How much did Unlikely Collaborators Inc grant in FY2024?

Unlikely Collaborators Inc reported 44 grants totaling $5,075,952 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Unlikely Collaborators Inc based?

Unlikely Collaborators Inc is based in CA.

Unlikely Collaborators Inc

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

Unlikely Collaborators Inc

Using the perception box lens and framework UCI helps people untangle the stories holding them back through experiences, storytelling, impact, science and investments.

$5.1M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$622k

Largest

01What you fund

0189% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.2MPublic Benefit$1.1MEducation$981kHealth$878kHuman Services$318kInternational$150kPhilanthropy$125kReligion$52kYouth Development$50kOther$820k

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

2022

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2023

traininghonorsenseavoidemotionalthinkingperspectives

2024

see part

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k13 grants · $418k
$50k–250k25 grants · $2.3M
$250k+5 grants · $2.4M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$151M

Total assets

Largest grants

Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc DBA The Moth$621,784
Naropa University$572,000
KALW Public Media Inc$560,500
Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute$333,334
University of Miami$299,004
End Well Foundation$154,000
MASS Design Group$150,000
Dougy Center The National Grief Center for Children & Families$136,500
Fireside Project Inc$136,357
Entertainment Industry Foundation$125,000
Mindfulness First$109,353
The UCLA Foundation$107,890
Sounds True Foundation$100,000
Open Source Wellness$100,000
Street Poets Inc$100,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 69% of those 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.4M · 5 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.4M

$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%

+815%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

KP
KALW Public Media Inc
2× · 2023–2024 · $878k · revenue +89%
SC
Storyville Center for the Spoken Word Inc DBA The Moth
2× · 2023–2024 · $872k · revenue +2%
UO
University of Miami
3× · 2022–2024 · $409k · revenue +72%

Funded once

MR
Mindshift Recovery Inc
one grant, 2023 · $125k
TP
The Peace Studio Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +815%

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.

Mindful Schools

Mindful school's mission is to empower educators to spark change from the inside out by cultivating awareness, resilience, and compassionate action.

Education

Healthy Minds Innovations Inc

Translating science into tools to cultivate and measure well-being, with a vision to make planet earth a kinder, wiser, and more compassionate place to live.

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Inseparable Inc

Inseparable Inc is a mental health organization focused on building a social movement with the power to raise awareness and change the public dialogue about mental health policies which will improve lives and care for millions of Americans.

Health

Institute for Therapy Through the Arts

To empower and energize individuals, families, and communities to grow and heal through advanced approaches in creative arts therapy, setting the standard for treatment, practice, and training within the field.

Health

David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness

David lynch foundation is committed to addressing the global epidemic of mental trauma and relieving toxic stress by advancing transcendental meditation as a therapeutic practice and making these evidence-based programs widely available at…

Philanthropy

Unlikely Collaborators Inc

Using the perception box lens and framework UCI helps people untangle the stories holding them back through experiences, storytelling, impact, science and investments.

Philanthropy

Art With Impact

Promote mental wellness by creating space for young people to learn and connect through art and media. We work in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and Canada, leveraging the arts to eliminate the stigma around mental illness.

Arts & Culture

The Center for Contemplative

To explore the nature and potentials of consciousness firsthand, while fully engaging with scientists to develop rigorous measures for novel research into the nature of the mind.

Religion

The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc

Divine Mercy University is a Catholic graduate school of psychology and counseling, founded in 1999. The University is dedicated to the scientific study of psychology and counseling with a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage and…

Education

The Art of Yoga Project

To bring mindfulness-based practices to system-involved and other marginalized youth for their healing and empowerment. we understand that youth require a predictable, safe, supportive environment to heal. we combine yoga, meditation, and…

Human Services

Wisdom & Money

Wisdom & Money offers retreats, trainings, spiritual companioning, written reflections & workshops designed to encourage people of wealth and people from a culture of wealth to engage with money as a doorway to spiritual transformation at…

Public Benefit

Institute for Contemplative Life

Inner Pathway is the trade name for the Institute for Contemplative Life, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created by Dr. Fran Grace in 2008, as directed by her teacher. Our purpose is to support the inner pathway of all who come to us.…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bring Change 2 Mind and the most unlike its peers is Storyville Center for the Spoken. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/46

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,932

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

34/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$2,245,438Public Benefit$1,100,000Education$981,247Health$878,357Other$1,046,780Human Services$318,000International$150,000

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincMD17.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Unlikely Collaborators Foundation · BESS Family Foundation · The Frederick P Lenz Foundation For · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Unlikely Collaborators Inc 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800794674 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 Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 71% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Unlikely Collaborators Inc?

Find your warmest path to Unlikely Collaborators Inc 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.

Unlikely Collaborators Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Unlikely Collaborators Inc?

More from the funding graph

Unlikely Collaborators Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Unlikely Collaborators Inc?

More from the funding graph