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Grid3 Inc
Grid3 works with countries in sub-saharan africa to generate, validate, and use core spatial datasets on population, settlements, subnational boundaries, and crucial infrastructure.
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100% of Grid3 Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,234,705 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $1.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE KINSHASA SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH TO COLLECT GEOSPATIAL DATA IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO AND WITH SOCIETY FOR FAMILY HEALTH TO COLLECT GEOSPATIAL DATA IN NIGERIA
Stated purpose: PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO PRODUCE POPULATION DATA AND WITH NOVEL-T SARL IN SWITZERLAND ON THE USE OF THE GEOSPATIAL TRACKING SYSTEM (GTS).
How this is measured
1 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. 1 of the 2 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.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grid3 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grid3 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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