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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 FY2024(still arriving)
39
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$78,750
Largest grant, FY2024
$225,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Globetrotter Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $949k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving38$3.8M66%
FY202320$1.2M75%
FY202210$437k70%
FY20211$75k0%
FY20208$374k88%
FY20197$375k86%
FY20182$65k100%
FY20172$55kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
OR
SD
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
NM
AR
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Meridian Institute$325,00031%
Possibility Labs$252,90020%
Kensington Corridor Trust$225,000123%
Sustainable Economies Law Center$216,50042%
Women in Ranching Inc$215,250225%
Kitchen Table Advisors$202,5003n/a
Higher Purpose Hub$200,000111%
Community Services Unlimited Inc$187,50013%
La Semilla Food Center$184,00023%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers$157,50022%
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All grantees of Globetrotter Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Meridian Institute$325,00031%
Possibility Labs$252,90020%
Kensington Corridor Trust$225,000123%
Sustainable Economies Law Center$216,50042%
Women in Ranching Inc$215,250225%
Kitchen Table Advisors$202,5003n/a
Higher Purpose Hub$200,000111%
Community Services Unlimited Inc$187,50013%
La Semilla Food Center$184,00023%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers$157,50022%
Good Meat Project$150,675239%
Right to the City Alliance$150,00011%
National Black Food and Justice Alliance$150,00011%
The Peoples Land Fund$150,00016%
Northwest Native Development Fund$150,00013%
Climate Justice Alliance$150,00011%
Oweesta Corporation$150,00011%
Planting Justice$125,00023%
Ecdysis Foundation$115,00039%
Communities In Partnership$112,50014%
The University Foundation California State University Chico$105,00011%
Organic Farming Research Foundation$105,00025%
Savanna Institute$102,50021%
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders$102,50022%
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center$100,00012%
Carbon Cycle Institute$100,00019%
California Farmlink$96,21911%
Ccof Foundation$84,00021%
Wolfe's Neck Farm Foundation$80,00011%
Just Futures Impact Inc$75,00019%
La Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture$75,00012%
Croatan Institute$75,00016%
Native Agriculture Financial Services$75,00015%
Fibershed$61,50022%
The New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association$60,00012%
Agriculture and Land Based Training Association$50,00012%
Climate Change Leadership Institute$50,000130%
Valley Verde$50,000111%
Regenerative Agriculture Foundation$50,00020%
Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation$37,50011%
Feed the Hunger Fund$37,50011%
Ndn Collective Inc$37,50010%
New Mexico Community Capital$32,50011%
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts$31,50011%
Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance$25,0001n/a
BenitoLink Inc$15,00017%
San Benito Agricultural Land Trust$10,00012%
Ecological Farming Association$3,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Globetrotter Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRight to the City Alliance: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Peoples Land Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNorthwest Native Development Fund: $150,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetClimate Justice Alliance: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOweesta Corporation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 budgetThe University Foundation California State University Chico: $105,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOrganic Farming Research Foundation: $105,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSavanna Institute: $102,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders: $102,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCarbon Cycle Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 9.4% 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 budgetLa Cosecha Community Supported Agriculture: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCroatan Institute: $75,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNative Agriculture Financial Services: $75,000 over 1y, 5.2% 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 budgetClimate Change Leadership Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetValley Verde: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRegenerative Agriculture Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFresno Area Hispanic Foundation: $37,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFeed the Hunger Fund: $37,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNdn Collective Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About Globetrotter Foundation

How much does Globetrotter Foundation give?
Globetrotter Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $3,862,675 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Globetrotter Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (36%), Environment (22%), Community Improvement (19%).
Who are Globetrotter Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Meridian Institute ($325k), Possibility Labs ($253k), Kensington Corridor Trust ($225k).
Does Globetrotter Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Globetrotter Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Globetrotter Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for San Benito County, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
Where is Globetrotter Foundation based?
Globetrotter Foundation is based in CA.

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

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