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The Faultline Foundation

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.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$358kInternational$105kCommunity Improvement$95kEmployment$88kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kEducation$15kPhilanthropy$13kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Equal Rights Advocates$75,000
International Refugee Assistance Pr$25,000
Jewish Vocational Service$20,000
Asylum Access$20,000
Global Justice Center$12,500
National Immigration Law Center$10,000
Center for Justice Accountability$10,000
Center for Gender Refugee Studies$10,000
Prosperity Now$10,000
Accion Opportunity Fund$7,500
SaverLife$5,000
Hope Enterprise Corporation$5,000
Equal Justice Society$5,000
Prospera$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%International Refugee Assistance Pr: $25k → 17%International Refugee Assistance Pr: $25k → 17%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 12 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$654k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-11%

Still filing today

83%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyScience & TechHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $310k · revenue +91%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • BC
    BUILD CHANGE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • AJ
    American Jewish World Service
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IF
    Indigo Funk RCM Scholar
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
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
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
Inclusive Development International

Inclusive Development International supports communities around the world to defend their rights and resources in the face of harmful corporate activities and internationally financed development projects, and we advocate for a more just…

International
8
International Budget Partnership

Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…

International
9
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
12
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is Namaste Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
8/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $310,000 · OtherEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATESJewish Vocational Service: $88,000 · OtherJewish Vocational ServiceCenter for Gender Refugee Studies: $20,000 · Other+9 more: $56,000 · Other+9 moreACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $37,500 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPOR…PROSPERITY NOW: $30,000 · Community ImprovementPROSPERITY N…HOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $12,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE ENTERPR…INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesBUILD CHANGE: $40,000 · Science & TechASYLUM ACCESS: $35,000 · InternationalTHE LAMBI FUND OF HAITI: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER: $12,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $10,000 · Civil RightsEqual Justice Society: $5,000 · Civil RightsEARN INC: $13,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $5,000 · PhilanthropyProspera Community Development: $10,000 · Employment
Other$474,000Community Improvement$79,500Human Services$50,000Science & Tech$40,000International$40,000Civil Rights$27,500Philanthropy$18,000Employment$10,000

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 budgetEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $310,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $37,500 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetASYLUM ACCESS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROSPERITY NOW: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARN INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE CORPORATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProspera Community Development: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMBI FUND OF HAITI: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNAMASTE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEqual Justice Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…WK Kellogg FoundationTides FoundationThe Rockefeller Found…East Bay Community Fo…ImpactassetsincJpmorgan Chase Founda…Annie E Casey Foundat…Gates FoundationWells Fargo FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…
The San Francisco FoundationCA25.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 Faultline Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Faultline Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
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    How do I get to The Faultline Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Faultline Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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