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Dalberg Catalyst

Dalberg Catalyst exists to co-create and actively accelerate systems solutions that have a tangible and durable impact on the pressing societal and planetary challenges of our time.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.4MInternational$416kEmployment$100kYouth Development$100kCommunity Improvement$100kPhilanthropy$100kHealth$83kEducation$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $285,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,044,575 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,759,575 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 · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Igarape Inc$100,000
Global Impact Investing Network$50,000
Madre Inc$50,000
Multiplier$50,000
Future Earth$35,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Surgical Systems Research Group: $50k → 10%VERA SOLUTIONS: $18k → 8%Millennium Campus Network: $30k → 16%The Earth Genome: $30k → 8%The Regents of the University of California: $100k → 10%Multiplier: $50k → 10%JUST Capital: $100k → 17%World Resources Institute: $461k → 14%Cooperative For Assistance and Relief Everywhere: $100k → 13%Future Earth: $35k → 11%GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR SURGICAL OBSTETRIC TRAUMA AND ANESTHESIA CARE: $15k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $537k → 7%The Inspire Project Inc: $100k → 8%Pres & Fellow of Harvard: $50k → 8%Igarape Inc: $100k → 17%World Resources: $120k → 14%Future Earth: $35k → 11%Madre Inc: $50k → 17%Amref Health Africa: $66k → 17%Global Impact Investing Network: $50k → 17%Global Impact Investing Network: $50k → 17%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
DE
AZ
DC
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$1.5M · 88% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: Expand CAP-A's mission to position Africa as a global leader in climate action through a systems-oriented approach. · This project aims to harmonize African standards for using insects as food and feed by addressing the lack of regulatory frameworks, supporting sustainable insect farming, and creating an authoritative inventory of edible insect species to combat food and nutrition insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa. · Elimu-Soko connects education innovations with government priorities, securing funding and partnerships to scale impactful solutions in African public schools.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$217k · 12% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: Development and piloting of the Impact Marketplace, enabling smallholder cotton farmers to adopt agroforestry practices, access carbon credit markets, and secure additional income while promoting sustainable farming and biodiversity. · This project aims to combat plastic pollution by generating evidence on how production subsidies fuel the plastics lifecycle and proposing their elimination as a strategic policy tool to reduce environmental harm and support the goals of the Global Plastics Treaty. · CKIC will support CSFEP by advancing an integrated forest economy, fostering knowledge exchange, developing tools for regional coalitions, and collaborating with partners to expand impact.

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 53% of Dalberg Catalyst’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 0%.

Dalberg Catalystlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 56% 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
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.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
3
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
Natural Resource Governance Institute

Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…

International
5
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
Global Entrepreneurship Network

The global entrepreneurship network operates programs in 180 countries aimed at making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a business. by fostering deeper cross-border collaboration between entrepreneurs, researchers,…

Education
9
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
10
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
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Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
12
The Alliance for Just Deliberation On Solar Geoengineering Inc

The alliance for just deliberation on solar geoengineering (dsg) is a charitable, scientific and educational organization dedicated to building just and inclusive deliberation about research and potential use of solar geoengineering. solar…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Resources Institute; the most unlike its peers is Millennium Campus Network 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $581,300 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTEIGARAPE INC: $100,000 · InternationalIGARAPE INCCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $100,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYW…AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $66,263 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF)MADRE INC: $50,000 · InternationalMADRE INC+1 more: $30,000 · InternationalTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $536,951 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYSurgical Systems Research Group: $50,000 · OtherSurgical Systems Research Group+1 more: $17,500 · OtherYale University: $117,376 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 · EducationFUTURE EARTH: $70,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE EARTH GENOME: $30,000 · EnvironmentInspire Project Inc: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Social ScienceGLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR SURGICAL OBSTETRIC TRAUMA AND ANAESTHESIA CARE: $15,338 · Health
International$927,563Other$804,451Education$167,376Environment$150,000Youth Development$100,000Philanthropy$100,000Social Science$100,000Health$15,338

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 budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $581,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $536,951 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $117,376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIGARAPE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInspire Project Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFUTURE EARTH: $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF): $66,263 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADRE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EARTH GENOME: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILLENNIUM CAMPUS NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR SURGICAL OBSTETRIC TRAUMA AND ANAESTHESIA CARE: $15,338 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

The Rockefeller Found…Fidelity Investments …
The Rockefeller FoundationNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rockefeller Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Dalberg Catalyst funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dalberg Catalyst. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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.
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How do I get to Dalberg Catalyst?

Find your warmest path to Dalberg Catalyst through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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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