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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.

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.1MHousing & Shelter$153kEnvironment$100kEducation$98kCommunity Improvement$69kInternational$65kAnimals$50kEmployment$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $2,108,294, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,642,803 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,534,509 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.
$2,108,294
Median grant
1
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH VENTURE INC$2,108,294
02The need
03

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:

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.

area typical 11%GET AMERICA WORKING: $20k → 7%GET AMERICA WORKING: $10k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.1M · 45% · 83 grants · 40 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.7M · 37% · 12 grants · 19 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends

Middle East and North Africa$338k · 7% · 12 grants · 6 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends

South America$178k · 4% · 2 grants · 34 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends

South Asia$158k · 3% · 1 grant · 4 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends

East Asia and the Pacific$85k · 2% · 1 grant · 12 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · Fellow Stipends

North America (Canada and Mexico)$61k · 1% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: Fellow Stipends

Central America and the Caribbean$13k · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: Fellow Stipends

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 6 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
27

Total granted

$2.4M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+336%
+19%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHousing & ShelterInternationalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • YV
    YOUTH VENTURE INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +531% · 75% of their budget
  • FI
    FABSCRAP INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +336%
  • GA
    GET AMERICA WORKING INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $30k · revenue +474% · 65% of their budget

Funded once

  • VI
    VETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +438% · 44% of their budget
  • NI
    NEST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +309%
  • PO
    PROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD
    one 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.

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.

1
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

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.…

Housing & Shelter
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
4
Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

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.

Community Improvement
5
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
6
Miami-Dade Innovation Authority Inc

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.

Science & Tech
7
Housing Partnership Development Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Design Impact

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.

Human Services
9
Center for Public Enterprise Inc

Improving public sector capacity to reduce the burdens of government.

Public Benefit
10
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund

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.

Community Improvement
11
Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc

To develop, finance, and advocate for affordable housing at scale that promotes racial equity and healthy communities where families thrive.

Housing & Shelter
12
Latino Corporate Directors Association

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Enterprise Community Partners Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH VENTURE INC: $2,115,294 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH VENTURE INCGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development: $17,500 · OtherGreater M…WITH: $17,500 · OtherWITHMIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $16,000 · OtherMIAMI DAD…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $16,000 · OtherREGENTS O…PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherGARY VENTURES INC: $10,000 · OtherIDEA 2 FORM LLC: $9,426 · OtherGET AMERICA WORKING INC: $30,000 · OtherGET AMERI…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $17,500 · OtherENTERPRIS…Good Call NYC: $16,032 · OtherGood Call…MEDIC MOBILE INC: $8,000 · Other+8 more: $59,253 · Other+8 morePARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Works Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOUSING FUND: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRECYCLE ACROSS AMERICA: $50,000 · EducationKULANIAKEA: $12,500 · EducationEMPOWERED: $12,145 · EducationTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $11,769 · EducationNorth Central College: $10,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationNEST INC: $35,806 · InternationalPROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD: $29,422 · InternationalVETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC: $50,000 · AnimalsFABSCRAP INC: $50,000 · Environment
Youth Development$2,115,294Other$227,211Housing & Shelter$130,000Education$106,414International$65,228Animals$50,000Environment$50,000

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 budgetYOUTH VENTURE INC: $2,115,294 over 2y, 75% of budgetPARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetVETERINARY INITIATIVE FOR ENDANGERED WILDLIFE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetRECYCLE ACROSS AMERICA: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFABSCRAP INC: $50,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetNEST INC: $35,806 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGET AMERICA WORKING INC: $30,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetPROJECT ON ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LTD: $29,422 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGreater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development: $17,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Call NYC: $16,032 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKULANIAKEA: $12,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $11,769 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Works Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY HOUSING FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Central College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDIC MOBILE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN TENANTS ORGANIZATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO AREA FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $6,753 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Chicago Community TrustIL9.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ashoka?

Find your warmest path to Ashoka 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 34 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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