· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VENTURE INC | $2,108,294 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +336% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +438% · 44% of their budget
- NINEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +309%
- POPROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTDone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -38%
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Improving public sector capacity to reduce the burdens of government.
Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.
To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Duo Development ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN BANNEKER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO AREA FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ashoka funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ashoka. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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