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Abundance Foundation

Abundance Foundation focuses on global health & education by convening, connecting & supporting visionary individuals, projects & organizations.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Science & Tech$200kInternational$140kEducation$140kHealth$108kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$91kYouth Development$30kCivil Rights$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $75,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $113,208 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,208 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Global Pediatric Alliance$20,000
Out of Eden Walk$20,000
Equalhealth Inc$15,000
Partners in Health$10,000
Haiti Clinic$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Equalhealth Inc: $15k → 7%President's & Fellows of Harvard: $200k → 8%Philanthropic Ventures: $80k → 10%Voice of Witness: $10k → 10%Haiti Clinic: $10k → 12%Zanmi Beni Foundation: $10k → 15%Allied Media Projects: $25k → 21%Global Greengrants: $25k → 12%Partners in Health: $40k → 6%Philanthropic Ventures Foundation: $20k → 10%Voice of Witness: $10k → 10%Haiti Clinic: $10k → 12%Partners in Health: $10k → 6%Chapter 510 Ink: $10k → 10%Voice of Witness: $10k → 10%Haiti Clinic: $10k → 12%Chapter 510 Ink: $10k → 10%United Roots: $10k → 10%Oakland Int'l High School: $80k → 10%Grass Valley Elementary: $60k → 10%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $27k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$27k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 39% of Abundance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Abundance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$479k · 7 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -50% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$479k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
-50%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • GP
    Global Pediatric Alliance
    5× · 2019–2024 · $143k · revenue +61%
  • OO
    OUT OF EDEN WALK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +61%
  • C5
    Chapter 510 Ink
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -50%
  • ZB
    ZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • UR
    United Roots
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
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.

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Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
2
Global Voice
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3
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
4
National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
5
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
6
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Pul Alliance for Digital Health and Equity Inc

According to the World Health Organization, half of the worlds 8 billion people still cannot access essential health services. Even for those who can, the costs are often cripplingly high. NGOs delivering health and humanitarian aid to…

Community Improvement
8
Global Healing

Global Healing promotes health care reform in areas of the world where modern medical health care is not available. Global Healing aims for sustainable development of healthcare services, rather than short-term or emergency interventions.

International
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
11
Root Change Inc

Root change's mission is to bring people together to question assumptions, think deeply, test ideas, and lead the way to a world built on social justice principles.

Employment
12
Global Strategies

Global Strategies empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Out of Eden Walk. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Global Pediatric Alliance: $142,500 · Arts & CultureGlobal Pediatric AllianceOUT OF EDEN WALK: $66,000 · Arts & CultureOUT OF EDEN WALKALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCChapter 510 Ink: $20,000 · Arts & CultureChapter 510 InkPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Ha…United Roots: $10,000 · EducationOAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $140,000 · OtherOAKLAND UNIFIED SC…PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthPARTNERS I…HAITI CLINIC INC: $30,000 · HealthHAITI CLIN…VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Civil RightsEQUALHEALTH INC: $15,000 · InternationalZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $10,300 · InternationalGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $25,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$253,500Education$210,000Other$140,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$80,000Civil Rights$30,000International$25,300Environment$25,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Pediatric Alliance: $142,500 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOUT OF EDEN WALK: $66,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHAITI CLINIC INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChapter 510 Ink: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEQUALHEALTH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $10,300 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Roots: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Abundance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abundance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Abundance Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Abundance Foundation 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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