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The Foundation United

The Foundation United actively confronts the issue of sex trafficking through education, outreach and awarness programs designed to prevent sex trafficking and exploitation.

$21k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Human Services$851kInternational$548kArts & Culture$20kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$15kReligion$6kCivil Rights$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $14,438, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,413 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,975 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,438
Median grant
2
States reached
$541k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Uncaged$9,438
PAXA$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Leaves for The Nation: $5k → 6%Journey Out: $5k → 14%Arrow Child & Family Ministries: $10k → 16%NCOSE: $5k → 14%Free With E LLC: $17k → 9%International Generosity Foundation: $1k → 12%Parakeleo: $5k → 18%PAXA: $5k → 14%Metanoia Manor: $10k → 19%NCOSE: $5k → 14%Chicago CAC: $5k → 14%CAASE: $5k → 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

IL
CA
DC
LA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 4 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SF
    SELAH FREEDOM INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $824k · revenue +7%
  • SI
    SAVING INNOCENCE INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +10%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • FW
    Free With E LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • MI
    METANOIA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +20%
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
Untrafficked Inc
Human Services
2
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
3
Mission 89 Inc

Fight human trafficking

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4
Global Family Care Network Inc

Protecting children and preserving families in vulnerable communities with an emphasis on the prevention, intervention, and restoration of young victims of commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking. The organization works in the…

International
5
Center to Combat Human Trafficking
—
6
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

The mission of the organization is to end the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and girls worldwide. it promotes the human rights of women and girls by working internationally to combat commercial sexual exploitation in all its…

International
7
Nightlight International

Nightlight is an international organization compelled by love to reach out to, rescue, and restore all those who are negatively impacted by sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

Crime & Legal
8
Seven Sisters International

Seven Sisters International provides rehabilitative care to girls who have been rescued from trafficking and sexual abuse by offering medical and psychological services, social work, education, life skills training, job preparation, and…

Human Services
9
Justice & Care Usa

Justice and care usa joins forces to end human trafficking. we are committed to supporting survivors, helping to secure justice, and sparking systemic change against this brutal crime.

Crime & Legal
10
RESET180

Reset 180 is a christian organization whose mission is to prevent human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, disrupt the related networks, and restore those impacted.

Civil Rights
11
She Is Safe Inc

She Is Safe prevents, rescues and restores women and girls from abuse and exploitation in high risk communities across the globe, equipping them to build lives of freedom and faith for a strong future. We accomplish our work in partnership…

International
12
Free a Girl Foundation Usa Incorporated

Free a girl foundation usa fights against the sexual exploitation of children. our objectives are to protect all children around the world from sexual exploitation and to raise awareness in the usa of the existence of sexual exploitation…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saving Innocence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Leaves for the Nations Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SELAH FREEDOM INC: $824,473 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INC+1 more: $21,500 · Human ServicesUNCAGED: $542,707 · InternationalUNCAGED+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER: $20,000 · OtherFree With E LLC: $17,000 · OtherJOURNEY OUT: $5,000 · OtherMETANOIA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION): $10,000 · Community ImprovementCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 · Crime & LegalPARENTS AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE DBA KIDS TOO: $5,000 · Crime & LegalLeaves for the Nations Inc: $5,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $1,000 · ReligionChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$845,973International$547,707Other$42,000Arts & Culture$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Religion$6,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $824,473 over 3y, 17% of budgetUNCAGED: $542,707 over 3y, 19% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMETANOIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARROW CHILD & FAMILY MINISTRIES (CENTRAL ORGANIZATION): $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTS AGAINST CHILD SEX ABUSE DBA KIDS TOO: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJOURNEY OUT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLeaves for the Nations Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPARAKALEO INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GENEROSITY FOUNDATION TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation United funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation United. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Foundation United?

Find your warmest path to The Foundation United 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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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