· Private foundation
Voices Underground
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR | $10,000 |
| THE ARTIST BANK INC | $10,000 |
| ALIQUIPPA GREEN | $10,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S COALITION FOR | $10,000 |
| TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS & TECHNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT | $7,000 |
| NAACP - INDIANA COUNTY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| JUNETEENTH LEHIGH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| NAACP - WILKES-BARRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS CO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- YPYOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
- STSHERMAN THEATER2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
- TWTHE WOMEN'S COALITION FOR2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
Funded once
- WAWELCOME AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +70%
- STSTOP THE VIOLENCE PITTSBURGHone grant, 2022 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Shakespeare in Clark Park produces cultural events which bridge the gap between audiences and artists by inviting community members to take part in making and shaping our productions. Our productions are rooted in the people of…
The misssion of the elfreth's alley association is to preserve and protect the elfreth's alley historic district, while interpreting the contributions of everday philadelphians to our american story.
Community development resources
Promote and preserve cultural heritage of India
Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.
Promote tourism in Centre County PA
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welcome America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Juneteenth Lehigh Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WELCOME AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALIQUIPPA GREEN ↗
- Who funds THE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU ↗
- Who funds BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE ↗
- Who funds Chester County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENNSBURY SOCIETY ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Voices Underground 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.
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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Find your warmest path to Voices Underground through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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