· Private foundation
Kolibri Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $823k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| M4BL | $500,000 |
| TRANS JUSTICE FUNDING PROJECT | $250,000 |
| NQTTCN | $250,000 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT | $100,000 |
| SOUTHERN POWER FUND | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| LATINX THERAPIST ACTION NETWORK | $100,000 |
| FATHERS 4 JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| ADALAH JUSTICE PROJECT | $100,000 |
| DRINKING GOURD REPARATIONS SUMMER | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| THE SMILE TRUST | $100,000 |
| COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SAFE SPACES | $75,000 |
| QUEER CRESCENT | $75,000 |
| COLECTIVA FEMINISTA EN CONSTRUCCION | $75,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Kolibri Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HTHealing to Action3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +64%
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +156%
NEO Philanthropy Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MBMedicine Bowl Giving Circle Incone grant, 2021 · $614k · revenue -48% · 40% of their budget
Alliance for Global Justice Corpone grant, 2020 · $575k · revenue -25%- NINAT'L INST PEER SUPPORT HARRIET'S WILDEST DREAMSone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
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.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
LexCollective is a not-for-profit organization that addresses the most extreme forms of social, racial, economic, and environmental injustices around the world, such as mass atrocities, human trafficking, environmental destruction, and…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
New Disabled South Rising is the advocacy arm of New Disabled South focusing on poverty and care, criminalization and democracy.
Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 190 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Solidaire Network Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kolibri Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kolibri Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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