· Private foundation
First Dollar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $430k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST SIDE PREP SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LUMIN | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $35,000 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $30,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INT'L | $30,000 |
| NEW INCENTIVES | $30,000 |
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT | $25,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS | $25,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA | $25,000 |
| LIFE YOU CAN SAVE | $25,000 |
| SEVA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
58 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +98%
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +94%- GPGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100k
- PCPACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +264%
- ECEASTSUDE COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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…
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…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 87 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Life You Can Save ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NEWS ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds NYAYA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Life You Can Save · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gates Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of the Bay Area · McNabb Foundation · The Intuit Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization First Dollar Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.