· Public charity
International Relief Teams
INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS is a non-profit international relief and development organization dedicated to allieviating human suffering by providing critical assistance to victims of disaster, profound poverty and neglect worldwide
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 13 grants below total $2,720,959 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $46,695,470 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,974,511 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $665k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $939,865 |
| WAM INC | $560,769 |
| RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $400,000 |
| CHILDREN OF HEROES OF UKRAINE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY RECOVERY TEAM | $107,339 |
| AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID | $100,000 |
| CONCERN WORLDWIDE | $100,000 |
| PROJECT MERCY | $84,400 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $73,359 |
| HOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK | $49,512 |
| FRIENDS OF KIDS KINGDOM | $48,000 |
| WORLD FOOD BANK KITCHEN AND URBAN FARM | $30,026 |
| NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK | $27,689 |
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 (FY17–20, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 — $44M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Stated purpose: MEDICAL SUPPLIES
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 43% of International Relief Teams’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 15% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 6% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $815k 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
- CWCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +79%
- WIWAM INC DBA WITNESS AS MINISTRY3× · 2023–2025 · $804k · revenue +14%
- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $342k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- STSave the Childrenone grant, 2023 · $208k
- SHSTUDENTS HELPING HONDURAS INC DBA ONE THOUSAND SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +81%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
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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…
International relief teams is a non-profit international relief and development organization dedicated to allieviating human suffering by providing critical assistance to victims of disaster, profound poverty and neglect worldwide
Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.
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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…
Serving the displaced in the middle east.
Provide aid to people in need worldwide
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cross Connection Outreach. 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 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds WAM INC DBA WITNESS AS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KIDS KINGDOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds CROSS CONNECTION OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RECOVERY TEAM ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds North Coast Christian Ministries Inc DBA Hope for San Diego ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS HELPING HONDURAS INC DBA ONE THOUSAND SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds KIRKER AFRICAN MEDICAL RELIEF ASSOC ↗
- Who funds WORLD FOOD BANK KITCHEN AND URBAN F ARM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION FOR THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY AND SHARING ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds Aguilas Del Desierto Inc ↗
- Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Center For World Indigenous Studies ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 International Relief Teams 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% 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.
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