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Resource Impact

Resource Impact tackles 21st-century social challenges by helping today's progressive leaders learn from the past, plan for the future, and execute on strategies that bring about beneficial social change.

$300k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

76% of Resource Impact’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Global Impact, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Resource Impact named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $300k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’18
2
’19
1
’22
1
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

International$886kCrime & Legal$743kCivil Rights$573kPhilanthropy$298kArts & Culture$61kReligion$45kEducation$39k
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $224k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Latino Leadership$65,800
Center For Popular Democracy$45,000
The Raben Group$38,880
Latino Justice PRLDEF$30,000
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund$30,000
Iglesia Episcopal Jesus de Nazaret$25,000
SOS By Urbander$20,000
Calvario City Church$20,000
State Voices$15,000
El Paso Festivals Inc$7,500
The Blackhouse Foundation$3,000
02The need
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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 (FY22–22, $713k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Freedom Reads: $713k → 12%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.
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 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
Latino Political Network
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2
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
3
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
4
Factchequeado

Strengthening democracy and ensuring access to verified information in Spanish for the Latino communities living in the United States.

Arts & Culture
5
Project Pulso Inc

Our mission is to increase the political power of the projected 36 million eligible latino voters in the united states.

Civil Rights
6
Global Voice
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7
Latino Victory Project

To harness the power of the latino community, so that the voices and values of latinos are reflected in the policies that drive the country forward, and to bring meaningful attention and respect to the priorities of the latino community.

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8
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
9
Open Society Institute
Philanthropy
10
Voto Latino Foundation Inc

Voto latino foundation is a nonpartisan organization that educates and empowers a new generation of latino voters, ultimately guiding the latino community towards full realization of its civic power and creating a more robust and inclusive…

Civil Rights
11
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

We demand health, dignity, and justice for our communities. We center and amplify Latine voices as we work to transform oppressive systems and narratives and to reclaim control over our bodies and lives. We build power by organizing our…

Health
12
Latino Leadership Institute

By 2050, Latinos will comprise nearly 30 of the US population. Today and in the future, the demographic destiny of the U.S will be characterized by the growing Latino population. In fact, Latinos have an impact in all aspects of life. We…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mi Familia En Accion; the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Promote Open Society. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Global Impact: $886,167 · InternationalGlobal ImpactFREEDOM READS INC: $713,367 · Human ServicesFREEDOM READS INCGUNSDOWN INC: $396,997 · Civil RightsGUNSDOWN INCMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $30,000 · Civil RightsMI FAMILIA EN ACCI…STATE VOICES: $15,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY: $298,470 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION T…CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · OtherRaben Group: $38,880 · OtherIGLESIA EPISCOPAL JESUS DE NAZARET: $25,000 · OtherIGLESIA EL CALVARIO AG OF ORLANDO: $20,000 · OtherLATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF: $30,000 · OtherSOS BY URBANDER INC: $20,000 · OtherEl Paso Festivals Inc: $7,500 · OtherLATINO LEADERSHIP INC: $65,800 · Arts & CultureTHE BLACKHOUSE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $45,000 · Public Benefit
International$886,167Human Services$713,367Civil Rights$441,997Philanthropy$298,470Other$191,380Arts & Culture$68,800Public Benefit$45,000

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 budgetGlobal Impact: $886,167 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFREEDOM READS INC: $713,367 over 1y, 12% of budgetGUNSDOWN INC: $396,997 over 1y, 47% of budgetFOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY: $298,470 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO LEADERSHIP INC: $65,800 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTATE VOICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BLACKHOUSE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Hispanic Federation I…American Online Givin…
Hispanic Federation IncNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hispanic Federation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Resource Impact funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Resource Impact. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Resource Impact?

Find your warmest path to Resource Impact 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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