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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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Arts & Culture$164kCivil Rights$65kYouth Development$45kEmployment$20kEducation$15kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$10kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$384k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY$15,000
THE ARTIST BANK INC$10,000
THE WOMEN'S COALITION FOR$10,000
TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH$10,000
YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR$10,000
ALIQUIPPA GREEN$10,000
CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS & TECHNOLOGY$10,000
NAACP - INDIANA COUNTY$7,000
BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
JUNETEENTH LEHIGH VALLEY$5,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS CO$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NAACP - WILKES-BARRE$5,000
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 6%THE PENNSBURY SOCIETY: $1k → 6%THE WOMEN'S COALITION FOR: $10k → 7%HOPE STATION CARLISLE: $5k → 8%CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 10%ALIQUIPPA GREEN: $10k → 10%STOP THE VIOLENCE PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%JUNETEENTH LEHIGN VALLEY: $10k → 11%SHERMAN THEATER: $15k → 12%YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR: $15k → 12%VISIT MERCER COUNTY PA: $7k → 13%BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT: $7k → 13%NAACP - INDIANA COUNTY: $7k → 14%NAACP - WILKES-BARRE: $5k → 15%HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE: $15k → 16%NAACP - JOHNSTOWN: $8k → 16%THE ARTIST BANK INC: $10k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $5k → 6%AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS CO: $5k → 6%BE REZILLIENT: $5k → 7%CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 10%1 HOOD MEDIA: $5k → 11%JUNETEENTH LEHIGN INC: $10k → 11%SHERMAN THEATER: $10k → 12%YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR: $10k → 12%CITY OF FARRELL: $6k → 13%HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU: $10k → 16%THE ARTIST BANK INC: $10k → 22%CITY OF COATESVILLE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 6%TAYLOR MADE VETS JACE: $5k → 10%TRADE INSTITUE OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%JUNETEENTH LEHIGH VALLEY: $5k → 11%YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR: $10k → 12%JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE: $5k → 22%CHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4k → 6%TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%THE PHILADELPHIA JUNETEENTH FAMILY: $5k → 22%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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 7 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$151k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+24%

Still filing today

29%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
Arts & CultureEmploymentMembership BenefitEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • YP
    YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
  • ST
    SHERMAN THEATER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S COALITION FOR
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k

Funded once

  • WA
    WELCOME AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +70%
  • ST
    STOP THE VIOLENCE PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Voices Underground
Arts & Culture
2
Independence Hall Association
Arts & Culture
3
Shakespeare in Clark Park

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Elfreths Alley Association Inc

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.

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5
Belmont Alliance Civic Association

Community development resources

Youth Development
6
Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia

Promote and preserve cultural heritage of India

Community Improvement
7
Allentown Public Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Lithuanian Days
Arts & Culture
9
Tour-Ed Mine & Museum
Arts & Culture
10
Pa Museum of Military Vehicles
Arts & Culture
11
Central Pennsylvania Tasting Trail

Promote tourism in Centre County PA

Community Improvement
12
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welcome America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR: $35,000 · OtherYOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF COLORSHERMAN THEATER: $25,000 · OtherSHERMAN THEATERTHE WOMEN'S COALITION FOR: $20,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S COALITION FORARTIST BANK LLC: $20,000 · OtherARTIST BANK LLCNAACP - JOHNSTOWN: $18,000 · OtherNAACP - JOHNSTOWNSTOP THE VIOLENCE PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · OtherSTOP THE VIOLENCE PITTSBURGHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherTHE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU: $10,000 · OtherJUNETEENTH LEHIGN INC: $10,000 · Other+11 more: $62,000 · Other+11 moreWELCOME AMERICA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWELCOME AMERICA …CHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER: $13,000 · Arts & CultureCHESTER CULTURAL…AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN…1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture1HOOD MEDIA ACAD…JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNSON HOUSE HI…JUNETEENTH LEHIGH VALLEY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJUNETEENTH LEHIG…TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EmploymentLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationALIQUIPPA GREEN: $10,000 · Food & NutritionChester County Community Foundation: $3,600 · PhilanthropyPENNSBURY SOCIETY: $1,400 · Membership Benefit
Other$240,000Arts & Culture$48,000Employment$20,000Education$15,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Philanthropy$3,600Membership Benefit$1,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOME AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER CULTURAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetALIQUIPPA GREEN: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE HAPPY VALLEY ADVENTURE BUREAU: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetChester County Community Foundation: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSBURY SOCIETY: $1,400 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Voices Underground?

    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.

    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 32 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-PF 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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