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Reverb Inc

Deeply rooted within the music and environmental communities, reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans to take action toward a more sustainable future.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
119
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.5MPublic Benefit$702kPhilanthropy$634kFood & Nutrition$390kArts & Culture$308kHealth$229kHousing & Shelter$206kInternational$196kOther$0
02FY2025 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 119 grants below total $3,569,867, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,951,804 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $381,937 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k93 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $2.2M
$11,400
Median grant
29
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RE-VOLV$230,100
NATIVE RENEWABLES INC$158,565
HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND$145,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC$145,000
LAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM$145,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$145,000
PLANET REIMAGINED INC$145,000
SUPPORT AND FEED$145,000
CAPTAIN PLANET FOUNDATION$145,000
THE SOLUTIONS PROJECT$145,000
GRID ALTERNATIVES$129,593
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION$117,635
AMERICAN FORESTS$106,110
URBAN TILTH$103,972
CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FDN(BAMAWO$84,868
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MN COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 14%GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%THE NONPROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: $12k → 13%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $9k → 6%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $13k → 10%ZEALOUS EMPOWERING NURTURER: $11k → 10%GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $26k → 10%LOVE LIGHT AND MELODY: $19k → 12%ALMOST HOME CHICAGO: $5k → 14%HELP OF SOUTHERN NV: $5k → 13%PROJECT ROPA: $11k → 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

WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 42 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 92 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
49

Total granted

$3.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+2%

Still filing today

98%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
EnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEducationOther
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

  • HC
    HEAD COUNT INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $684k · revenue +533%
  • SF
    SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $328k · revenue +1%
  • UT
    Urban Tilth
    4× · 2022–2025 · $263k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • S
    SOULARDARITY
    one grant, 2022 · $312k · revenue +7%
  • The Ocean Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $158k · revenue -30%
  • TA
    THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $143k · revenue +45%
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
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
2
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
6
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
7
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
8
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
9
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
10
Green Cities Accord

Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…

Environment
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund. 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

178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 185 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)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/178
Grantees still filing
82/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION: $327,635 · EnvironmentSOUND FUTURE FOUNDATIONSOULARDARITY: $311,760 · EnvironmentSOULARDARITYUrban Tilth: $262,972 · EnvironmentUrban TilthRE-VOLV: $230,100 · EnvironmentRE-VOLVSolutions Project Inc: $172,500 · EnvironmentSolutions Project IncThe Ocean Foundation: $157,525 · EnvironmentThe Ocean FoundationPLANET REIMAGINED INC: $155,471 · EnvironmentPLANET REIMAGINED INCCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $145,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $132,500 · EnvironmentGRID ALTERNATIVES: $129,593 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $106,110 · Environment+43 more: $723,558 · Environment+43 moreCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $861,649 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTESVILL…THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $143,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AFFORDABLE…D'ADDARIO FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $15,942 · PhilanthropyHEAD COUNT INC: $683,626 · Civil RightsHEAD COUNT…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $35,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $42,448 · Civil Rights+2 moreNATIVE RENEWABLES INC: $255,698 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $173,546 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC: $66,808 · Arts & CultureThe Jerry Garcia Foundation: $46,301 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $35,843 · Arts & CultureCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $145,000 · OtherCaptain Planet Foundation …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $86,000 · OtherLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM: $145,000 · OtherLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT …NEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $84,865 · OtherHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $145,000 · OtherHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION F…+79 more: $1,322,638 · Other+79 moreSUPPORT AND FEED INC: $160,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $46,301 · Food & NutritionSHARING EXCESS: $31,000 · Food & NutritionSEVA FOUNDATION INC: $18,492 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $17,833 · Food & NutritionWEDONTWASTE INC: $17,700 · Food & NutritionLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $16,833 · Food & Nutrition+15 more: $154,666 · Food & NutritionGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $145,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $131,254 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $55,000 · InternationalOne Drop Foundation Inc: $53,340 · InternationalLEAVING A POSITIVE LEGACY INC: $38,515 · International+4 more: $39,210 · International
Environment$2,854,724Philanthropy$1,065,591Civil Rights$761,074Arts & Culture$578,196Other$1,928,503Food & Nutrition$462,825International$462,319

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 budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $861,649 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHEAD COUNT INC: $683,626 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetSOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION: $327,635 over 3y, 19% of budgetSOULARDARITY: $311,760 over 1y, 25% of budgetUrban Tilth: $262,972 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNATIVE RENEWABLES INC: $255,698 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $173,546 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $172,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORT AND FEED INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $157,525 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLANET REIMAGINED INC: $155,471 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $145,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $145,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY FUND: $143,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $132,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $131,254 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Forests: $106,110 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEANA INC: $88,902 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $86,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ALPHA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $84,865 over 1y, 15% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $66,808 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFurthur Foundation: $61,882 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetREX FOUNDATION: $61,270 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $55,513 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Drop Foundation Inc: $53,340 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetRainforest Action Network: $46,301 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $46,301 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OWSLEY STANLEY FOUNDATION: $46,301 over 4y, 15% of budgetThe Jerry Garcia Foundation: $46,301 over 4y, 23% of budgetD'ADDARIO FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $44,459 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $42,433 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEAVING A POSITIVE LEGACY INC: $38,515 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHAWAII ALLIANCE FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION: $38,515 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMGVP INC Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: $38,082 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING EXCESS: $31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH: $30,740 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHeart and Armor Foundation: $30,740 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $30,740 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $30,740 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Forecastle Foundation Inc: $30,121 over 3y, 11% of budgetFront and Centered: $26,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $26,218 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $26,079 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Marin Community Found…Amalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundActivist Foundation I…Pledgeling FoundationFamily Promise IncPatagoniaorgImpactassetsincTides FoundationAnalog Devices Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…American Express Foun…
Marin Community FoundationCA15.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Activist Foundation Inc · Pledgeling Foundation · Family Promise Inc · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Express Foundation

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 Reverb Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reverb Inc. 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 2%
  • Tulsa Day Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report 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 185 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 2025, released 2025. 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