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Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action

Interaction is a convener, thought leader, and voice for ngos working to eliminate extreme poverty, strengthen human rights and citizen participation, safeguard a sustainable planet, promote peace, and ensure dignity for all people.

$664k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

International$562kPhilanthropy$126kHousing & Shelter$75kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kFood & Nutrition$51kHealth$50kEmployment$35kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $344,734, the rows itemized in this filing. The $663,601 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $318,867 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
$23,650
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CDA COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECTS$179,850
SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY$49,801
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$35,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$23,650
MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE$19,950
CADASTA FOUNDATION$15,000
SPOON$13,483
USAID OFFICE OF US FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPOON: $13k → 12%WEEMA INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 8%WEEMA INTERNATIONAL: $14k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
MD
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 3 repeat orgs$838k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$178k
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+34%

Still filing today

67%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +28%
  • MC
    MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE U S
    3× · 2019–2021 · $54k
  • WI
    WEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $49k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CANDIDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $126k · revenue +68%
  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -11%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +99%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
3
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
4
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
6
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
7
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
8
World Resources Institute

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…

International
9
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cadasta Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCFamily Health International Inc: $35,000 · InternationalFamily Health International IncADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 · InternationalADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTE…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $34,738 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USAINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $30,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSDEVELOPMENT GATEWAY INC: $26,550 · InternationalDEVELOPMENT GATEWAY INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,650 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $20,000 · InternationalFONKOZE USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 · InternationalPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · InternationalCADASTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · InternationalRELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,996 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $14,944 · InternationalCDA COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECTS INC: $179,850 · EducationCDA COLLABORATIVE LE…MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE U S: $54,421 · OtherMENNONITE CENTRAL …AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY: $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN CENTER FO…CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $35,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SE…USAID OFFICE OF US FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE: $8,000 · OtherTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · OtherTRICKLE UP PROGRAM…HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,999 · OtherHEARTLAND ALLIANCE…CANDID: $125,750 · PhilanthropyCANDIDWEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC: $49,039 · Human ServicesSPOON FOUNDATION: $13,483 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50,864 · Food & NutritionSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $49,801 · Health
International$379,878Education$179,850Other$167,420Philanthropy$125,750Human Services$62,522Food & Nutrition$50,864Health$49,801

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCDA COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECTS INC: $179,850 over 1y, 28% of budgetCANDID: $125,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50,864 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY: $49,801 over 1y, 20% of budgetWEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC: $49,039 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $34,738 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENT GATEWAY INC: $26,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFONKOZE USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCADASTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,999 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $14,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $14,944 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOON FOUNDATION: $13,483 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincGates FoundationAbbVie FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Network for Good
ImpactassetsincMD15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Interaction the American Council for Voluntary International Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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