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Social Finance Inc

Social finance builds innovative partnerships and investments that realign systems to measurably improve lives.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$692k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Employment$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHealth$803kHuman Services$632kEducation$50kScience & Tech$33k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $1,142,777 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,784,668 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $641,891 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$417,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$194M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TREAC$692,486
Merit America$417,600
Unidos$32,691
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $647k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%Merit America: $418k → 14%Merit America: $115k → 14%MERIT AMERICA: $65k → 14%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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
DC
AL
TX

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 24% of Social Finance 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.

Social Finance 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 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.

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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
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
4
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
5
The Computing Research Association Inc

The specific purposes of the corporation include the following:a.) to consider and act on general problems regarding computer science and computer engineering research and graduate education;b.) to foster interaction between the university…

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Code to Work Inc

An employer-led initiative aimed at transforming the hiring process. we use a skills-based approach to identify, train and hire talent. the traditional credentials-based focus must evolve to give all qualified job seekers a chance to prove…

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7
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
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Cna Corporation

Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…

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9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
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NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Propel America and the most unlike its peers is Npower Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,537

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.

05the grantee network

23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,290,647 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropie…INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY — $300,000 · PhilanthropyINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UN…MCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE — $930,000 · Community ImprovementMCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNI…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $212,504 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS …+1 more — $17,750 · Community ImprovementPER SCHOLAS INC — $506,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INCSkill Growth — $190,000 · EmploymentSkill GrowthJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $114,881 · EmploymentJOBS FOR THE FUTUR…CLIMB HIRE INC — $59,000 · EmploymentCLIMB HIRE INCINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EmploymentWTIA WORKFORCE INSTITUTE — $34,000 · Employment+2 more — $32,102 · EmploymentTUSCALOOSA RESEARCH & EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT CORPORATION — $692,486 · HealthTUSCALOOSA RES…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE — $110,233 · HealthCENTRAL CALIFO…MERIT AMERICA — $597,400 · Human ServicesMERIT AMERICAiFoster Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesiFoster IncTIDES CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERPAYOR ALLIANCE FOR VETERANS EMPLOYMENT LLC — $450,000 · OtherPAYOR ALLIANC…GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC — $70,000 · OtherGLOBAL TECHNO…MEDCERTS LLC — $67,000 · OtherMEDCERTS LLCUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $50,504 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF…AUSTIN CAREER INSTITUTE — $34,000 · OtherUNIDOSUS — $32,691 · OtherLORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $25,000 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherPROPEL AMERICA — $51,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $25,012 · Education
Philanthropy$1,590,647Community Improvement$1,160,254Employment$985,983Health$802,719Human Services$747,400Other$739,195Education$76,012

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 budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,290,647 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMCKINLEYVILLE COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE — $930,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTUSCALOOSA RESEARCH & EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT CORPORATION — $692,486 over 1y, 64% of budgetMERIT AMERICA — $597,400 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $506,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY — $300,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $212,504 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSkill Growth — $190,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC — $114,881 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA ASTHMA COLLABORATIVE — $110,233 over 1y, 21% of budgetiFoster Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGLOBAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMB HIRE INC — $59,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROPEL AMERICA — $51,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWTIA WORKFORCE INSTITUTE — $34,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIDOSUS — $32,691 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC — $25,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNPOWER INC — $17,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGTIA INVESTMENTS NFP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCREATING CODING CAREERS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Skillup CoalitionAscendium Education S…Workday FoundationFidelity Non-Profit M…Tides CenterTides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Skillup CoalitionCA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Skillup Coalition · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Workday Foundation · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Social Finance 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
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no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report 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

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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