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Proteus Fund Inc

Proteus fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice to advance racial, gender, queer, and disability justice, and an inclusive, fully representative democracy.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
219
Grants FY2024still arriving
39
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$69MCivil Rights$52MCrime & Legal$4.6MHuman Services$3.0MEnvironment$2.9MEducation$2.7MCommunity Improvement$2.4MInternational$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 219 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k107 grants · $3.3M
  • $50k–250k101 grants · $8.8M
  • $250k+11 grants · $9.5M
$50,000
Median grant
39
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT EDUCATION FUND$2,000,000
UNIDOSUS$2,000,000
PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE$1,799,000
THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$1,000,000
REFRAME$750,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$500,000
RETHINK MEDIA$340,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$305,000
NONPROFIT VOTE INC$300,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$276,250
THE OPEN MIND LEGACY PROJECT$250,000
DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT$240,500
RODERICK & SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER$200,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$200,000
WOVEN COLLECTIVE INC$199,146
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REPOWER FUND: $182k → 11%WELLSTONE ACTION FUND: $295k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN CIVIC COUNCIL: $120k → 10%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $350k → 18%HAWAI'I PEOPLE'S FUND: $200k → 9%BLACK HEALTH COMMISSION: $52k → 11%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $58k → 12%PROJECT WEBER RENEW: $200k → 14%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $60k → 8%I AM HUMAN FOUNDATION: $60k → 9%STATE POWER FUND: $100k → 12%RE POWER FUND: $152k → 11%WELLSTONE ACTION FUND: $293k → 14%ARAB AMERICAN CIVIC COUNCIL: $120k → 10%WOVEN COLLECTIVE INC: $199k → 9%SWOP BEHIND BARS: $72k → 13%REPOWER FUND: $118k → 11%SISTER SONG: $125k → 13%SISTER SONG: $125k → 13%YOUNG WOMEN UNITED: $100k → 14%SISTER SONG: $125k → 13%YOUNG WOMEN UNITED: $100k → 14%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $67k → 11%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $88k → 14%BOLD FUTURES NM: $100k → 14%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $81k → 13%POSSIBILITY LABS: $250k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN UNITED: $100k → 14%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $76k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 13%POSSIBILITY LABS: $85k → 10%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $60k → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY: $105k → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY: $75k → 20%MIRACLE OF LOVE: $139k → 13%MIRACLE OF LOVE: $130k → 13%AYADA LEADS: $57k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $358k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $198k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $110k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $80k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $76k → 10%HEART WOMEN & GIRLS PROJECT: $55k → 14%PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $70k → 14%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $121k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $65k → 17%DEAF ABUSED WOMEN NETWORK: $100k → 14%DEAF ABUSED WOMEN NETWORK: $100k → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
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IL
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OR
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WY
SD
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NJ
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RI
CA
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CO
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MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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AR
TN
NC
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$114M · 384 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

384 repeat relationships: 154 still active in FY2024, 230 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

384
439

Total granted

$114M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+41%

Still filing today

91%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePublic 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

  • VR
    VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2023 · $28M · revenue +643% · 28% of their budget
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9.0M · revenue ×13
  • ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +630%

Funded once

  • SI
    STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +116%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -55%
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
2
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
4
Forward Together

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…

Health
5
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
6
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
7
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
8
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
10
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
11
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

—
12
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center. 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

903 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. 903 of the 911 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.

55
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
333
Early backer (in before they grew)
849/903
Grantees still filing
615/903
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $28,300,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECTUNIDOSUS: $2,930,000 · Other+74 more: $25,377,657 · Other+74 moreTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $9,000,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CE…PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE: $4,392,598 · Civil RightsPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUEVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $2,000,000 · Civil RightsVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT…Nonprofit VOTE Inc: $1,800,000 · Civil RightsNonprofit VOTE IncALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $1,263,000 · Civil RightsSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $1,000,000 · Civil Rights+32 more: $8,903,665 · Civil Rights+32 moreReThink Media: $5,293,280 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,023,200 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $675,157 · EducationCOALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $375,000 · EducationManara West: $336,000 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas: $332,000 · Education+9 more: $1,437,500 · EducationREPOWER FUND: $1,080,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC: $927,500 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $856,891 · Human ServicesBOLD FUTURES NM: $643,332 · Human ServicesFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION: $521,586 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS: $375,900 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $368,945 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY LABS: $335,000 · Human Services+16 more: $3,052,560 · Human ServicesCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,124,300 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $896,473 · Public BenefitNC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections): $625,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $573,334 · Public BenefitPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $530,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLE'S SOLAR ENERGY FUND: $500,000 · Public BenefitSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $400,000 · Public BenefitDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $378,000 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICE: $350,800 · Public BenefitSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $277,500 · Public BenefitCoalition For Open Democracy: $265,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND: $263,500 · Public Benefit+5 more: $689,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $910,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $865,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $485,520 · Community ImprovementHASER Inc: $439,000 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $412,000 · Community ImprovementNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA: $250,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS EDUCATION PROJECT: $210,000 · Community ImprovementKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: $210,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK CULTURAL ZONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Community Improvement+8 more: $1,036,274 · Community ImprovementSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $1,120,661 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $565,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $405,000 · EnvironmentARKANSAS PUBLIC POLICY PANEL INC: $327,500 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC: $255,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Earth: $250,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $200,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentRECYCLE HAWAII: $150,000 · Environment
Other$56,607,657Civil Rights$28,359,263Education$9,472,137Human Services$8,511,714Public Benefit$7,872,907Community Improvement$5,267,794Environment$4,433,161

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $28,300,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $9,000,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetReThink Media: $5,293,280 over 8y, 47% of budgetPROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE: $4,392,598 over 6y, 53% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $2,930,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $2,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNonprofit VOTE Inc: $1,800,000 over 6y, 36% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $1,263,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,201,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $1,190,345 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC: $1,125,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,124,300 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $1,120,661 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $1,098,036 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetREPOWER FUND: $1,080,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,027,500 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,023,200 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE TRISKELES FOUNDATION: $932,608 over 1y, 38% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $927,500 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $910,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $896,473 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $865,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $856,891 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $805,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND: $737,500 over 4y, 66% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $710,500 over 8y, 14% of budgetPROJECT VOTE INC: $700,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $697,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $675,157 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM: $643,332 over 7y, 13% of budgetNC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections): $625,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $622,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $573,334 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetDEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC: $566,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $565,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $558,334 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC: $530,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION: $521,586 over 8y, 93% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $520,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $515,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S SOLAR ENERGY FUND: $500,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $485,520 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING: $485,500 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetSouth Asian Americans Leading Together: $470,000 over 8y, 31% of budgetLGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC: $452,320 over 4y, 9.5% 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.

  • Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ReThink Media ↗
  • Who funds PROTEUS ACTION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
  • Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Nonprofit VOTE Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
  • Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds REPOWER FUND ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRISKELES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOBS WITH JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VOTE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOLD FUTURES NM ↗
  • Who funds NC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections) ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY ↗
  • Who funds DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Borealis PhilanthropyGroundswell FundAmalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncSolidaire Network IncCommon Counsel Founda…Ms Foundation for Wom…Solidago FoundationTides CenterMarguerite Casey Foun…Women Donors NetworkWindward Fund
Borealis PhilanthropyMN160.1× affinity176 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Groundswell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidaire Network Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Solidago Foundation · Tides Center · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Women Donors Network · Windward Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hope Community Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Miracle of Love Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 911 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
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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