· Community foundation
International Community Foundation
Icf works across borders to connect people, ideas, and investments in the transformative power of community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $3,403,458 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,481,904 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,078,446 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $640k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Intl Friendship | $1,011,440 |
| The Regents of the Univ of Ca | $384,758 |
| Olivewood Gardens & Learning | $282,853 |
| Immigrant Defenders Law | $221,642 |
| Rusted Gate Farm | $142,050 |
| Georgetown University | $125,281 |
| UC San Diego Foundation | $107,420 |
| Scripps Inst of Oceanography | $93,000 |
| Natl Day Laborer Org Network | $81,002 |
| Leading Education | $68,103 |
| Give2Asia | $60,000 |
| Inclusive Action for the City | $56,317 |
| Global Greengrants Fund Inc | $50,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $50,000 |
| Legacy Philanthropy Works | $42,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY24–25, $692k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $15M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 12 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
Stated purpose: Charitable Purposes
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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- OGOLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $602k · revenue -36%
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +20%
- LPLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS2× · 2024–2025 · $78k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- IDImmigrant Defenders Law Centergraduatedone grant, 2024 · $366k · revenue +58%
- PAProject Amigoone grant, 2024 · $178k · revenue -4%
- FGFUTURE GENERATIONS INCone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue -75% · 60% of their budget
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 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.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
We work throughout the whole supply chain to make sustainability the norm and enable farmers and workers to earn a decent income, produce in balance with nature, and shape their own future.
MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mathile Institute for the Advancement of Human Nutrition. 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 67 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 FRIENDS OF INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP PARK INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVEWOODS GARDENS & LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrant Defenders Law Center ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Amigo ↗
- Who funds RUSTED GATE FARM ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS ↗
- Who funds Meridian Institute ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds YES WE CAN WORLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leading Education ↗
- Who funds FUTURE GENERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE SONORAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VOCES Y MANOS POR EL DERECHO A LA SALUD ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds MATHILE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN NUTRITION ↗
- Who funds STOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BAJA COASTAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Sempra Foundation · California Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Alumbra Innovations Foundation · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · Rancho Santa Fe 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 International Community Foundation 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.
- Rusted Gate Farm — 100% 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.