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Social Impact Fund

SIFs mission is to inspire efficient and accessible philanthropy.

$6.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
87
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$752k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$4.9MEducation$4.8MArts & Culture$3.4MEnvironment$2.2MHuman Services$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.1MPhilanthropy$900kPublic Safety & Disaster$837kOther$0
02FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 87 grants below total $4,209,157, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,367,447 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,158,290 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $870k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$30,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Latinos in Heritage Conservation$752,403
The Barack Obama Foundation$250,000
Good Eats for Life LLC$132,937
Global Philanthropy Partnership$100,000
Global Empowerment Mission$100,000
Rett Syndrome Research Fund$100,000
Criminal Justice Report Foundation$100,000
Project Healthy Minds$100,000
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$100,000
Connections for Children$100,000
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc$80,000
J Paul Getty Trust$75,000
Community Health Councils$75,000
4th Trimester$75,000
University of Southern CA$73,140
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: $25k → 16%Omaha Home for Boys: $10k → 12%Haitian Bridge Alliance: $7k → 10%Al Otro Lado: $7k → 11%Rise Above Poverty: $10k → 14%Joyful Heart Foundation: $10k → 20%Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat: $6k → 17%American Friends of Un TECHO Para Mi Pais: $41k → 15%Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islander Grant: $7k → 10%Freedom Reads Inc: $15k → 12%Youth Villages Foundation: $11k → 17%The Tender Foundation: $50k → 13%Emanuel Project Inc: $50k → 7%Springboard to Opportunities: $50k → 23%Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous People: $25k → 14%Pillars of the Community: $10k → 11%The Smile Trust: $15k → 15%The Tender Foundation: $50k → 13%Springboard to Opportunities: $50k → 23%Pillars of the Community: $7k → 11%The Gathering for Justice: $7k → 17%Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund: $50k → 13%United Community Centers: $25k → 20%Georgia Resilience & Opportunity Fund: $50k → 13%Mission Edge San Diego: $30k → 11%AAPI Women Lead: $10k → 10%Tides Center-Zealous: $45k → 10%Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice: $8k → 10%Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice: $7k → 10%Covenant House: $19k → 17%Para Los Ninos: $135k → 14%Jacaranda Foundation: $63k → 17%Manifest Works: $15k → 14%Jenesse Center Inc: $25k → 14%The Gathering for Justice: $8k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Program: $50k → 17%Al Otro Lado: $10k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $150k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $100k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $70k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $30k → 14%Childcare Alliance of Los Angeles: $15k → 14%Edward Charles Foundation: $20k → 14%Connections for Children: $100k → 14%Pathways LA: $15k → 14%Go Campaign: $12k → 14%4th Trimester: $75k → 14%Go Campaign: $11k → 14%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

ME
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $2.1M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$2.0M · 96% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: Home of Hope Mchinji Orphanage · Support of Staff at Mercy James Medical Center · Support Mercy James Paediatric Surgery Center

East Asia and the Pacific$70k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Support LAROI Foundation

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$25k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Shelter Equipment

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Social Impact Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Social Impact Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 61 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
121

Total granted

$15M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+12%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentHealthEducationOther
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

  • CT
    COLLEGE TRACK
    5× · 2019–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +105%
  • FR
    FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +5%
  • AC
    ACCELERATE CHANGE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +495%

Funded once

  • GF
    GROUNDED FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $400k · 43% of their budget
  • OO
    ONLY ONE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +627%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $254k · revenue +18%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
7
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Daves Killer Bread Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

244 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. 244 of the 253 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
237/244
Grantees still filing
128/244
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLLEGE TRACK: $2,800,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,079,051 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $269,190 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $259,645 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $253,750 · Education+12 more: $488,805 · Education+12 moreLatinos In Heritage Conservation: $1,317,403 · Arts & CultureLatinos In Her…Notes For Notes Inc: $600,000 · Arts & CultureNotes For Note…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBA…NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WRITI…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $128,700 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $633,708 · Arts & Culture+13 moreFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $2,118,311 · HealthFAMILY REACH…COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC: $125,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $112,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $100,000 · HealthTHE MAULI OLA FOUNDATION DBA BREATH OF LIFE: $100,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $100,000 · Health+6 more: $135,000 · HealthGROUNDED FOUNDATION INC: $400,302 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $400,000 · EnvironmentONLY ONE INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $155,000 · EnvironmentFUNGI FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $117,531 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Alliance: $100,000 · EnvironmentSARARA INSTITUTE: $65,000 · Environment+6 more: $232,144 · EnvironmentSHRM FOUNDATION INC: $470,000 · PhilanthropyTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $250,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 · PhilanthropyGreg Carr Foundation Inc: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BRIDGE PROJECT INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGVNGorg: $100,000 · PhilanthropySMITH ENTERTAINMENT GROUP FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $189,389 · PhilanthropyEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $370,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $155,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $135,152 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 · Human ServicesTENDER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA RESILIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY FUND DBA THE GRO FUND: $100,000 · Human Services4TH TRIMESTER INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesJACARANDA FOUNDATION INC: $62,524 · Human Services+24 more: $535,699 · Human ServicesHUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $1,532,044 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $126,390 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $800,000 · OtherACCELERATE CHANGE INCWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $325,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC: $310,000 · Other+84 more: $5,472,545 · Other+84 more
Education$5,150,441Arts & Culture$3,129,811Health$2,790,811Environment$1,894,977Philanthropy$1,759,389Human Services$1,733,375Public Safety & Disaster$1,683,434Other$6,907,545

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $2,800,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $2,118,311 over 3y, 17% of budgetHUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $1,532,044 over 3y, 37% of budgetLatinos In Heritage Conservation: $1,317,403 over 2y, 72% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,079,051 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $800,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNotes For Notes Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetSHRM FOUNDATION INC: $470,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGROUNDED FOUNDATION INC: $400,302 over 1y, 43% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $370,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $325,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC: $310,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $269,190 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $259,645 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $253,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORT AND FEED INC: $215,680 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUSA Track & Field Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE: $180,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $178,778 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIFT INC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY: $155,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $155,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT DATA & EVENTS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetASCENT SOCCER USA: $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $135,152 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD EATS FOR LIFE LLC: $132,937 over 1y, 68% of budgetURBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC: $129,140 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $128,700 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $126,390 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS HOLISTIC DEFENDERS INCORPORATED: $125,764 over 1y, 17% of budgetUNSW & STUDY ABROAD - FRIENDS AND US ALUMNI INC: $125,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetFUNGI FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFeeding America: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreg Carr Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $117,531 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVES KILLER BREAD FOUNDATION: $114,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $112,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $103,327 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $100,000 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Liberty Hill FoundationCA40.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Tides Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Centre for Wildlife Studies Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
  • Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
42report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Social Impact Fund?

Find your warmest path to Social Impact Fund 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 253 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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