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Transcend Inc

Transcend supports communities to create and spread extraordinary learning for all.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$186k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$400kEnvironment$400kCommunity Improvement$400kHuman Services$50k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$185,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$185,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UP FROM SLAVERY INITIATIVE: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
MA
SD
CA
AZ
NC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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West Side Connect

To foster bridges of care, uniting and empowering Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander communities in the West Portland Metro Area through education, mentorship, and cultural advocacy.

Arts & Culture
2
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
3
Literary Freedom Project Inc

The Literary Freedom Project creates free, open spaces for communities to engage with books through weekly discussions and presentations. Our programs promote literacy, celebrate the diverse cultures of the Bronx and NYC, and foster…

Arts & Culture
4
Made Wright Inc

community and workplace development

Community Improvement
5
Pro-Equity Anti-Racism Institute
Philanthropy
6
Renew Richmond

Renew Richmond strives to build healthier, more self-empowered communities by involving local youth in agriculture and environmental sustainability. We do this by partnering with local public schools.

Environment
7
Latinas Leading Tomorrow

Connect and expose Latinas to opportunities that enrich their future through education mentoring and leadership development.

Human Services
8
Educator Collective for Envionmental Justice Inc

Environmental Justice & Equality

Education
9
Uplift
Education
10
African Link Initiative Inc

African Link Initiative (A.L.I.) is an evidence-based identity development program that seeks to drive a paradigm shift that transforms how youth of African descent see their world and their possibilities by first transforming how they see…

Arts & Culture
11
Browning the Green Space Inc

We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. we are powering a just energy transition in the…

Environment
12
Sjl Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Education Foundation of Eastern N; the most unlike its peers is Lindsay Educational Foundation for Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,852,260 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE: $250,000 · OtherROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBEHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N: $400,000 · EducationHEALTH EDUCAT…THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE YOUNG PEO…LINDSAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING: $25,000 · EducationMAINE INSIDE OUT: $400,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE INSID…WEST ATLANTIC REDEVELOPMENT COALITION INC: $400,000 · Community ImprovementWEST ATLANT…EcoRise Youth Innovations: $400,000 · EnvironmentEcoRise You…Peace Development Fund: $50,000 · InternationalUp From Slavery Initiative: $50,000 · Human Services
Other$2,102,260Education$475,000Arts & Culture$400,000Community Improvement$400,000Environment$400,000International$50,000Human Services$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT: $400,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetWEST ATLANTIC REDEVELOPMENT COALITION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N: $400,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEcoRise Youth Innovations: $400,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUp From Slavery Initiative: $50,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetLINDSAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Transcend Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Transcend Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • The Young People's Project Inc: 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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