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Cisco Systems Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $1,221,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,398,341 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,177,141 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| America Online Giving Foundation | $610,600 |
| America Online Giving Foundation | $610,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Habitat seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Habitat for humanity greater san francisco builds and sustains affordable homeownership opportunities for families in marin, san francisco and san mateo counties.
Habitat for humanity of washington dodge counties, wisconsin, inc. is a locally-run affiliate of habitat for humanity international, a nonprofit ecumenical christian housing ministry. habitat for humanity works in partnership with people…
Habitat for humanity of greater los angeles brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
We believe everyone deserves a decent place to live. by building, preserving, and expanding fair access to affordable homeownership, habitat partners with people and families to build strong futures on the foundation of a stable home.
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Chemung county habitat is dedicated to eliminating substandard housing locally and worldwide through constructing, rehabilitating and preserving homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access…
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
Habitat brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the organization seeks out qualified applicants starting with a yearly application process for individuals and families to apply. the applicant must meet 3 basic…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity-midohio brings people together to inspire hope, build homes, empower families, and develop communities.
To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Wake County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BRIGHT FUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEFICENT TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds USHAHIDI INC ↗
- Who funds NETHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charity Bridge Fund · American Express Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Impactassetsinc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cisco Systems Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.