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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.

$150k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2021.

Youth Development$4.6MEducation$1.7MRecreation & Sports$750kPhilanthropy$720kHuman Services$70k
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Avondale Elementary$10,000
South Floyd Elementary School$10,000
Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School$10,000
EL Haynes Public Charter School$10,000
Meridian Public Charter School$10,000
Community Day Arlington Elementary School$10,000
KIPP Delta Public Schools$10,000
Oliver Elementary$10,000
Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy$10,000
Arlington Elementary$10,000
Wellington Elementary$10,000
Henry Lord Community School$10,000
Citizens Academy Southeast$10,000
Delaware Valley Fairness Project$10,000
Mastery Charter School-Harrity Elementary$10,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy: $10k → 11%Reyes Maria Ruiz Leadership Academy: $10k → 11%Overbrook Education Center: $10k → 22%Delaware Valley Fairness Project: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
AZ
AR
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 12 repeat orgs$476k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

$5.6M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+66%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $4.6M · revenue +152% · 64% of their budget
  • UE
    UPLIFT EDUCATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +57%
  • KT
    KIPP Texas Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • FC
    FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • KM
    Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +225%
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
The New American Academy Charter School

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…

Education
2
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
3
Alliance Charter Academy

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.

Education
4
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

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.

Education
5
Elite Public Schools

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…

Education
6
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
7
The Language Academy of Sacramento

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…

Education
8
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
9
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

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…

Education
10
Aspire Public Schools

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…

Education
11
Emblaze Academy Charter School

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…

Education
12
Leadership Public Schools

Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
30/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $4,600,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN+1 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,820,000 · PhilanthropyBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…THE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC: $750,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIRST …UPLIFT EDUCATION: $40,000 · EducationKIPP Texas Inc: $30,000 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $20,000 · EducationCitizens Academy Southeast: $20,000 · Education+23 more: $226,478 · EducationFULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $30,000 · OtherNYC DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherDenver Public Schools: $20,000 · OtherDUVAL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $20,000 · OtherBIRMINGHAM BOARD OF EDUCATION: $20,000 · OtherSt Joseph HS (FIRST Robotics S-Ship): $15,000 · OtherHeroes K-8 Academy: $10,000 · OtherCarmel Middle School: $10,000 · OtherLAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherPSIS 276: $10,000 · OtherFederal Way Public Schools: $10,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF MARICOPA ROOSEVELT SCHOOL DISTRICT 66: $10,000 · OtherRoots Elementary School: $10,000 · OtherFAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherCITY OF FALL RIVER: $10,000 · OtherACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · OtherSeattle Public Schools: $10,000 · OtherFLOYD COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION: $10,000 · OtherFoundation Preparatory Charter School: $10,000 · OtherALLIANCE KORY HUNTER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherDelaware Valley Fairness Project: $20,000 · Human ServicesEspiritu Community Development Corp: $20,000 · Human Services
Youth Development$4,625,000Philanthropy$1,820,000Recreation & Sports$750,000Education$356,478Other$285,000Human Services$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $4,600,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,820,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC: $750,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDelaware Valley Fairness Project: $20,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCitizens Academy Southeast: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEspiritu Community Development Corp: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT STAR SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUCCESS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLARKSDALE COLLEGIATE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoots Elementary School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARISE SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEEL CITY ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP DELTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUPHEMIA L HAYNES PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ATHLETIC LEADERSHIP SCHOOL LOS ANGELES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFoundation Preparatory Charter School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFuturo Academy Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP AT THE AGASSI CAMPUS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE KORY HUNTER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Good Sports IncGenYOUTH IncorporatedProject Lead the Way …Project Lead the Way …For Inspiration and R…Digital Promise GlobalThe Broad CenterDick's Sporting Goods…Gates FoundationCharter Fund Inc D/B/…The Mr Holland's Opus…Share Our Strength
Good Sports IncMA29.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Whirlpool Collective Impact Fund 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 55 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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