How much did THE SMALL CHANGE FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of THE SMALL CHANGE 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

2019

intersexasylumadvocacyyouthgaylgbtprofessional

2020

legal childrenlgbt youthreligiousmadeoutspokenequalityissues

2021

artsnamechangeshealthcivil rightstodayadvocacy

2022

francisco foundation'sfoundation's bay

2023

francisco foundation'sfoundation's bay

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

03FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $833
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k

$651

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION HALLELUJAH FUND$11,228
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION HALLELUJAH FUND$651
THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION HALLELUJAH FUND$182

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 16% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.6M · 28 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$397k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%

Still filing today

46%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 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

Civil RightsEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHealthOther

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

THE TREVOR PROJECT
4× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue +459%
OA
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL
4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +461%
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER
3× · 2018–2021 · $70k · revenue +196%

Funded once

US
UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW THE WILLIAMS INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $60k
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GLAD (GLBTI LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS)
one grant, 2018 · $50k
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -20%

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.

Glaad Inc

As the world's largest lgbtq media advocacy organization, glaad ensures fair, accurate, and inclusive representation that leads to 100% acceptance.

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Qcc-the Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual

Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the artistic and financial development of queer art and culture. We steward artists whose programs nourish, connect, and mobilize trans & queer communities in San Francisco and its diaspora.

Arts & Culture

Lgbt Life Center

Lgbt life center is a trusted leader that empowers the lgbtq communities and all people affected by hiv through improving health and wellness, strengthening families and communities, and providing transformative education and advocacy.

Health

Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

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Gender Justice League

Gender Justice League's mission is to empower all people to eliminate discrimination and prejudice based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation in Washington State, and to ensure that trans and gender diverse…

Civil Rights

Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender

The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes available to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.

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The Audre Lorde Project Inc

The audre lorde project, inc. alp is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color community organizing center, focusing on the new york city area. through mobilization, education, and…

Health

National Lgbtq Task Force

Build power, take action and create change to win complete equality and achieve justice for lgbtq people and their families.

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Oakland Lgbtq Community Center Inc

The Oakland LGBTQ Community Center is dedicated to enhancing and sustaining the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, our families and allies, by providing educational, social, and health related…

Community Improvement

Immigration Equality

Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Civil Rights

Gay City Health Project

Seattle's lgbtq+ center is the definitive hub for lgbtq individuals seeking affirming and responsive resources, wellness, and community.

Arts & Culture

Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center

Provided services to ensure the physical, psychological and social well being of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and hiv/aids affected community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Glsen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Swarthmore College. 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

23 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)

22/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,380,453Civil Rights$327,500Education$100,000Arts & Culture$80,000Philanthropy$60,000Community Improvement$57,500Crime & Legal$30,000

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Arcus Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Gill Foundation · Horizons Foundation · The California Endowment · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 organisation THE SMALL CHANGE 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: PALM CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 273039386 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 PALM CENTER, 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.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% 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 Small Change Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Small Change 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 SMALL CHANGE 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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Small Change Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SMALL CHANGE 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

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Small Change Foundation?

More from the funding graph