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Unite the United

Fundraising for charitable purposes

$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$200kHealth$183kEnvironment$79kEducation$16kCommunity Improvement$10kInternational$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $93,943, the rows itemized in this filing. The $101,915 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,972 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$15,966
Median grant
2
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSICARES FOUNDATION$62,060
CHARITY BOMB INC$15,966
SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION$15,917
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITY BOMB INC: $16k → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$441k · 6 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +152% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$441k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+152%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’24
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +152%
  • TK
    THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $73k · revenue +79%
  • LT
    Living the Dream Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $53k · revenue +648%

Funded once

  • FP
    FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • DI
    DROP IN THE BUCKETgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +38%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +27%
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
The Sergio Franchi Music Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Artists and Musicians in Recovery
Education
3
Burnett Music Foundation
—
4
David and Kathryn Mccartney Foundation
Health
5
Kurt Cobain Music Education Project
Arts & Culture
6
Oxnard Music Advocacy Group Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Conservation Music
Arts & Culture
8
The Hopeless Foundation Dba Sub City

The mission of the Foundation is to bridge musicians with their fans through the issues that touch their hearts. The Foundation was created with the realization that music touches the lives of young people in ways directly connected to…

Arts & Culture
9
Fender Play Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Cal Med Foundation
Education
11
The Healing Notes Foundation
Health
12
In Concert for Cancer

Present world-class benefit concerts to provide support to cancer organizations committed to helping patients, their families and to cancer discoveries and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Musicares Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Living the Dream Foundation. 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

11 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $200,325 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCLiving the Dream Foundation: $53,397 · HealthLiving the Dream Foun…TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $35,252 · HealthTJ MARTELL FOUNDATIONChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $5,472 · HealthChildren's Hospital L…DOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION: $46,224 · EnvironmentDOHENY STATE BEACH…THE SAN ONOFRE FOUNDATION: $33,000 · EnvironmentTHE SAN ONOFRE FOU…THE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $73,165 · EducationTHE KEEP A BREAS…Charity Bomb Inc: $15,966 · Human ServicesDROP IN THE BUCKET: $6,000 · Human ServicesSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $15,917 · OtherFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$200,325Health$94,121Environment$79,224Education$73,165Human Services$21,966Other$15,917Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $200,325 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KEEP A BREAST FOUNDATION: $73,165 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetLiving the Dream Foundation: $53,397 over 3y, 18% of budgetDOHENY STATE BEACH INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION: $46,224 over 2y, 35% of budgetTJ MARTELL FOUNDATION: $35,252 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAN ONOFRE FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $15,917 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDROP IN THE BUCKET: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $5,472 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 Unite the United funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unite the United. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Unite the United?

Find your warmest path to Unite the United 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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