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Double Up Drive Inc

Double Up Drive was born of the belief that public giving influences greater generosity and more impactful donations.

$476k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$123k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

International$1.3MHealth$1.3MAnimals$1.0MFood & Nutrition$1.0MPhilanthropy$585kEnvironment$412kOther$0
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $267k
$40,746
Median grant
8
States reached
$250k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE$122,938
ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS RECOMMEND$77,542
NEW INCENTIVES$66,687
AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION$48,343
EVIDENCE ACTION$40,746
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$32,858
STRONGMINDS$31,708
FOUNDERS PLEDGE$30,237
THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE$17,675
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR$7,148
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%International Refugee Assistance Pr: $153k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR: $33k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PR: $7k → 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

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 9 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$5.0M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
InternationalPhilanthropyAnimalsFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • AC
    ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +51%
  • TA
    The Against Malaria Foundation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $792k · revenue +29%
  • SI
    STRONGMINDS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $483k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • EV
    EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $179k · revenue +36%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +31%
  • OF
    ONE FOR THE WORLD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +256%
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
Accion International

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…

International
2
Fund for the Global Fund

To encourage individuals, corporations, foundations and donor governments to support the global fund, an international foundation focused on ending three of the world's most deadly infectious diseases.

Human Services
3
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
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
5
International Center for Research On Women

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.

International
6
Water for Good

Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.

International
7
Inventions for Good Inc

To invent and support technologies that solve humanitarian problems - any problem, anywhere in the world.

International
8
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…

Philanthropy
9
Climate Catalyst Inc

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

Environment
10
Well Aware Inc

Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.

International
11
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
12
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; the most unlike its peers is The Life You Can Save. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STRONGMINDS INC: $482,513 · InternationalSTRONGMINDS INCEVIDENCE ACTION: $404,743 · InternationalEVIDENCE ACTIONNEW INCENTIVES: $321,452 · InternationalNEW INCENTIVESANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS: $1,044,739 · AnimalsANIMAL CHARITY EVALU…THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $1,026,108 · Food & NutritionTHE GOOD FOOD INSTIT…The Against Malaria Foundation: $792,384 · HealthThe Against Mal…FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $405,628 · PhilanthropyFOUNDERS PLEDGE…The Life You Can Save: $305,372 · PhilanthropyThe Life You Ca…THE CLEAR FUND: $75,172 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $411,652 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $193,507 · Human ServicesEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $179,364 · OtherONE FOR THE WORLD INC: $40,373 · Other+1 more: $100 · Other
International$1,208,708Animals$1,044,739Food & Nutrition$1,026,108Health$792,384Philanthropy$786,172Environment$411,652Human Services$193,507Other$219,837

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS: $1,044,739 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $1,026,108 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $792,384 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSTRONGMINDS INC: $482,513 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $411,652 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $405,628 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $404,743 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEW INCENTIVES: $321,452 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Life You Can Save: $305,372 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $193,507 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $179,364 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $75,172 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE FOR THE WORLD INC: $40,373 over 1y, 8.1% 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.

Effective Ventures Fo…Every OrgSilicon Valley Commun…Founders Pledge IncRethink CharityGood Ventures Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…
Effective Ventures Foundation USA IncCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Every Org · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Founders Pledge Inc · Rethink Charity · Good Ventures Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Double Up Drive Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Double Up Drive Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Double Up Drive Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Double Up Drive Inc 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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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