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The Funders Network Inc
Tfn's mission is to leverage philanthropy's unique potential to help create communities and regions that are sustainable, prosperous and just for all people.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $821k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF ORLANDO | $115,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $97,500 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK | $90,000 |
| CT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS | $83,645 |
| CLIMATE JUSTICE HIVE | $73,850 |
| CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY | $73,472 |
| VOLUNTEERS IMPROVING NBHD ENVIRON | $70,000 |
| GES COALITION | $60,000 |
| PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $55,000 |
| PROTECT OUR AQUIFER | $52,949 |
| WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT | $50,025 |
| PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY FNDN OF GREATER DUBUQUE | $10,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRON FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 12 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $704k 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
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION3× · 2018–2020 · $257k · revenue +90%- CACANAL ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +4%
- CFCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY3× · 2020–2025 · $198k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- HGHEALTHY GULFone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
- GIGREENROOTS INCone grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue -22%
- CCCultivate Charlottesvilleone grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +12%
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.
Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
131 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. 131 of the 147 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 MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Verde Inc ↗
- Who funds DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Central Kansas Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIECE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY GULF ↗
- Who funds Ironbound Community Corporation ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds Groundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek ↗
- Who funds BETTER BLOCK HAWAII ↗
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: United States Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Energy Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · National Recreation and Park Association · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Windward Fund · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Movement Strategy Center
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 Funders Network Inc 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.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
- Urban Oasis Project Inc — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc — 0% 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.