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StriveTogether Inc

We partner with communities to ensure every child has every chance to succeed because race, ethnicity, poverty and circumstance should not determine opportunity or outcome.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$2.4M
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$48MPhilanthropy$24MYouth Development$15MEmployment$4.9MHuman Services$2.2MHealth$1.9MCivil Rights$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+18 grants · $16M
$450,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Seeding Success$2,400,000
Learn to Earn Dayton$1,450,000
E3 Alliance$1,275,000
Partners for Rural Impact Inc$1,250,000
Promise Partnership of Salt Lake Utah's Promise$1,250,000
Commit Partnership$1,125,000
Rocky MountainAdams County Youth Initiative$1,000,000
Good Reason Houston$1,000,000
Fund for Educational Excellence$1,000,000
Impact Tulsa$1,000,000
Marin Promise Partnership$905,000
UP PartnershipP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County$700,000
Spartanburg Academic Movement$550,000
Education Partnerships Greater Twin Cities United Way$450,000
Delta Health Alliance Inc$250,000
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 (FY20–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Uptogether: $50k → 9%The Zone ProjectNortheast Community Center Association: $18k → 12%Thrive Chicago: $350k → 14%The Children's Aid Society: $150k → 17%The Zone ProjectNortheast Community Center Association: $15k → 12%Thrive Chicago: $350k → 14%South Bronx Rising TogetherThe Children's Aid Society: $150k → 17%Better Together Central Oregon: $250k → 10%Thrive Chicago: $350k → 14%Better Together Central Oregon: $200k → 10%Thrive Chicago: $30k → 14%Better Together Central Oregon: $50k → 10%Thrive Chicago: $27k → 14%Thrive Chicago: $7k → 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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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 10% of StriveTogether Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

StriveTogether Inclessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87M · 56 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
24

Total granted

$87M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+19%

Still filing today

95%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • SS
    SEEDING SUCCESS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue ×21
  • C
    COMMIT2DALLAS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +335%
  • LT
    LEARN TO EARN DAYTON
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +287% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • KA
    KENOSHA AREA BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +57% · 36% of their budget
  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +94%
  • YI
    Youth Invest Partners Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -69%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Greater Toledo

United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.

Philanthropy
4
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
5
The Attainment Network

The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.

Education
6
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
8
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
9
San Antonio Education Fund Dba San Antonio Education Partnership

The partnership empowers students with quality educational programs, resources and counseling that will make them confident, knowledgeable and help them finish college and contribute to san antonio's future, making the students san…

Education
10
United Way of Washington County Maryland Inc

Through strategic leadership and investments, united way of washington county, md will impact community improvement and inspire collaboration to address critical needs in education, income and health.

Philanthropy
11
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

—
12
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Funding Project; the most unlike its peers is Harlem Renaissance Education Pipeline. 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

