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Global Witness

Our goal is a more sustainable, just and equal planet. We want forests and biodiversity to thrive, fossil fuels to stay in the ground and corporations to prioritize the interests of people and the planet.

$309k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$129k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$128,905
Largest grant, FY2021
$128,905
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$15M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fund for Constitutional Government$128,90513%

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How do I get to Global Witness?

Find your warmest path to Global Witness through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Global Witness

How much does Global Witness give?
Global Witness reported 1 itemized grants totaling $128,905, out of $309,044 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Global Witness fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Public Benefit (100%).
Who are Global Witness's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Fund for Constitutional Government ($129k).

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 1 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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