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Public Private Strategies Institute
PUBLIC PRIVATE STRATEGIES INSTITUTE (ppsi) is an independent research and education organization that engages in educational activities concerning the public and private sectors' roles in advancing societal change.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $956k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORMON WOMEN FOR ETHICAL GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION | $150,780 |
| MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC | $125,000 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE | $120,000 |
| PUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA | $85,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $75,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $60,000 |
| WORLD RELIEF | $57,500 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS | $57,500 |
| US BLACK CHAMBERS INC | $15,000 |
| USHCC | $15,000 |
| WOMEN IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY INC | $10,000 |
| JABEZ MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL ACE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NAWBO INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $453k 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
- MWMormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation3× · 2022–2024 · $373k · revenue +778% · 25% of their budget
- NLNATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $324k · revenue ×12 · 58% of their budget
- FAFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2023 · $235k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- LNLEADERSHIP NOW PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $568k · revenue +40%
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +66%- BFBread for the World Institutegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue +26%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Now Project and the most unlike its peers is Auburn Theological Seminary. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 167 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 LEADERSHIP NOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mormon Women For Ethical Government Foun dation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LATINO EVANGELICAL COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAITH FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC DEMOCRACY AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds Association of Gospel Rescue Missions ↗
- Who funds US Black Chambers Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
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: NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc · Hopewell Fund · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Lilly Endowment Inc · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Public Private Strategies Institute 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.
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