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Foundation to Decrease World Suck
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $2,282,230 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,554,117 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $271,887 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k23 grants · $893k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Partners in Health | $696,971 |
| Save the Children Federation | $691,914 |
| This Star Wont Go Out Inc | $38,842 |
| Shes the First Inc | $38,842 |
| ANIMAL WONDERS | $38,841 |
| DRAG STORY HOUR | $38,841 |
| LITERACY FOR LIFE | $38,841 |
| THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT | $38,841 |
| NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP | $38,841 |
| HEAR YOUR SONG INC | $38,841 |
| Not Forgotten Inc | $38,841 |
| NOPI INC | $38,841 |
| WEST SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $38,841 |
| LOVEPAWS | $38,841 |
| ALVEUS SANCTUARY INC | $38,841 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $272k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: OPERATING FUNDS
Stated purpose: OPERATING FUNDS
Stated purpose: OPERATING FUNDS
Stated purpose: OPERATING FUNDS
Stated purpose: OPERATING FUNDS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k 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
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +21%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +120%- TSTHIS STAR WON'T GO OUT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +45% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- NFNOT FORGOTTEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue +28%
- PIPROVEG INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue 0%
- IFIOLA Foundationone grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue 0%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waterorg and the most unlike its peers is Instrument Shop. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 106 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
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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THIS STAR WON'T GO OUT INC ↗
- Who funds SHE'S THE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NOT FORGOTTEN INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PRISON BOOK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Novel Writing Month ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE THIRST PROJECT ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WONDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AUDRE LORDE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds GENDERSPHERE ↗
- Who funds HEAR YOUR SONG INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DRAG STORY HOUR ↗
- Who funds A CATS LIFE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR TRANS EQUALITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds RITA WELSH ADULT LITERACY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ASISTA IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE ↗
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: Nora Roberts Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · New Venture Fund · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc
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 to Decrease World Suck 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nopi Inc — 14% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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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