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Global Philanthropy Partnership

GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP ("gpp") promotes strategic global philanthropy, awareness of global development issues, and sustainability initiatives.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$170k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$4.6MCommunity Improvement$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.8MEducation$296kRecreation & Sports$278kHuman Services$208kFood & Nutrition$203kPhilanthropy$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $1,496,131, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,530,019 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,888 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $329k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$170,000
PITTSBURGHERS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION$145,500
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE$111,800
TRANSPORTATION RIDERS UNITED INC$101,800
ECOLOGY CENTER INC$96,800
ST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION (DBA MOVE MINNESOTA)$91,800
NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA$90,000
MOBILI SE$51,800
METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL$51,800
BIKE CLEVELAND$51,800
METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH (MOSES)$51,800
ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY$51,800
CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD TECHNOLOGY$50,000
1000 FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN LAND USE INSTITUTE$50,000
BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$45,500
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 (FY24–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNLIMITED POTENTIONAL INC: $50k → 11%RESOURCE FOR EDUCATION ADVOCACY COMMUNICATION AND HOUSING: $8k → 14%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

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 30 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
83

Total granted

$4.6M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

60%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $663k 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
EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $267k · revenue +18%
  • SI
    SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $225k · revenue +162% · 37% of their budget
  • SP
    ST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • OG
    OPERATION GREEN TEAM FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +54%
  • SE
    SOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • AL
    ATHENS LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +56%
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
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
2
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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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
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
5
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
6
Green Cities Accord

Green Cities Accord is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering climate resilient communities through investments in tree canopy infrastructure to improve environmental health, climate resilience, and equity in communities. We focus…

Environment
7
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
8
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

The mission of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is to transform San Francisco's streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation.

Environment
9
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
10
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
11
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest

The environmental law & policy center (elpc) is the midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and ecobusiness innovation organization, and among the nation's leaders. we develop and lead successful strategic…

Environment
12
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Barry University Inc. 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 128 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
51/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNTY OF BUNCOMBE: $450,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF BUNCOMBETHE CITY OF SAVANNAH: $374,211 · OtherTHE CITY OF SAVANNAHACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE: $266,800 · OtherACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCETHE CADMUS GROUP LLC: $249,372 · OtherTHE CADMUS GROUP LLCSEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $150,000 · OtherCITY OF DURHAM: $150,000 · OtherMETRO NASHVILLE PARKS AND RECREATIO: $150,000 · OtherTOWN OF CARY: $150,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $150,000 · Other+54 more: $2,262,576 · Other+54 moreGREENSPACES INC: $450,000 · EnvironmentGREENSPACES INCOPERATION GREEN TEAM FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EnvironmentOPERATION GREEN TEAM FOUNDAT…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $170,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE CO…NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC: $165,000 · EnvironmentNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INCSOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE I…ATHENS LAND TRUST INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentATHENS LAND TRUST INCECOLOGY CENTER: $146,800 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTERST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: $128,800 · EnvironmentHEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC: $90,000 · Environment+19 more: $735,199 · Environment+19 moreTHE MAYOR'S FUND TO ADVANCE NEW YORK CITY: $324,167 · Community ImprovementTHE MAYOR'S FUND…SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $225,000 · Community ImprovementSUSTAINABILITY I…The Urban Conservancy: $149,400 · Community ImprovementThe Urban Conser…METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $101,800 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN PLA…ALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY: $101,800 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR MET…COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $84,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNE…PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $58,250 · Community ImprovementMOSES (METROPOLITAN ORGANIZING STRATEGY ENABLING STRENGTH): $51,800 · Community ImprovementSustain Charlotte Inc: $50,000 · Community ImprovementSEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS: $50,000 · Community Improvement+8 more: $225,850 · Community Improvement+8 moreACTION COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION REFORM: $450,000 · EducationBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $149,800 · EducationPROPEL ATL INC: $73,500 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $37,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $20,000 · EducationPittsburghers for Public Transit: $195,500 · Public BenefitMOBILISE INC: $101,800 · Public BenefitTRANSPORTATION RIDERS UNITED INC: $101,800 · Public BenefitLINK HOUSTON: $75,000 · Public BenefitNORTHEAST TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIONS: $60,000 · Public BenefitOUR STREETS: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsBIKE CLEVELAND: $51,800 · Recreation & SportsSan Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc: $47,500 · Recreation & SportsCOUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE SPORT: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerica Walks Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsLeague of American Wheelman Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $120,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $55,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,352,959Environment$2,485,799Community Improvement$1,422,567Education$760,800Public Benefit$534,100Recreation & Sports$234,300Philanthropy$175,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENSPACES INC: $450,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE: $266,800 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetPittsburghers for Public Transit: $195,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $170,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC: $165,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHFACE ENERGY INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetATHENS LAND TRUST INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF REFUGEES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $149,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Urban Conservancy: $149,400 over 1y, 33% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $146,800 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetST PAUL TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION: $128,800 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $120,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $101,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMOBILISE INC: $101,800 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR METROPOLITAN STABILITY: $101,800 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHEADWATERS ECONOMICS INC: $90,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $84,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $84,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetLINK HOUSTON: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALLIANCE TO SAVE ENERGY: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC: $73,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSMART GROWTH AMERICA: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $62,133 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetACTION FOR EQUITY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetNORTHEAST TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIONS: $60,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOUR STREETS: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $58,250 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIKE WALK KC: $55,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBIKE CLEVELAND: $51,800 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEast Bay Bicycle Coalition DBA Bike East Bay: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSustain Charlotte Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNLIMITED POTENTIAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSEATTLE NEIGHBORHOOD GREENWAYS: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSan Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Inc: $47,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSHARED-USE MOBILITY CENTER: $47,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOPEPRINT INC: $46,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUTUREWISE: $45,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPAYNE-PHALEN COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $44,750 over 1y, 18% 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.

United States Energy FoundationCA55.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United States Energy Foundation · Transitcenter Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · AARP · The Energy Foundation · American Public Transportation Association · The Bullitt Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Policylink · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Global Philanthropy Partnership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global Philanthropy Partnership. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • New Buildings Institute: 100% of income from government
  • Willamette Partnership: 76% of income from government
  • Forth Mobility Fund: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 128 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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