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Avaaz Foundation

Our democratic mission: to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$682k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,346,359, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,476,573 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,130,214 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $636k
  • $250k+1 grant · $682k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KTK BELT INC$682,300
SMUG INTERNATIONAL$225,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$211,459
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FDN$100,000
RESOLUTE REPORTS INC$50,000
NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST$27,600
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDIAN MUSLIM RELIEF AND CHARITIES: $125k → 8%AL OTRO LADO: $100k → 14%AFGHANS EMPOWERED CORP: $50k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1.0M → 14%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $372k → 14%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

ME
WA
MN
MI
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $2.1M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.1M · 52% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: ANIMAL RIGHTS · BIODIVERSITY · CLIMATE

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$478k · 23% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: AFGHANISTAN HUMANITARIAN AID · CLIMATE · EU ELECTIONS

South America$296k · 14% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: AMAZON · BIODIVERSITY · BRAZIL HUMANITARIAN AID

Middle East and North Africa$197k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PALESTINE HUMANITARIAN AID

East Asia and the Pacific$20k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CLIMATE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$18k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CLIMATE · HUMAN RIGHTS

Central America and the Caribbean$11k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: BIODIVERSITY

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 24% of Avaaz Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 14%.

Avaaz Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 33% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 15 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
37

Total granted

$12M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
EnvironmentInternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +117%
  • AF
    AMAZON FRONTLINES
    3× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +130% · 44% of their budget
  • KI
    KTK-BELT INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $899k · revenue +8% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • KIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +185%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC
    one grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -99%
  • NM
    NO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE
    one grant, 2019 · $400k · revenue -10%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
3
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
4
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…

Environment
5
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
6
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
7
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
8
Women in Migration Network Inc

Women in Migration Network (WIMN), an international non-governmental organization, identifies and promotes human rights-based and feminist global migration policies. We lift up and support the experiences, voices and agency of all women in…

Civil Rights
9
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
10
The Advocates for Human Rights

To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.

International
11
Corporate Accountability Lab

The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.

International
12
Climate Rights International

CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Witness Inc; the most unlike its peers is If Not Us Then Who. 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

54 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. 54 of the 56 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
31/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAINFOREST TRUST: $1,475,752 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $600,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USAALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $400,000 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY…BRAC USA INC: $300,000 · InternationalBRAC USA INCAMBEDKAR ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA: $250,000 · InternationalAMBEDKAR ASSN OF NORTH AM…MADRE INC: $250,000 · InternationalMADRE INCBAITULMAAL INC: $232,540 · InternationalBAITULMAAL INC+3 more: $150,000 · InternationalAMAZON FRONTLINES: $1,272,850 · EnvironmentAMAZON FRONTLINESKTK-BELT INC: $898,900 · EnvironmentKTK-BELT INCEarth Island Institute Inc: $409,328 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute…OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $377,600 · EnvironmentOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST350ORG: $200,000 · Environment350ORG+7 more: $86,095 · EnvironmentPARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $2,311,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS RELIEF…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,372,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF …Indian Muslim Relief and Charities: $125,000 · Human ServicesIndian Musl…AL OTRO LADO: $100,000 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LAD…+1 more: $49,500 · Human ServicesECO ACTIVISTS FOR GOVERNANCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: $1,148,640 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · Animals+1 more: $24,443 · AnimalsKIND INC: $400,000 · Crime & LegalNO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE: $400,000 · Crime & LegalCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $95,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $75,000 · Crime & LegalACTIONAID USA: $850,287 · Social ScienceSexual Minorities Uganda USA Incorporated: $575,000 · OtherSexual Minorities…SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $600,000 · OtherSYRIAN AMERICAN M…Yale University: $422,459 · OtherYale UniversityMoveOnorg Civic Action: $100,000 · OtherUS-INDIA POLICY INSTITUTE: $230,000 · OtherUS-INDIA POLICY I…CIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: $115,000 · OtherCenter for Food Safety: $100,000 · OtherUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 · Other+11 more: $304,431 · Other+11 more
International$3,658,292Environment$3,244,773Philanthropy$2,311,000Human Services$1,646,500Animals$1,223,083Crime & Legal$970,000Social Science$850,287Other$2,546,890

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 budgetPARTNERS RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $2,311,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $1,475,752 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,372,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAMAZON FRONTLINES: $1,272,850 over 3y, 44% of budgetECO ACTIVISTS FOR GOVERNANCE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT: $1,148,640 over 3y, 27% of budgetKTK-BELT INC: $898,900 over 2y, 43% of budgetACTIONAID USA: $850,287 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSexual Minorities Uganda USA Incorporated: $575,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetYale University: $422,459 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $409,328 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetKIND INC: $400,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR OPEN SOCIETY INT'L INC: $400,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE: $400,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $377,600 over 3y, 12% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMBEDKAR ASSN OF NORTH AMERICA: $250,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetMADRE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBAITULMAAL INC: $232,540 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUS-INDIA POLICY INSTITUTE: $230,000 over 1y, 63% of budget350ORG: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIndian Muslim Relief and Charities: $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCIVICUS WORLD ALLIANCE FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: $115,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Food Safety: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMoveOnorg Civic Action: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAL OTRO LADO: $100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $95,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFortify Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWITNESS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAfghans Empowered Corp: $49,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALDEA - THE PEOPLES JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBORDER KINDNESS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $24,980 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEARTH LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL: $24,443 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetISAIAH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDREAMORG: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIf Not Us Then Who: $10,315 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE RESIDENTS REDEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $10,000 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.

Wellspring Philanthro…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Ford FoundationTides FoundationNew Venture FundImpactassetsincThe David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…Seidman Family Founda…Rockefeller Family Fu…All Hands on Deck Net…Rockefeller Brothers …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Avaaz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avaaz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
12report 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.

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 56 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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