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Strive International Inc

STRIVEs purpose is to ensure that everyone can achieve upward mobility and financial empowerment for themselves and their families.

$633k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$351k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$12M
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $282k
  • $250k+1 grant · $351k
$109,734
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Career Resources Inc$351,191
RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC$109,734
San Diego Second Change$87,720
JEVS HUMAN SERVICES$84,290
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $798k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $411k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $221k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $139k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $27k → 19%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 13 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$12M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+32%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EmploymentHealthCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CAREER RESOURCES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +192%
  • JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
  • JH
    JEVS HUMAN SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PN
    PROSPERITY NOW
    one grant, 2019 · $21k · revenue +5%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • NW
    NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +32%
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
Workforce Alliance Inc

Provide job training through various programs.

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2
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
3
The Work Group Inc

The work group provides at-risk youth in transition to adulthood with the resources they need to become self-directed, self-sufficient individuals and productive, responsible members of their families and communities.

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4
Leveled Up Re-Entry

To promote collaborative services to our participants returning to free society through accountibility and accessibilty, while developing strategies in their individual lives to "strive and thrive" by offering a "net" that "works" of…

Crime & Legal
5
Achieveability

Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families

Housing & Shelter
6
Cobbworks Inc

To promote employment and education opportunities that strengthen the workforce and economic development in our community.

Employment
7
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc

We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.

Employment
8
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
9
Fedcap Rehabilitation Services Inc

Our mission is to create opportunities for people with barriers to economic well-being.

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10
Urban League of Louisiana

To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.

Human Services
11
Career Path Services Employment and Training

Career path services is a workforce development and human services nonprofit corporation.

Employment
12
The Osborne Association Inc

The association's purpose is to provide services to defendants, incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people and their families: to provide alternatives to incarceration; to provide job training and job placement; to provide reentry…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jevs Human Services; the most unlike its peers is The Workforce Institute's City College. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $2,509,671 · EmploymentSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAMCAREER RESOURCES INC: $2,310,530 · EmploymentCAREER RESOURCES INCTHE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC: $208,726 · Employment+1 more: $7,800 · EmploymentWESTCHESTER COUNTY PARKS RECREATION & CONSERVATION: $1,300,435 · OtherWESTCHESTER COUNTY PARKS REC…JEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $874,823 · OtherJEVS HUMAN SERVICESThe Workforce Institute's City College: $522,899 · OtherThe Workforce Institute's Ci…LIFE of North Carolina: $408,917 · OtherLIFE of North Carolina+1 more: $9,091 · OtherJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $1,143,215 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE RE…Public Health Management Corporation: $793,189 · HealthPublic He…A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $263,437 · HealthA SAFE HA…FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $871,667 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $798,104 · Human ServicesRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $389,979 · Youth DevelopmentPROSPERITY NOW: $20,733 · Community Improvement
Employment$5,036,727Other$3,116,165Crime & Legal$1,143,215Health$1,056,626Public Safety & Disaster$871,667Human Services$798,104Youth Development$389,979Community Improvement$20,733

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $2,509,671 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC: $2,310,530 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $1,143,215 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEVS HUMAN SERVICES: $874,823 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $871,667 over 4y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $798,104 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetPublic Health Management Corporation: $793,189 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Workforce Institute's City College: $522,899 over 2y, 17% of budgetLIFE of North Carolina: $408,917 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $389,979 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION: $263,437 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC: $208,726 over 2y, 14% of budgetPROSPERITY NOW: $20,733 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC: $7,800 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CAREER RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Public Health Management Corporation ↗
  • Who funds The Workforce Institute's City College ↗
  • Who funds LIFE of North Carolina ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds A SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSPERITY NOW ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORKFORCE DIRECTIONS INC ↗

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.

Enterprise Holdings F…Local Initiatives Sup…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO10.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Strive International Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strive International Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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