· Public charity
Giving Tuesday Inc
Giving tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world.
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of Giving Tuesday Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Foundation For Appalachian Kentucky Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $188,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $248,213 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,213 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| DEPAUL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY | $20,000 |
| WALKER AREA COMM FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW MISSISSIPPI | $12,000 |
| PINEBELT FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF E MISSISSIPPI | $12,000 |
| TUSKEGEE-MACON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| UW OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA | $12,000 |
| CENTRAL LOUISIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of your 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 — $31k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DATA OUTREACH AND RESEARCH GRANT
Stated purpose: STARLING GRANT
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.
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 community foundation is a philanthropic organization that manages charitable funds with a broad base of donors to benefit the areas of western tennessee, eastern arkansas, and northern mississippi. since 1969, the community foundation…
The mission of the Community Foundation of Acadiana is to build legacies and improve communities by connecting generous people to the causes they care about.
To promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness, and to bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…
To grow community giving by fostering a community of grantmakers, promoting strategic local leadership, and investing in partnerships for the benefit of the community of loudoun and northern fauquier.
Central carolina community foundation is a nonprofit community foundation that connects and mobilizes people and resources to strengthen the midlands of south carolina. the foundation partners with donors, nonprofit organizations,…
The community foundation of south alabama seeks to build permanent endowments for the long range future of the region it serves and to draw from the strengths of the region's diverse population in designing and funding innovative programs…
To empower people to make a lasting charitable impact on our community. we connect donors to causes they care about, manage strategic investments to preserve our endowments, make grants that align with donor intent, respond to community…
The greater cedar rapids community foundation (the community foundation) partners with donors, funders, and other community collaborators to achieve high-impact philanthropy, supports nonprofit organizations that address our community's…
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
The north georgia community foundation helps people and non-profits invest generously in the lives of those who call our community home.
We serve the citizens of northeast florida through a range of charitable and civic activities while helping individuals achieve their philanthropic goals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Depaul University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 CANDID ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LOUISIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA ↗
- Who funds WALKER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Giving Tuesday 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.
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.