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Cactus Tree Foundation at a glance

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Cactus Tree Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$382k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$123k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

International$285kPhilanthropy$182kHousing & Shelter$70kHealth$35kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$20kEducation$20kReligion$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $282k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fidelity Charitable$123,201
The SHE Fund$100,000
Fidelity Charitable$58,417
Building One Community$25,000
Friends of ZawAdi Tedu$20,000
Mobile Medics International$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Global Giving$10,000
World Food Program$10,000
World Central Kitchen$10,000
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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Building One Community: $25k → 9%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

AK
IL
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
DC
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Cactus Tree Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Cactus Tree Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.3% 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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 5 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$275k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthEducationOther
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

  • TS
    THE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +23%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue -25%
  • MM
    MOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue -64%

Funded once

  • UH
    UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • TV
    The Voices ProjectThe Syria Campaig
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Water First International

Water 1st's mission is to enable the world's poorest people to implement and sustain community-managed projects integrating clean water supply, sanitation and hygiene education. water 1st unites people to fight the global water and…

Philanthropy
2
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
3
Global United Foundation
International
4
Global Opportunity Fund

The mission of the go fund is to provide vulnerable women and children in africa with the skills, resources and opportunities they need to lift themselves permanently out of poverty.

International
5
Worldwide Friends of Ugandan Orphans Inc
Human Services
6
Water for People

Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…

International
7
Ushahidi Inc

Ushahidi makes crowdsourcing, visualization, and interactive mapping tools for social good, giving people a voice to share what happened, when and wherever they are in the world. that mission is in the "ushahidi", which means "testimony"…

International
8
World Bank Community Connections Fund

To provide the world bank group employees and retirees with an opportunity to support nonprofit organizations that work to improve the quality of life of people and communities.

Philanthropy
9
The One Campaign

The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…

Unclassified
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
12
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ukraine House Dc Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 · OtherTHE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUNDThe Voices ProjectThe Syria Campaig: $25,000 · OtherThe Voices ProjectThe Syria CampaigIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFind Arts Foundation: $10,000 · OtherHAAM: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $12,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $181,618 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITAB…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVIN…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTR…BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $25,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING O…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE OTHER …UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF ZAWADI YETU: $20,000 · Education
Other$227,000Community Improvement$181,618International$70,000Human Services$65,000Arts & Culture$50,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Health$25,000Education$20,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $181,618 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFE HOUSE EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZAWADI YETU: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · 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 Cactus Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cactus Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 18 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-PF 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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