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Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation at a glance

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Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$156k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Groundswell Charitable Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $156k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’20
5
’21
2
’22
18
’23
5
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MHuman Services$520kInternational$375kEducation$298kFood & Nutrition$120kArts & Culture$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAST ROOM$75,000
FIU FOUNDATION INC$50,000
NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FIREFIGHTERS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
JACK & JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER$10,000
STRANAHAN HOUSE INC$5,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$5,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAYUGA CENTERS: $50k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $10k → 13%AMI TSUNAMI CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $12k → 15%KIDS KICKIN CANCER SOCCER CLUB INC: $512 → 17%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $3k → 14%JACK & JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 13%JACK & JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 13%THE CHILDREN AID SOCIETY: $10k → 17%KANDELIA: $15k → 9%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $100k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $100k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $100k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $100k → 17%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

WA
ID
IL
NY
OH
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
HI
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$579k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$498k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+24%

Still filing today

63%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    Arpan Foundation Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +123%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +20%
  • RS
    RAINIER SCHOLARS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • TG
    THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
2
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
6
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
7
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
8
The Malala Fund

We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…

Education
9
Unicef Usa Impact Fund for Children Inc

The unicef usa impact fund for children exists to develop and implement financial solutions to ensure every child is healthy, educated, protected, and respected. we believe truly scalable, long-term impact will only be accomplished when we…

Philanthropy
10
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Connectocean Conservation and Outreach Inc

Connectocean conservation and outreach is dedicated to fostering ocean stewardship and conserving aquatic ecosystems through community engagement, education, and collaborative conservation efforts. our mission is to connect communities to…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Last Room. 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

40 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. 40 of the 46 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE4ALL: $445,982 · OtherONE4ALLFIU FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherFIU FOUNDATION INCTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECTFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY+12 more: $97,700 · Other+12 moreAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $436,690 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDAT…GROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $130,000 · PhilanthropyGROUNDSWELL CHARITABLE FOU…+3 more: $40,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE …CAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 · Human ServicesCAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDRE…SHELTERBOX USA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human Services+6 more: $50,012 · Human Services+6 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $75,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $50,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL …UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 · InternationalUNITED STAT…EMPOWER SERENDIB: $12,000 · InternationalArpan Foundation Inc: $100,000 · EducationEDUCATE LANKA FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · EducationVILLAGEREACH: $10,000 · EducationYoung Investors Society: $10,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS: $9,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $5,000 · EducationLast Room: $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Stranahan House Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50 · Arts & CultureNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $55,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$893,682Philanthropy$606,690Human Services$545,012International$262,000Education$146,000Arts & Culture$80,050Crime & Legal$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $436,690 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetArpan Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLast Room: $75,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAYUGA HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLooking Out Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANDELIA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMI TSUNAMI CHILDRENS HOUSE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetEMPOWER SERENDIB: $12,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEDUCATE LANKA FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGEREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Investors Society: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PANTRY OF BROWARD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES NETWORK DBA YOUTH SERVICES NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFARESTART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stranahan House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM COZZI FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANCER KICKERS SOCCER CLUB: $512 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Cauze Charitable FundThe Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Network for Good
Cauze Charitable FundID20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cauze Charitable Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Miami-Dade Coastal Cleanup Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report 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, FY20–25
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gqg Partners Community Empowerment Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gqg Partners Community Empowerment 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 46 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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