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Three Graces Foundation Inc

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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2022
12
Itemized grants FY2022
12
Organizations funded FY2022
58%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$3.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$62,500
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,429,225
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
5
Total assets, FY2022
$50M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 58% of the organizations Three Graces Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202212$3.0M58%
FY20218$2.0Mn/a
81% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$3.9MEnvironment$383kArts & Culture$250kCivil Rights$225kHuman Services$133kFood & Nutrition$50kReligion$5kEducation$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Three Graces Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Clear Fund: $3,701,663 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAsian Cine-Vision Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetInnovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation: $215,884 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGivedirectly Inc: $133,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAsian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefed Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Carbon Removal: $33,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe United Way of Central Maryland Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDaily Californian Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAdventist Health International: $4,893 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC10.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Three Graces Foundation 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.

About Three Graces Foundation Inc

How much does Three Graces Foundation Inc give?
Three Graces Foundation Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $3,006,285, out of $3,539,285 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Three Graces Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (30%), Environment (3%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Three Graces Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: The Clear Fund ($3.7M), Asian Cine-Vision Inc ($250k), Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation ($216k).
Does Three Graces Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Three Graces Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Three Graces Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Three Graces Foundation Inc based?
Three Graces Foundation Inc is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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