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Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$464k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$3.9MEducation$3.1MHousing & Shelter$2.6MHuman Services$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$400kReligion$292kPhilanthropy$212kPublic Benefit$123kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $785k
$74,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC$464,000
MY CONNECT COMMUNITY$320,500
THE MILL DISTRICT$226,200
EAST SAVANNAH UNITED INC$180,000
GROVE PARK FOUNDATION$133,000
WOODLAWN UNITED$118,000
GROWING TOGETHER$117,500
EAST LAKE FOUNDATION INC$113,029
BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION$107,000
LIFT ORLANDO$102,000
REACH RIVERSIDE$102,000
FOCUSED COMMUNITY STRATEGIES MINISTRIES$100,000
CHERRY HILL STRONG$98,000
Individual grant recipient$97,500
NORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP$87,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $87k → 10%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $814 → 17%CONNECT COMMUNITY INC: $379k → 16%GROWING TOGETHER: $118k → 15%SOUTHEAST RALEIGH PROMISE: $40k → 8%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $500 → 14%OMEGA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30k → 14%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $107k → 23%CHERRY HILL STRONG: $40k → 6%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $321k → 16%GROWING TOGETHER: $31k → 15%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $25k → 23%CHERRY HILL STRONG: $98k → 6%CONNECT COMMUNITY INC: $303k → 16%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $1k → 23%CONNECT COMMUNITY INC: $283k → 16%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $1k → 23%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $1k → 16%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

IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 28 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
22

Total granted

$11M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+35%

Still filing today

75%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • GP
    GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +67%
  • EL
    EAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +45%
  • MC
    My Connect Community
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • LI
    LOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2.1M · revenue +102%
  • SI
    StriveTogether Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $123k · revenue +95%
  • RF
    RESULTS FOR AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $123k · revenue -48%
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
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
2
Neighborhood Progress Inc

Cleveland neighborhood progress is committed to advancing its mission of fostering communities of choice and opportunity. our vision is for all of cleveland's neighborhoods to be attractive, vibrant communities where people from all…

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

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5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
10
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
11
Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corporation

To develop and sustain a thriving local economy by focusing on the attraction, expansion and retention of high wage jobs and capital investment.

Community Improvement
12
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund

Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach Riverside Development Corp; the most unlike its peers is Isb Atlanta Corporation. 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

46 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. 46 of the 62 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
26/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,763,766 · Community ImprovementGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INCWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $1,109,494 · Community ImprovementWOODLAWN UNITED INCFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $464,000 · Community ImprovementFCS URBAN MINISTRIES INCThe Mill District Inc: $356,200 · Community ImprovementThe Mill District IncLIFT ORLANDO INC: $290,500 · Community ImprovementLIFT ORLANDO INCNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $223,000 · Community ImprovementFOREST FORWARD: $177,500 · Community ImprovementTHE SOUTH CITY FOUNDATION INC: $174,250 · Community Improvement+8 more: $533,178 · Community Improvement+8 moreLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $2,100,000 · Housing & ShelterLOW INCOME INVEST…REACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $115,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $87,000 · Housing & ShelterMy Connect Community: $1,289,308 · Human ServicesMy Connect Commu…EAST SAVANNAH UNITED INC: $280,000 · Human ServicesEAST SAVANNAH UN…GROWING TOGETHER INC: $148,309 · Human ServicesGROWING TOGETHER…CHERRY HILL STRONG INC: $138,000 · Human ServicesCHERRY HILL STRO…BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $134,000 · Human ServicesBAYOU DISTRICT F…TIDES CENTER: $87,000 · Human Services+4 more: $71,314 · Human ServicesFCS MINISTRIES: $689,167 · OtherFCS MINISTRIESFOCUSED COMMUNITY STRATEGIES MINISTRIES: $416,000 · OtherFOCUSED COMMUNI…KANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $382,956 · OtherKANSAS CITY NEI…Individual grant recipient: $138,076 · OtherIndividual gran…Individual grant recipient: $118,000 · OtherIndividual gran…PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $75,000 · Other+15 more: $242,443 · Other+15 moreEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $1,612,656 · PhilanthropyEAST LAKE FOU…StriveTogether Inc: $123,000 · PhilanthropyStriveTogethe…+2 more: $26,500 · PhilanthropyPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $1,043,324 · EducationPURPOSE BU…RESULTS FOR AMERICA: $123,000 · EducationRESULTS FO…Partners for Rural Impact Inc: $123,000 · EducationPartners f…BLUEPRINT 15 INC: $73,000 · Education+3 more: $29,533 · EducationTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $37,500 · Social Science
Community Improvement$5,091,888Housing & Shelter$2,302,000Human Services$2,147,931Other$2,061,642Philanthropy$1,762,156Education$1,391,857Social Science$37,500

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 budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $2,100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGROVE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,763,766 over 6y, 18% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $1,612,656 over 6y, 22% of budgetMy Connect Community: $1,289,308 over 7y, 21% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC: $1,109,494 over 4y, 15% of budgetPURPOSE BUILT SCHOOLS ATLANTA INC: $1,043,324 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $382,956 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Mill District Inc: $356,200 over 3y, 94% of budgetLIFT ORLANDO INC: $290,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEAST SAVANNAH UNITED INC: $280,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetNORTHSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $223,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $177,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOUTH CITY FOUNDATION INC: $174,250 over 4y, 27% of budgetLift Jax Inc: $149,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetGROWING TOGETHER INC: $148,309 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCHERRY HILL STRONG INC: $138,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $134,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBoston-Thurmond Innovation Network: $131,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetStriveTogether Inc: $123,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRESULTS FOR AMERICA: $123,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPartners for Rural Impact Inc: $123,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACH RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $115,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC: $87,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $87,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $87,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEND RISE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetBLUEPRINT 15 INC: $73,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHSIDE REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSE RALEIGH PROMISE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative: $18,725 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDREW CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $8,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISB ATLANTA CORPORATION: $2,783 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $2,178 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH CRUSADES MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN WAREHOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $814 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH ROME REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Low Income Investment…Truist Foundation IncAnnie E Casey Foundat…Wells Fargo FoundationBlue Meridian Partner…The Kresge FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…C F Foundation IncPrinceton Area Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Amalgamated Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Low Income Investment FundCA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Low Income Investment Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Blue Meridian Partners Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · C F Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Purpose Built Communities Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Teen Warehouse Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Growing Together Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 62 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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