· Public charity
Way to Rise
WAY TO RISE centers communities most impacted by injustice, funding sustained nonpartisan civic engagement led by both state-based organizations and national groups that support state-based partners
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k61 grants · $6.3M
- $250k+12 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER | $550,000 |
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $550,000 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND | $400,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $350,000 |
| GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLES AGENDA | $315,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $300,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY | $275,000 |
| TEAMSTER RANK & FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| IMAGINE NC FIRST | $250,000 |
| THE GOOD NATION FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND | $250,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NEW GEORGIA PROJECT | $225,000 |
| SOCIAL IMPACT FUND | $225,000 |
| STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $200,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 46 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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
- SPSTATE POWER FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +220%
- MTMake The Road States Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $515k · revenue +16%
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- P6PROJECT 68 EDUCATION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $375k · revenue +45% · 74% of their budget
- PGPANORAMA GLOBALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +38%
- FLFirst Look Institute Incone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -83%
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.
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
Jolt Initiative is a non-profit organization that increases the civic participation of Latinos in Texas to build a stronger democracy and ensure that everyone's voice is heard.
Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…
We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…
Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Civictn and its partners are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by lifting up the voices of the disenfranchised, restoring the power and accessibility of the vote, and…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coalition for Lousiana Progress 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 9 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 135 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 FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE POWER FUND ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Make The Road States Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAMSTER RANK AND FILE EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 68 EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON AREA JUSTICE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE 48 EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds FORWARD JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds First Look Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
- Who funds Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Fund ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE NEVADA ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS VOICES NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SOMOS SIEMBRA ↗
- Who funds MORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Instituto Lab ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
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: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · The Ford Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Telescope Fund · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
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 Way to Rise 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.
- Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Alianza Center Inc — 0% 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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