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Natembea 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.

$543k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$505kPhilanthropy$485kInternational$398kPublic Benefit$158kFood & Nutrition$107kHuman Services$65kEnvironment$43kReligion$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC$100,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$100,000
CONTINA IMPACT$50,000
WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND$50,000
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES$50,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$25,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$24,000
THE CARTER CENTER INC$20,000
THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$20,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$20,000
ISSUE ONE$10,000
DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE$10,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$10,000
FOS FEMINISTA$10,000
WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $65k) 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.

area typical 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $100 → 13%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
WA
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
24

Total granted

$1.1M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+17%

Still filing today

94%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • TP
    THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $136k · revenue +105%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • WF
    WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +326%

Funded once

  • AU
    ASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -38%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
2
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
7
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
8
World Resources Institute

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…

International
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsSchool District FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
37/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $351,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUNDCONTINA IMPACT — $50,000 · EducationCONTINA IMPACTYIYA SOLUTIONS INC — $41,225 · EducationYIYA SOLUTIONS INC+6 more — $30,400 · Education+6 moreASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · InternationalASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUND…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $40,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $40,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INCINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $40,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED P…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · InternationalJust Vision Inc — $15,000 · International+3 more — $18,484 · InternationalNEW VENTURE FUND — $275,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDInfact DBA Corporate Accountability — $14,000 · EnvironmentJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $11,000 · Environment+6 more — $9,110 · EnvironmentTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $136,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PHILANTH…TIDES FOUNDATION — $62,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDA…JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $100,000 · Food & NutritionTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $70,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $10,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $8,000 · Civil RightsRepresentUs Education Fund — $40,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE — $20,000 · Public BenefitCenter for Common Ground — $10,000 · Public BenefitWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · OtherWORKMONEY F…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $20,000 · OtherMEDECINS SA…THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $6,400 · OtherJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 · OtherJ STREET ED…LAST MILE HEALTH — $20,000 · OtherLAST MILE H…NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $7,000 · Other+19 more — $35,900 · Other+19 more
Education$522,625International$393,484Environment$309,110Philanthropy$210,500Food & Nutrition$100,000Civil Rights$88,000Public Benefit$70,000Other$189,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $351,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASHESI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $136,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONTINA IMPACT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYIYA SOLUTIONS INC — $41,225 over 3y, 19% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISSUE ONE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE OBTAINABLE SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCenter for Common Ground — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $8,484 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $6,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL — $6,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WELLNESS PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOO PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY — $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEVYDANCE INC — $2,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHURCH OF CELESTIAL ROOTS — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRADIO PORT TOWNSEND — $2,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Seattle FoundationJefferson Community F…Marin Community Found…The Robert and Susan …ImpactassetsincAmalgamated Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The William & Flora H…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Seattle Foundation · Jefferson Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

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 Natembea 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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