Connect Humanity
San Francisco, CA · EIN 87-1528048. Reported 35 grants totalling $1,412,646 to 29 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Connect Humanity, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 19% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $27,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,144 and $39,856; the smallest was $5,046 and the largest $292,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generation West Virginia Inc | Beckley, WV | $370,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center on Rural Innovation Inc | Hartland, VT | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Isothermal Planning and Development Corporation | Rutherfordton, NC | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Virginia Community Action Partnership | Richmond, VA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Buffalo Trace Area Development District Inc | Maysville, KY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Drive | Danville, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Delta Interfaith | Lk Providence, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners | Jefferson, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garrett County | Oakland, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trumbull County Commissioners | Warren, OH | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Centre Wisp Venture Company LLC | Centre Hall, PA | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Fleming - Neon | Flemingneon, KY | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Graham Revitalization Economic Action Team - Great | Robbinsville, NC | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jackson County | Sylva, NC | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mahoning County | Youngstown, OH | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meigs County Community Improvement Corporation | Pomeroy, OH | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Red Bird Mission Inc | Beverly, KY | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington County Board of Commissioners | Marietta, OH | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arise Adelante | Alamo, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| La Union Del Pueblo Entero | Keene, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Whitfield County Board of Commissioners | Dalton, GA | $24,807 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Tier 8 Regional Board | Binghamton, NY | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Williston | Williston, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alleghenies Broadband Incorporated | Altoona, PA | $14,534 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Enterprise Center Inc | Chattanooga, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prospect African Methodist Episcopal Church Inc | Fortson, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bradley County | Cleveland, TN | $5,805 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
6 of 29 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Generation West Virginia
ENGAGE 18 COMMUNITIES ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA IN GENERATING CONNECTIVITY PLANS IN PREPARATION FOR APPLICATIONS TO FUNDING PROGRAMS. - Center on Rural Innovation
HELP CREATE COUNTY LEVEL ANALYSIS TO COMBAT CLIMATE DISASTER RISK - Virginia Community Action Partnership
ENGAGE 9 COMMUNITIES ACROSS VIRGINIA IN GENERATING CONNECTIVITY PLANS IN PREPARATION FOR APPLICATIONS TO FUNDING PROGRAMS. - Foothills Regional Commission
ENGAGE 4 COMMUNITIES ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA IN GENERATING CONNECTIVITY PLANS IN PREPARATION FOR APPLICATIONS TO FUNDING PROGRAMS. - Drive
ENGAGE 7 COMMUNITIES ACROSS PENNSYLVANIA IN GENERATING CONNECTIVITY PLANS IN PREPARATION FOR APPLICATIONS TO FUNDING PROGRAMS. - Delta Interfaith
CONDUCT OUTREACH REGARDING MEDICAID
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 13 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | $255,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $762,690 | $27,000 |
| 2024 | 13 | $394,956 | $30,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
26% of its giving went to organizations in West Virginia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $27,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in West Virginia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Connect Humanity's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1388 Haight Street Suite 1120, San Francisco, CA, 94117.
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