How much did THE PLESS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE PLESS FOUNDATION’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

2019

—

2020

food bank

2021

food

2022

—

2023

—

2024

—

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.

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

ARIZONA ASSOCIATION FOR FOSTER & ADOPTIVE PARENTS$35,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ$30,000
ENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES$30,000
UNIFIED ARIZONA VERERANS$30,000
ARIZONA JUSTICE CENTER$30,000
CHRISTIAN HOPE ASSN$30,000
HARVEST COMPASSION CENTER$30,000
PROJECT LINUS$25,000
WHATCOM COUNTY PREGNANCY CLINIC$20,000
KITCHEN ON THE STREET$20,000
LIVE AND LEARN$20,000
VILLAGE OF THE VALLEY$20,000

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 (FY18–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$828k · 18 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 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

$828k

$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+122%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

ER
ENGEDI REFUGE MINISTRIES
4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +69%
AJ
ARIZONA JUSTICE CENTER
3× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +91% · 31% of their budget
VO
VILLAGE OF THE VALLEY
3× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +28% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

AJ
APACHE JUNCTION REACH OUT INC
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +9%
OS
ONE SMALL STEPgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +132%
TC
THERWHATCOM COUNTY PREGNANCY CLINIC
one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

Arizonans for Children

Arizonans for children, inc, exists to facilitate opportunities and provide effective solutions to improve and stabilize the fragile lives of foster children

Human Services

Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health

Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans.

Civil Rights

Prescott Area Shelter Services Inc

To serve women, families, and veterans by providing temporary housing, resources, individualized case management and a pathway to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter

Southeastern Arizona Behavioral Health

Our mission is to continually improve the quality of life for the people we serve in collaboration with our diverse communities in a respectful, caring, culturally sensitive manner. The organization provides behavioral health services for…

Health

Az Community Impact

We collect "in kind" donations of resources from businesses and individuals. We provide these resources of goods and volunteers services to families and other non-profits in our community. We assist families in crisis or experiencing…

Community Improvement

Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition

Southern Az Childrens Advocacy Ctr Inc

The mission of the chidrens advocacy center of southern arizona is to provide a safe, compassionate, healing environment for children who have been a victim or witnessed a crime. vision: provide each child with the safety they need to tell…

Crime & Legal

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting

AZCIR holds powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.

Arts & Culture

Grace Retreat Fostercare and Adoption

We are a licensing agency contracted by the state of arizona. we are committed to support families through the process of becoming licensed and providing a home for children. we believe that by supporting the families, they are able to…

Human Services

Corazon Az

CORAZÓN-AZ's mission is to cultivate and foster a welcoming and safe community of Arizonans from vast faith traditions and beliefs, schools, and allied organizations; united in expanding our democracy, economic dignity, immigrant justice,…

Civil Rights

Aid to Adoption of Special Kids

To build and strengthen families for the children in arizona's foster care system (primarily in maricopa and pinal counties).

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is House of Refuge Inc and the most unlike its peers is SUCCESS4KIDS. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

14%

3,081/22,582

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

32 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)

31/32

Grantees still filing

27/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$645,000Human Services$350,000Crime & Legal$130,000Health$80,000Recreation & Sports$45,000Food & Nutrition$43,000Youth Development$40,000

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ29.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Whatcom Community Foundation · Arizona Food Bank Network · American Express Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Community Foundation For · Mc Companies - Sharing the Good Life · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health

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 PLESS 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: SUCCESS4KIDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 331034122 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 SUCCESS4KIDS, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 93% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Pless Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pless Foundation 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 PLESS FOUNDATION

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

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pless Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE PLESS FOUNDATION

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

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Pless Foundation?

More from the funding graph