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Solidago Foundation

The organization's mission is to promote justice, equity, sustainability and enfranchisement for all through charitable grant-making to and work with progressive, empowering community-based organizations and collaborations.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Civil Rights$3.7MPhilanthropy$2.9MCrime & Legal$2.4MCommunity Improvement$2.2MEmployment$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.9MEducation$702kScience & Tech$573kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $2,067,130 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,252,129 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $184,999 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–50k7 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $382k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC$1,475,233
SEE FORWARD FUND INC$100,000
CIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC$81,897
BLUEPRINT$50,000
BLUEPRINT$50,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT (ACE)$50,000
COMMON CAUSE$50,000
BLACK MALE INITIATIVE GEORGIA (BMIGA)$35,000
PROGEORGIA$35,000
CHISPA A PROGRAM OF LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$30,000
RURAL AZ ENGAGEMENT (RAZE)$30,000
GEORGIA STAND-UP$30,000
TRANS(FORMING)$25,000
TRANS(FORMING)$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $105k → 13%OPERATION RESTORATION: $17k → 28%MANO AMIGA: $25k → 10%LA PLAZITA INC: $15k → 14%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $25k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERAVOCES DE LA FRONTERAVOCES DE LA FRONTERAVOCES DE: $10k → 17%GREATER HARTFORD HARM REDUCTION COALITION INC: $5k → 11%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - ATL: $40k → 9%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $25k → 14%LATINO UNION INC: $15k → 14%COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI INC: $150k → 23%INDIGENOUS AMERICAS INSTITUTE OF LEGACY: $25k → 14%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $75k → 13%THE CLEMENCY COALITION OF NEW YORK: $25k → 28%ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $10k → 17%DURHAM PROUD PROGRAM INC: $15k → 11%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATL: $30k → 9%SACRED PURPOSES DBA IAMLEGACY: $10k → 14%JUSTICE FOR FAMILIES LTD: $25k → 28%WOMAN WITH A PLAN: $25k → 9%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $7k → 13%CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT & SOLIDARITY: $5k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTER INC: $5k → 16%ISUROON: $10k → 11%COALITION FOR THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA: $25k → 13%INSTITUTO LAB: $30k → 11%YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $10k → 10%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $88k → 17%TIDES FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $10k → 10%MOMS OF BLACK BOYS UNITED INC: $10k → 17%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $12k → 16%AFFECT REAL CHANGE: $15k → 10%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP: $5k → 16%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE NATIONAL: $10k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $5k → 10%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC: $5k → 16%CONSCIOUS VOICE COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 10%AFFECT REAL CHANGE: $8k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.3M · 85 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

85 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
151

Total granted

$9.3M
$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+81%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther

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

  • NF
    Neighborhood Funders Group
    4× · 2017–2022 · $861k · revenue +242%
  • WD
    WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT
    4× · 2017–2020 · $296k · revenue +13%
  • KI
    KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $292k · revenue +274%

Funded once

  • NEO Philanthropy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $703k · revenue +103%
  • TW
    THE WORKERS LAB
    one grant, 2018 · $573k
  • CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $538k · revenue +448% · 46% of their budget

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
3
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
4
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
5
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
6
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
7
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
8
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
9
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
10
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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11
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
12
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unapologetically Hers. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Mentoring ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsCommunity Foundations
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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%12%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%6/247
the rest of the field
13%
240,390/1,819,318

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.

04the grantee network

231 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 231 of the 253 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)
105
Early backer (in before they grew)
220/231
Grantees still filing
172/231
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEE FORWARD FUND INC — $1,550,000 · Civil RightsSEE FORWARD FUND INCPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $225,000 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE…FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER — $170,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $170,000 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $152,500 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $150,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $125,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $120,000 · Civil Rights+21 more — $849,000 · Civil Rights+21 moreNeighborhood Funders Group — $860,852 · OtherNeighborhood Funders GroupTHE WORKERS LAB — $572,775 · OtherTHE WORKERS LABCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $237,500 · OtherDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $207,500 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUNDCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC — $220,000 · Other+79 more — $2,937,000 · Other+79 moreCIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC — $1,557,130 · PhilanthropyCIRCLE FOR JUSTI…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $300,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Char…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $297,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNI…TIDES FOUNDATION — $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $157,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC — $537,628 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECON…KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $291,500 · Community ImprovementKOREAN IMMIGRAN…PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $217,500 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION…PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN — $214,000 · Community ImprovementPILIPINO WORKER…FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $162,500 · Community ImprovementFRANKLIN COUNTY…THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $150,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VALLEY …COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $130,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY VISIO…THE WORKING WORLD INC — $107,500 · Community ImprovementThe Workers Lab — $100,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $95,000 · Community Improvement+14 more — $414,500 · Community Improvement+14 moreBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $360,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT …WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $296,000 · EducationWORKERS DE…Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP — $182,000 · EducationChicago Wo…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $160,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOO…WE ARE DOWN HOME — $125,000 · EducationWE ARE DOW…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $66,000 · EducationSmartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy — $60,000 · Education+11 more — $317,000 · Education+11 moreNEO Philanthropy Inc — $702,647 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $160,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $85,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $70,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · Public Benefit+4 more — $118,000 · Public BenefitNew York Taxi Workers Alliance — $187,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI — $150,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $87,500 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesCAROLINA FEDERATION FUND — $50,000 · Human ServicesSACRED PURPOSES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS — $35,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $35,000 · Human Services+16 more — $311,500 · Human Services
Civil Rights$3,511,500Other$5,335,627Philanthropy$2,516,130Community Improvement$2,420,128Education$1,566,000Public Benefit$1,185,647Human Services$961,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC — $1,557,130 over 1y, 69% of budgetSEE FORWARD FUND INC — $1,550,000 over 6y, 55% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group — $860,852 over 4y, 14% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $702,647 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC — $537,628 over 1y, 46% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $360,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $297,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $296,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $291,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA — $237,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC — $220,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $217,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $207,500 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetNew York Taxi Workers Alliance — $187,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetChicago Workers' Collaborative NFP — $182,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetFE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER — $170,000 over 3y, 23% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC — $170,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT — $170,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $162,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $160,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA — $152,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR — $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI — $150,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $130,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $125,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $120,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WORKING WORLD INC — $107,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $100,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children — $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA — $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $95,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARIZONA DEMOCRACY RESOURCE CENTER — $90,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $87,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $85,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $84,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRESTORE OAKLAND INC — $80,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 3.1% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Proteus Fund IncBorealis PhilanthropyWindward FundTides CenterCommon Counsel Founda…Tides FoundationMarguerite Casey Foun…Social and Environmen…Movement Strategy Cen…New Venture Fund
NEO Philanthropy IncNY128.1× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Windward Fund · Tides Center · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Movement Strategy Center · New Venture 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 Solidago Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Franklin County Community Development Corporation — 22% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore — 1% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
56report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Solidago Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Solidago Foundation 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 253 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines