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Isa Foundation

To create sustainable impact globally through volunteer efforts and charitable contributions focused on healthy nutrition and support for underserved children, wellness education for all, aid for those affected by natural disasters, and the pursuit of equality.

$984k
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$598k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$1.5MHealth$735kPublic Safety & Disaster$622kReligion$598kInternational$399kEducation$210kYouth Development$150kHousing & Shelter$85kOther$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $598k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SERV$598,036
DISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION - SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA$50,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING FOUNDATION$50,000
EMBODY$50,000
COMMON THREADS$50,000
UNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION$46,052
ONE FOR HEALTH$35,000
ESPERANCA$20,000
US TRACK & FIELD FOUNDATION$15,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND (PCRF)$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ODOM (AFMDA)$10,000
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 (FY20–21, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%ROOTS OF PROMISE: $10k → 10%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $50k → 11%MANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $20k → 8%CAN'D AID: $10k → 12%PROJECT 150: $20k → 13%CARIDAD INC: $10k → 13%HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED: $36k → 11%HEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED: $23k → 11%MAGGIES PLACE INC: $10k → 11%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
39

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

92%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SI
    SERV INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +26% · 28% of their budget
  • DS
    DISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION-SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $213k · revenue +8%
  • CT
    COMMON THREADS
    3× · 2021–2023 · $190k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +30%
  • GI
    GenYOUTH Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue +14%
  • GI
    GIRLTREK INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +261%
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
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Rise Against Hunger Inc

Rise against hunger, inc. is an international hunger relief non-profit organization that is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime. rise against hunger distributes food and other…

International
8
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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9
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
10
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
11
Waste Not Inc

Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
12
Catalyst Family Inc

At catalyst family, inc., we believe that strong families build strong communities. we are committed to nurturing vibrant communities where children thrive and families succeed, creating lasting change.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community; the most unlike its peers is Read Across Africa. 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

63 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. 63 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
44/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SERV INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,157,975 · ReligionSERV INTERNATIONAL INCUNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION: $411,966 · InternationalUNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATIO…Compassion International Incorporated: $175,000 · InternationalCompassion Internatio…AIRLINE AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 · InternationalAIRLINE AMBASSADORS I…HEALING HAITI: $65,000 · InternationalHEALING HAITIADVANCE COMMUNITY: $45,000 · InternationalPROVIDING OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF IMPROVEMENT CABARETE DOM REPUBLIC: $33,160 · International+3 more: $25,000 · InternationalEMBODY: $200,000 · OtherEMBODYONE FOR HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · OtherONE FOR HEALTH FOUNDATION INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $150,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICACOMMON THREADS: $190,000 · OtherCOMMON THREADSPartnership for a Healthier America Inc: $100,000 · OtherPartnership for a Healthier Ameri…LIVE LOVE: $75,000 · OtherLIVE LOVENAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 · Other+28 more: $420,000 · Other+28 moreAttitude Is Everything Foundation Inc: $150,000 · EducationAttitude …GIRLTREK INCORPORATED: $100,000 · EducationGIRLTREK …IDEA Public Schools: $60,000 · EducationIDEA Publ…ADVANCEMENT FOR RURAL KIDS INC: $35,000 · EducationADVANCEME…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationARIZONA S…THE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesHEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED: $58,900 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAZCEND: $25,000 · Human ServicesMANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $20,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150: $20,000 · Human ServicesCARIDAD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCan'd Aid: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesROOTS OF PROMISE: $10,000 · Human ServicesGenYOUTH Incorporated: $105,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUN FUTURO MEJOR INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $33,000 · PhilanthropyDISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION-SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA: $213,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Religion$1,157,975International$855,126Other$1,340,000Education$395,000Human Services$288,900Philanthropy$273,000Public Safety & Disaster$263,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSERV INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,157,975 over 4y, 28% of budgetUNSTOPPABLE FOUNDATION: $411,966 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetDISASTER SERVICES CORPORATION-SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL USA: $213,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON THREADS: $190,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetONE FOR HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 4y, 47% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAttitude Is Everything Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGenYOUTH Incorporated: $105,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPartnership for a Healthier America Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGIRLTREK INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAIRLINE AMBASSADORS INTERNATIONAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIVE LOVE: $75,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHEALING HAITI: $65,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEADWATERS RELIEF ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED: $58,900 over 2y, 18% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUN FUTURO MEJOR INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY: $45,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOMELESS ENGAGEMENT AND LIFT PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCREIGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetADVANCEMENT FOR RURAL KIDS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCamp Stix Diabetes Programs: $35,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPROVIDING OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF IMPROVEMENT CABARETE DOM REPUBLIC: $33,160 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAZCEND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANY HANDS FOR HAITI: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFUTURE FORWARD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE BE KIND PEOPLE PROJECT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUSA Track & Field Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN FARMING INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECT THRU CANCER: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCARIDAD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD'S PATH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCan'd Aid: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesVirginia G Piper Char…The Diane and Bruce H…Fiesta Events IncValley of the Sun Uni…Phoenix Suns Charitie…Dignity HealthAmerican Express Foun…Dignity Community CareJohn F Long Foundatio…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ28.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Fiesta Events Inc · Valley of the Sun United Way · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Dignity Health · American Express Foundation · Dignity Community Care · John F Long Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust

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 Isa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Isa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Isa Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 68 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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