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For the Giving Foundation at a glance

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For the Giving 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.

$527k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$511k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$751kHuman Services$10kHealth$5kHousing & Shelter$4kFood & Nutrition$500International$400Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $250k+1 grant · $511k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS$510,837
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S$5,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS$4,997
INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$200
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$200
FEEDING AMERICA$100
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100
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 (FY18–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%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.
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242k · 7 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$242k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+40%

Still filing today

43%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • US
    UNITY SHOPPE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +79%
  • FB
    Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400 · revenue +20%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400 · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR INDIVIDUAL AND WORLD PEACE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Northern Nevadagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +40%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
2
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

—
4
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

—
5
Feeding America Riverside San Bernardino Counties

Our mission is to alleviate hunger in the inland empire of southern california.

Food & Nutrition
6
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

—
7
Food Bank for Monterey County

To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.

Unclassified
8
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
9
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Depot

The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.

Human Services
12
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc

To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rescue Mission Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS: $515,834 · OtherMOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESSTHE CHURCH OF THE MOVEMENT OF SPIRI: $129,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF THE MOVEMENT OF SPIRICHURCH OF THE MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS: $106,500 · OtherCHURCH OF THE MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS+5 more: $9,300 · OtherUNITY SHOPPE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $1,000 · Human ServicesHANDS AND HEARTS OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $400 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $100 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $400 · International
Other$760,634Human Services$5,100Health$5,000Housing & Shelter$1,000Food & Nutrition$500International$400

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization For the Giving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from For the Giving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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-PF 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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