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Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund
We are helping to provide a healthy community in benton harbor where residents live in safe, affordable housing and are exposed to multiple avenues for education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oliver Elementary | $10,000 |
| Arlington Elementary | $10,000 |
| EL Haynes Public Charter School | $10,000 |
| Community Day Arlington Elementary School | $10,000 |
| KIPP Delta Public Schools | $10,000 |
| Henry Lord Community School | $10,000 |
| Delaware Valley Fairness Project | $10,000 |
| Avondale Elementary | $10,000 |
| South Floyd Elementary School | $10,000 |
| Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy | $10,000 |
| Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School | $10,000 |
| Meridian Public Charter School | $10,000 |
| Wellington Elementary | $10,000 |
| Citizens Academy Southeast | $10,000 |
| Mastery Charter School-Harrity Elementary | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN4× · 2017–2020 · $4.6M · revenue +152% · 64% of their budget
- UEUPLIFT EDUCATION2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +57%
- KTKIPP Texas Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- FCFULTON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +1%
- KMKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +225%
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.
The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Through rigorous curriculum and high quality instruction, provided within an invested and ambitious school community, emblaze academy charter school prepares all students in grades five through eight to thrive in high school and graduate…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
To open and operate small, high-quality charter schools in low-income neighborhoods; to increase academic performance of underserved students; to develop effective educators; to share successful practices with other forward thinking…
To educate responsible citizen scholars for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delaware Valley Fairness Project. 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 19 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 55 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens Academy Southeast ↗
- Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds Delaware Valley Fairness Project ↗
- Who funds Espiritu Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds ACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY PREP AT THE AGASSI CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation Preparatory Charter School ↗
- Who funds CLARKSDALE COLLEGIATE ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Roots Elementary School ↗
- Who funds ARISE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
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: Good Sports Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Digital Promise Global · The Broad Center · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Gates Foundation · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Share Our Strength
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 Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund 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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