· Public charity
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) harnesses the transformative power of collective memory to dismantle violence and injustice, paving the way for more equitable and peaceful communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $549,452 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,115,761 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,566,309 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
- $250k+1 grant · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center For Victims Of Torture | $387,419 |
| Project Expedite Justice (PEJ) | $63,033 |
| Michigan History Center | $10,000 |
| The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula | $10,000 |
| Friends of Elisabet Ney Museum | $10,000 |
| Illinois State Museum | $10,000 |
| Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum | $10,000 |
| John Dickinson Plantation | $10,000 |
| Hermann-Grima & Gallier Historic Houses | $10,000 |
| Chinese Historical Society of America | $10,000 |
| The Catoctin Furnace Historical Society Inc | $10,000 |
| Michigan State University | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 96% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.5M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Financial Support
Stated purpose: Financial Support
Stated purpose: Financial Support
Stated purpose: Financial Support
Stated purpose: Financial Support
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- PEPROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +868%
- ABAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education5× · 2018–2023 · $467k · revenue +37%
- GIGISA INC3× · 2020–2022 · $391k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $188k
- WCWASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +103%
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The schs mission is to expand, preserve, and make accessible our invaluable collection, and to encourage interest and pride in the rich history of our state.
Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…
The Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
The mission of the american civil war museum collection is to serve as the preeminent world center for the display, study, interpretation, commemoration, and preservation of the history and artifacts of the confederate states of america.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
Us/icomos, u.s. national committee on monuments and sites, promotes the conservation of world heritage and stronger connections to the global heritage community through advocacy, education, and the international exchange of people and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filoli Center and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Historical Museum At Fort Missoula. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 39 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.
- Who funds PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY GROUP ↗
- Who funds PROJECT EXPEDITE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education ↗
- Who funds GISA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds CATOCTIN FURNACE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SHELDON JACKSON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM AT FORT MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Stagville Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASSMUTH CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOME OF THE ANNE FRANK MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds FILOLI CENTER ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House ↗
- Who funds COLIBRI CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHERN DELAWARE ALLIANCE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MISSOULA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN ↗
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: National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Ibm International Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience 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.
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% 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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