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Uncharted

Educate, train and support entrepreneurs to launch financially sustainable businesses and non-profit organizations to provide solutions to global economic, social, and environmental issues.

$271k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Community Improvement$170kEducation$132kEmployment$117kHousing & Shelter$100kHuman Services$50kPublic Benefit$50kCrime & Legal$42kYouth Development$42kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $95,288, the rows itemized in this filing. The $270,708 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $175,420 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$95,288
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON FUTURE$95,288
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREE FROM: $25k → 14%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

IL
NY
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
KS
NC
DC
AL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 7 repeat orgs$620k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +462% since the first grant, against +158% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
19

Total granted

$274k
$525k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+462%
+158%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GC
    Good Call NYC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $42k · revenue +110%
  • UI
    UPCHIEVE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $42k · revenue +462%
  • TW
    TEAM WETHRIVE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $42k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TRUST NEIGHBORHOODSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +158%
  • FC
    FULL CITIZENS COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • R
    RAIN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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2
Change Machine

Description of organization mission: change machines mission is to build financial security for low-income communities through people-powered technology. change machine accomplishes this mission through a technology platform that amplifies…

Human Services
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
7
Fair Work Center

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

Employment
8
Center for the Future of Learning

The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…

Education
9
Code to Work Inc

An employer-led initiative aimed at transforming the hiring process. we use a skills-based approach to identify, train and hire talent. the traditional credentials-based focus must evolve to give all qualified job seekers a chance to prove…

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10
Ffwd

FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.

Philanthropy
11
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
12
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Work Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pie for Providers Ltd. 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

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION: $41,667 · OtherOBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATIONLITERACY LAB: $41,666 · OtherLITERACY LABFULL CITIZENS COALITION: $25,000 · OtherFULL CITIZENS COALITIONRAIN: $25,000 · OtherRAINIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAVE CONSULTING PBC: $25,000 · OtherCAVE CONSULTING PBCPIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD: $25,000 · OtherPIE FOR PROVIDERS LTDTHRIVE INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED: $25,000 · OtherTHRIVE INDUSTRIES INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEVEL: $25,000 · OtherLEVELISSUE VOTER: $25,000 · OtherISSUE VOTERONWARD: $25,000 · OtherONWARDSIRIUM: $25,000 · OtherSIRIUMCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INCFreefrom: $25,000 · OtherFreefromCOMMON FUTURE: $95,288 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTURETRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $75,000 · Community ImprovementTRUST NEIGHBORHOODSTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE GREENLINING INSTITUT…UPCHIEVE INC: $41,667 · EducationUPCHIEVE INCCAREERVILLAGE INC: $25,000 · EducationCAREERVILLAGE …TALKINGPOINTS: $25,000 · EducationTALKINGPOINTSKINFOLK TECH FOUNDATION: $23,569 · EducationKINFOLK TECH F…Empower Work Inc: $41,666 · EmploymentEmpower Wor…Missouri Workers Center: $25,000 · EmploymentMissouri Wo…LIVING WAGE FOR US INC: $25,000 · EmploymentLIVING WAGE…Good Call NYC: $41,667 · Crime & LegalTEAM WETHRIVE INC: $41,667 · Recreation & SportsJustFix Inc: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$408,333Community Improvement$195,288Education$115,236Employment$91,666Crime & Legal$41,667Recreation & Sports$41,667Housing & Shelter$25,000

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 budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $95,288 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $75,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetGood Call NYC: $41,667 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC: $41,667 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTEAM WETHRIVE INC: $41,667 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetLITERACY LAB: $41,666 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEmpower Work Inc: $41,666 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCAREERVILLAGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMissouri Workers Center: $25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetJustFix Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPIE FOR PROVIDERS LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FORT WAYNE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreefrom: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINFOLK TECH FOUNDATION: $23,569 over 2y, 6.9% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincFfwdTides FoundationThe Roddenberry Found…The Robert Wood Johns…The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Instructional Telecom…Robin Hood FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Verizon Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Ffwd · Tides Foundation · The Roddenberry Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Uncharted?

    Find your warmest path to Uncharted 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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