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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.

$871k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Philanthropy$3.7MCommunity Improvement$3.3MEnvironment$3.2MReligion$490kHousing & Shelter$368kHealth$354kFood & Nutrition$290kEmployment$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $821k
$60,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRON FUND$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $20k → 14%OLD SPOKES HOME: $33k → 10%HEALTHY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 23%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $50k → 21%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

VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 37 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
65

Total granted

$4.6M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+29%

Still filing today

97%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $704k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $257k · revenue +90%
  • CA
    CANAL ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +4%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2020–2025 · $198k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • HG
    HEALTHY GULF
    one grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
  • GI
    GREENROOTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $106k · revenue -22%
  • CC
    Cultivate Charlottesville
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +12%
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
Green Cities Accord

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…

Environment
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
4
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
5
The Alliance for Collective Action

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…

Environment
6
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
7
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
8
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
9
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
10
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
11
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

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…

Environment
12
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving; 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.
04the grantee network

131 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. 131 of the 147 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/131
Grantees still filing
97/131
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $352,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $302,900 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUB…Lincoln Community Foundation Inc: $232,500 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation IncGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $220,770 · PhilanthropyGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUN…DULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $199,500 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $194,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $188,790 · PhilanthropyFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $170,000 · PhilanthropyWALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $164,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $159,500 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $149,500 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $147,180 · PhilanthropyQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $144,560 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $140,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $139,500 · Philanthropy+15 more: $626,793 · Philanthropy+15 moreCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY: $198,472 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD T…HEALTHY GULF: $180,000 · EnvironmentHEALTHY GULFBLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $173,125 · EnvironmentBLUE WATER BALTIMORECONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS: $150,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON…WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $127,249 · EnvironmentSEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD: $126,909 · EnvironmentGroundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek: $120,000 · EnvironmentBETTER BLOCK HAWAII: $115,000 · EnvironmentGREENROOTS INC: $106,450 · EnvironmentColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $100,000 · EnvironmentMichigan Saves: $99,252 · Environment+29 more: $1,271,296 · Environment+29 moreALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $173,125 · OtherALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKESHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $173,125 · OtherHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCYIronbound Community Corporation: $173,125 · OtherIronbound Community Corporati…CITY OF ORLANDO FL: $115,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIECE FOUNDATION: $196,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPIECE FOUNDATIONVerde Inc: $200,000 · OtherVerde IncNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $189,500 · OtherNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATIO…NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $173,125 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $173,125 · OtherPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCYCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $125,000 · Other+39 more: $1,486,287 · Other+39 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $256,711 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITI…INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $230,638 · Community ImprovementINITIATIVE …SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $189,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST I…NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $110,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOO…TAPROOT COLLECTIVE INC: $76,425 · Community ImprovementTAPROOT COL…PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $75,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHI…THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $74,959 · Community ImprovementTHE COLORAD…TREESLOUISVILLE INC: $72,000 · Community ImprovementTREESLOUISV…GES COALITION INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementONE SQUARE WORLD INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA COMMUNITY VOICE INC: $45,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCANAL ALLIANCE: $210,000 · ReligionMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $190,000 · ReligionVolunteers Improving Neighborhood Environments Inc: $70,000 · ReligionJerusalem Farm: $20,000 · ReligionPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $173,125 · Housing & ShelterPIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE: $82,500 · Housing & ShelterUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $70,610 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA AREA INC: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterNewark Workforce Development Board Inc: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentTerra BIRDS: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentCultivate Charlottesville: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHANGE CENTER: $23,300 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$3,882,493Environment$2,767,753Other$3,177,412Community Improvement$1,270,233Religion$490,000Housing & Shelter$368,735Youth Development$313,300

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 budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $352,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $302,900 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $256,711 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc: $232,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $230,638 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $220,770 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE: $210,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVerde Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetDULUTH-SUPERIOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $199,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY: $198,472 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPIECE FOUNDATION: $196,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $194,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $190,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $189,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $189,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $188,790 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY GULF: $180,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $173,125 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $173,125 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $173,125 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE WATER BALTIMORE: $173,125 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $173,125 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $173,125 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $173,125 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD AREA FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $170,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $164,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $159,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE AND JOBS: $150,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $149,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $147,180 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $144,560 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $139,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $127,249 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSEVEN GENERATIONS AHEAD: $126,909 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $125,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGroundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek: $120,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBETTER BLOCK HAWAII: $115,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNewark Workforce Development Board Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $106,450 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMichigan Saves: $99,252 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFriendship House Association of American Indians Inc: $97,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTerra BIRDS: $90,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville: $90,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

United States Energy …The Kresge FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Energy FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…National Recreation a…The Schmidt Family Fo…Windward FundNatural Resources Def…National Fish and Wil…The Minneapolis Found…Movement Strategy Cen…
United States Energy FoundationCA31.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 147 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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