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Giant's Causeway at a glance

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Giant's Causeway

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.

$191k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Civil Rights$186kEnvironment$158kFood & Nutrition$122kCrime & Legal$107kCommunity Improvement$50kEducation$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$47kInternational$44kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOODLINK FOR TULARE COUNTY INC$9,000
COMMUNITY WATER CENTER$9,000
FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC$9,000
CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY$9,000
COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT$9,000
ALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY$9,000
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COALITION$9,000
CENTRAL COAST ALLIANCE UNITED FOR A SUSTAINABLE EC$9,000
ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK$9,000
MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS$9,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$9,000
IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK$9,000
GROUNDWORK USA INC$9,000
SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC$9,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$5,091
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC: $4k → 18%MUJERAS UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $13k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $12k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $9k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $8k → 10%MUJERAS UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $5k → 10%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

NY
MA
CA
MD
NC
DC
AL
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Giant's Causeway’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Giant's Causewaylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 27 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

$781k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • RF
    REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +165%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +21%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • FI
    FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +25%
  • KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +12%
  • WA
    WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -27%
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
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
8
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
9
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
10
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
11
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
12
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 37 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $51,346 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $46,366 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $33,340 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTERCENTRAL COAST ALLIANCE UNITED FOR A SUSTAINABLE EC: $25,000 · OtherCENTRAL COAST ALLIANCE UNITED FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL S: $24,000 · OtherREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY: $23,500 · OtherALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEYWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $46,541 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $23,091 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCAsian Law Caucus: $19,900 · OtherPRO PUBLICA INC: $28,400 · OtherPRO PUBLICA INCCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $17,850 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $19,591 · Other+3 more: $18,850 · OtherCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $41,100 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES FOR A…Asian Pacific Environmental Network: $34,800 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific Env…Community Water Center: $25,000 · EnvironmentCommunity Water C…San Francisco Estuary Institute: $16,000 · EnvironmentSan Francisco Est…Environmental Health Coalition: $9,000 · EnvironmentEnvironmental Hea…THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC: $4,500 · Environment+1 more: $2,550 · EnvironmentPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $44,466 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALT…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $44,391 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $39,358 · HealthRape Abuse & Ince…Transgender Law Center: $17,000 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern Equality: $17,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,304 · Civil RightsIFWHENHOW: $4,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,459 · Civil RightsMujeres Unidas y Activas: $47,375 · Human ServicesKINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $40,341 · EducationSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC: $9,000 · EducationFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $23,500 · Food & NutritionFoodlink for Tulare County Inc: $16,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $7,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$377,775Environment$132,950Health$128,215Civil Rights$53,263Human Services$51,375Education$49,341Food & Nutrition$47,000

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 budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $51,346 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $47,375 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $46,541 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $46,366 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $44,466 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $44,391 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT: $41,100 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $40,341 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $39,358 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $34,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $33,340 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $28,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Water Center: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY: $23,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $23,091 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Law Caucus: $19,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $19,591 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy: $17,850 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFoodlink for Tulare County Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Estuary Institute: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,304 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROUNDWORK USA INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIFWHENHOW: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $4,459 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC: $2,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $850 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.

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 California Wellne…Tides FoundationWomen's Foundation of…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Robert Wood Johns…The California Endowm…Rockefeller Philanthr…The San Francisco Fou…Calfoods LogisticsCalifornia Associatio…California Foundation…Liberty Hill Foundati…
The California Wellness FoundationCA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Wellness Foundation · Tides Foundation · Women's Foundation of California · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The California Endowment · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Calfoods Logistics · California Association of Food Banks · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Liberty Hill 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 Giant's Causeway funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giant's Causeway. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 37 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home