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TRUE VALUE FOUNDATION
TRUE VALUE FOUNDATION provides resources to improve the lives of youth in the communities we serve.
$303k
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$266k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Youth Development$1.9MInternational$81kPhilanthropy$57kEducation$12k
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
lyle heidemannheidemann scholarship
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
mchenryachieve
2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
- $250k+1 grant · $266k
$266,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$483k
Total assets
Largest grants
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO$266,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$37,388
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 3 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
5
Total granted
$2.0M
$100k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+17%
+54%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
Youth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA4× · 2017–2020 · $345k · revenue +62%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +214%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO - WOODLAND BRANCHgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $32k · revenue +54%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER MCHENRY COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -10%
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
Girl Scouts San Diego-Imperial
Gssd builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
Youth Development
2
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles
Girl scouts' mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. girl scouts of greater los angeles (gsgla), the largest girl-serving nonprofit in southern california, fulfills this mission…
Youth Development
3
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc
Building girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
Unclassified
4
Teensharp
Teensharp is building a diverse pipeline of leaders, one top college admission at a time. we do so by preparing hundreds of black, latino, and low-income students to attend, thrive at, and graduate (with little or no debt) from america's…
Youth Development
5
Council of the Great City Schools
Cgcs helps its members improve through assistance, research, conferences, and other activities.
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6
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Vall
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive,caring and responsible citizens.
Youth Development
7
Womens Campaign International
Women's campaign international (wci) empowers girls and women around the world to actively participate and fill leadership roles in the economy, community development, civil society, and pacebuilding efforts.
International
8
The Community Foundation of Utah
We enable all utahns to contribute to our community today, ensuring a brighter tomorrow.
Philanthropy
9
Georgian Court University
Georgian court offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in the roman catholic tradition. for more information see schedule o.
Education
10
The Boys- and Girls' Club of Topeka
The history of the boys & girls clubs of topeka dates to 1913 and was officially recognized as boys club of topeka in 1956. in 1976, to expand positive impact on school age youth, honorary chairs alfred landon and catherine menninger lead…
Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area
Provide youth, ages 6-18, a safe and engaging place to build positive relationships with caring adults, achieve academic success, adopt healthy lifestyles, grow into caring individuals, and realize their full potential as productive and…
Youth Development
12
Ingenuity Prep
Ingenuity prep public charter school prepares its students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity International Inc. 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
8 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Youth Development$1,924,764International$81,221Philanthropy$57,045Education$11,500
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.
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SACRAMENTO - WOODLAND BRANCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERISITY FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation TRUE VALUE 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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: BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 362166997 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CHICAGO, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% 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 True Value Foundation?
Find your warmest path to True Value 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