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Strive Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$224
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$224
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.

Health$1.1MEducation$36k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$224
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARRY UNIVERSITY$224
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $653 → 7%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES: $3k → 14%BARRY UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.1M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $3k → 27%PERDUE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $6k → 18%US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $2k → 10%BARRY UNIVERSITY: $224 → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $884 → 15%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 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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
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Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
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St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

16 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. 16 of the 19 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)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Michigan — $1,127,450 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+3 more — $8,111 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,806 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $2,922 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $2,693 · EducationBARRY UNIVERSITY INC — $2,524 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $1,895 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $1,704 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,144 · EducationUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $1,100 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $1,084 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $1,004 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami — $884 · Education+2 more — $1,253 · EducationASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $2,500 · Public Benefit
Other$1,135,561Education$25,013Public Benefit$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,806 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $2,922 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $2,693 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC — $2,524 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $1,895 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $1,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,144 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $1,084 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $1,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $884 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $653 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $600 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Strive Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College2% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Strive Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Strive Foundation 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 19 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-PF 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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