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The Pad Project

The Pad Project is a global nonprofit that expands access to menstrual care products, combats period stigma, and champions menstrual equity for all.

$243k
Granted FY2023
42
Grants FY2023
29
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Health$181kCivil Rights$13kHuman Services$10kEducation$8kInternational$5kHousing & Shelter$2kCommunity Improvement$500
02FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $148,450, the rows itemized in this filing. The $243,336 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $94,886 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k41 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$2,500
Median grant
29
States reached
$903k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Dignity Grows$5,000
Covenant House California$5,000
Pencils of Promise$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
The Period Pantry Project$3,000
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 (FY21–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Alexandria House: $5k → 14%FosterAdopt Connect: $2k → 15%Dignity Grows Inc: $5k → 11%Womens Refugee Care: $1k → 14%The Kwek Society: $27k → 7%For the Girls Inc: $10k → 8%Women 4 Women Tempe: $5k → 11%Dignity Grows: $5k → 11%For the Girls Inc: $10k → 8%I Support The Girls: $500 → 8%Covenant House California: $5k → 14%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

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Grants abroad, by region: $65k on the FY2023 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$50k · 77% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Pad making machines

East Asia and the Pacific$15k · 23% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Pad making machines

Sub-Saharan Africa$500 · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Washable cloth pad

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 3 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$48k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • For the Girls Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue +138%
  • DG
    DIGNITY GROWS INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +314%
  • TT
    THE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • ML
    Minas List Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +126%
  • AW
    ARKANSAS WOMENS OUTREACH
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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.

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Institute for Women's Health

The organization eagerly partners with individuals, organizations, and countries that promote the highest attainable health and well-being for women through every stage of their lives. the organization is committed to building coalitions…

Human Services
2
Dignity Period

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

International
3
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
4
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
5
Womens Way

Formed in the late-70's, WOMEN'S WAY achieves gender equity by building collective power to disrupt oppressive systems and strengthen alternative models centered in love, dignity, and liberation.

Human Services
6
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
7
Women's Fund of Rhode Island

Invests in women and girls through research, advocacy, grant making and strategic partnerships designed to achieve gender equity through systemic change.

Human Services
8
The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania

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
9
Women Helping Women Fund

Empowering Spokane area women and children to achieve their fullest potential, by building a strong, diverse community of educated, engaged, and strategic givers.

Unclassified
10
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
11
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
12
Days for Girls International

Days for Girls increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating social enterprises, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigmas and limitations for women…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhealth Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
24/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

For the Girls Inc: $28,100 · Human ServicesFor the Girls IncThe KWEK Society: $27,202 · Human ServicesThe KWEK SocietyDIGNITY GROWS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INCCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIAWomen4Women Tempe Inc: $4,950 · Human ServicesWomen4Women Tempe IncALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4,500 · Human ServicesMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $3,753 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesGO WITH THE FLOW INC: $6,000 · OtherGO WITH THE FLOW INCINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING: $5,100 · OtherINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS W…EV-W Sports Complex: $3,000 · OtherAFRICAN IMMIGRANTS RESOURCES CENTER INC: $3,000 · OtherARKANSAS WOMENS OUTREACH: $3,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOC IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $3,000 · OtherPERIOD PANTRY PROJECT: $3,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE EXTENSION ASSOCIATION IN THE STATE OF N Y: $2,900 · OtherPARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,800 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE: $2,420 · OtherPOWER PUMP GIRLS INC: $3,500 · Other+25 more: $29,925 · Other+25 moreMinas List Inc: $10,000 · Civil RightsMinas List…THE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $9,500 · Civil RightsTHE THURMA…THE SOURCE LGBT CENTER INC: $1,500 · Civil RightsTHE SOURCE…Concord Rotary Endowment: $9,000 · Community ImprovementFINDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementSHAWNEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF TALLAHASSEE INC: $500 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationBEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationAURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $1,000 · EducationNATHAN HALE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $750 · EducationGREEN RIDGE PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $500 · EducationNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $3,000 · HealthCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc: $2,000 · HealthPERIOD INC: $2,000 · HealthLARAMIE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: $1,500 · HealthPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $5,000 · InternationalEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 · International
Human Services$86,005Other$67,645Civil Rights$21,000Community Improvement$14,500Education$13,250Health$8,500International$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFor the Girls Inc: $28,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe KWEK Society: $27,202 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMinas List Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING: $5,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC: $3,753 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPOWER PUMP GIRLS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFlint Institute of Science & History: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEARBORN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBeauty Marks for Girls: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPERIOD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOURCE LGBT CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLARAMIE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $1,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURLINGTON W BURLINGTON AREA UNITED WAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN REFUGEE CARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWesthab Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATHAN HALE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF TALLAHASSEE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedThe Richard M Schulze…Project Lead the Way …For Inspiration and R…Share Our StrengthRockefeller Philanthr…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…
GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Neighborhealth Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • Period Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Pad Project?

Find your warmest path to The Pad Project 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 64 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home