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The Impact Investing Foundation at a glance

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The Impact Investing Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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 2024.

Education$211kPhilanthropy$88kPublic Benefit$50kReligion$34kCivil Rights$28kArts & Culture$23kInternational$12kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
LAB-SHUL$10,000
ECHOING GREEN FOUNDATION$10,000
COMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $5k → 20%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$321k · 7 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$321k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+61%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsInternationalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • EG
    ECHOING GREEN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +107%
  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • SL
    STORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CM
    COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +61%
  • NW
    NY WRITERS COALITION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -40%
  • NS
    NORTHSIDE SUBURBAN LITTLE LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +102%
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
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
2
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
3
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
4
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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6
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
8
Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
9
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
10
Colorofchangeorg

Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…

—
11
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
12
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bronx Letters Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ECHOING GREEN INC: $175,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INCCOMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $32,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL+1 more: $3,000 · EducationBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FO…+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR P…STORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC: $33,500 · ReligionCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS: $12,500 · Arts & CultureNY WRITERS COALITION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOLOR OF CHANGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCOLOR OF C…CASA INC: $3,000 · OtherCASA INCSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 · OtherSAN ANTONI…THOUSAND CURRENTS: $10,000 · OtherTHOUSAND C…Mercy Corps: $1,500 · OtherNORTHSIDE SUBURBAN LITTLE LEAGUE: $5,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE …COMMON FUTURE: $5,000 · OtherCOMMON FUT…RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $5,000 · OtherRED HOOK I…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $10,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Education$210,500Philanthropy$87,500Public Benefit$50,000Religion$33,500Arts & Culture$22,500Other$43,000Civil Rights$15,000

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 budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $175,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC: $33,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL & CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNY WRITERS COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE SUBURBAN LITTLE LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 20 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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