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Moneygram Foundation Inc

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.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$3k
Largest
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01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.3MInternational$2.2MYouth Development$789kCommunity Improvement$307kEmployment$224kHuman Services$170kScience & Tech$124kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,724
Median grant
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States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE CHILDREN$2,724
02The need
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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: 66% of grant dollars ($4.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($2.2M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $354k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SIMON SAYS GIVE: $50k → 6%ANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $60k → 13%QUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%SIMON SAYS GIVE: $50k → 6%YWCA SOUTH FLORIDA: $30k → 15%simon says give: $50k → 6%VOGEL ALCOVE: $49k → 14%SIMON SAYS GIVE: $25k → 6%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

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
RI
CA
CO
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 34% of all-years giving ($2.2M)

18 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
OC$375k · 4 grants
Mexico$330k · 6 grants
United Kingdom$321k · 6 grants
India$264k · 5 grants
Italy$159k · 4 grants
Indonesia$123k · 2 grants
Poland$118k · 4 grants
Brazil$75k · 1 grant
North Macedonia$66k · 1 grant
Uganda$58k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Moneygram Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Moneygram Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 44% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 25 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
55

Total granted

$3.8M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+29%

Still filing today

60%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $863k · revenue +21%
  • BUILDON INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $197k · revenue +39%
  • TC
    THE CAPITAL GOOD FUND
    2× · 2021–2022 · $120k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • OL
    one laptop per child
    one grant, 2017 · $88k
  • FB
    FIRST BOOK
    one grant, 2017 · $86k · revenue -14%
  • W
    WORLDREADERORG
    one grant, 2017 · $76k · revenue -82%
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.

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Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
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Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
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Childhood Education International

To promote innovative solutions to education challenges and inspire action that creates positive, sustainable futures for children and youth worldwide

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Global Kids Inc

Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.

Youth Development
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Reading Partners

To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…

Education
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Raising a Reader

Raising a Reader supports families and inspires the development of literacy skills and a lifelong love for reading. We help children attain brighter futures in which they can thrive and contribute in school, the workforce and society.

Education
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Achieve Now

Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…

Education
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Global Citizens Public Charter School

Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…

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Teach for All Inc

Develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

Education
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Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
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Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
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Digital Promise Global

Digital promise is a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for each learner. we work with educators, researchers, technology leaders, and communities to design, investigate, and scale up innovations that empower learners,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pencils of Promise Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Orix Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 80 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
26/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVE THE CHILDREN: $375,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILDRENIndividual grant recipient: $212,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $185,292 · OtherAGASTYA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $136,860 · OtherYPPI: $122,500 · OtherWORLD LEARNING: $110,139 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherUNETE: $109,754 · Other+36 more: $1,636,049 · Other+36 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $862,724 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncBUILDON INC: $197,200 · InternationalBUILDON INCPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $174,500 · InternationalPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATEDAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCWORLDREADERORG: $75,590 · InternationalBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $75,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $72,000 · International+8 more: $436,590 · International+8 moreROOM TO READ: $116,712 · EducationROOM TO R…FIRST BOOK: $85,500 · EducationFIRST BOO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC: $65,000 · EducationCOMMUNITI…FRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $60,000 · EducationFRIENDS O…READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $59,421 · EducationREADING I…HIRE HEROES USA INC: $50,000 · EducationHIRE HERO…MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $50,000 · EducationMINNESOTA…YOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $30,000 · EducationYOUNG WOM…Global Glimpse: $25,000 · EducationSIMON SAYS GIVE INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALCOVE: $65,235 · Human ServicesANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesHER FUTURE COALITION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesQUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesYWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCAFE MOMENTUM: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA: $62,500 · Youth DevelopmentREADERS 2 LEADERS: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $120,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $60,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY COMPASS: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,997,844International$2,043,604Education$541,633Human Services$420,235Youth Development$242,500Community Improvement$120,000Crime & Legal$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $862,724 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDON INC: $197,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSIMON SAYS GIVE INC: $175,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetPENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED: $174,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $120,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $120,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetROOM TO READ: $116,712 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW DAYS INC: $87,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $85,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLDREADERORG: $75,590 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $72,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $65,235 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA: $62,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC: $62,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetANDROMEDA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHINE ON FKA SHINE ON SIERRA LEONE: $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $60,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING TOMORROW INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $59,421 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC: $57,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCHILDREN OF VIETNAM: $55,916 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHER FUTURE COALITION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetQUALITAS OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetPOWERING POTENTIAL INC: $36,174 over 1y, 20% of budgetYWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S PREPARATORY NETWORK: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGlobal Glimpse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

United Way of Metropo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Kline Family Foundati…Chi Omega Education a…Harry Bass FoundationCapital for KidsThe Aileen and Jack P…Together Women Rise
United Way of Metropolitan Dallas IncTX17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Kline Family Foundation · Chi Omega Education and Charity Fund of Dallas · Harry Bass Foundation · Capital for Kids · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Together Women Rise

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ywca South Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Moneygram Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Moneygram Foundation Inc 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 80 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home