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Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Inc

To educate future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of communism and to advocate for the freedom of those still held captive by communist regimes.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Civil Rights$2.6MEnvironment$185k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $882k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$125,652
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSOCIATION CIVIL AGORA$274,988
CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS$231,701
1001 IDEAS INC$183,958
DEFIENDE VENEZUELA INC$153,613
VOCES DE LA MEMORIA INC$125,652
UN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA INC$110,000
PLAN PAIS INC$77,403
OBSERVATORIO DE LA DISPORA VENEZOLANA -ODV$41,148
COMPROMISO COMPARTIDO CORPORATION$33,936
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA INC: $110k → 22%CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS: $146k → 14%OBSERVATORIO DE LA DISPORA VENEZOLANA -ODV: $41k → 13%1001 IDEAS INC: $184k → 15%ASSOCIATION CIVIL AGORA: $275k → 7%CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS: $232k → 6%PLAN PAIS INC: $258k → 7%PLAN PAIS INC: $55k → 14%OBSERVATORIO DE LA DISPORA VENEZOLANA -ODV: $20k → 13%1001 IDEAS INC: $137k → 15%ASSOCIATION CIVIL AGORA: $104k → 7%CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS: $231k → 6%PLAN PAIS INC: $77k → 7%COMPROMISO COMPARTIDO CORPORATION: $83k → 15%COMPROMISO COMPARTIDO CORPORATION: $34k → 15%VOCES DE LA MEMORIA INC: $126k → 15%VOCES DE LA MEMORIA INC: $60k → 15%DEFIENDE VENEZUELA INC: $154k → 15%UMBRELLA ART FOUNDATION: $134k → 15%DEFIENDE VENEZUELA INC: $31k → 15%HUMANIST POLITICAL CULTURE: $9k → 15%AC CONSORCIO DESARROLLO Y JUSTICIA: $301k → 15%COMISION IBEROAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS INC: $16k → 15%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 8 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationInternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $608k · revenue +20% · 41% of their budget
  • 1I
    1001 IDEAS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $321k · revenue +99%
  • DV
    DEFIENDE VENEZUELA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $185k · revenue +56% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    AC CONSORCIO DESARROLLO Y JUSTICIA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $301k
  • UA
    UMBRELLA ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $134k
  • CI
    COMISION IBEROAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
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
Redes Ayudas Inc
International
2
Plantados Until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba Inc
—
3
Foundation for Argentinean Development
Philanthropy
4
Andean Information Network

Human rights issues in Bolivia

Human Services
5
Humano Y Libre Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Hispanic Heritage Literature

Culture advance and literature

Arts & Culture
7
Global Voice
—
8
Autonomous University of Political Education Campus
—
9
Pueblo Critico Inc
Education
10
Universal Cultural Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Ecuador Cultural Alliance
Education
12
Vision Democratica

Promoting democracy in latin america. support of humanitarian aid in venezuela assisting over700 children daily & provided leadership & diplomacy training to 300 high schoolers.organized expo to promote the venezuelan talents in the dc…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Defiende Venezuela Inc; the most unlike its peers is Campaign for Uyghurs Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC: $608,439 · Community ImprovementCAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC1001 IDEAS INC: $321,117 · Community Improvement1001 IDEAS INCPLAN PAIS INC: $390,127 · EducationPLAN PAIS INCAsociacion Civil Agora: $378,988 · EducationAsociacion Civil AgoraAC CONSORCIO DESARROLLO Y JUSTICIA INC: $301,002 · InternationalAC CONSORCIO…+1 more: $9,286 · InternationalUMBRELLA ART FOUNDATION: $133,908 · OtherOBSERVATORIO DE LA DIASPORA VENEZOLANA INC: $61,346 · OtherCOMISION IBEROAMERICANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS INC: $16,198 · OtherVoces de la Memoria INC: $185,642 · Civil RightsDEFIENDE VENEZUELA INC: $184,565 · EnvironmentCompromiso Compartido Corporation: $116,849 · Public BenefitUN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA: $110,000 · Social Science
Community Improvement$929,556Education$769,115International$310,288Other$211,452Civil Rights$185,642Environment$184,565Public Benefit$116,849Social Science$110,000

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 budgetCAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS INC: $608,439 over 3y, 41% of budgetPLAN PAIS INC: $390,127 over 3y, 22% of budgetAsociacion Civil Agora: $378,988 over 2y, 74% of budgetVoces de la Memoria INC: $185,642 over 2y, 14% of budgetDEFIENDE VENEZUELA INC: $184,565 over 2y, 33% of budgetUN MUNDO SIN MORDAZA: $110,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHUMANIST POLITICAL CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY CORP: $9,286 over 1y, 11% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%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
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY21–25
    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.

    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 13 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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