How much did THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC reported 19 grants totaling $2,877,608 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC based?

THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC is based in NY.

THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC

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· Public charity

THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC

Posse started because of one student who said, "I never would have dropped out of college if I had my posse with me." the posse foundation, founded in 1989, identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes.

$2.9M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$300k

Largest

01What you fund

0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$7.3MArts & Culture$500kOther$2.3M

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

intended stemstem campus

2019

intended campus

2020

intended campus

2021

intended campus

2022

intended campus

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

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$189M

Total assets

Largest grants

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$300,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$200,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$200,000
MACALESTER COLLEGE$100,000
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
ST OLAF COLLEGE$100,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$100,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY$100,000
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$100,000
BARD COLLEGE$100,000
CENTRE COLLEGE$100,000
WHITMAN COLLEGE$100,000
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES$100,000
CORNELL COLLEGE$100,000

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 74% of your 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.7M · 29 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.7M

$750k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+18%

Still filing today

76%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & 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

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $675k · revenue +26%
DAVIDSON COLLEGE
6× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +4%
LU
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +53%

Funded once

CI
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +18%
RC
RHODES COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +16%

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.

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

Westminster College

Four-year, undergraduate liberal arts college.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education

Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education

Wartburg College

Wartburg college provides educational programs and experiences that challenge and nurture students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.

Education

Benedict College

Benedict college will be a power for good in society. the college is a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service. these programs provide the students and community with knowledge, skills,…

Education

Meredith College

Founded in 1891, meredith is one of the largest women's colleges in the southeast. meredith offers comprehensive liberal arts and professional studies for undergraduate women. at the graduate level, meredith offers co-educational mba,…

Education

Merrimack College

Merrimack college is a comprehensive, catholic augustinian institution of higher education.

Education

Barnard College

Barnard College aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education

Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah lawrence college is a four-year liberal arts college (continued on schedule o) offering select graduate programs on its main campus in bronxville, ny and 4 undergraduate global studies programs.

Education

Lyon College

Lyon college offers a liberal arts education of superior quality in a personalized setting. a selective, independent, undergraduate, residential teaching and learning community affiliated with the presbyterian church (usa). lyon encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bryn Mawr College and the most unlike its peers is The George Washington University. 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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% 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%0/36

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,529

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

28 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

24/28

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$7,275,000Other$2,300,000Arts & Culture$500,000

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.

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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 POSSE FOUNDATION 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

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 956102146 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 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% 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 Posse Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Posse Foundation 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 POSSE FOUNDATION 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

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Posse Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE POSSE FOUNDATION 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

28 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Posse Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph