· Public charity
Humanity First USA
Humanity first's mission is to relieve suffering caused by natural disasters or human conflict, promote peace and understanding, and strengthen people's capacity to help themselves.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Human Development Foundation | $106,000 |
| American Near East Refugee | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Grants abroad, by region: $1.6M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Human Development and Feed the Hungry and Disaster Relief · Human Development and Feed the Hungry and Water for Life and Gift of Sight · Human Development and Feed the Hungry
Stated purpose: Disaster Relief
Stated purpose: Human Development
Stated purpose: Feed the Hungry and Disaster Relief · Human Development and Feed the Hungry
Stated purpose: Human Development
Stated purpose: Human Development
How this is measured
2 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. 2 of the 4 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 Humanity First USA funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Humanity First USA. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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