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Unplug Collaborative

Centered around the annual awareness campaign, Unplug Collaborative provides resources (financial, in-kind) for youth organizations, businesses and social impact groups that organize events focused on combatting loneliness and promoting digital wellbeing.

$405k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $236,297, the rows itemized in this filing. The $404,759 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,462 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

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $216k
$22,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$218k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HBCUs Outside Incorporated$39,420
Persona the Shop$22,500
Suppa Club Inc$22,500
Stilllife Art Inc$22,500
Skip The Small Talk$22,500
The Painted Cloud LLC$22,500
Working Progress NYC$22,491
Free to Be Collective LLC$21,809
Blacklist NYC LLC$19,445
Queer Aunties LLC$8,557
Commonwealth Running$6,737
StoryTell LLC$5,338
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Skip The Small Talk: $23k → 8%Queer Aunties LLC: $9k → 14%Stilllife Art Inc: $23k → 17%Commonwealth Running: $7k → 20%Free to Be Collective LLC: $22k → 14%Suppa Club Inc: $23k → 14%Blacklist NYC LLC: $19k → 20%Persona the Shop: $23k → 14%Working Progress NYC: $22k → 20%StoryTell LLC: $5k → 20%The Painted Cloud LLC: $23k → 20%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 field
03the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2023–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2023 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Painted Cloud LLC: $22,500 · OtherThe Painted Cloud LLCSkip The Small Talk: $22,500 · OtherSkip The Small TalkPersona the Shop: $22,500 · OtherPersona the ShopSuppa Club Inc: $22,500 · OtherSuppa Club IncStilllife Art Inc: $22,500 · OtherStilllife Art IncWORKINPROGRESSNYC INC: $22,491 · OtherWORKINPROGRESSNYC INCFree to Be Collective LLC: $21,809 · OtherFree to Be Collective LLCBlacklist NYC LLC: $19,445 · OtherBlacklist NYC LLCQueer Aunties LLC: $8,557 · OtherCommonwealth Running: $6,737 · Other+1 more: $5,338 · OtherHBCUS OUTSIDE INCORPORATED: $39,420 · Youth DevelopmentHBCUS OUTSIDE INCO…
Other$196,877Youth Development$39,420

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHBCUS OUTSIDE INCORPORATED: $39,420 over 1y, 22% 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.

  • Who funds HBCUS OUTSIDE INCORPORATED ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’23’24
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY23–24
    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.
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    How do I get to Unplug Collaborative?

    Find your warmest path to Unplug Collaborative 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 12 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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