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The Abelard Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Abelard Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$144k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

69% of The Abelard Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Abelard Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $144k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’23
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$748kPhilanthropy$670kEmployment$256kEnvironment$221kCommunity Improvement$221kCrime & Legal$163kPublic Benefit$156kHuman Services$145kOther$0
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRUGGLE FOR MIAMI'S AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE HOUSING$15,000
MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT$15,000
THE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY$15,000
ADELANTE STUDENT VOICES$15,000
FAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA$12,000
PROVIDENCE STUDENT UNION$12,000
PHILADELPHIA JOBS WITH JUSTICE$12,000
WISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES$12,000
ALIANZA AGRICOLA$12,000
LA CONEXION$12,000
MICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION$12,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $232k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PIONEER VALLEY WORKER CENTER: $10k → 12%COLEMAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES: $11k → 10%WORKERS' CENTER OF CENTRAL NEW YORK: $10k → 14%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $10k → 28%GA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $5k → 14%PIONEER VALLEY WORKER CENTER: $10k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $11k → 10%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE: $10k → 17%PEOPLE FIRST WISCONSIN: $15k → 17%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $10k → 14%PIONEER VALLEY WORKER CENTER: $10k → 12%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $10k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $10k → 17%GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $10k → 14%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $10k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%NEW YORK TAXI WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $10k → 17%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $11k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE (COPA): $11k → 12%COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $10k → 12%GARMENT WORKER CENTER: $10k → 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

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ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 56 repeat orgs$855k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 45 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
76

Total granted

$1.6M
$755k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+45%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • AS
    ADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +97%
  • SF
    Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +20%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +29%
  • MA
    MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT - MOVEMENT OF IMMIGRANT LEADERS IN PA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
4
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
5
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
6
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
7
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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8
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
9
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
10
Interfaith Worker Justice

To advance the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. They envision a nation where all workers enjoy the rights to:…

Religion
11
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
12
Chicago Workers' Collaborative Nfp

Chicago Workers' Collaborative's mission is to promote full employment and equality for the lowest wage-earners, primarily temporary staffing workers, in the Chicago region through leadership and skills training, critical assistance and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mississippi Immigrant Rights Allian. 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

95 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. 95 of the 142 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/95
Grantees still filing
59/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE FUND: $82,500 · OtherCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION GRASSROOTS EXCHANGE FUND+82 more: $1,310,500 · Other+82 moreBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $576,281 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITA…THE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY: $45,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PEOPLES PORT AUTHOR…+2 more: $17,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $36,000 · Civil RightsFAIRNESS WES…North Bay Jobs With Justice: $32,000 · Civil RightsNorth Bay Jo…Workers Center For Racial Just NFP: $30,000 · Civil RightsWorkers Cent…Philly Black Worker Project: $30,000 · Civil RightsPhilly Black…SOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $20,500 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST OR…Transgender Law Center: $20,500 · Civil RightsTransgender …WECOUNT: $20,000 · Civil RightsWECOUNTNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $20,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY…ARRIBA LAS VEGAS WORKER CENTER: $20,000 · Civil RightsARRIBA LAS V…PRISM FL INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsMONTANA RACIAL EQUITY PROJECT: $12,000 · Civil Rights+9 more: $75,500 · Civil Rights+9 moreTIDES CENTER: $41,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CEN…COLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $31,000 · Human ServicesCOLORADO …New York Taxi Workers Alliance: $30,000 · Human ServicesNew York …PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER V…GEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA L…Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesBrazilian…People First Wisconsin Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesPeople Fi…Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $10,500 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGarment Worker Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesWorkers' Center of Central New York Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $45,000 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION: $36,000 · Community ImprovementAlianza Agricola Inc: $36,000 · Community ImprovementCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY: $30,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $10,500 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE: $10,500 · Community ImprovementF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $39,000 · EnvironmentGot Green: $31,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $21,500 · EnvironmentDOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND: $20,500 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $10,500 · EnvironmentOREGON PROGRESS FORUM: $10,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER: $36,000 · EmploymentPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $36,000 · EmploymentWORKERS' DIGNITY PROJECT: $20,500 · EmploymentWORKING FAMILY SOLIDARITY: $15,000 · EmploymentCENTRO DEL OBRERO FRONTERIZO INC: $10,500 · EmploymentWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS CENTER: $10,000 · Employment
Other$1,393,000Philanthropy$638,281Civil Rights$331,500Human Services$252,500Community Improvement$228,000Environment$133,000Employment$128,000

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 budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $576,281 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADELANTE STUDENT VOICES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $45,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PORT AUTHORITY: $45,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY AND RURAL EDUCATION: $43,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN CONSERVATION VOICES INC: $39,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAIRNESS WEST VIRGINIA INC: $36,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetProvidence Student Union: $36,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTHERN MAINE WORKERS CENTER: $36,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetMICHIGAN FAITH IN ACTION: $36,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetAlianza Agricola Inc: $36,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA JOBS WITH JUSTICE: $36,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetLA CONEXION: $36,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetACTION INSTITUTE NC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice: $32,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Rise Texas Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGot Green: $31,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $31,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa: $30,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Taxi Workers Alliance: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: $30,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhilly Black Worker Project: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCENTRO HUMANITARIO PARA LOS TRABAJADORES: $30,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetGEORGIA LATINO ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Peoples Action: $21,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHAWAII WORKERS CENTER: $21,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $20,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $20,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth United for Community Action: $20,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE AWOOD CENTER: $20,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND: $20,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWORKERS' DIGNITY PROJECT: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWECOUNT: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrazilian Worker Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetARRIBA LAS VEGAS WORKER CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetADELANTE ALABAMA WORKER CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPeople First Wisconsin Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAlliance of Filipinos for Immigrant Rights and Empowerment: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetOrleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition: $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncBorealis PhilanthropyCommon Counsel Founda…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…New Venture FundTides FoundationWindward FundSolidago FoundationProteus Fund IncHill-Snowdon Foundati…Solidaire Network Inc
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC69.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Common Counsel Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · Solidago Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Hill-Snowdon Foundation · Solidaire Network 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 The Abelard Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Abelard Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 142 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home