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Fair Count Inc

Fair count builds long-term power within historically undercounted communities.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Civil Rights$5.0MPublic Benefit$955kPhilanthropy$148kInternational$122kFood & Nutrition$93kCrime & Legal$50kReligion$25kHuman Services$20k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $5,283,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,403,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $120,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $265k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.0M
$12,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEFENDING AMERICAN VALUES COALITION$4,985,000
SOULS TO THE POLLS WISCONSIN A PROJECT OF PASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY$25,000
MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC$20,000
DEMOCRACY NORTH CAROLINA$20,000
LA BREGA Y FUERZA INC$20,000
GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC$20,000
SOUTHERN RURAL BLACK WOMEN'S INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE$19,600
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC$17,000
MIJENTE$15,000
THE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT$13,500
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER COLUMBUS$12,000
WISDOM INC$12,000
SOWEGA RISING INC$10,500
ARONE M WASHINGTON FOUNDATION INC$10,200
LIFELINE BAPTIST CHURCH$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $20k → 20%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER COLUMBUS: $12k → 18%CLAY COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $5k → 25%ARONE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $24k → 10%MEDGAR AND ANGELA SCOTT FOUNDATION: $17k → 20%SOUTHERN RURAL BLACK WOMENS INITIATIVE FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $50k → 23%PUBLIC ALLIES (FISCAL AGENT FOR POWER COALITION): $10k → 17%MIGRANT EQUITY SOUTHEAST INC: $10k → 16%ARONE M WASHINGTON FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%MEDGAR AND ANGELA SCOTT FOUNDATION: $7k → 20%HMONG AMERICAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
NY
AZ
NM
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA

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.

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.

8%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$502k · 6 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
19

Total granted

$502k
$693k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-30%
-3%

Still filing today

100%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP
    3× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue -53%
  • SR
    Southern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue -30%
  • TL
    THE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue -18%

Funded once

  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CHURCH ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $155k · revenue +152%
  • GL
    GEORGIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $78k · revenue -59%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +4%

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
Transforming Georgia Inc

Transforming Georgia, Inc. is organized to make an indelible impact on the lives of Georgians through fighting for voting rights, supporting legislative solutions, programs and other proactive efforts to transform our communities.

Civil Rights
2
Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

—
3
One Voice

To ensure an equal voice to traditionally silenced communities across the South.

Public Benefit
4
Collective Renaissance Action

The mission of the collective renaissance guild is to educate, inform and train young leaders to build community and serve black communities and communities across the globe. we do this by elevating blac

Civil Rights
5
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.

—
6
Collective Renaissance Guild

The mission of the collective renaissance guild is to educate, inform and train young leaders to build community and serve black communities and communities across the globe. we do this by elevating blac

Arts & Culture
7
Haitian American Professional Coalition Inc

Civic Engagement for the Haitian Community

Religion
8
Memphis for All

To build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.

Civil Rights
9
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
10
Latino Community Fund Inc

The Organization supports Latino-serving and Latino-led nonprofit organization and the Latinx community as a whole in Georgia. This support includes advocacy work, program development, technical assistance, grant making, and more. Our…

Philanthropy
11
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

—
12
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sowega Rising. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…United Way AffiliatesChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%13%<5yr14%37%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr16%10%35–55yr15%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%83%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%1%10–20yr18%4%20–35yr16%1%35–55yr15%5%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 83% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/40
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,961

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.

04the grantee network

34 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
7/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Defending American Values Coalition — $4,985,000 · Civil RightsDefending American Values Coalition+5 more — $115,500 · Civil RightsNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL C…THE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT — $63,500 · OtherTHE LIGHTH…SAINT JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH — $57,000 · OtherSAINT JAME…LIFELINE BAPTIST CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherLIFELINE B…EDUCATE SOCIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY NETWORK — $25,000 · OtherPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC — $25,000 · Other+10 more — $103,000 · Other+10 moreINSTITUTE OF CHURCH ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT — $155,000 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $48,000 · EducationGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 · EducationSOUTH GEORGIA VOTERS LEAGUE INC — $10,000 · EducationSouthern Echo Inc — $10,000 · EducationSouthern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc — $69,600 · Human ServicesArone M Washington Foundation — $34,625 · Human ServicesMEDGAR & ANGELA SCOTT FOUNDATION — $24,450 · Human ServicesMake The Road States Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesMigrant Equity Southeast Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesHmong American Womens Association Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INC — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS INC — $77,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $70,000 · PhilanthropyWISDOM INC — $12,000 · PhilanthropyTWIN FORKS RISING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,150 · Community ImprovementLa Brega Y Fuerza Fund Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSowega Rising — $10,500 · Community ImprovementWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$5,100,500Other$573,500Education$243,000Human Services$195,675Philanthropy$159,500Community Improvement$95,650Crime & Legal$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDefending American Values Coalition — $4,985,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $250,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGEORGIA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS INC — $77,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC — $70,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Rural Black Womens Initiative for Economic and Social Justice Inc — $69,600 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT — $63,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTWIN FORKS RISING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $60,150 over 2y, 23% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $48,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArone M Washington Foundation — $34,625 over 2y, 97% of budgetMISSISSIPPI M O V E — $30,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetPASTORS UNITED COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMEDGAR & ANGELA SCOTT FOUNDATION — $24,450 over 2y, 15% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLa Brega Y Fuerza Fund Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST GA PROJECT FOR COMMUNITY EDUCATION INC — $17,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWISDOM INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER COLUMBUS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSowega Rising — $10,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMigrant Equity Southeast Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICANS FOR INDIAN OPPORTUNITY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHmong American Womens Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUBLIC ALLIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACH CONCERNED CITIZENS INC — $5,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWOODLAWN UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Bvm Capacity Building…New Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationThe Ford FoundationMarguerite Casey Foun…Windward FundThe Community Foundat…The David and Lucile …Common Counsel Founda…
Bvm Capacity Building Institute IncGA32.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Windward Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Common Counsel 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 Fair Count Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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, 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: 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fair Count Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fair Count Inc 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 44 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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