· Private foundation
The Greater Sum Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES | $16,014 |
| THE NEW 3RS | $14,647 |
| PINEAPPLE WOMEN | $11,430 |
| WORTHY MENTORING | $11,302 |
| EMPOWR | $10,250 |
| EVERMORE | $10,020 |
| WIKITONGUES | $10,012 |
| YOU ARE SAFE HERE | $9,790 |
| STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $7,681 |
| FLUFFY FRIENDS FOR CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS | $3,024 |
| TEETOTAL INITIATIVE | $1,250 |
| BALTIMORE UNITY HALL | $400 |
| INFORM YOUR COMMUNITY | $250 |
| INTERNATIONAL GIRLS ACADEMY | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- RCRespond Crisis Translation2× · 2022–2023 · $42k · revenue +111%
- BEBRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY2× · 2022–2023 · $38k · revenue +1% · 42% of their budget
- SLSTART LIGHTHOUSE2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +217%
Funded once
- WVWest Virginia University Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Clinicone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- ASASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +13%
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.
To train, support, and mentor tutors and students around the globe.
We connect communities, partner organizations and developers to create conversations around the importance of cultural and linguistic context in technology.
InReach fka AsylumConnect is a trans-led tech nonprofit dedicated to building the world's first open source verified LGBTQ+ resource platform. InReach's free platform connects LGBTQ+ people facing persecution or discrimination with a range…
4C For All mission is to empower and uplift individuals in low-income, underserved global communities by providing free access to mental health education, emotional resilience tools, and support.
To build and deploy AI for free accessible mental health support in conflict zones
We empower forcibly displaced people as paid online conversation partners for students around the world. We provide a robust educational experience for students to improve their foreign language skills, engage in rich cross-cultural…
We exist to provide accurate and precise legal information to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers via mobile phone technology.
We exist to empower marginalized, low-income, and underserved communities through transformative experiences that inspire economic growth, educational excellence, and community engagement.
Our mission is to illuminate the devastating realities of bullying and psychological abuse, igniting a global movement to stand with victims and foster a culture of compassion. Through innovative and inclusive personal care technology and…
Ghana Girls Connect, Inc. exists to empower young women of the diaspora to pursue their creative passions and turn them into sustainable professional careers. Through cultural immersion, professional development, and women empowerment…
United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Karat School Project and the most unlike its peers is Baltimore Unity Hall Inc. 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 7 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 50 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.
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- Who funds BARAKAT BUNDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Child Life Disaster Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING CHAMPIONS ↗
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- Who funds FOR THE LOVE OF PRIMATES ↗
- Who funds LORI'S HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS LEADING GIRLS ↗
- Who funds EMPOWR CO ↗
- Who funds WIKITONGUES INC ↗
- Who funds 7000 LANGUAGES INC ↗
- Who funds START LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Heroic Gardens ↗
- Who funds ART PREVAILS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TEETOTAL INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds KARAT SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization The Greater Sum 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lori's Hands Inc — 1% 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.
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