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Mulago Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+65 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| INTELEHEALTH INC | $500,000 |
| ACELI AFRICA INC | $500,000 |
| PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC | $500,000 |
| LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $500,000 |
| MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC | $500,000 |
| BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY | $500,000 |
| DIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| THE LUMINOS FUND | $500,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $500,000 |
| ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS | $500,000 |
| LAST MILE HEALTH | $250,000 |
| ASSOCIACAO DE PESQUISA APLICADA | $250,000 |
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 US giving — 70% of grant dollars ($113M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($50M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 30% of all-years giving ($50M)
40 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +110% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
170 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 104 since wound down; 25 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +123%- IHIntegrate Health Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +674%
- PGPANORAMA GLOBAL6× · 2019–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +258%
Funded once
- CECONSERVATION EQUITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500k
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Safe water network envisions a world with healthy, thriving communities managing their supply of safe water. our mission is to develop and scale-up innovative solutions, document best practices and build partnerships to reach millions with…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Global Development Incubator Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa. 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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 340 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NIA TERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Integrate Health Inc ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSO INC ↗
- Who funds NEXLEAF ANALYTICS ↗
- Who funds NOORA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds VILLAGEREACH ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds LUMINOS FUND ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds STRONGMINDS INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds INTELEHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Lwala Community Alliance ↗
- Who funds AMANI GLOBAL WORKS ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
- Who funds NO MEANS NO WORLDWIDE ↗
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: Rippleworks Inc · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Skoll Fund · Gates Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · The Iroh Foundation (Fka Ra5 Foundation) · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Sall Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Segal Family Foundation Inc
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 Mulago Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Social Finance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc — 9% 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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