· Private foundation
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 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+65 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC | $500,000 |
| BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY | $500,000 |
| INTELEHEALTH INC | $500,000 |
| THE LUMINOS FUND | $500,000 |
| ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS | $500,000 |
| LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $500,000 |
| DIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC | $500,000 |
| ACELI AFRICA INC | $500,000 |
| NOORA HEALTH | $250,000 |
| VISION SPRING | $250,000 |
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: 70% of grant dollars ($113M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($50M) is mapped below.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($50M)
40 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +110% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
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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.
How this is measured
118 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. 118 of the 340 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 VILLAGEREACH ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- 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 IMAGINE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds STRONGMINDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mulago Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mulago Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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