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Dropbox Charitable Foundation

The DROPBOX CHARITABLE FOUNDATION partners with impactful organizations that defend human rights around the world.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$1.7MCivil Rights$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MCrime & Legal$725kYouth Development$625k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $739,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,078,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $339,000 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $725k
$200,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL$200,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$200,000
KIND INC$200,000
FREEDOM FWD$125,000
RAHEEM AI$7,000
MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY$7,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $100k → 10%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $200k → 9%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERV: $225k → 10%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $200k → 9%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $200k → 10%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $200k → 9%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $200k → 10%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $7k → 9%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $339k 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.

East Asia and the Pacific$200k · 59% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$139k · 41% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY · HUMAN SERVICES/PUBLIC & SOCIETAL BENEFIT · ENVIRONMENT

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 10 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$5.6M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
0%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Services
    3× · 2018–2020 · $625k · revenue +39%
  • TM
    THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $607k · revenue +8%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • FF
    Freedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue 0%
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
Human Rights Watch Inc

Human rights watch ("hrw") defends the rights of people worldwide. we scrupulously investigate abuses, expose the facts widely, and pressure those with power to respect rights and secure justice. human rights watch is an independent,…

International
2
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
3
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
4
Population Action International

Pai advances evidence, policies and programs to enable women, youth and at-risk communities to access sexual and reproductive health as core to health equity, climate resilience, economic well-being and gender equality.

Health
5
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
The International Refugee Rights Initiative

To enhance the protection of rights of the displaced worldwide by the provision of advice and assistance on the application of international law, the conducting of research on the interpretation and application of international law and the…

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8
Out & Equal

To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.

Social Science
9
Freedom Insight

Freedom insight works to equip individuals, civic groups, and non-profits with best practices to sustain in the fight against human trafficking in the bay area and beyond.

International
10
Fund for Global Human Rights Inc

We are activists and grant-makers working in solidarity with individuals and organizations promoting human rights in their communities. by investing in those on the frontlines of human rights struggles, we help build stronger, more…

International
11
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
12
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Witness Inc; the most unlike its peers is Women for Women International. 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

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $600,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONALWITNESS INC: $575,000 · InternationalWITNESS INCGOAL USA INC: $535,000 · InternationalGOAL USA INCPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $525,000 · InternationalPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INCLarkin Street Youth Services: $625,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $607,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETYALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $425,000 · Human ServicesALLIES AGAINST SLAVERYKIND INC: $600,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INCFreedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward: $125,000 · Crime & LegalFreedom FWD-DB…Raheem Ai DBA Community Response Works: $557,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRaheem Ai D…OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $525,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT I…
International$2,235,000Human Services$1,657,000Crime & Legal$725,000Public Safety & Disaster$557,000Other$525,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $625,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $607,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $600,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKIND INC: $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWITNESS INC: $575,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetRaheem Ai DBA Community Response Works: $557,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetGOAL USA INC: $535,000 over 3y, 97% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $525,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $525,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $425,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetFreedom FWD-DBA Freedom Forward: $125,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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 11 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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