How much did Humanity United grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of Humanity United’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

anti-slavery supplysupply chainpolicy advocacytrafficking preventionconflict transformationveritewomen

2019

rights advocacylabor traffickingtrafficking exploitationchristianpreservationcareresponsible recruitment

2020

covid responsedata analysisgraftonpeninsula jewishcivil libertiesliberties unionstreet

2021

covid responsestrategic communicationsleadership buildingcougarlabor conditionscorporate accountabilityourloop stichting

2022

policy changefrancisco aidstrustees columbiaeuropean corporatecorporate justicefairsquarehorizon

2023

rights dignityglobal endend modernpaz queridaaddis ababalearning impactworker rights

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 204 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k36 grants · $108k
$10k–50k58 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k96 grants · $9.9M
$250k+14 grants · $4.8M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre$612,000
Freedom Fund$562,218
Humanity United Charitable Fund$459,800
Thousand Currents$340,000
Instituto Incube$312,000
FairSquare Projects$300,000
Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative$300,000
Guardian Org Foundation$300,000
Humanity United Charitable Fund$300,000
International Labor Rights Forum$300,000
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York$270,000
Alliance for Peacebuilding$250,000
Search for Common Ground$250,000
Freedom Fund$250,000
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting$200,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$101M · 276 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

276 repeat relationships — 107 still active in FY2024, 169 since wound down; 69 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

276

404

Total granted

$101M

$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+61%

Still filing today

67%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

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

FF
Freedom Fund
8× · 2017–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +28%
GO
Guardian Org Foundation
6× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +389% · 29% of their budget
GF
Global Fairness Initiative
6× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +76% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

IP
International Peacebuilding Alliance
one grant, 2018 · $3.7M
KT
Krista Tippett Public Productions
one grant, 2017 · $1.5M
FF
Freedom Fund
one grant, 2017 · $1.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

American Jewish World Service Inc

We work to realize human rights and end poverty in africa, asia, latin america and the caribbean.

International

Accion International

Accion is a global nonprofit on a mission to create a fair and inclusive economy. we are a leading early-stage investor in fintech for inclusion and experts in the digital transformation of financial service providers, with decades of…

International

Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International

Global Impact Investing Network Inc

Increase the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet.

Philanthropy

International Consortium of

Icij is a global investigative journalism network, an international newsroom and a builder of open-source tools that make sense of massive, complex datasets. our cross-border stories reveal broken systems and widespread corruption that…

International

Devworks International

Devworks international aims to make a lasting difference in the lives of millions of people living in poverty.

Human Services

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa

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Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—

Global Greengrants Fund

Mobilize resources for communities worldwide to protect our shared planet.

Environment

Center for Global Development

Human Services

The International Institute for

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Conservation Music. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.2%1/416

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,149

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.

05the grantee network

400 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

116

Early backer (in before they grew)

397/400

Grantees still filing

307/400

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$78,163,405International$25,543,865Philanthropy$10,415,684Arts & Culture$5,981,590Human Services$5,895,852Public Benefit$3,950,000Employment$3,728,600

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.

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.

Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNY57.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Open Society Institute · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Skoll Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture 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 organisation Humanity United 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: African Great Lakes Action Network.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943470964 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on African Great Lakes Action Network, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Humanity United?

Find your warmest path to Humanity United through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Humanity United

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

400 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Humanity United?

More from the funding graph

Humanity United

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

400 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Humanity United?

More from the funding graph