· Private foundation
The Daba Fund
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| GRIFFIN-GRACY EDUCATIONAL RETREAT & HISTORICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| PLENITUD | $50,000 |
| SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC | $50,000 |
| SISTERREACH | $50,000 |
| SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC | $50,000 |
| FOR THE GWORLS | $50,000 |
| THE OKRA PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| GAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TRANSGENDER SOCIETY INC | $50,000 |
| BLACK AND PINK INC | $50,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | $50,000 |
| POSSIBILITY LABS | $30,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- SCSTERLING COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $880k · revenue -55%
- GAGAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TRANSGENDER SOCIETY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $173k · revenue -21%
- SFSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $173k · revenue -40%
Funded once
- BPBOREALIS PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- PPPROJECT PROSPERone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue ×22
- NNiweskokone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
Borderless A Black & Indigenous Collective (B&I Collective Fund) is organized to build the collective power of Black and Indigenous Peoples or underprivileged groups to exercise their inherent right to self-determination, ownership, and…
Lavender Rights Project elevates the power, autonomy, and leadership of the black intersex & gender diverse community through intersectional legal and social services. We utilize the law as an organizing principle to affirm our civil…
Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC), a multi-state organization working across Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley and Basin, is centered on story-based approaches that amplify Black voices, fights for environmental justice and strengthens…
The mission of Oakland Bloom is to advance food and economic justice community power and resilience with working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs. Oakland Bloom does this through stewarding Open Test Kitchen as a kitchen and…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Radical Rest provides communal trauma healing experiences and education to Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) folks in the Portland Metro Area. Radical Rest uplifts access to healing for Portland area black and brown…
Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities
Brighter green is a public policy action tank that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action that span the environment, animals, and sustainability. based in new york, brighter green works in the u.s. and internationally with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Prosper. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 22 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 STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN A TRANSGENDER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK AND PINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE OKRA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Darkness RISING Project ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
- Who funds GRIFFIN-GRACY EDUCATIONAL RETREAT & HISTORICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SISTERREACH ↗
- Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PROSPER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds Niweskok ↗
- Who funds Presente Maine ↗
- Who funds Arts Business Collaborative ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Stonewall Community Foundation · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Grapevine giving foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Daba Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
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.