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· Public charity
SUBJECT MATTER INC
To connect inspiring storytelling and meaningful change by providing funds and other resources to documentaries that highlight social issues and by awarding corresponding grants to nonprofits tackling the featured topics.
$177k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
4
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of SUBJECT MATTER INC’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
2022
collective power
2023
platformsparents doctorschildren bornborn intersexintersex conditionsconditions dsd'slegal
2024
girlsyouth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$565k
Total assets
Largest grants
- DAUGHTERS DOCUMENTARY LLC$25,000
- STICK FIGURE DIGITAL LLC$25,000
- GIRLS FOR A CHANGE$25,000
- HOUSE LIVES MATTER$25,000
- THE 22ND CENTURY INITIATIVE VIA TIDES CENTER$20,500
- HOMEGROWN FILMS LLC$20,000
- NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT$15,000
- CADY VOGE IN SEARCH OF HOME LLC$15,000
02The need
04
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 (FY24–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 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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Gender Equity Policy Institute
Gender Equity Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to advance gender equality in the United States through data-driven research, education and training, and policy development. GEPI is the first U.S.…
Civil Rights
2
Immigration Equality
Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.
Civil Rights
3
Lavender Rights Project
Lavender Rights Project (LRP) protects Black life by elevating the power, autonomy, and leadership of the Black trans and gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We are fighting for the right to exist…
Crime & Legal
4
Contemporary Policy Institute
Philanthropy
5
The Foundation for Gender Equality
Philanthropy
6
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
For 20 years, the Geena Davis Institute has championed authentic media representation. Through groundbreaking research, we highlight the life-changing impact of inclusion and pioneer pathways that uplift gender and marginalized identities…
Civil Rights
7
Girls in Stem
Human Services
8
Independent Media Institute
IMI amplifies the reach and impact of the work produced by our partner journalists,public intellectuals and editorial teams on the leading issues of our times. The goal is to educate, inspire, and collaborate with movements and visionaries…
Arts & Culture
9
Lawfare Institute
Produce scientific content on lawfare and the analysis of emblematic cases of the phenomenon through publication of the lawfare website, podcasts and related media.
Public Benefit
10
Institute for Inclusion in the Legal
The institute for inclusion in the legal profession ("iilp") provides the profession with a unique set of empirical tools to facilitate a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive legal profession that is reflective of the society which it…
Education
11
Tides Network
To support and advance the other tides entities by providing executive leadership, hr resources, financial management and accounting, legal and compliance, and administrative services.
Philanthropy
12
Youth Power Project
Breaking down barriers between lawmakers & youth by centering voices & stories of young people in policymaking at local, state, & federal levels. We are working on a nationwide campaign to uplift survivors of child sexual abuse and provide…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Three Winners Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$270,000Human Services$45,500Civil Rights$35,000Arts & Culture$25,000Youth Development$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Crime & Legal$10,000
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.
- Who funds INTERACT ↗
- Who funds HOUSE LIVES MATTER ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FOR A CHANGE ↗
- Who funds THE 22ND CENTURY INITIATIVE VIA TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR THREE WINNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ESSIE JUSTICE GROUP ↗
- Who funds ROMERO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PARENTS FOR PEACE ↗
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.
Tides FoundationCA11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 SUBJECT MATTER 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 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
0get 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.
04Through 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: OUR THREE WINNERS FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 475001971 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 OUR THREE WINNERS FOUNDATION, 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.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% 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 Subject Matter Inc?
Find your warmest path to Subject Matter Inc 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
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