· Private foundation
Mastercard Impact Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+35 grants · $60M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAI GLOBAL LLC | $17,689,631 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $4,663,378 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC (CARE) | $4,126,037 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $3,545,929 |
| CARIBOU DIGITAL (UK) LTD | $3,500,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $3,445,487 |
| ACCION INTERNATIONAL | $2,817,490 |
| AUC CONSORTIUM | $2,159,600 |
| FUNDACION CAPITAL FUNDAK | $1,897,653 |
| CARIBOU DIGITAL (UK) LTD (EUR) | $1,702,807 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,244,700 |
| THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY | $1,066,000 |
| NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC | $1,000,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | $1,000,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 78% of grant dollars ($282M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 22% that went abroad ($82M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 22% of all-years giving ($82M)
22 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 7% of Mastercard Impact Fund’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.
82 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $26M · revenue +192%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +37%- TATHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $9.7M · revenue +110% · 87% of their budget
Funded once
- GPGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSone grant, 2020 · $17M · revenue -88%
- GAGAVI ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $16M
- TETHE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATIONone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +14%
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.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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…
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…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
How this is measured
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 181 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.
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DATAKIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUC CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT FUND FOR STRATEGIC INNOVATION ↗
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: Tides Foundation · The Rockefeller Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Kresge Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Nielsen Foundation Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mastercard Impact Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mastercard Impact Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Urban League of Broward County Inc: 44% of income from government
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc: 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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