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ReflectUS

ReflectUS accelerates and maximizes the collective impact of change makers working to expand political leadership of, by, and for all women.

$831k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$305k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192022.

Public Benefit$1.6MCivil Rights$565kEducation$295kCommunity Improvement$223k
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $515k
  • $250k+1 grant · $305k
$70,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$387k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Represent Woman$305,000
She Should Run$92,000
National Hispanic leadership Agenda$72,500
Ignite$70,000
Asian Pacific American Institute$70,000
Higher Heights Leadership Fund$70,000
Vote Run Lead Inc$70,000
Women's Public Leadership Network$70,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $317k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%She Should Run: $92k → 14%She Should Run: $80k → 14%She Should Run: $75k → 14%She Should Run: $70k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
0

Total granted

$2.7M
$0

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • RI
    REPRESENTWOMEN INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $525k · revenue +352% · 37% of their budget
  • VR
    VOTE RUN LEAD INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $295k · revenue +154%
  • WP
    WOMEN'S PUBLIC LEADERSHIP NETWORK
    4× · 2019–2022 · $290k · revenue +4% · 38% of their budget

Funded once

    Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Your field

    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.

    1
    Leadership Women Inc

    Leadership Womens mission is to ensure womens full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life.

    Public Benefit
    2
    Independent Women's Forum

    Engage more individuals in the civic process, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals.

    Civil Rights
    3
    Bay Area Women Leader Network

    How Women Lead elevates diverse women in the corporate, public, philanthropic, and and nonprofit sectors by cultivating a robust network that trains and connects women executives who are catalysts in their fields. We collectively donate to…

    Human Services
    4
    Ayada Leads

    Ayada Leads is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that supports multicultural society, multicultural democracy, and gender equality. Our mission is to equip New Americans, particularly African Diaspora Women, to excel in…

    Human Services
    5
    League of Our Own Washington

    A league of our own is dedicated to finding talented women to run for office and provide them the tools, resources, training, and mentorship to be successful candidates and effective leaders.

    6
    Independent Women's Voice

    Engage more individuals in legislative advocacy, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals by giving them greater freedom and autonomy.

    Civil Rights
    7
    National Political Caucus Lead

    Develop women leaders

    Public Benefit
    8
    Voterunlead Action Inc

    Vote run lead action trains pro-democracy, anti-racist, and feminist women to address the long-standing underrepresentation of women in legislatures. as a nonpartisan but values-aligned and mission-driven body, vrla advocates for key…

    Community Improvement
    9
    World Pulse Voices

    World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

    Human Services
    10
    International Women's Democracy Center

    Iwdc was established to strengthen women's global leadership through training, education, networking and research with a focus on increasing the participation of women in politics, policy and decision making within their own communities.

    International
    11
    Women's Congressional Policy Institute

    WCPI's mission is to bring together a community of bipartisan women policymakers and trusted partners to advance issues of importance to women, develop the next generation of women leaders, and foster a more effective and representative…

    Social Science
    12
    The Policy Circle Co

    The policy circle is a national, nonpartisan organization that informs, equips, and connects women to be more impactful citizens and influential local leaders.(continued on schedule o) the policy circle's agile and flexible model has three…

    Social Science

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Public Leadership Network and the most unlike its peers is Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional. 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

    9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    3
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    7/9
    Grantees still filing
    4/9
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    REPRESENTWOMEN INC — $525,000 · Civil RightsREPRESENTWOMEN INCAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional — $285,000 · Civil RightsAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressionalHigher Heights Leadership Fund — $280,000 · Civil RightsHigher Heights Leadership FundIGNITE — $295,000 · EducationIGNITEWOMEN'S PUBLIC LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $290,000 · EducationWOMEN'S PUBLIC LEADERSHI…VOTE RUN LEAD INC — $295,000 · Community ImprovementVOTE RUN LEAD INCNATIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP AGENDA INC — $222,500 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL HISPANIC LEAD…SHE SHOULD RUN — $317,000 · Human ServicesSHE SHOULD RU…Empowered Women — $150,000 · Other
    Civil Rights$1,090,000Education$585,000Community Improvement$517,500Human Services$317,000Other$150,000

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetREPRESENTWOMEN INC — $525,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetSHE SHOULD RUN — $317,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetVOTE RUN LEAD INC — $295,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetIGNITE — $295,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetWOMEN'S PUBLIC LEADERSHIP NETWORK — $290,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional — $285,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund — $280,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP AGENDA INC — $222,500 over 4y, 51% of budget
    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.

    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.

    Panorama GlobalWA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Panorama Global · Barbara Lee Family Foundation Inc · Pivotal Philanthropies Foundation · Harnisch Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 ReflectUS 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.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      1get no government money at all
      2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY2025

      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.

      05Through Plinth

      Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

      How do I get to ReflectUS?

      Find your warmest path to ReflectUS through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

      Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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