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The Sean Combs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$250kCommunity Improvement$150kYouth Development$115kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$100kEnvironment$100kHealth$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
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States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCESS BOOKS$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $25k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of The Sean Combs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Sean Combs Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$955k · 7 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$955k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+20%

Still filing today

43%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CP
    CAPITAL PREPARATORY HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2022 · $300k
  • AB
    ACCESS BOOKS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue 0%
  • BU
    BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue -64%

Funded once

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +38%
  • SC
    SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +38%
  • AT
    APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -8%

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.

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The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy Charter School

See schedule othe mission of harlem children's zone promise academy charter school is to ensure that children from under-served communities are academically, socially and emotionally ready to succeed in college and tomorrow's workplace.…

Education
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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education
6
Harlem Academy

Harlem academy drives equity of opportunity for promising children, guiding them to thrive at the highest academic levels and one day make a mark on the world.

Education
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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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Uncommon New York City Charter Schools

Uncommon new york city charter schools operates outstanding urban public schools that close the opportunity gap and prepare students from low-income communities to graduate from college.

Education
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Youthbuild Global Inc

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

Employment
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Lead Program in Business

The mission is to address higher education access and career preparation by optimizing cross-sector collaborations and global partnerships that focus on identifiying and nurturing high potential youth of diverse backgrounds by developing…

Community Improvement
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The Archer School for Girls Inc

The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…

Education
12
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dream Charter School 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jackson State University Development Foundation Inc — $333,333 · EducationJackson State University Development Foundation IncTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $250,000 · EducationSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDACCESS BOOKS — $224,500 · EducationACCESS BOOKS+1 more — $10,000 · EducationCAPITAL PREPARATORY HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL — $300,000 · OtherCAPITAL PREPARATORY HARLEM CHA…TEENS EXERCISING EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS — $100,000 · OtherTEENS EXERCISING EXTRAORDINARY…MOUNT ST MICHAEL ACADEMY — $95,000 · OtherMOUNT ST MICHAEL ACADEMYMiami Rescue Mission Inc — $50,000 · OtherMiami Rescue Mission IncMISA HYLTON FASHION ACADEMY INC — $30,000 · OtherThe Future Project Inc — $25,000 · OtherTHE CARVER INC — $25,000 · Other+3 more — $30,000 · OtherAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureAPOLLO THEAT…THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DREAMYAR…BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $150,000 · Community ImprovementLADYLIKE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Food & NutritionSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentHOLLYROD FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,117,833Other$655,000Arts & Culture$280,000Community Improvement$150,000Food & Nutrition$100,000Environment$100,000Recreation & Sports$55,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJackson State University Development Foundation Inc — $333,333 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCAPITAL PREPARATORY HARLEM CHARTER SCHOOL — $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetACCESS BOOKS — $224,500 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLADYLIKE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLYROD FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISA HYLTON FASHION ACADEMY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetThe Future Project Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARVER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNT VERNON INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDREAM CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnity Unlimited Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organization 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • The Carver Inc16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 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

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How do I get to The Sean Combs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sean Combs Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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