How much did SPECIAL PEOPLE IN NEED grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of SPECIAL PEOPLE IN NEED’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

2018

england

2019

camp

2020

—

2021

theatersouth

2022

horizons

2023

—

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

03FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k73 grants · $320k
$10k–50k2 grants · $55k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

SAMARITAN'S PURSE$35,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
DISABLED PATRIOTS FUND$7,000
CANINE SUPPORT TEAMS$6,500
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$6,500
ENCORE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES$6,500
CAN DO CANINES ASSISTANCE DOGS$6,500
PARAGON SRVICE DOGS$6,500
AMERICAN SAMARITANS$6,000
ROARING FORK YOUTH ORCHESTRA$6,000
CENTER FOR MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES$6,000
CATCHING THE DREAM$6,000
SUFFER OUT LOUD$5,400
FEED MY SHEEP$5,000
SMILE MASS INC$5,000

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 (FY17–24, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 65% 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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 108 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

108 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108

Total granted

$1.6M

$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+45%

Still filing today

51%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +134%
CT
CATCHING THE DREAM
8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +13%
AL
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +40%

Funded once

HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL
one grant, 2017 · $7k
BH
BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +75%
NH
NEW HORIZONS DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +72%

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.

Freedom Hooves Therapeutic Riding

Dedicated to improving the quality of life for anyone with a physical, mental, or emotional disability through therapeutic riding and hippotherapy.

Health

Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs & Strengths

Provide therapeutic horsemanship to disabled individuals.

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Developing Potential Inc

Operation of a Facility for training the severely handicapped to increase thier earning capabilities and to increase opportunities for health and wellness.

Employment

Abilities At Work

To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.

Employment

Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports

Center for Disabilities

Empowering people with disabilities to function as independently as possible and to be active, contributing members of society.

Human Services

Gaitway Therapeutic Horsemanship

Gaitway offers a journey toward independence through a variety of riding programs by implementingadaptive sports riding, interactive vaulting and equine facilitated therapy to empower those who have been challenged with disabilities,…

Human Services

Special Equestrians Inc

Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.

Human Services

Camp Horseability Inc

Therapeutic horseback riding programs for individuals with physical, mental and/or emotional needs.

Youth Development

Joyride Center Inc

Joyride center provides therapeutic horsemanship activities and therapies to improve the physical and cognitive conditions of people with disabilities ages 3 to adult.

Animals

Limitless Disability Services Inc

To create an enviornment where special needs individuals have the opportunity to for independence and growth. This is done by providing special needs adults a day program that fosters a safe, loving and inclusive environment.

Human Services

Pony Power Therapies Inc

Pony power therapies is a non-profit organization that uses horses and and accessible farm to enhance the physical, social and emotional well-being of children and adults who need extra support.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding and the most unlike its peers is Wellspring. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/103

the rest of the field

11%

206,162/1,819,462

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

96 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)

92/96

Grantees still filing

73/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,212,181Human Services$229,960Health$169,400Education$131,200Food & Nutrition$59,000Religion$45,000Recreation & Sports$38,500

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Town Pump Charitable FoundationMT16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Christopher Reeve Foundation · The Service Club of Chicago · Treacy Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Jolley Family Foundation · Goldenberg Max Tw M G Foundation · The Rieschel Foundation · Greater Gallatin United Way Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community 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 organisation SPECIAL PEOPLE IN NEED 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

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. 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: BORN DANCING.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 134168743 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 BORN DANCING, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
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 Special People in Need?

Find your warmest path to Special People in Need 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.

SPECIAL PEOPLE IN NEED

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Special People in Need?

More from the funding graph

SPECIAL PEOPLE IN NEED

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Special People in Need?

More from the funding graph