How much did THE PALETTE FUND INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE PALETTE FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

kidsyouthlgbtfilm

2019

youthlgbt

2020

theatrepointyouth

2021

summer

2022

transblacknolafilm

2023

nolaprovincetown arts

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

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $23k
$10k–50k6 grants · $146k
$50k–250k2 grants · $305k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE$200,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER-CONT$105,000
PROVINCETOWN COMMONS$35,000
MIRACLE OF LOVE$25,000
MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT$25,000
ASPCA$25,000
VARIOUS ORG UNDER 5K$18,763
PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS$17,500
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM$8,000
GNO FUND$5,000
OUTER CAPE HEAL$5,000
SUMMER OF SASS$5,000

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 (FY17–19, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.1M · 53 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +150% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+150%

+49%

Still filing today

36%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

PC
PROVINCETOWN COMMONS
7× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +150%
POINT SOURCE YOUTH
4× · 2017–2020 · $169k · revenue +305%
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2019 · $85k · revenue +34%

Funded once

TF
THRESHOLD FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $118k
WO
WORLD OF WONDER
one grant, 2021 · $100k
TC
TRUE COLORS FUND (ACYF FELLOWSHIP)
one grant, 2017 · $50k

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.

Lgbt Life Center

Lgbt life center is a trusted leader that empowers the lgbtq communities and all people affected by hiv through improving health and wellness, strengthening families and communities, and providing transformative education and advocacy.

Health

Brooklyn Community Pride Center Inc

Bcpc provides services and support to brooklyn's lgbtq+ community through original programming and partnerships with other organizations.

Civil Rights

Pride At Work Afl-Cio

(lgbt) people about their rights as workers, the organized labor movement and principles of trade union solidarity.

Civil Rights

Youth Pride Inc

Youth pride, inc.'s mission is to meet the unique, ongoing needs of lgbtq+ youth and young adults through direct services, support, advocacy, and education.

Health

Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc

Funders for lgbtq issues educates and organizes funders and supports power-building to create an abundance of resources for the justice and liberation of all queer communities.

Civil Rights

The Alliance for Lgbtq Youth Inc

The Alliance for LGBTQ Youth implements a comprehensive prevention and early intervention program at the individual, family and community levels. The Alliance provides mental health and advocacy services to lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Human Services

Philanthrofund Foundation Inc

Pfund foundation is a vital resource and community builder for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied communities by providing grants and scholarships, developing leaders, and inspiring giving.

Civil Rights

Immigration Equality

Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Civil Rights

Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights

Equality Utah

The organization pursues educational, lobbying, and political activites in otder to further lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgtb)interests within utah.

Civil Rights

Human Rights Campaign Foundation

Research, advocacy and education to support and protect lgbtq+ individuals and families.

Civil Rights

Compass Inc

To engage, empower and enrich the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people and those impacted by hiv and aids.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mazzoni Center and the most unlike its peers is Rainforest Action Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/39

the rest of the field

11%

10,784/94,084

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

31/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,595,126Community Improvement$416,855Civil Rights$313,500Youth Development$179,250Philanthropy$110,000Health$105,000Human Services$101,000

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.

ImpactassetsincMD22.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 PALETTE FUND INC 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, a single department, or state — 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 · 0–60%

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: PROVINCETOWN COMMONS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~22 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814915644 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 PROVINCETOWN COMMONS, 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 22 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 23% 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 Palette Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Palette Fund Inc 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 PALETTE FUND INC

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 Palette Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE PALETTE FUND INC

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 Palette Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph