· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Street Poets Inc | $100,000 |
| Bring Change 2 Mind | $100,000 |
| Sounds True Foundation | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -11% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SISearch Inside Yourself Leadership Institute3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue -51% · 71% of their budget
- KPKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $878k · revenue 0%
- SCSTORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC2× · 2023–2024 · $872k · revenue -11%
Funded once
- MRMindshift Recovery Incone grant, 2023 · $125k
- TPTHE PEACE STUDIOone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
The mission of the Nonduality Institute is to advance scientific understanding of nonduality through conducting research into neural signatures of nondual awareness and its effects on cognitive, affective and perceptual…
Inseparable Inc is focused on creating a world where mental health is treated as a critical and equal piece of overall health, and where systems are designed with their impact on mental health in mind. Inseparable, Inc. is a growing…
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.
Mindful school's mission is to empower educators to spark change from the inside out by cultivating awareness, resilience, and compassionate action.
To cultivate excellent mental health among academics globally
Our mission is to transform lives through the innate power of the arts, guided by mental health practices, to foster healing, connection, and resilience for all.
The institute of contemporary psychoanalysis was formed in 1990 to offer mental health professionals, as well as scholars and professionals from other fields, the opportunity to study the full scope of psychoanalytic theory and clinical…
Our mission is to conduct research, teach, and provide direct care using psychedelic medicine and other means to heal the minds and hearts of traumatized and vulnerable individuals and communities, alleviating transgenerational suffering.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Our mission: transforming california's mental health and substance use care systems through education, advocacy, accountability, and inspired leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medicinal Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mindshift Recovery Inc. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds KALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds STORYVILLE CENTER FOR THE SPOKEN WORD INC ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Fireside Project Inc ↗
- Who funds END WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASS DESIGN GROUP LTD ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mindshift Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDFULNESS FIRST ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRING CHANGE 2 MIND ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds SOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STREET POETS INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds IGDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEACE STUDIO ↗
- Who funds DEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICINAL MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DRALA MOUNTAIN CENTER Formerly Shambhala Mountain Center ↗
- Who funds MOTUS THEATER ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Mindful Life Project ↗
- Who funds WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds CloseGap ↗
- Who funds USONA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAGIK MAGIK ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JIMMY MILLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Unlikely Collaborators Foundation · Impactassetsinc · BESS Family Foundation · The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Riverstyx Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation
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 organization 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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 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.
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