· Public charity
Improving Economies for Stronger Communities
Iesc helps people improve their lives by catalyzing private sector growth and employment in economically developing countries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $884,988 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,175,160 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,290,172 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $284k
- $250k+2 grants · $584k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $309,285 |
| WORLD FOOD LOGISTICS ORGANIZATION | $274,349 |
| CIPE | $220,783 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $62,724 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $17,847 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $9.3M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $8.8M to organizations and $514k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES
Stated purpose: PROGRAM SERVICES
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MEMENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES3× · 2018–2020 · $1.7M · revenue +7%
- GCGLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
- GCGLOBAL COMMUNITIES6× · 2018–2023 · $825k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- RRPXone grant, 2018 · $324k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT IMPACTone grant, 2021 · $214k
- LLLINC LLCone grant, 2022 · $112k
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.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
To replace poverty with prosperity by implementing donor-funded projects that provide global humanitarian aid to communities and individuals in developing countries through in-kind, financial and technical assistance.
The GDP Research Alliance (GDPRA) is a newly organized D.C. non-profit corporation that was formed exclusively for research, development, and educational purposes.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Dairy management inc (dmi) was formed in 1995 by the national dairy promotion and research board (ndb) and the united dairy industry association (udia). dmi is a management organization that invests dairy producer checkoff funds in…
Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for International Private Enterprise Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Citycounty Management Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 MENNONITE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CITYCOUNTY MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMALL ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE FUNDS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Global Dairy Platform Inc ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Improving Economies for Stronger Communities 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.
- Global Communities — 44% 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.