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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$11MPhilanthropy$6.8MHuman Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$913kEducation$312kEmployment$180kCivil Rights$143kPublic Benefit$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METROPOLITAN WILMINGTON URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE IN ANOKA COUNTY: $65k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: $11k → 14%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $120k → 14%TEXAS MUSLIM WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $41k → 5%BAKERRIPLEY: $14k → 16%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO: $20k → 23%WATEREE COMMUNITY ACTIONS INC: $11k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF BROWARD COUNTY: $58k → 13%POLK PROSPERITY CAMPAIGN INC: $20k → 16%ALABAMA ASSET BUILDING COALITION: $15k → 16%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 11%GRACE-MAR SERVICES INC: $15k → 10%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $6k → 16%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $20k → 6%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 16%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $9k → 23%FAMILY PROMISE IN ANOKA COUNTY: $20k → 7%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%DEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $12k → 16%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $20k → 11%LATIN AMERICAN COALITION: $15k → 10%INDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE: $17k → 16%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $8k → 23%BON SECOURS COMMUNITY WORKS: $73k → 19%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 14%INSPIRING TOMORROW'S LEADERS INC: $23k → 14%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $10k → 11%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $6k → 23%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND: $11k → 19%KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 14%INSPIRING TOMORROW'S LEADERS INC: $13k → 14%HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CTR SANT LA: $20k → 15%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES: $19k → 21%EL PROGRAMA HISPANO CATOLICO: $10k → 12%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $7k → 23%CITY FIRST ENTERPRISES: $375k → 14%HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $11k → 15%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES: $15k → 21%BYRD BARR PLACE: $5k → 9%FATHERS' SUPPORT CENTER STLOUIS: $15k → 21%CITY FIRST ENTERPRISES: $160k → 14%MINNEAPOLIS URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 11%AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $173k → 11%THE SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $50k → 14%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

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Prosperity Now’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 0%.

Prosperity Nowlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 42 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
127

Total granted

$4.6M
$7.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+20%

Still filing today

83%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • ME
    Metropolitan Economic Development Association
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
  • KY
    KOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $166k · revenue +111%
  • FP
    Family Promise in Anoka County
    2× · 2018–2019 · $85k · revenue +238%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMON FUTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue -62%
  • ER
    ENTREPRENEUR READY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.9M
  • BI
    BBCDC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $375k · revenue -75%
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
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

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.…

Housing & Shelter
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
3
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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 by three…

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4
Community Development Corporation of Long Island Inc

Cdcli invests in the housing and economic aspirations of individuals and families by providing solutions that foster and maintain vibrant, equitable, and sustainable communities.

Community Improvement
5
The Louisville Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
8
Employment Connection

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…

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9
Community Vision Capital & Consulting

Community vision capital & consulting promotes economic justice and alleviates poverty by increasing the financial resilience and sustainability of community-based nonprofits and enterprises. through flexible financial products and sound…

Community Improvement
10
Community Development Technologies Center

To build livable and economically viable communities in the low income areas of This is accomplished by Greater Los Angeles strengthening the skils and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses of residents, businesses and community…

Community Improvement
11
Impact Capital

Impact capital is a community development financial institution that makes strategic loans in organizations, tribal entities, and housing authorities to spur community development, including affordable housing, art and cultural centers,…

Public Benefit
12
Community Development Corporation of Utah

The community development corporation of utah (cdcu) helps our community thrive by empowering people on their path toward financial security, housing stability, and access to affordable homes.we achieve this by:1. increasing financial…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Lowcountry; 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.
05the grantee network

167 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. 167 of the 183 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/167
Grantees still filing
108/167
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $5,991,647 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation I…HOPEWELL FUND: $315,000 · Philanthropy+20 more: $318,509 · PhilanthropyCOMMON FUTURE: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTUREPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC: $1,909,214 · Community ImprovementPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INCPROSPERITY NOW: $860,000 · Community ImprovementPROSPERITY NOW+24 more: $939,784 · Community Improvement+24 moreENTREPRENEUR READY INC: $1,900,000 · OtherENTREPRENEUR READY INCMetropolitan Economic Development Association: $1,255,657 · OtherMetropolitan Economic Deve…+58 more: $1,717,964 · Other+58 moreCITY FIRST ENTERPRISES INC: $535,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $173,125 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $166,150 · Human ServicesFamily Promise in Anoka County: $85,000 · Human ServicesBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $73,000 · Human ServicesUrban League of Broward County Inc: $58,000 · Human Services+27 more: $558,602 · Human ServicesBBCDC INC: $375,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $375,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $241,000 · Housing & ShelterBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $62,500 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $56,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFIT DEVELOPERS: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMANNA INC: $49,500 · Housing & Shelter+15 more: $273,709 · Housing & ShelterVETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: $333,218 · Public BenefitDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $41,458 · Public BenefitGEORGIA WATCH: $29,500 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $25,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN LATINO VETERANS ASSOCIATION: $17,238 · Public Benefit+1 more: $6,300 · Public BenefitCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $50,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $31,257 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $28,125 · EducationNONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC: $25,000 · EducationBuild Wealth MN Inc: $21,125 · EducationGECU FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationNATIONAL MANUFACTURED HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC: $19,000 · EducationOAKLAND PROMISE: $16,500 · EducationCOLLEGE DREAMS INC: $16,129 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Education+3 more: $19,382 · Education
Philanthropy$6,625,156Community Improvement$5,708,998Other$4,873,621Human Services$1,648,877Housing & Shelter$1,482,709Public Benefit$452,714Education$257,518

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $5,991,647 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $2,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC: $1,909,214 over 1y, 15% of budgetMetropolitan Economic Development Association: $1,255,657 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPROSPERITY NOW: $860,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCITY FIRST ENTERPRISES INC: $535,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBBCDC INC: $375,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FUND: $375,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVETERAN BUSINESS PROJECT INC: $333,218 over 1y, 94% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $315,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST LA COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $241,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $173,125 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $166,150 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER JAMAICA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $160,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAmpac Tri-State CDC Inc: $160,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LATINO COMMUNITY ASSET BUILDERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWABASH COUNTY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $97,452 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFamily Promise in Anoka County: $85,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK INC: $85,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $75,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetBon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc: $73,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $66,458 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: $62,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUrban League of Broward County Inc: $58,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $56,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $55,150 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOMEWISE INC: $52,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $50,150 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMY SISTER'S PLACE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARSHALL HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVERMONT-SLAUSON LDC INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Sisters Circle: $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLIFT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NONPROFIT DEVELOPERS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMANNA INC: $49,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $41,458 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHISPANIC UNITY OF FLORIDA INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS MUSLIM WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $41,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $40,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINVERSANT INC: $40,064 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetINDIANA YOUTH INSTITUTE INC: $36,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetInspiring Tomorrows Leaders: $36,459 over 2y, 24% of budgetSPANISH COALITION FOR HOUSING: $36,459 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER AUBURN GRESHAM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $36,458 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

Wells Fargo FoundationCities for Financial …Target FoundationTruist Foundation IncCiti FoundationNational Community Re…Enterprise Community …The Kresge FoundationOpportunity Finance N…Annie E Casey Foundat…Capital One Foundatio…Pnc Foundation
Wells Fargo FoundationMN52.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 183 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home