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Foundation for a Better World Inc

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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$20MInternational$4.2MEducation$4.1MSocial Science$2.0MHuman Services$912kPublic Benefit$437kArts & Culture$375kYouth Development$331kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$50,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$247M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION$600,000
POPULATION SERVICES INTERN$250,000
KIPP METRO ATLANTA SCHOOLS$250,000
THE WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$250,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$200,000
INICIATIVA GUATEMALA$200,000
GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING$150,000
ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC$150,000
UROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION$120,000
BARNESVILLE HOSPITAL$102,000
WINGS$100,000
WORLDREADER$75,000
FUNDACION MARIA Y ANTONIO GOUBAUD CARRERA (FUNDAMAG)$60,000
POPULATION MEDIA CENTER$60,000
BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $7k → 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $50k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $10k → 6%MAYA HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50k → 9%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $50k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $200k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $50k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $150k → 6%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $50k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $100k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $25k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $50k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $25k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $50k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $100k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $25k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $50k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $25k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $25k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $20k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC: $25k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $8k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $10k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL INC: $24k → 15%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $3k → 6%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 39 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
22

Total granted

$30M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+15%

Still filing today

64%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $728k 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 ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalSocial ScienceOther

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

  • CF
    COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +23%
  • AI
    ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +860% · 99% of their budget
  • KM
    Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $890k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +45%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • UV
    UNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k

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
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
3
Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine

Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…

4
Global Alliance for Tb Drug Development Inc

Tb alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of better, faster-acting and affordable tuberculosis drugs that are available to those who need them.

Health
5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
7
Global Greengrants Fund

Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…

Environment
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
12
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Urologic Cancer Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-8 SchoolsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Community Health CentersElementary Literacy TutoringLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Public University Foundatio…Cancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%61%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,526

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.

04the grantee network

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $11,406,000 · Social ScienceALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION+1 more — $50,000 · Social ScienceNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $5,719,524 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLE…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $350,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $300,000 · Health+3 more — $245,000 · HealthGLADSTONE INSTITUTES — $1,975,000 · OtherGLADSTONE INSTITUTESBARNESVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $334,062 · OtherUROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $270,000 · OtherWINGS — $270,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO — $250,000 · OtherPOPULATION SERVICES INTERN — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE — $250,000 · OtherFUNDACION MAG — $230,000 · Other+35 more — $2,515,335 · Other+35 moreCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $1,975,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR E…GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC — $1,087,500 · EducationGROWTH THROUGH LE…Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc — $890,000 · EducationKipp Metro Atlant…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVER…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDAT…POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $180,000 · EducationASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,073,800 · Human ServicesASOPUENTE…Iniciativa Guatemala — $643,000 · Human ServicesIniciativ…MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $400,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUST…Rising Star Outreach Inc — $308,102 · Human ServicesRising St…LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — $300,000 · Human ServicesLATIN AME…+2 more — $57,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS ON TANZANIAN COMMUNITIES INC — $327,500 · InternationalWORLDREADERORG — $75,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $35,000 · InternationalBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $362,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $74,000 · Public Benefit
Social Science$11,456,000Health$6,614,524Other$6,344,397Education$5,082,500Human Services$2,781,902International$437,500Public Benefit$436,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $11,406,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $5,719,524 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION — $1,975,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetGROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC — $1,087,500 over 7y, 88% of budgetASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,073,800 over 8y, 99% of budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc — $890,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetIniciativa Guatemala — $643,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC — $362,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBARNESVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $334,062 over 7y, 65% of budgetFOCUS ON TANZANIAN COMMUNITIES INC — $327,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc — $308,102 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION — $300,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $300,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $270,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetPOPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC — $180,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCreate Your Dreams Inc — $177,500 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetHillside Inc — $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER UP SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $97,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetWORLDREADERORG — $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $74,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPlanting Seeds International — $40,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KUDZU INC — $23,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS HARBOR INC — $13,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOOL GIRLS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL — $7,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
  • Who funds GROWTH THROUGH LEARNING INC
  • Who funds ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc
  • Who funds Iniciativa Guatemala
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds BARNESVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOCUS ON TANZANIAN COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds UROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
  • Who funds Create Your Dreams Inc
  • Who funds BARNESVILLE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Hillside Inc
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds POWER UP SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC

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.

The Imlay Foundation IncGA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Luis Von Ahn Foundation · Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Main · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Kendeda Fund · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Foundation for a Better World Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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