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Social Impact Commons Inc

Social impact commons, inc is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to providing communities with structures and systems for equitable access to the reources they need to build a just and flourishing society.

$271k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$271k
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 FY20202024.

Community Improvement$541kArts & Culture$186kPublic Safety & Disaster$48kCrime & Legal$12k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$270,704
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY BUILDERS HUB$270,704
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUST: $93k → 22%EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE: $12k → 10%THEATRE BAY AREA: $12k → 10%LOCAL COLOR: $12k → 20%COMMUNITY BUILDERS HUB: $271k → 13%CULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUST: $47k → 22%EASTSIDE ARTS ALLIANCE: $12k → 10%THEATRE BAY AREA: $12k → 10%Community Builders Hub: $271k → 13%CULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUST: $11k → 22%DANCER'S GROUP: $12k → 10%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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$740k · 4 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$740k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CB
    COMMUNITY BUILDERS HUB
    2× · 2023–2024 · $541k · revenue +131% · 100% of their budget
  • CE
    CULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUST
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue -97% · 100% of their budget
  • EA
    EastSide Arts Alliance
    2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • LC
    LOCAL COLORS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +51%
  • DG
    DANCERS GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +25%
  • LC
    Local Colorgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +116%

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
Dc Theater Arts Collaborative

The DC Theater Arts Collaborative provides financial and other assistance to small and emerging nonprofit theater companies in the Washington DC metropolitan area and elsewhere. Its goal is to provide a home for the arts in Washington DC…

2
Contemporary Art Group

To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.

Arts & Culture
3
Artist Trust

Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.

Arts & Culture
4
California Arts Advocates

California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.

Arts & Culture
5
World Arts West

Founded in 1978, World Arts West is a nationally-recognized leader in advocating for cultural arts communities. Serving the largest multicultural dance and music network in the United States, we are a wraparound cultural artist service…

Arts & Culture
6
CultureWorks Inc

CultureWorks is committed to its mission: strengthening artists and arts and culture organizations to increase their impact in our region.

7
Community Center for the Arts

To connect our creative community by providing a dedicated campus, supporting excellent programming, and nurturing a collaborative spirit.

Arts & Culture
8
Artopolis Development

ArtBuilt is a solutions-focused nonprofit that builds new systems of support for artists based on access to affordable real estate, asset building and deeply reciprocal relationships with local communities.

Arts & Culture
9
Community Arts & Empowerment

Through community engagement, we help identify the values of a neighborhood and the visual aesthetics of its members. we seek out local artists to assist in the design of local community-based public art work and we facilitate community…

Arts & Culture
10
South Jersey Cultural Alliance

The South Jersey Cultural Alliance fosters an inclusive community of art, history, cultural organizations, artists and tradition bearers in the eight southern counties of New Jersey.

Arts & Culture
11
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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(402) Arts Collective

Cultivating a vibrant network of artists who create community and impact culture.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Bay Area and the most unlike its peers is EastSide Arts Alliance. 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

8 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY BUILDERS HUB — $541,334 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY BUILDERS HUB+1 more — $12,000 · Community ImprovementCULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUST — $150,480 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUSTEastSide Arts Alliance — $24,000 · Arts & CultureEastSide Arts AllianceTheatre Bay Area — $24,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Bay AreaDANCERS GROUP — $12,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROUPIndependent Arts & Media — $12,000 · Arts & CultureIndependent Arts & MediaLOCAL COLORS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA INC — $12,000 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$553,334Arts & Culture$222,480Crime & Legal$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS HUB — $541,334 over 2y, 100% of budgetCULTURAL EQUITY REALTY TRUST — $150,480 over 3y, 100% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance — $24,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTheatre Bay Area — $24,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLOCAL COLORS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetDANCERS GROUP — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLocal Color — $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Kenneth Rainin FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kenneth Rainin Foundation

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 Impact Commons 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Social Impact Commons Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Social Impact Commons 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4k 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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