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· Public charity

Sisters Network Inc

Promote breast cancer awareness and provide financial assistance to those affected by breast ancer.

$53k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Health$26kMembership Benefit$18kHuman Services$9kPhilanthropy$6kEducation$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $34,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $53,138 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,638 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.
$3,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$490k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SNI - TRIANGLE CHAPTER$3,500
SNI - READING CHAPTER$3,000
SNI SE WISCONSIN CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - MONTOMERY AL CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - NE FLORIDA CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - ESSEX COUNTY CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - CENTRAL VA CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - DETROIT CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - GREENSOBORO$3,000
SNI - NASHVILLE CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - SW GEORGIA CHAPTER$3,000
SNI - CHARLESTON$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SNI - READING CHAPTER: $3k → 11%SNI - CHARLESTON: $1k → 16%SISTERS NETWORK NORTHEAST FLORIDA: $3k → 14%SNI - DETROIT CHAPTER: $3k → 21%SNI - NASHVILLE CHAPTER: $3k → 14%SISTERS NETWORK INC SW GEORGIA: $3k → 10%SISTERS NETWORK INC PA CHAPTER: $3k → 11%SNI - NE FLORIDA CHAPTER: $3k → 14%SISTERS NETWORK DETROIT: $3k → 21%SNI - SW GEORGIA CHAPTER: $3k → 10%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

WI
MI
PA
NJ
VA
TN
NC
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43k · 7 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$43k
$15k

Still filing today

14%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23
HealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • SN
    SISTERS NETWORK TRIANGLE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • SS
    SNI SE WISCONSIN CHAPTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k
  • SN
    SISTERS NETWORK INC ALABAMA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k

Funded once

  • QP
    Queens Players Theatre Troupe
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
  • SN
    SISTERS NETWORK INC CENTRAL VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • SN
    SISTERS NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Queens Players Theatre Troupe: $6,065 · OtherQueens Players Theatre TroupeSNI SE WISCONSIN CHAPTER: $6,000 · OtherSNI SE WISCONSIN CHAPTERSISTERS NETWORK INC ALABAMA: $6,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK INC ALABAMASISTERS NETWORK: $6,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORKSISTERS NETWORK READING PA: $6,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK READING PASISTERS NETWORK INC SW GEORGIA: $6,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK INC SW GEORGIASISTERS NETWORK: $6,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORKSISTERS NETWORK: $3,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK INC CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $3,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK CENTRAL VIRGINIA IN: $3,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK: $3,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK: $3,000 · OtherSNI - GREENSOBORO: $3,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK: $3,000 · OtherSISTERS NETWORK TRIANGLE: $6,500 · HealthSISTERS NE…SISTERS NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$63,065Health$6,500Arts & Culture$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSISTERS NETWORK TRIANGLE: $6,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSISTERS NETWORK CENTRAL VIRGINIA IN: $3,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSISTERS NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SISTERS NETWORK TRIANGLE ↗
  • Who funds SISTERS NETWORK CENTRAL VIRGINIA IN ↗
  • Who funds SISTERS NETWORK INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sisters Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sisters Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Sisters Network Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sisters Network Inc 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $65k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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