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Globetrotter Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.3MEnvironment$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEducation$322kCrime & Legal$248kHuman Services$215kCivil Rights$188kScience & Tech$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.7M
$78,750
Median grant
18
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENSINGTON CORRIDOR TRUST$225,000
HIGHER PURPOSE CO$200,000
COMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC$187,500
POSSIBILITY LABS$187,500
MERIDIAN INSTITUTE$175,000
THE PEOPLE'S LAND FUND$150,000
NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE$150,000
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE$150,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$150,000
OWEESTA CORPORATION$150,000
NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND$150,000
EVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE (RUNWAY)$150,000
SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER$125,000
LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER$122,000
COMMUNITIES IN PARTNERSHIP$112,500
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 (FY19–24, $743k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN IN RANCHING INC: $110k → 15%VALLEY VERDE: $50k → 8%LA COSECHA CSA: $75k → 14%NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $150k → 17%WOMEN IN RANCHING INC: $105k → 15%POSSIBILITY LABS: $188k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $65k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 19 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
20

Total granted

$2.8M
$876k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-1%

Still filing today

84%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • MI
    Meridian Institute
    3× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +176%
  • POSSIBILITY LABS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $253k · revenue +116%
  • SE
    Sustainable Economies Law Center
    4× · 2020–2024 · $217k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
  • TU
    The University Foundation California State University Chicograduated
    one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +66%
  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FARMLINK
    one grant, 2023 · $96k · revenue -29%

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
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
2
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
3
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
4
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
5
Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…

Food & Nutrition
6
Center for the study of the Americas

Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security

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7
Community Agroecology Network

Community Agroecology Network's (CAN) mission is to develop a network comprised of rural communities in Latin America and U.S. consumers that work together to support self-sufficiency and sustainable farming practices.

Community Improvement
8
Organic Seed Alliance

Organic seed alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse and interconnected communities of seed stewards.

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9
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
10
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Farm Collaborative

Growing a local food system where the health of people and planet come first

Education
12
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and the most unlike its peers is BenitoLink Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%16%<5yr15%16%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr13%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%22%<5yr15%18%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,929

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 65 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
16/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CSU CHICO — $200,000 · OtherCSU CHICOCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC — $187,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INCCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS — $157,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FAR…EVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE (RUNWAY) — $150,000 · OtherEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE (RUNWAY…Individual grant recipient — $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $105,000 · OtherORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATIO…FARMS — $102,500 · OtherJUST ECONOMY INSTITUTE — $87,200 · OtherFOOD CULTURE COLLECTIVE — $80,000 · OtherRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $150,000 · OtherRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCEECDYSIS FOUNDATION — $115,000 · OtherECDYSIS FOUNDATIONCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE — $100,000 · Other+13 more — $376,000 · Other+13 moreKITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS — $202,500 · Food & NutritionKITCHEN TABLE ADVISO…LA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $184,000 · Food & NutritionLA SEMILLA FOOD CENT…GOOD MEAT PROJECT — $150,675 · Food & NutritionGOOD MEAT PROJECTNational Black Food and Justice Alliance — $150,000 · Food & NutritionNational Black Food …The Peoples Land Fund — $150,000 · Food & NutritionThe Peoples Land Fun…SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS — $102,500 · Food & NutritionSUSTAINABLE AGRICULT…CCOF FOUNDATION — $84,000 · Food & NutritionCCOF FOUNDATIONTHE NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION — $60,000 · Food & NutritionAGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Food & NutritionREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $3,000 · Food & NutritionKENSINGTON CORRIDOR TRUST — $225,000 · Community ImprovementKENSINGTON CORR…Higher Purpose Hub — $200,000 · Community ImprovementHigher Purpose …OWEESTA CORPORATION — $150,000 · Community ImprovementOWEESTA CORPORA…Communities In Partnership — $112,500 · Community ImprovementCommunities In …Native Agriculture Financial Services — $75,000 · Community ImprovementNative Agricult…NDN COLLECTIVE INC — $37,500 · Community ImprovementFresno Area Hispanic Foundation — $37,500 · Community ImprovementNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $32,500 · Community ImprovementPOSSIBILITY LABS — $252,900 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY L…WOMEN IN RANCHING INC — $215,250 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN RANC…NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND — $150,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST NAT…LA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE — $75,000 · Human ServicesLA COSECHA CO…Valley Verde — $50,000 · Human ServicesValley VerdeCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $150,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUST…Planting Justice — $125,000 · EnvironmentPlanting Jus…SAVANNA INSTITUTE — $102,500 · EnvironmentSAVANNA INST…Occidental Arts and Ecology Center — $100,000 · EnvironmentOccidental A…CROATAN INSTITUTE — $75,000 · EnvironmentCROATAN INST…FIBERSHED — $61,500 · EnvironmentFIBERSHEDCLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $50,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE CHAN…CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS — $31,500 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentMeridian Institute — $325,000 · PhilanthropyMeridian …Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation — $80,000 · PhilanthropyWolfe's N…JUST FUTURES IMPACT INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyJUST FUTU…Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyGreater K…Sustainable Economies Law Center — $216,500 · EducationThe University Foundation California State University Chico — $105,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $96,219 · Education
Other$1,960,700Food & Nutrition$1,186,675Community Improvement$870,000Human Services$743,150Environment$705,500Philanthropy$530,000Education$417,719

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 budgetMeridian Institute — $325,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS — $252,900 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKENSINGTON CORRIDOR TRUST — $225,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center — $216,500 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN IN RANCHING INC — $215,250 over 2y, 25% of budgetHigher Purpose Hub — $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES UNLIMITED INC — $187,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLA SEMILLA FOOD CENTER — $184,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE WITH FAMILY FARMERS — $157,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGOOD MEAT PROJECT — $150,675 over 2y, 39% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOWEESTA CORPORATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Peoples Land Fund — $150,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlanting Justice — $125,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetECDYSIS FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCommunities In Partnership — $112,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetThe University Foundation California State University Chico — $105,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAVANNA INSTITUTE — $102,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS — $102,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA FARMLINK — $96,219 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCCOF FOUNDATION — $84,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWolfe's Neck Farm Foundation — $80,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUST FUTURES IMPACT INC — $75,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCROATAN INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNative Agriculture Financial Services — $75,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetLA COSECHA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFIBERSHED — $61,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEW MEXICO FARMERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION — $60,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Verde — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFresno Area Hispanic Foundation — $37,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFEED THE HUNGER FUND — $37,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $32,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS — $31,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBenitoLink Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSAN BENITO AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEcological Farming Association — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Community Foundation …The Schmidt Family Fo…PatagoniaorgRsf Social Finance IncImpactassetsincTomkat Ranch Educatio…Clif Family FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…WK Kellogg FoundationTides FoundationClarence E Heller Cha…Marin Community Found…
Community Foundation for San Benito CountyCA65.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for San Benito County · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation · Marin Community 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 Globetrotter Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    11report 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, FY20–24

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Globetrotter Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Globetrotter Foundation 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.

    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 65 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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