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The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saint John's Health Center | $31,750 |
| Ava's Heart | $30,000 |
| Mothers in Action | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION | $11,150 |
| Culture Club of South Bay | $10,000 |
| The Living Ledgends Foundation | $10,000 |
| Presidents Fellows of Harvard Colle | $10,000 |
| Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade | $10,000 |
| Rock Roll Hall of Fame | $7,500 |
| Step Up Women's Network | $5,000 |
| 10th Council Dist Women's Steering | $3,750 |
| Young Women's Freedom Center | $2,500 |
| Next Step Fitness Inc | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DADEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY4× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +31%
- LALOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +45%
- CDCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $41k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- PUPEOPLE UNITED TO SERVE HUMANITYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SJSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +5%
- MHMLK Health Wellness Centerone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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To inspire, educate, and empower "opportunity youth", to achieve academic success through music education, sound engineering, and multimedia production.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
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Please see schedule o
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Freedom Center and the most unlike its peers is Giving Back. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ryan Gordy Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ava's Heart ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS-IN-ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING LEGENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CULTURE CLUB OF SOUTH BAY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds NEXTSTEP FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds The DIVA Foundation ↗
- Who funds TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 organization The Berry Gordy Foundation For Truth & Justice 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.
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.
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