· Public charity
Cnfa
To stimulate economic growth and improve livelihoods by cultivating entrepreneurship.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Cnfa’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 15%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…
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…
A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…
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…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cnfa funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cnfa. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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