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· Public charity

The Praxis Project Inc

To build healthy communities by transforming the power relationships and structures that affect our lives and communities.

$572k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$6.5MCommunity Improvement$2.8MCivil Rights$1.6MHealth$967kHuman Services$788kCrime & Legal$331kArts & Culture$217kInternational$129kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $463,699, the rows itemized in this filing. The $572,121 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $108,422 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $376k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE IDENTITY PROJECT LLC$104,452
FREE HEARTS$85,000
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS$80,000
TIDES CENTER$57,000
FLUXX PRODUCTIONS$50,000
FAITH CRUSADES$27,247
CALIFORNIA BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH PROJECT$15,000
ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE$15,000
SQUAT MEDIA INC$15,000
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$15,000
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 (FY18–24, $741k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $70k → 10%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $70k → 17%THE GAMBIAN YOUTHS ORGANIZATION: $28k → 28%THE SMILE TRUST: $7k → 15%GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $50k → 17%PICKLES AND POPSICLES INC: $50k → 23%CHOCOLATE MILK CAFE NATIONAL INC: $36k → 10%OPERATION RESTORATION (PROJECT BIRTHMARK DOULA COLLECTIVE): $50k → 23%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $50k → 10%SOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $50k → 15%NATURE'S GARDEN FOR VICTORY AND PEACE INC: $10k → 32%CLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CORP ON BEHALF OF SIPP CULTURE: $25k → 23%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $67k → 14%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $70k → 21%CLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CORP: $17k → 23%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $15k → 10%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $33k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICES FOR GROUPS: $15k → 14%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $9k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 20 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
77

Total granted

$11M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+21%

Still filing today

80%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UN
    UNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +333%
  • SC
    Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +76%
  • HB
    HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE
    2× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue ×46

Funded once

  • BI
    BRIOXY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $176k
  • EP
    EMBODIMENT PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +49% · 33% of their budget
  • AC
    AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue +9%
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.

1
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
2
Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective

Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective is a free and charitable clinic and social safety net. Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective serves Black pregnant and parenting mamas, their babies and children through community-based, holistic…

Health
3
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
4
National Association to Advance Black Birth

combat the effects of structural racism within maternal and infoant health to advance black birth outcomes

Health
5
Community Movement Builders Inc

Community Movement Builders CMB is a member based collective of black people dedicated to being a force for creating sustainable self-determining communities through cooperative economic advancement and collective community organizing. Our…

Public Benefit
6
Black Birth Justice Inc

Advocating for maternal health rights and providing superior support for postpartum persons. Our vision is to combat the Maternal and Infant mortality rate . Our focus is to protect the birthing people of the Black community with…

Health
7
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
8
Equitable Giving Circle

Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives

Philanthropy
9
Sankofa Birthworkers Collective of the Inland Empire

PURPOSE We are a Collective of Black Birthworkers, reclaiming our ri ghts to birth through community, cause and connection.

Human Services
10
Spiral Collective

The SPIRAL Collective is a BIPOC-centered full spectrum reproductive care work collective.

Health
11
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
12
Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc

We center Black mamas to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and Justice.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Women for Wellness; 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

79 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. 79 of the 109 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
52/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Black Food and Justice Alliance: $6,271,556 · Food & NutritionNational Black Food and Justice Alliance+4 more: $173,875 · Food & NutritionUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC: $2,710,204 · Civil RightsUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK IN…+3 more: $93,170 · Civil RightsCERES POLICY RESEARCH LLC: $204,271 · OtherCERES POLICY RESE…BRIOXY INC: $175,750 · OtherBRIOXY INCTHE IDENTITY PROJECT LLC: $104,452 · OtherFREE HEARTS: $85,000 · OtherEMBODIMENT PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherTHE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE: $190,000 · OtherTHE AHIMSA COLLEC…+47 more: $1,391,549 · Other+47 moreHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,082,334 · Environment+5 more: $56,856 · EnvironmentStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $100,000 · Human ServicesHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $80,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $70,000 · Human ServicesDisability Power Bloc: $65,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $57,000 · Human ServicesCOORDINADORA PAZ PARA LA MUJER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPICKLES & POPSICLES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERICAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $50,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $50,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesCLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CORP: $41,785 · Human ServicesCHOCOLATE MILK CAFE NATIONAL INC: $35,714 · Human Services+5 more: $78,426 · Human ServicesBLACK WOMEN BIRTHING JUSTICE INC: $65,000 · HealthCultiva La Salud: $60,000 · HealthALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,714 · HealthMICHIGAN PRISON DOULA INITIATIVE: $50,000 · HealthMEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING: $50,000 · HealthDESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC: $50,000 · HealthRestoring Our Own Through Transformation: $50,000 · HealthHEALTHCONNECT ONE: $50,000 · HealthCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $41,000 · HealthPublic Health Institute: $40,000 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $30,000 · Health+3 more: $45,000 · HealthALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $187,000 · Community ImprovementUpstream Works: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $12,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $37,000 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$6,445,431Civil Rights$2,803,374Other$2,251,022Environment$1,139,190Human Services$897,925Health$581,714Community Improvement$301,000

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 budgetUNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC: $2,710,204 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,082,334 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE: $190,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $187,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEMBODIMENT PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $80,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST ORGANIZING PROJECT: $75,250 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $70,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADHIKAAR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $70,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBLACK WOMEN BIRTHING JUSTICE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetDisability Power Bloc: $65,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetGROW GREATER ENGLEWOOD INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCultiva La Salud: $60,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50,714 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA WOMBMANS WAY WARRIOR MIDWIFE TRAINING: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetFluxx Productions Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetCOORDINADORA PAZ PARA LA MUJER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMICHIGAN PRISON DOULA INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetMEWINZHA ONDAADIZIIKE WIIGAMING: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPICKLES & POPSICLES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOUTHERN BIRTH JUSTICE NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetDESERT STAR INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRestoring Our Own Through Transformation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCHARLESTON GOOD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetUpstream Works: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEALTHCONNECT ONE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACUPUNCTURISTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CORP: $41,785 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Third World Organizing: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHOCOLATE MILK CAFE NATIONAL INC: $35,714 over 1y, 74% of budgetNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GAMBIAN YOUTHS ORGANIZATION INC: $27,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAITH CRUSADES MINISTRIES: $27,247 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFarms to Grow Inc: $26,875 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFRESH FUTURE FARM INC: $26,875 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSpecial Service for Groups Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $23,044 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Borealis PhilanthropySolidaire Network IncMs Foundation for Wom…Groundswell FundCommon Counsel Founda…ImpactassetsincNEO Philanthropy IncMovement Strategy Cen…WK Kellogg FoundationProteus Fund IncTides Center
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC39.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Solidaire Network Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Groundswell Fund · Common Counsel Foundation · Impactassetsinc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Movement Strategy Center · WK Kellogg Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides Center

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • African Peoples Education and Defen: 66% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 109 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 2025, released 2025. 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
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home