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Foundation for a Better World Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $7k → 11%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNATIONAL INC: $150k → 15%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $50k → 8%INICIATIVA GUATEMALA: $10k → 6%MAYA HEALTH ALLIANCE: $50k → 9%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%ASOPUENTE INTERNAIONAL 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • UV
    UNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
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
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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 69 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherWINGS: $270,000 · OtherUROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $270,000 · OtherUNIVERSITA VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE: $250,000 · OtherPOPULATION SERVICES INTERN: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTURNING POINT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Luis Von Ahn Foundati…Ryan Ida Alice Tuw Ma…Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Waterfall Foundat…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainThe Kendeda FundTr Uw Charles I BrananGeorgia Power Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for a Better World Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for a Better World Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's 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, 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 69 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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