· Public charity
Cnfa
To stimulate economic growth and improve livelihoods by cultivating entrepreneurship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $4,192,474 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,940,819 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,748,345 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $317k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORP (AMALIMA LOKO) | $833,501 |
| MERCY CORPS (AMALIMA LOKO) | $819,965 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL (HKI)-NIGER YALWA | $658,525 |
| J E AUSTIN ASSOCIATES INC (NIGERIA AG - INVEST ) | $628,065 |
| THE MANOFF GROUP (JSI) (AMALIMA AND LOKO) | $353,743 |
| DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY INC | $306,309 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL (HKI) - MALI SUGU YIRIWA | $274,911 |
| MARKETSHARE ASSOCIATES INC (RWANDA HINGA WUNGUKE) | $231,412 |
| INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC | $86,043 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $12M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT · SUPPORTING COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY
Stated purpose: PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
Stated purpose: PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
Stated purpose: PROGRAMMATIC SUPPORT
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. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Cnfa’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +82%
- HKHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +47%
- DGDEVELOPMENT GATEWAY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- AIAgriCorps Incone grant, 2020 · $257k · revenue -18% · 67% of their budget
- NANATHAN ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2020 · $81k
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $32k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
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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…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Inclusive Development International supports communities around the world to defend their rights and resources in the face of harmful corporate activities and internationally financed development projects, and we advocate for a more just…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
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Pci is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls-resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Devworks International and the most unlike its peers is Helen Keller International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DEVWORKS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICARE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINROCK INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AgriCorps Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
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: Gates Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cnfa 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.