93 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. 93 of the 100 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/93
Grantees still filing
58/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMIT2DALLAS: $5,893,350 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $5,675,454 · EducationLEARN TO EARN DAYTONE3 ALLIANCE: $5,044,476 · EducationE3 ALLIANCESPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $3,619,888 · EducationSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENTPartners for Rural Impact Inc: $3,395,000 · EducationPartners for Rural Impact IncFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $3,375,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTSFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $3,373,008 · EducationFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INCP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc: $3,125,534 · EducationP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation IncImpactTulsa Inc: $2,360,000 · EducationALL HANDS RAISED: $2,181,000 · Education+22 more: $13,278,668 · Education+22 moreUTAH'S PROMISE: $5,417,964 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PROMISEGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $3,060,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED …GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,905,183 · PhilanthropyGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATIO…UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC: $2,600,510 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY…Boston Foundation Inc: $2,034,964 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $1,340,200 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND W…THE FOUNDATION FCOE INC: $1,020,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $1,010,000 · Philanthropy+18 more: $5,155,002 · Philanthropy+18 moreSEEDING SUCCESS: $6,485,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDING SUC…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER: $3,383,432 · Youth DevelopmentROCKY MOUNT…+2 more: $290,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRACE: $1,412,800 · OtherUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $810,000 · OtherMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $754,350 · OtherHIGH DESERT ESD: $641,184 · OtherTREASURE VALLEY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $640,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC: $600,000 · OtherPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $550,000 · OtherStanislaus County Office of Education: $500,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $500,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $339,485 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA: $269,000 · Other+13 more: $983,415 · OtherNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $1,609,913 · Community ImprovementNORWALK ACTS INC: $1,150,000 · Community ImprovementKENOSHA AREA BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $225,000 · Community ImprovementAUSTIN ASPIRES INC: $190,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $33,000 · Community ImprovementTHRIVE CHICAGO NFP: $1,114,000 · Human ServicesBetter Together Central Oregon: $500,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $300,000 · Human Services+2 more: $83,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 · HealthDELTA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $850,000 · HealthAlamance Community & Health Foundation: $100,000 · Health
Education$51,321,378Philanthropy$24,543,823Youth Development$10,158,432Other$8,000,234Community Improvement$3,457,913Human Services$1,997,000Health$1,950,000

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 budgetSEEDING SUCCESS: $6,485,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $5,893,350 over 8y, 12% of budgetLEARN TO EARN DAYTON: $5,675,454 over 8y, 36% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $5,417,964 over 8y, 32% of budgetE3 ALLIANCE: $5,044,476 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT: $3,619,888 over 8y, 59% of budgetPartners for Rural Impact Inc: $3,395,000 over 4y, 54% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER: $3,383,432 over 7y, 62% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS: $3,375,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetFUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $3,373,008 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetP16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc: $3,125,534 over 7y, 21% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $3,060,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetGREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,905,183 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC: $2,600,510 over 7y, 15% of budgetImpactTulsa Inc: $2,360,000 over 3y, 68% of budgetALL HANDS RAISED: $2,181,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $2,034,964 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS: $1,655,779 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetSUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $1,628,360 over 5y, 38% of budgetNORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $1,609,913 over 6y, 22% of budgetKnowledgeworks Foundation: $1,447,268 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetGRACE: $1,412,800 over 6y, 33% of budgetMARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP: $1,380,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $1,340,200 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNORWALK ACTS INC: $1,150,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $1,131,000 over 5y, 41% of budgetTHRIVE CHICAGO NFP: $1,114,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FCOE INC: $1,020,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $1,010,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budget10000 DEGREES: $960,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetDELTA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $850,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $810,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetMISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: $754,350 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetEASTSIDE PATHWAYS: $723,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetTREASURE VALLEY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $640,000 over 3y, 72% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $620,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $610,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC: $600,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $600,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $550,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $524,002 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetK-CONNECT: $500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWATERBURY BRIDGE TO SUCCESS PARTNERSHIP INC: $500,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $500,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetStanislaus Community Foundation: $500,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBetter Together Central Oregon: $500,000 over 2y, 13% 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 SEEDING SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds LEARN TO EARN DAYTON ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds E3 ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG ACADEMIC MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Partners for Rural Impact Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PARTNERSHIP CRADLE TO CAREER ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds P16 Plus Council of Greater Bexar County Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MILWAUKEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF RACINE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ImpactTulsa Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS RAISED ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESULTS ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD HEALTHY COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Knowledgeworks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GRACE ↗
  • Who funds MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK ACTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE CHICAGO NFP ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FCOE INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Reason Houston Inc ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds DELTA HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds TREASURE VALLEY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗

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.

Gates FoundationWA27.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Knowledgeworks Foundation · Blue Meridian Partners Inc · AT&T Foundation · America's Promise the Alliance for Youth · Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Foundation for Tacoma Students · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Connecticut Network for Children and Youth 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 StriveTogether Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from StriveTogether Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Norwalk Acts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Fund for Educational Excellence Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
33report 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.

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 100 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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