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William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| R STREET INSTITUTE | $112,500 |
| PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +112% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RSR STREET INSTITUTE4× · 2022–2025 · $413k · revenue +13%
- CCCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND2× · 2020–2021 · $103k · revenue +112%
- WTWe the Veterans Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +261%
Funded once
ISSUE ONEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +38%- CNCitizens Not Politiciansone grant, 2024 · $100k
- TGTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
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 organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.
RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!
The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.
Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…
Issue one action is uniting republicans, democrats, and independents to protect our elections and fix our political system. we are committed to free, fair, and secure elections and reducing the influence of well-financed special interests…
Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay
Protect voting rights in the united states for all citizens and expand voting rights to citizens who have been historically disenfranchised or under-represented in the electoral process.
Vote.org's primary purpose is to build web-based technologies that remove barriers to voting and increase vote turnout.
New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citizen Action of New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Houston in Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 R STREET INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds Citizens Not Politicians ↗
- Who funds THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds We the Veterans Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF FLORIDA EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southwest Voter Registration Education Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA 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: Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Democracy Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc 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.