How much did SISTERSONG INC grant in FY2024?

SISTERSONG INC reported 24 grants totaling $1,244,206 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

SISTERSONG INC

To strengthen and amplify the collective voices of indigenous women and women of color to achieve reproductive justice (rj) by eradicating reproductive oppression and securing human rights.

$1.2M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$65k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of SISTERSONG INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

fiscalactiondaughtersblack liveslives mattersouthleadership

2022

bmma

2023

doulalactationdocumentationmaternalstreamlinemedicaidreimbursement

2024

getpodcasttranslations existingexisting materialsmaterials spanishspanish maybemaybe french

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$50k–250k21 grants · $1.1M

$50,200

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants

BLACK MAMAS MATTER ALLIANCE (BMMA)$65,206
IOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE$50,200
TOPEKA DOULA PROJECT INC$50,200
MUJER DE LA TIERRA$50,200
KULUNTU REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE CENTER$50,200
COMUNIDAD MATERNA EN UTAH$50,200
COMMUNITY BIRTH COMPANION$50,200
THE BLACK COUNSELING & CONSULTING COLLECTIVE$50,200
FOR THE VILLAGE INC$50,200
FEMINIST WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER$50,200
SIX DIMENSIONS$50,200
PEA POD NUTRITION AND LACTATION SUPPORT$50,200
ATLANTA DOULA COLLECTIVE INC$50,200
BLKBRY$50,200
BIRTH SANCTUARY GAINESVILLE$50,200

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 37% of SISTERSONG INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 60% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

SISTERSONG INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.4M · 20 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+95%

Still filing today

70%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

BM
BLACK MAMAS MATTER ALLIANCE
2× · 2023–2024 · $385k · revenue +48%
REALE JUSTICE NETWORK (ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE FS)
3× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +82%
PP
PEA POD NUTRITION AND LACTATION SUPPORT
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +59% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

BM
BLACK MAMAS MATTER ALLIANCE
one grant, 2022 · $2.8M
WW
WOMEN WITH A VISION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue +345%
SO
SHADES OF DIVNITY FISCAL SPONSOR FOR BLKBRY
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

Southern Birth Justice Network

To provide midwife services and make the care accessible to all peoples - especially black, born, youth, immigrant, indigenous, lgbtq+, low income and other marginalized communities.

Human Services

Black Women Birthing Justice Inc

Bwbj is a grass-roots collective out of oakland, ca. we identify as black women and individuals across the african diaspora and are committed to transforming birthing experiences for black women and birthing people

Health

Black Birth Justice Inc

Advocating for maternal health rights and providing superior support for postpartum persons. Our vision is to combat the Maternal and Infant mortality rate . Our focus is to protect the birthing people of the Black community with…

Health

Birthworkers of Color Collective

Support marginalized communities by providing full spectrum doula services that are accessible and inclusive.

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Global Perinatal Services

To create culturally responsive pregnancy and parenting experience for Black, immigrant, and refugee families.

Human Services

Black Feminist Future Inc

The Organization is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation.

Arts & Culture

The Center for Black Health and Equity

Health

Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective

Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective is a free and charitable clinic and social safety net. Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective serves Black pregnant and parenting mamas, their babies and children through community-based, holistic…

Health

Project Say Something

To confront anti-Black systems and ideologies, promote reproductive justice, and fight against patriarchal violence using education, community empowerment and advocacy.

Civil Rights

Blackfem Inc

Blackfem partners with the nation's most forward-thinking governmental bodies and activists to reimagine wealth building opportunities for black women.

Human Services

International Black Womens Public Policy Institut

Our mission is to work in the US and internationally to convene hearings and discussions to evaluate the impact of current public policies, and to initiate new policies that address the major threats to the well-being of Black women and…

Philanthropy

In Our Own Voice National Black Women's

In our own voice: national black women's reproductive justice agenda is national organization designed to amplify and lift up the voices of black women at the national and regional levels in our ongoing fight to secure reproductive justice…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Women for Wellness and the most unlike its peers is Shades of Divinity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 11. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3/55

the rest of the field

16%

9,178/58,246

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/46

Grantees still filing

35/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,039,080Health$977,306Education$295,600Human Services$268,800Civil Rights$261,800International$203,400Arts & Culture$132,900

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

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.

Groundswell FundCA38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Groundswell Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc

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 organisation SISTERSONG INC 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ATLANTA DOULA COLLECTIVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843626097 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ATLANTA DOULA COLLECTIVE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sistersong Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sistersong Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SISTERSONG INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sistersong Inc?

More from the funding graph

SISTERSONG INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sistersong Inc?

More from the funding graph