally.
Action In Africa is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the United States, and community based organization that operates a thriving community center in Nakuwadde, Uganda. Our mission is to advance the social, personal, and economic…
To provide educational opportunities and literacy for women and children in africa
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mongolia Education 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 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 32 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 Tomorrows Leaders NYC ↗
- Who funds READ 718 INC ↗
- Who funds Mortar Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds GARY COMER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Women Initiating Success Envisioned Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOMO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Educate2Envision International Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKING THE CHAIN THROUGH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASOCIACION KANTAYA INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE-GULU INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE & FAIRNESS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GOTTA RUN FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KIWIMBI INTERNATIONALA NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds HATUA NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AGAPE - HEART INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds ANDEAN ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LOOMA EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RESONATE WORKSHOPS ↗
- Who funds HERO WOMEN RISING INC ↗
- Who funds Vocal Justice ↗
- Who funds Soul Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONGO LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds AWAMAKI US ↗
- Who funds MAIA ↗
- Who funds Mongolia Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA 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: Tides Center · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Project Redwood 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to Project Redwood 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.