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SEARCH INSTITUTE mission is to cultivate strengths, relationships, and opportunities necessary for young people to learn, grow, contribute, and thrive.

$164k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$82k
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 FY20182022.

Education$1.1MYouth Development$301kPublic Benefit$219kEmployment$5k
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $122,757 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $164,343 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,586 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
$15,856
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$81,901
P16PLUS COUNCIL OF GREATER BEXAR COUNTY FOUNDATION INC$15,856
ALDINE SCHOOLS$15,000
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CITY YEAR: $126k → 16%THE SANNEH FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $124k → 10%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $135k → 16%GENERATION CITIZEN: $117k → 17%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $79k → 16%ALDINE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA: $45k → 13%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%CAMP FIRE: $114k → 15%YOUTHBUILD USA: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $14k → 13%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING: $98k → 15%CITY YEAR: $61k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $82k → 10%GENERATION CITIZEN: $68k → 17%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $77k → 16%ALDINE SCHOOLS: $15k → 16%CAMP FIRE: $85k → 15%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING: $84k → 15%CITY YEAR: $39k → 16%GENERATION CITIZEN: $34k → 17%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $30k → 16%CAMP FIRE: $26k → 15%NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING: $44k → 15%COMMUNITY SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO: $10k → 16%CAMP FIRE: $10k → 15%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS SAN ANTONIO: $8k → 16%P16PLUS COUNCIL OF GREATER BEXAR COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $16k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
MO
KY
VA
KS
TX
FL

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 6 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$214k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+100%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    CAMP FIRE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $235k · revenue +2%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $225k · revenue +160%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $225k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $135k
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Americagraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue +197%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue -14%

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
Citizen Schools Inc

In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Central Texas

Communities in schools of central texas (cisct) ensures students have holistic support, removing academic and nonacademic barriers to their success in school.

Education
3
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
4
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

5
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
Communities in Schools

Surround students with a community of support and empower them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
8
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
9
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Council of Chief State School Officers

Ccsso through leadership, advocacy and service, assists chief state school officers and their organizations in achieving the vision of an american education system that enables all children to succeed in school, work, and life.

Education
12
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Youthbuild Coalition Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC — $225,372 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INCVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $206,176 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $203,567 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO+2 more — $29,756 · EducationCITY YEAR INC — $224,999 · OtherCITY YEAR INCPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $135,006 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYAldine Independent School District — $55,000 · OtherAldine Independent School Distric…Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $45,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Of Ameri…+2 more — $15,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE — $235,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIREGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $219,195 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INC+1 more — $5,000 · Youth Development
Education$664,871Other$475,005Youth Development$459,195

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMP FIRE — $235,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC — $225,372 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $224,999 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $219,195 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $206,176 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SAN ANTONIO — $203,567 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc — $15,856 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $13,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS YOUTHBUILD COALITION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Search 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America21% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–60%
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.

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 14 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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