· Public charity
Ashoka
The creation of an association of the world's leading social entrepreneurs - men and women with system-changing solutions for the world's most urgent social problems - and fostering a global culture of everyone being a changemaker for the good of all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $2,108,294 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,642,803 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,534,509 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VENTURE INC | $2,108,294 |
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 (FY18–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $4.6M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $2.5M to organizations and $2.1M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: Fellow Stipends
Stated purpose: Fellow Stipends
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. 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.
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 +336% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 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 FY2024, 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
- YVYOUTH VENTURE INC2× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +531% · 75% of their budget
- FIFABSCRAP INC2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +336%
- GAGET AMERICA WORKING INC2× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +474% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- VIVETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +553% · 44% of their budget
- NINEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +309%
- POPROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTDone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -38%
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 neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Miami-dade innovation authority bridges the gap between private innovators and the public sector to fast track innovation that improves quality of life for miamians.
Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.
Housing partnership development corporation functions to provide available low and moderate cost housing in the new york metro area through new housing production, preservation, rehabilitation, as well as the revitalization and…
Design impact as a non-profit social innovation firm, empowers communities, organizations and systems to innovate on their current practices and tackle seemingly unsolvable problems through a creative and inclusive lens.
To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Enterprise Community Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Call Nyc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 YOUTH VENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds RECYCLE ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FABSCRAP INC ↗
- Who funds NEST INC ↗
- Who funds GET AMERICA WORKING INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD ↗
- Who funds Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Good Call NYC ↗
- Who funds KULANIAKEA ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERED ↗
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds The Works Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSING FUND ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MEDIC MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Duo Development ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN BANNEKER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO AREA FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Ashoka 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
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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