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GVNGorg
GVNG.org is a national public charity with the mission of democratizing philanthropy through cultivating new philanthropists and supporting charitable projects with similar activity as defined in, or under, section 501(c)3 via either programs conducted or by means of distributions to other organizations so defined as permissible and in…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $502,675 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $545,175 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $42,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $326k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAR ME OUT | $146,012 |
| SWANITI INITIATIVE | $130,443 |
| UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL FOUND | $50,000 |
| RAINFOREST FOUNDATION | $27,515 |
| SAINT ANDREWS SCHOOL OF BOCA | $27,500 |
| GRANTS UNDER 5000 | $21,040 |
| CARBON REMOVAL INSTITUTE | $20,067 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $20,067 |
| TDD SUPPORTIVE LIVING | $12,392 |
| JUSTICE URBAN CENTER | $11,662 |
| BIG INITIATIVES IN | $10,439 |
| CARBON 180 | $9,149 |
| BETH JACOB CONGREGATION | $9,000 |
| SUPPORT AND FEED INC | $7,389 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $706k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $397k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ECEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2021 · $527k · revenue +354%
- HEHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 9112× · 2018–2019 · $500k · revenue +114%
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $220k · revenue +346%
Funded once
- MFMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIESone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +1%
- TFTREES FOR THE FUTURE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $163k · revenue +196%
- RERISE EDUCATION SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $124k · revenue +66%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Development of programs to offset personal and corporate carbon emissions through reforestation in the tropics.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
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…
Terraset uses philanthropic capital to purchase permanent, high-quality carbon removal. we pool donations from individuals, foundations, family offices, and donor advised funds, and make strategic purchases of high-quality carbon removal…
Climate imperative foundation's mission is to employ science and economics to cut global carbon emissions to secure a better future for all.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nature Trust of the Santa Monica Mountai. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT AND FEED INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds SWANITI INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RISE EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds GVNGorg ↗
- Who funds UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEACE LATIN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINS RESTORATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CARBON REMOVAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN & SEA EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds Nature Trust Of The Santa Monica Mountai ↗
- Who funds THE CHICK MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds TDD SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Strake Jesuit Foundation ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
- Who funds BIG HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds The Green Turtle Cay Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Malibu Foundation · United Way Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 GVNGorg 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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How do I get to GVNGorg?
Find your warmest path to GVNGorg 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.