How much did THE SEAN COMBS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE SEAN COMBS 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

2018

education childrenchildren economicallyeconomically disadvantageddisadvantaged backgrounds

2019

—

2020

exclusively

2021

books

2022

social environmentaleducation boroughincome educationfashionlow incomechildrenlibraries

2023

fashionmountlow incomebookseducation

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

03FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$94k

Total assets

Largest grants

ACCESS BOOKS$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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 98% 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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$900k · 6 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +108% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$900k

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+108%

+20%

Still filing today

33%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

TC
THE CAPITAL PREPARATORY HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL
3× · 2018–2022 · $300k
AB
ACCESS BOOKS
4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +108%
BU
BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT
3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue -15%

Funded once

JS
JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $333k · revenue +128%
HU
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $300k
TA
THE APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +1%

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.

Lyra

Lyra incubates and accelerates high-impact education initiatives that tackle some of the biggest challenges facing education, deeply rooted in diverse and inclusive community voices.

Education

Blueprint

To dismantle systemic inequality in education by expanding educational opportunities for students in under-resourced communities.

Education

Youthbuild Usa Inc

To create a world where all young people are seen for their potentialwith love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild…

Employment

Kipp Miami Inc

Kipp miami public schools seek to create and sustain high achieving and inspiring community schools that battle inequity by empowering students to develop the knowledge, skills, character strengths, and habits to thrive in college and…

Education

Stem Xposure

Empowering African American girls in STEM through educational camps workshops and community engagement initiatives aimed at fostering innovation and promoting diversity in STEM fields

Education

Project Scientist Inc

Our mission is to expose a diverse population of young girls to a high quality STEM academy that inspires confidence in their pursuit of learning throughout the year

Education

Project Diva

Project Diva Int'l exists to support brilliant, trail blazing black girls who desire to get results in their lives.

Education

Accelerate Institute

Accelerate Institute is an organization devoted to the betterment of urban children through education.

Education

Project Invent

Project Invent empowers students with the 21st-century skills to succeed individually and impact globally, through invention for social good.

Science & Tech

Broadway Dreams Foundation Corporation

To empower youth and young adults of all socioeconomic background with performance training, life skills building, and mentorship opportunities from the entertainment industry's most distinguished talents.

Arts & Culture

Benjamin Franklin Academy Inc

To teach a basic college preparatory high school curriculum.

Education

Harlem Rbi Inc

Harlem rbi,inc dba dream's mission is to provide youth with opportunities to play, learn and grow. we use the power of teams to coach, teach and inspire youth to recognize their potential and realize their dreams.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ladylike Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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)

14/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,210,000Education$567,833Arts & Culture$280,000Community Improvement$150,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Environment$100,000Housing & Shelter$50,000

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.

California Community FoundationCA12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 SEAN COMBS 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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: LADYLIKE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 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 611552251 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 LADYLIKE FOUNDATION, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 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 17% 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.

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How do I get to The Sean Combs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sean Combs 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 SEAN COMBS 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

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sean Combs Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SEAN COMBS 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

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sean Combs Foundation?

More from the funding graph