· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 34% of all-years giving ($46M)
43 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +224% · 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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,…
How this is measured
454 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Humanity United funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Humanity United. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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