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· Private foundation
FOCUS CENTRAL AMERICA
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$1.9M
Granted FY2024
110
Grants
10
Communities
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of FOCUS CENTRAL AMERICA’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
—
2022
asociacionfundacion rahabciudadanaproyectovidawings guatemalaamos
2023
agua parapara puebloporvoceseducatefundacionasociacion
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 110 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k86 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
- OTHER ORGANIZATIONS$55,000
- PEACEWORKS$45,050
- AGUA PARA EL PUEBLO$40,000
- AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA$35,000
- FUNDACION HERENCIA VIVA$32,000
- PENNAT$31,565
- AMOS HOPE AND HEALTH$30,000
- FUNDACION ACCION JOVEN$30,000
- CONTEXTOS$30,000
- TEENSSMART INTERNATIONAL$30,000
- ASOCIACION CEDCAS DE LOS LAGO$30,000
- PROYECTO ABRAHAM$30,000
- FUNDAMUNI$30,000
- GRUPO GUINOPENO AMBIENTALISTA$30,000
- ASAPROSAR$30,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 79% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 97 repeat orgs$536k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +245% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
97
14
Total granted
$3.5M
$104k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+245%
+4%
Still filing today
7%
14%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $432k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEducationOther
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
- CICLEAN INTERNATIONAL3× · 2021–2023 · $80k · revenue +323%
- UMUN MUNDO3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +117%
- ABA BETTER LIFE GUATEMALA4× · 2021–2024 · $47k · revenue +245% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- HOHAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $15k
- AACMMone grant, 2023 · $15k
- ADAMIGOS DEL LAGO ATITLANone grant, 2023 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Lemonade International Inc
We exist to stand in solidarity with Guatemalan leaders as they break the cycle of poverty, violence, and injustice through education, gang prevention, and community relief for families in the poorest neighborhoods of Guatemala City.
International
2
Global Voice
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3
Cultiva International Inc
We provide training, education and materials so local Mayan Guatemalan families can grown their own food in order to improve their familys nutrition and lift themselves out of poverty.
Environment
4
Upaya Social Ventures
Upaya Social Ventures fights extreme poverty through dignified jobs. Founded in 2011, Upaya provides investment and consulting support to early-stage businesses aimed at creating jobs for people living in extreme poverty.
International
5
Speak Up for the Poor
Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.
International
6
Global Learning Exchange Initiative
To empower elementary school children in Guatemala by providing access to an unparalleled literacy curriculum and professional teacher training that creates new opportunity pathways for the next generation.
International
7
Unum International Inc
UNUM International is a Christian nonprofit who seeks to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to eradicate chronic malnutrition, physical and spiritual hunger, and illiteracy in Guatemala.
International
8
Guatemala Human Rights Commission U S a
GHRC promotes human rights in Guatemala and supports communities and activists who face threats and violence. GHRC documents and denounces abuses, educates the international community, and advocates for policies that foster peace and…
International
9
Global Forest Generation
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Environment
10
Womens Justice Initiative Inc
The Womens Justice Initiative improves the lives of indigenous Guatemalan women and girls through education, access to legal services, and gender-based violence prevention.
Education
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La
Use the law to protect the right to a healthy environment in the americas, primarily in latin america
Crime & Legal
12
Helping Children Worldwide Inc
Helping Children Worldwide is strengthening and empowering families and communities in the Global South to address the root causes of child poverty and child mortality.
Youth Development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Children and the most unlike its peers is A Better Life Guatemala. 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
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,544,141International$392,050Health$46,500Arts & Culture$45,000Philanthropy$25,000Education$20,000
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.
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.
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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 organisation FOCUS CENTRAL AMERICA 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- United Way of Hunterdon County — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: A BETTER LIFE GUATEMALA.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 862789509 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on A BETTER LIFE GUATEMALA, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Focus Central America?
Find your warmest path to Focus Central America through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines