· Private foundation
Foundation for Global Sports Development
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k27 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $796k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL TENNIS FEDERATION (ITF) | $150,000 |
| ITTF FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CHILDHELP | $100,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMITTEE FOR OLYMPIC GAMES (SCCOG) | $90,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SURFING ASSOCIATION | $80,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL TENNIS FEDERATION (ITF) | $75,000 |
| FAIR PLAY AMERICAS INC | $51,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| REBOOT | $25,000 |
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 US giving — 76% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($4.0M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 24% of all-years giving ($4.0M)
14 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Foundation for Global Sports Development’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- CICHILDHELP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $880k · revenue +5%
- SHSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG6× · 2017–2022 · $628k · revenue +305%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA5× · 2017–2021 · $450k · revenue +621% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +170%
- OHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $250k
- ITINTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATIONone grant, 2019 · $175k
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
With the goal of ensuring athletes within the u.s. olympic and paralympic movement of are safe, supported, and strengthened. the center: delivers comprehensive abuse prevention education within and outside of the u.s. olympic and…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Urban Dove Inc and the most unlike its peers is Malibu Friends of Music. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 226 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 END WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE IS A LEGAL DUTY USA ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SURFING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AVALON HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Play International Inc ↗
- Who funds Angel City Alliance ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS RUN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAIR PLAY AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds PAVE PROMOTING AWARENESS VICTIM EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds LA84 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NA KAMA KAI ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEAM PRIME TIME INC ↗
- Who funds Live Oak Preschool ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGGER DUKE KAHANAMOKU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS 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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Womens Sports Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · La84 Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The California Wellness 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 Global Sports Development 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.
- New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
- TransCen Inc — 37% of income from government
- Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc — 33% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Classroom Champions Inc — 1% 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.
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