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THE CONCRETE ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
To address the impact of systemic inequality in numerous areas, including education, health, employment, housing, mass incarceration, and civic participation.
$309k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
2
Communities
$194k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Community Improvement$360kEducation$259kEmployment$130kYouth Development$61kPublic Benefit$55kHuman Services$35kScience & Tech$18kOther$61k
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
2020
generationoperatesdiversemanagementcreatefellowshipbusinesses
2021
summerresponsiblestudentsyoungtechnologylastingespecially
2022
students
2023
succeedstudentstechnicalcolorstack's increaseincrease numbernumber blackblack latinx
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $354k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$303k
Total assets
Largest grants
- COLOR STACK$193,500
- BLACK PRODUCT MANAGERS$55,000
- BLACK PRODUCT$55,000
- COLOR WAVE$50,000
- COLOR STACK$25,000
- PROJECT INVENT$10,000
- CIRCUS CLUB$6,280
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 (FY20–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 edge
repeat funding
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.
67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$652k · 8 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +388% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
12
Total granted
$652k
$211k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+388%
+62%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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
- CSCOLOR STACK3× · 2021–2023 · $279k · revenue +61%
- DCDEV COLOR3× · 2020–2022 · $110k · revenue +354%
- DNDIGITAL NEST INC3× · 2020–2022 · $45k · revenue +529%
Funded once
- MLMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROWgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +264%
- VFVENTURE FOR AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +47%
- HCHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +40%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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.
1
Hack the Hood Inc
Hack the Hood provides free tech education training programs to youth of color via 8 - 12 week coding and data analytics bootcamps. These youth hone their skills by creating websites for small businesses and receive career exposure and…
Arts & Culture
2
Blk Men in Tech
BMiT provides access, resources and community for Black men within the tech industry and philanthropic initiatives to support the next generation of tech leaders.
Human Services
3
Lead Program in Business
The mission is to address higher education access and career preparation by optimizing cross-sector collaborations and global partnerships that focus on identifiying and nurturing high potential youth of diverse backgrounds by developing…
Community Improvement
4
The Collective Blueprint
Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Employment
5
Girls in Tech Inc
Girls in tech (git) is a global non-profit focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. our aim is to accelerate the growth of innovative women who are entering into the…
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6
Black Achievers Inc
To help young disadvantaged professionals build a business or advance their career through mentorship or education.
Education
7
The Next It Girl
To Help young women African American, Black and of color across the nation discover, pursue, and succeed in technology related careers.
Youth Development
8
Hack Diversity Inc
Hack diversity conducts a fellowship program for technologists who are underrepresented in the innovation sector. the fellowship primarily consists of online workshops, networking, project-based learning, and skills development as fellows…
Employment
9
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
Arts & Culture
10
Tech Exposure & Access
The organization's mission is to prepare students for opportunities available at the intersection of technology and sports.
Employment
11
Techie Youth Corp
Techie Youth provides educational services and career guidance to foster kids and at-risk youth demographics, preparing them to become self-sufficient professionals in the fields of technology, I.T. and computers.
Education
12
Cityworks Dc
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coop Careers Inc 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.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
11%
206,164/1,819,544
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.
05the grantee network
21 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
20/21
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Community Improvement$360,482Education$259,324Employment$130,000Other$61,280Youth Development$60,870Public Benefit$55,000Human Services$35,000Science & Tech$17,500
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 COLOR STACK ↗
- Who funds COLOR WAVE ↗
- Who funds DEV COLOR ↗
- Who funds BLACK PRODUCT MANAGERS ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds HBCUVU ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE ↗
- Who funds GOODIE NATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INVENT ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds COOP CAREERS INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP ↗
- Who funds CAMELBACK VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds TAKEOFF INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STREETCODE ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds TECH QUERIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
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.
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Mitchell Kapor Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 organisation THE CONCRETE ROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.
05Through 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: TAKEOFF INSTITUTE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 853497485 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 TAKEOFF INSTITUTE, 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.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% 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 The Concrete Rose Community Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Concrete Rose Community Foundation 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