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Global Fund for Children

GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN partners with grassroots organizations around the world to help children and youth reach their full potential and advance their rights.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Crime & Legal$523kInternational$238kEducation$87kEnvironment$85kYouth Development$54kHuman Services$38kPhilanthropy$22kCivil Rights$16k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $35,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,062,073 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,027,073 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.

$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMIES UNIDOS$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AL OTRO LADO: $27k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $22k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $21k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $15k → 14%AL OTRO LADO: $12k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Grants abroad, by region — $4.5M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $4.3M to organizations and $144k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Russia and Neighboring States$987k · 22% · 44 grants

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · EMERGENCY GRANT · OPPORTUNITY GRANT

South Asia$879k · 20% · 42 grants

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · SPECIAL INITIATIVE AWARD · ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT

Sub-Saharan Africa$707k · 16% · 51 grants

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT · EMERGENCY GRANT

Central America and the Caribbean$637k · 14% · 48 grants

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · SPECIAL INITIATIVE AWARD · CONVENING GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$496k · 11% · 21 grants · 9 people

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · EMERGENCY GRANT · CONVENING GRANT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$336k · 8% · 24 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY GRANT · PRIMARY GRANT · OPPORTUNITY GRANT

South America$253k · 6% · 17 grants

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · SPECIAL INITIATIVE AWARD

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$135k · 3% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: PRIMARY GRANT · SUSTAINABILITY AWARD · COURAGE AWARD

Middle East and North Africa$41k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$955k · 12 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$955k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+54%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • HU
    HOMIES UNIDOS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $227k · revenue +53%
  • TT
    THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER
    5× · 2018–2022 · $123k · revenue +16%
  • AO
    AL OTRO LADO
    5× · 2018–2022 · $97k · revenue +218%

Funded once

  • CH
    CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +42%
  • CE
    CONNECTEDCONECTANDO EDUCACIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +43%
  • OF
    ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +54%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Advocates for Human Rights

To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.

International
2
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
3
Ceda International

To strengthen young women's civic participation and leadership

4
Maia

MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.

International
5
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
6
Creating Resources for Empowerment and Action Inc

Strategies and collective power for social transformation. crea, also works to build the leadership capacity of elected women representatives. crea, as part of the sexual rights initiative, also works to advance sexual rights as particular…

Community Improvement
7
Womens Empowerment Coalition

To advance gender equity through education, mentorship, and economic opportunity in marginalized communities.

Civil Rights
8
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
9
Tomorrow's Youth Organization

Tomorrow's youth organization empowers refugees and marginalized communities across the middle east - to build resilience, healing, and opportunity admist conflict. through locally-led and globally-informed programs in education,…

Education
10
Redes Ayudas Inc
International
11
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
12
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creating Hope International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOMIES UNIDOS INC — $226,876 · Crime & LegalHOMIES UNIDOS INCGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · InternationalGEORGES MALAIKA FOUND…RefuSHE Inc — $50,000 · InternationalRefuSHE IncCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC — $36,707 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVICE …CREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $27,000 · InternationalCREATING HOPE INTERNA…NICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER — $86,523 · EducationNICARAGUAN EDUCATIO…Womens Justice Initiative Inc — $75,029 · EducationWomens Justice Init…ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT — $18,986 · EducationORGANIZATION FOR YO…THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $123,463 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JU…NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $16,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL DAY L…AL OTRO LADO — $97,470 · Human ServicesAL OTRO LA…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $85,102 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AN…COURTNEYS HOUSE INC — $38,000 · OtherCOURTNEYS HOU…Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso — $26,000 · OtherFihankra Akom…CONNECTEDCONECTANDO EDUCACION — $22,194 · OtherCONNECTEDCONE…CANDID — $14,000 · OtherCANDIDCREATIVE LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherCREATIVE LIFE…PROJECT CREATE — $9,000 · OtherPROJECT CREAT…
Crime & Legal$226,876International$203,707Education$180,538Civil Rights$139,463Human Services$97,470Environment$85,102Other$129,194

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMIES UNIDOS INC — $226,876 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $123,463 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAL OTRO LADO — $97,470 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetNICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER — $86,523 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $85,102 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Justice Initiative Inc — $75,029 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRefuSHE Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC — $36,707 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $27,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFihankra Akoma Ntoaso — $26,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCONNECTEDCONECTANDO EDUCACION — $22,194 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCREATIVE LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT — $18,986 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetNATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK — $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT CREATE — $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Globalgiving Foundation IncDC17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Together Women Rise · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Global Fund for Children 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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