· Private foundation
Next Culture Initiative
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Democracy Now | $1,000 |
| CISPES Education Fund | $1,000 |
| Global Health Partners | $500 |
| WPFW | $500 |
| World Central Kitchen | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Wikimedia | $104 |
| Code Pink | $100 |
| The Guardian | $100 |
| Choose Love | $59 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $59) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
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 +46% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $763 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CECISPES EDUCATION FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +199%
- DNDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +13%
- CWCODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $800
- CFCENTER FOR ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY IN THE AMERICASone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -12%
- LALatin America Working Group Educatione grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Research and education of United Nations activities
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.
To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide
To offer independent and confidential advice and practical assistance in diplomatic strategy and technique to governments, political groups, international organizations and ngos on diplomatic process and decision-making.
To educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
Partnership for Participatory International Policy coordinates opportunities for elected officials, staff and community leaders to learn from people impacted by US foreign policies and practices. We do this by organizing delegations to…
Coalicion por Venezuela Inc is a non-profit federation that unities civil society organizations dedicated to defending and promoting promote human rights, democratic values, and the social and cultural freedoms of Venezuelans and other…
The center for international private enterprise (cipe) is a non-profit global organization that works to strengthen democracy and build competitive, resilient markets in many of the world's most challenging environments. working alongside…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 CISPES EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY IN THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANORG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE LOVE INC ↗
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 · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Next Culture Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Next Culture Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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