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The Middle Passage 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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Housing & Shelter$353kFood & Nutrition$125kCivil Rights$110kYouth Development$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kArts & Culture$58kInternational$40kEducation$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$143k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO$60,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$25,000
PROJECT OPEN HAND$25,000
ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$12,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$10,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$10,000
COMMITTEE TO PROJECT JOURNALISTS$10,000
KQED-FM$8,000
K9 WARRIORS$5,000
THE SAN FRANCISCO SPCA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $25k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $20k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING PROJECT: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$918k · 16 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
1

Total granted

$918k
$8k

Still filing today

63%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • EC
    EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +52%
  • PO
    Project Open Hand
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +78%
  • IH
    Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRL CLUB SF
    one grant, 2022 · $8k

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

4
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
5
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
6
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
7
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
8
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
9
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
10
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO — $270,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANC…Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $65,000 · Human ServicesInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Hou…A BETTER CHANCE INC — $70,000 · OtherA BETTER CHANCE INCACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $52,000 · OtherACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIAAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONALCOMMITTEE TO PROJECT JOURNALISTS — $26,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE TO PROJECT JOURNALIS…REBUILDING TOGETHER — $18,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHERK9 WARRIORS — $14,000 · OtherK9 WARRIORSIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $8,000 · OtherProject Open Hand — $125,000 · Food & NutritionProject Open Ha…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $65,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $38,000 · EducationTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $35,000 · AnimalsKQED INC — $32,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC — $8,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$335,000Other$248,000Food & Nutrition$125,000International$105,000Education$38,000Animals$35,000Arts & Culture$32,000Civil Rights$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO — $270,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProject Open Hand — $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $38,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SAN FRANCISCO
  • Who funds Project Open Hand
  • Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC
  • Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds KQED INC
  • Who funds CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Middle Passage Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Middle Passage Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Middle Passage Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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