· Private foundation
Equinix Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k107 grants · $191k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $908k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISK UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $225,098 |
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $204,346 |
| PHILANTHROPY ASIA ALLIANCE LTD | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $166,807 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $143,560 |
| GENERATION - YOU EMPLOYED INC | $107,500 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $100,000 |
| LABSTART INNOVATIONS INC | $100,000 |
| FFWD | $100,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $100,000 |
| THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $67,214 |
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $59,984 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $58,832 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 69% of grant dollars ($5.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 31% that went abroad ($2.5M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 31% of all-years giving ($2.5M)
11 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 39% of Equinix Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFISK UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +14%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +16%- WPWorld Pulse Voices2× · 2023–2024 · $117k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- WFWORLDLINK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $80k
- BIBOLD IDEA INCone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +9%
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 attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…
Digital promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for each learner. we work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale up innovations that empower learners,…
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…
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
Project Include's mission is to give everyone a fair chance to succeed in tech. We are a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.
Code.org is an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing participation by young women and underrepresented groups. our vision is that every student in every school should have the…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 42 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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- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC ↗
- Who funds FFWD ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STREETCODE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds World Pulse Voices ↗
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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: Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Equinix Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Equinix Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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