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Prosperity Now
PROSPERITY NOW inspires bold action and provides organizations with the tools, research, and resources needed to help people build prosperity so everyone can thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES | $1,909,214 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ASSET BUILDERS | $100,000 |
| LATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK | $85,000 |
| AMERICAN LATINO VETERANS ASSOCIATION | $17,238 |
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 (FY18–23, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Prosperity Now’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. Read by recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- MEMetropolitan Economic Development Association3× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
- KYKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $166k · revenue +111%
- FPFamily Promise in Anoka County2× · 2018–2019 · $85k · revenue +238%
Funded once
- CFCOMMON FUTUREone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -62%
- ERENTREPRENEUR READY INCone grant, 2022 · $1.9M
- CFCOMMUNITY FIRST FUNDone grant, 2021 · $375k · revenue -11%
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.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
Employment connection is a nonprofit st. louis community asset whose mission is "to assist individuals with limited opportunities to self sufficiency" including those recovering from substance abuse, the homeless, low-income individuals…
Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities.
To partner with the community to eliminate poverty and create social change through advocacy and essential services.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
Promote fair and affordable housing for low income families, free from the vestiges of segregation and discrimination.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is San Juan College Retiree Health Trust. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
167 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. 167 of the 183 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 Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Economic Development Association ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY NOW ↗
- Who funds CITY FIRST ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FIRST FUND ↗
- Who funds BBCDC INC ↗
- Who funds VETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds EAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ampac Tri-State CDC Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds WABASH COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise in Anoka County ↗
- Who funds LATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation ↗
- Who funds Urban League of Broward County Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFIT DEVELOPERS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT-SLAUSON LDC INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTER'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Safe Sisters Circle ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Wells Fargo Foundation · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · Target Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Citi Foundation · National Community Reinvestment Coalition Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Opportunity Finance Network · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Capital One Foundation Inc · Pnc 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 Prosperity Now 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.
- Home Forward Development Enterprises Corporation — 100% of income from government
- The Massachusetts Association for Community Action Inc — 97% of income from government
- Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
- Belair-Edison Neighborhoods Inc — 32% of income from government
- Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network — 25% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
- Portland Housing Center — 19% of income from government
- El Programa Hispano Catolico — 13% of income from government
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of West Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hispanic Unity of Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc — 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.