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THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC
The graduate network (tgn), a national nonprofit organization, was organized to catalyze movement toward educational equity for adults particularly those adults who are historically underrepresented in the college labor market.
$100k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$469kCommunity Improvement$110kPhilanthropy$10kOther$317k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
regrantthomas edisoninvestproperty
2019
regrant researchthomas edisoninvestproperty
2020
regrant-talentregrant-bridgingdetroitchamberaccessthomas edisonpower
2021
subgrant carrycarry objectivesobjectives bttg
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$100,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 14%. 71% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 56% of THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE GRADUATE NETWORK INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 29% directed abroad (not shown)Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$638k · 7 repeat orgs$268k to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
9
Total granted
$638k
$168k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+8%
+11%
Still filing today
86%
78%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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
- GPGRADUATE PHILADELPHIA2× · 2020–2021 · $241k · revenue +3%
- CHCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE - SCHOOL OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL STUDIES3× · 2018–2020 · $73k · revenue +19%
- CNCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND2× · 2020–2021 · $22k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- SASAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +11%
- TMTEMPLE - MS ADDISALEM HAILUone grant, 2018 · $24k
- TUTEMPLE UNIVERSITY - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue -16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Goldey-Beacom College
To confer the associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees on qualified students.
Education
2
National Association for College
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Education
3
University of Denver
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Education
4
Montgomery County Community
The foundation raises funds on behalf of the montgomery county community college.
Education
5
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Community Improvement
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Central Indiana Corporate
The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…
Community Improvement
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National Association of College and
Advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
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The Common Application Inc
The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.
Education
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University of New Haven
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Education
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Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce
Community and economic development
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Community College of Philadelphia
Raising philanthropic funds to support the college, its students, programs and initiatives.
Education
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Fielding Graduate University
Fielding provides doctoral, master's and graduate-level certificate programs in the fields of educational leadership, organization development, and psychology.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graduate Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Chestnut Hill College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
06the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$468,691Other$317,000Community Improvement$110,000Philanthropy$10,000
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 GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA (GP) ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE - SCHOOL OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE UNIVERSITY - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds ONE ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ↗
- Who funds GREATER OMAHA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organisation THE GRADUATE 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.
2024
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 222117814 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THOMAS EDISON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Graduate Network Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Graduate Network Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
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