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The Impact Fund

Supports class action public interest litigation and awards grants in the areas of human and civil rights, elimination of unlawful discrimination, environmental justice and the relief of poverty.

$736k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$2.7MCivil Rights$602kEnvironment$380kHousing & Shelter$72kAnimals$50kFood & Nutrition$50kEmployment$40kEducation$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k23 grants · $633k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Fair Housing Allianc$50,000
Our Childrens Trust$50,000
Justice Catalyst Access Fund$45,691
Southern Coalition for Social$42,000
Council of the Haida Nation$40,000
LatinoJustice PRLDEF$40,000
Coalition for Humane Immigran$40,000
Shulman Buske Reams PLLC$40,000
Hawaii Alliance for Progress$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
Asian Law Caucus - Grantee$35,000
Native Hawaiian Legal Corpora$35,000
Rethink35$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Centro Legal de la Raza$25,000
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 (FY18–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Al Otro Lado: $30k → 11%North Carolina Justice Center: $10k → 8%Asian Amer Advancing Justice: $13k → 9%Al Otro Lado: $10k → 11%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

AK
ME
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
HI
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 30 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
89

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+34%

Still filing today

90%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $593k 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
Crime & LegalCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationCommunity 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

  • LC
    LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $116k · revenue +97%
  • CL
    CONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue +19%
  • DR
    DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SG
    SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -34%
  • HS
    Hughes Socol Piers Resnick
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • Transgender Law Center
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -17%
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
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
New Civil Liberties Alliance

Public interest legal activities

Arts & Culture
4
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
5
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
6
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
7
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
8
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
9
Justice for the People Legal Center

Justice for the People Legal Centers mission shall include but not be limited to the provision of legal services, grassroots organizing, and education to people and communities who have historically endured harm and trauma caused by our…

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10
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
11
The Commons Law Center

Our mission is to provide legal help for everyday people - because no one should be denied the right to timely and affordable access to justice.

Education
12
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Inc

To protect, through litigation and legal representation, the civil rights of persons who have historically been subject to discrimination and poverty. the committee provides pro bono services by mobilizing the resources of volunteer…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equal Justice Under Law; the most unlike its peers is RETHINK35. 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

110 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. 110 of the 138 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/110
Grantees still filing
79/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $100,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT INCSOUTHERN LEGAL COUNSEL INC: $85,000 · OtherA BETTER CHILDHOOD INC: $77,750 · OtherUptown People's Law Center: $62,500 · Other+59 more: $1,342,341 · Other+59 moreTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $73,000 · Crime & LegalTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID…BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $70,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT G…THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $45,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $42,000 · Crime & LegalLATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF: $40,000 · Crime & LegalEQUITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $37,500 · Crime & LegalMOUNTAIN STATE JUSTICE INC: $37,000 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund: $32,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $32,000 · Crime & LegalNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION: $30,000 · Crime & LegalARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $30,000 · Crime & Legal+25 more: $390,700 · Crime & Legal+25 moreLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $115,965 · Civil RightsLEADERSHIP COUNSEL F…DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS: $95,000 · Civil RightsDISABILITY RIGHTS TE…CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $85,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN…UPPER SEVEN LAW: $65,000 · Civil RightsUPPER SEVEN LAWTransgender Law Center: $50,000 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Cent…ARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $47,500 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENTER FOR L…Innovation Law Lab: $45,000 · Civil RightsInnovation Law LabEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $37,500 · Civil RightsCIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER: $30,000 · Civil RightsCivil Liberties Defense Center: $25,000 · Civil RightsACLU OF MONTANA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsRETHINK35: $25,000 · Civil Rights+7 more: $75,500 · Civil Rights+7 moreOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $160,000 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDREN'S …WATERLEGACY: $61,000 · EnvironmentWATERLEGACYCLEAN WATER FUND: $55,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUN…SEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS: $50,000 · EnvironmentSEVENTH GENERAT…NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $45,000 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO ENVI…Snake River Waterkeeper Inc: $40,000 · EnvironmentSnake River Wat…California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance: $34,200 · EnvironmentCalifornia Coas…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $25,000 · EnvironmentOur Childrens Earth Foundation: $20,000 · Environment+2 more: $22,500 · EnvironmentANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $50,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $33,000 · AnimalsNEW JERSEY COALITION FOR DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $20,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $15,000 · EducationCenter for Food Safety: $64,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,667,591Crime & Legal$894,200Civil Rights$721,465Environment$537,700Animals$83,000Education$80,000Food & Nutrition$64,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $160,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $115,965 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS: $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN LEGAL COUNSEL INC: $85,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA BETTER CHILDHOOD INC: $77,750 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $73,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUPPER SEVEN LAW: $65,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $64,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUptown People's Law Center: $62,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWATERLEGACY: $61,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION ADVISORS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $47,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetInnovation Law Lab: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $45,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $45,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSnake River Waterkeeper Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFair Work Center: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY: $39,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $37,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATE JUSTICE INC: $37,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCalifornia Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance: $34,200 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund: $32,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE HAWAIIAN LEGAL CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMobilization for Justice Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCivil Liberties Defense Center: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Equal Justice WorksBorealis PhilanthropyThe Skadden FoundationPatagoniaorgAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationThe Sidley Austin Fou…New Venture FundNational Health Law P…Immigrant Justice Cor…The Ford FoundationProteus Fund Inc
Equal Justice WorksDC67.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · Borealis Philanthropy · The Skadden Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · New Venture Fund · National Health Law Program Inc · Immigrant Justice Corps Inc · The Ford Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Rights Project Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Florida Legal Services Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Oregon Law Center: 11% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oregon: 10% of income from government
  • Northeast Legal Aid Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to The Impact Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Impact Fund 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 138 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
where grant money is based, and what stays home