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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE$150,000
NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE$150,000
NORTHWEST NATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND$150,000
OWEESTA CORPORATION$150,000
THE PEOPLE'S LAND FUND$150,000
CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE$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

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 (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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
18/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Individual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE (RUNWAY): $150,000 · OtherEVERYDAY PEOPLE FOR CHANGE (RUNWAY…ORGANIC 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…Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation: $37,500 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $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 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 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 budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Globetrotter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Globetrotter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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.
    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 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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