How much did The Pad Project grant in FY2023?

Human Services$76kCivil Rights$21kCommunity Improvement$15kEducation$13kHealth$9kInternational$8kPublic Benefit$4kYouth Development$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$60k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

cup education

2022

educationhealthycorporationsupportiverefugeewomen girlsdistrict

2023

health productproduct accessibility

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k41 grants · $121k
$10k–50k1 grant · $27k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$903k

Total assets

Largest grants

The Kwek Society$27,202
Concord Rotary Endowment$9,000
I Support the Girls$7,600
The Thurman Perry Foundation$7,500
Go With the Flow$6,000
Indigenous Women Rising$5,100
Pencils of Promise$5,000
Covenant House California$5,000
Dignity Grows$5,000
Women 4 Women Tempe$4,950
Alexandria House$4,500
Ma'i Movement Recipients in Hawaii - The UPS Store$3,753
Power Pump Girls Inc$3,500
Beaufort County Community College Foundation$3,000
AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS RESOURCES CENTER INC$3,000

02The need

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 (FY21–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$38k · 3 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +237% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$38k

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+237%

+57%

Still filing today

100%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthCivil RightsInternationalOther

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

I Support the Girls
3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +237%
DG
Dignity Grows Inc
2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +1196%
TT
The Thurman Perry Foundation
2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +4%

Funded once

ML
Mina's List
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
CS
California State University Northridge
one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -39%
EB
East Boston Neighborhood Healthgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +70%

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.

Womens Impact Fund

Strengthen communities by maximizing womens leadership in philanthropy through collective giving, education and engagement.

Human Services

Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc

Women's Fund of the Blue Ridge is a collective giving organization formed and sustained by a group of women philanthropists who want to make a positive impact on the lives of women and girls in the High Country. Women's Fund of the Blue…

Human Services

Women Helping Women Fund

Dedicated to empowering women and children to create healthy families and vibrant communities.

Unclassified

Woman Inc

W.o.m.a.n., inc. supports survivors ofdomestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridgingvalue-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence.

Health

The Women's Center

The mission of The Women's Center is to significantly improve the mental health and well-being of all members of our community through counseling, education, and support - regardless of ability to pay.

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World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services

Women of the World Endowment Inc

Wowe seeks to create investment systems that center women in addressing the world's challenges.

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Womens Equity in Access to Care

Increase women and families access to HIV testing, care and treatment.

Health

Dignity Period Inc

Mission is to impact period poverty around the globe by improving access to accurate menstrual information and distributing high-quality washable & reusable menstrual hygiene products. We are motivated by belief that those who menstruate…

International

The Women and Girls Foundation

The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to…

Civil Rights

Rise Up Woman International

Empowering women and girls to reshape their communities by breaking cycles of violence, injustice and inequality.

Public Benefit

Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/61

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,504

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.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

28/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$76,005Other$67,645Civil Rights$21,000Community Improvement$14,500Education$13,250Health$8,500International$8,000

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.

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.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Grapevine giving foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Share Our Strength · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organisation The Pad Project 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Kwek Society.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824369803 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Kwek Society, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Pad Project?

Find your warmest path to The Pad Project through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Pad Project

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pad Project?

More from the funding graph

The Pad Project

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pad Project?

More from the funding graph