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THE SELFRELIANCE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$1.1M
Granted FY2024
78
Grants
9
Communities
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of THE SELFRELIANCE 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
branchorthodox cathedralcatholic churchchicagoensembleeducationukrainian congress
2019
foundatiochurcchucatholic churyouth associatiocatcommittee ame
2020
baptist ukrainianoseliabanduracatholic churchbranchorthodox cathedralchicago
2021
catholukrainian catcatholic churyouth associatiofoundatiochucommittee ame
2022
conventionyouth cymdetroitbranchorthodox cathedralcatholic churcheparchy
2023
detroitbvmorthodox cathedralbranchcatholic churchdance ensemblebaptist ucc
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 78 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $565k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $365k
$7,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
- St Nicholas Ukr Cath Eparchy$95,000
- St Joseph Ukr Cath Church$75,000
- Selfreliance Association$75,000
- St Nicholas Cathedral School$65,000
- Sts Volodymyr and Olha Ukr Cath Church$55,000
- Immaculate Conception Ukr Cath Church$37,500
- Ukrainian Catholic University Found$35,200
- Amer Ukr Youth Assoc inc Pavlushkov Bran$35,000
- Amer Ukr Youth Assoc inc Vitovsky Branch$32,500
- St John the Baptist UCC Whippany$30,000
- Plast Inc$25,000
- Ukrainian National Museum$25,000
- St Nicholas Ukr Cath Cathedral$25,000
- St Andrew Ukr Orth Cathedral$25,000
- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art$20,000
02The need
04
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 (FY22–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 90 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else
90 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
90
63
Total granted
$4.2M
$424k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+138%
+206%
Still filing today
13%
5%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureInternationalReligionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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
- SASelfreliance Association3× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +1440%
- HUHromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble4× · 2018–2023 · $35k · revenue +143%
- RSRevived Soldiers Ukraine2× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +1444%
Funded once
- ICImmaculate Conception Ukrainian Byzone grant, 2019 · $82k
- SJSt John the Baptist UCCone grant, 2021 · $40k
- SJSt John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $34k
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.
1
Ukrainian Leadership Foundation
The ukrainian leadership foundation mission is for charitable, scientific or educational purposes and to engage in such other activities which are exclusively in furtherance of these purposes.
International
2
Us Ukrainian Activists Inc
Our mission is to support Ukraine, its people, and its culture. We provide aid to Ukrainian front-line paramedics, hospitals, defenders, veterans, and children while also carrying out other humanitarian efforts. Additionally, we focus on…
Philanthropy
3
Ukrainian Foundation
In 2006, Ukrainian Foundation was established by the immigrants from Ukraine to help the Ukrainian refugees adjust to their new home in the United States. Our base is in Portland, OR, a home to over 100,000 immigrants from Ukraine. With…
Human Services
4
Ukrainian National Womens League of America Inc
To unite and organize women interested in ukraine and those of ukrainian descent for the purpose of fostering ukrainian cultural heritage, promoting knowledge of ukrainian culture; promoting ties to other ukrainian, american and…
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5
Ukrainian National Museum
Preservation and exhibition of Ukrainian history and culture.
Arts & Culture
6
Ukrainian American Citizens Assoc
Foster social and cultural activities
Arts & Culture
7
Ukrainian San Antonio
To preserve and promote Ukrainian culture and heritage in our local community. During the russian invasion into Ukraine, the organization has been working to collect and procure medical and humanitarian supplies to help Ukrainians who are…
Arts & Culture
8
Ukrainian Academy of Arts & Sciences in the U S Inc
Research, advancement and promotion of Ukrainian studies and culture in the United States
Arts & Culture
9
Ukrainian American Community
To unite and empower the community through social services, humanitarian aid, community services, and the advancement of ukrainian history, culture, and heritage.
Human Services
10
Ukrainian Federation of America Inc
To support services and programs which contribute to the preservation, enrichment and promotion of ukrainian identity, language and culture. to establish and develop vital academic, artistic, literary, medical, scientific, journalistic,…
International
11
Utah Ukrainian Association
Focusing on amplifying Ukrainian voices, organizing community rallies and fundraisers, and sending aid to address critical humanitarian needs in Ukraine and assisting parolees and refugees in the USA.
International
12
Ukrainian American Veterans
Promoting recognition of service to the United States Armed forces by Americans of Ukrainian descent, providing scholarships to children of veterans and material support for ill veterans.
Public Benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the most unlike its peers is Sc Connection-Ua Npf. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 29% 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%0/24
the rest of the field
11%
7,683/72,335
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
20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$4,965,120Human Services$185,000Arts & Culture$75,500Religion$50,000International$28,000Recreation & Sports$21,500Public Safety & Disaster$12,500
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.
Heritage Foundation of First Security Federal Sav Bank IncIL18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 SELFRELIANCE 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: Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble.
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; revenue up 2.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 320132302 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 Hromovytsia Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, 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.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% 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 Selfreliance Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Selfreliance 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines