· Private foundation
Humanity United
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k98 grants · $10M
- $250k+15 grants · $5.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Humanity United Charitable Fund | $300,000 |
| Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative | $300,000 |
| Guardian Org Foundation | $300,000 |
| FairSquare Projects | $300,000 |
| International Labor Rights Forum | $300,000 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | $270,000 |
| Search for Common Ground | $250,000 |
| Alliance for Peacebuilding | $250,000 |
| Freedom Fund | $250,000 |
| Freedom Fund | $250,000 |
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 US giving — 66% of grant dollars ($91M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($46M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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
Beyond the US — 34% of all-years giving ($46M)
43 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
269 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2024, 168 since wound down; 67 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M 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
- TFTHE FREEDOM FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +28%
- GFGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +389% · 29% of their budget
- GFGLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE6× · 2017–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +76% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- IPInternational Peacebuilding Allianceone grant, 2018 · $3.7M
- RFROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTSone grant, 2018 · $990k · revenue -71%
- SISocial Impact Incone grant, 2018 · $650k
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.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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.
Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
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'…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
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.
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 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
454 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. 454 of the 720 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE FREEDOM FUND ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds ON BEING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING ↗
- Who funds GoodWeave International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING ↗
- Who funds WORKER RIGHTS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds VERITE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Nonviolent Peaceforce ↗
- Who funds CIERTO ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Humanity United Charitable Fund ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE LOS DERECHOS DEL MIGRANTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSPARENTEM LTD ↗
- Who funds VISIONS MADE VIABLE ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND ↗
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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Open Society Institute · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Skoll Fund · 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 organization 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Impact Inc — 25% of income from government
- Verite Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc — 4% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.