· Public charity
Giving What We Can USA Inc
Giving what we can's mission is to make giving effectively and significantly a cultural norm.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $5,448,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,943,692 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $495,145 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $513k
- $250k+5 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC | $2,099,997 |
| EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC | $1,188,234 |
| LONGVIEW PHILANTHROPY USA INC | $843,128 |
| THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWELL | $374,405 |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE | $287,216 |
| GOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED | $249,999 |
| HORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE | $104,741 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $83,714 |
| THE AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $74,776 |
| MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC | $49,870 |
| ANIMAL ADVOCACY AFRICA | $36,712 |
| ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS | $30,459 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $25,296 |
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 (FY24–24, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
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.
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.
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.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
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…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To encourage individuals, corporations, foundations and donor governments to support the global fund, an international foundation focused on ending three of the world's most deadly infectious diseases.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Accelerate equitable access to eyeglasses for one billion people. eyelliance advances four mutually reinforcing global and national strategies, gov delivery, sustainable financing, institutional advocacy, and catalytic partnerships.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Effective Ventures Foundation Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helen Keller International. 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.
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 THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW PHILANTHROPY USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADVOCACY AFRICA ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Good Ventures Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 What We Can USA 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, a single department, or state — 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.