How much does Avaaz Foundation give?

Avaaz Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $1,346,359, out of $3,476,573 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Avaaz Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (55%), Environment (22%), Animals (10%).

Who are Avaaz Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Partners Relief & Development ($2.3M), Rainforest Trust ($1.5M), Friends of the World Food Program Inc ($1.4M).

Does Avaaz Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Avaaz Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Ford Foundation.

Where is Avaaz Foundation based?

Avaaz Foundation is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

Avaaz Foundation

Our democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. By engaging with avaaz, members are rapidly alerted to urgent global issues and opportunities to achieve change.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 7
Itemized grants FY2024: 10
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $682,300
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 20; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $27M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Avaaz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $960k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	6	$1.1M	33%
FY2023	10	$1.6M	50%
FY2022	5	$1.3M	20%
FY2021	20	$3.6M	80%
FY2020	8	$1.3M	63%
FY2019	8	$3.5M	63%
FY2018	14	$2.3M	93%
FY2017	7	$1.3M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

International$9.1MEnvironment$3.6MAnimals$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.1MCivil Rights$730kFood & Nutrition$100kPublic Benefit$100kHealth$64kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Partners Relief & Development	$2,311,000	6	28%
Rainforest Trust	$1,475,752	3	2%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc	$1,372,000	2	2%
Amazon Frontlines	$1,272,850	3	44%
Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement	$1,148,640	3	27%
Ktk-Belt Inc	$898,900	2	43%
Actionaid USA	$850,287	2	10%
Islamic Relief USA	$600,000	2	0%
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation	$600,000	2	1%
Sexual Minorities Uganda USA Incorporated	$575,000	2	69%

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All grantees of Avaaz Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Partners Relief & Development	$2,311,000	6	28%
Rainforest Trust	$1,475,752	3	2%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc	$1,372,000	2	2%
Amazon Frontlines	$1,272,850	3	44%
Eco Activists for Governance and Law Enforcement	$1,148,640	3	27%
Ktk-Belt Inc	$898,900	2	43%
Actionaid USA	$850,287	2	10%
Islamic Relief USA	$600,000	2	0%
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation	$600,000	2	1%
Sexual Minorities Uganda USA Incorporated	$575,000	2	69%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$409,328	3	1%
Kind Inc	$400,000	1	1%
Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc	$400,000	1	1%
No Means No Worldwide	$400,000	1	16%
Our Children's Trust	$377,600	3	12%
Brac USA Inc	$300,000	1	3%
Ambedkar Assn of North America	$250,000	1	66%
Madre Inc	$250,000	2	2%
Baitulmaal Inc	$232,540	2	1%
Us-India Policy Institute	$230,000	1	63%
350org	$200,000	1	1%
Indian Muslim Relief and Charities	$125,000	1	1%
Civicus World Alliance for Citizen Participation	$115,000	2	1%
Center for Food Safety	$100,000	1	2%
United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund Inc	$100,000	1	12%
MoveOnorg Civic Action	$100,000	1	1%
Al Otro Lado	$100,000	1	4%
Casa Cornelia Legal Services	$95,000	1	3%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$64,431	1	n/a
Non-Violence International	$50,000	1	1%
International Medical Corps	$50,000	1	0%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Fortify Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Witness Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Resolute Reports Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Afghans Empowered Corp	$49,500	1	9%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Aldea - the Peoples Justice Center	$25,000	1	14%
Border Kindness	$25,000	1	4%
Public Counsel	$25,000	1	0%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Rainforest Foundation Inc	$24,980	1	0%
Earth League International	$24,443	1	4%
Isaiah	$20,000	1	1%
The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice	$20,000	1	1%
Tech Integrity Institute	$20,000	1	n/a
Dreamorg	$15,000	1	0%
If Not Us Then Who	$10,315	1	1%
Greenfaith Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council Inc	$10,000	1	2%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Amazon Watch Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Bondh-E-Shams Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Pesticide Action Network North America	$5,800	1	0%

Avaaz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund IncNY21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Impactassetsinc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Seidman Family Foundation · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc

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.

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About Avaaz Foundation

How much does Avaaz Foundation give?: Avaaz Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $1,346,359, out of $3,476,573 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Avaaz Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (55%), Environment (22%), Animals (10%).
Who are Avaaz Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Partners Relief & Development ($2.3M), Rainforest Trust ($1.5M), Friends of the World Food Program Inc ($1.4M).
Does Avaaz Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Avaaz Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Avaaz Foundation based?: Avaaz Foundation is based in NY.