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Nova Ukraine

At NOVA UKRAINE, we are dedicated to supporting ukraine and its people in building a strong, flourishing nation with an empowered civil society.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$60k
Largest
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 FY20222024.

Housing & Shelter$802kInternational$223kArts & Culture$170kEducation$69kHuman Services$28kScience & Tech$20kPublic Benefit$9k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $180,420 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,723,373 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,542,953 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
I AM U ARE WORLD INC$60,000
THE AMERICAN COALITION FOR UKRAINE$37,500
RAZOM INC$20,000
DIGNITAS UKRAINE INC$15,420
FUTURE FOR UKRAINE INC$10,500
ENGIN INC$10,000
CITIZEN AMBASSADOR ASSOCIATION CORPORATION$9,000
HANDS ON GLOBAL NGO$6,500
KVITOK HELPUA INC$6,000
ORANGE COAST UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH$5,500
02The need
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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 (FY23–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%TIDES CENTER: $28k → 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

MT
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC

Grants abroad, by region — $16M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Ukraine$16M · 100% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT · HUMANITARIAN AID · EVACUATION SUPPORT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 84% of Nova Ukraine’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 70% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Nova Ukrainelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 81% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 4 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$142k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureScience & TechEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • IA
    I AM U ARE WORLD INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · 48% of their budget
  • RAZOM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue -41%
  • E
    ENGin
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -15%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $790k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $107k · revenue -21%
  • RI
    REMEMBERUSORG INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -64%

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
Ukraine Relief Fund Inc
International
2
United Americans for United Ukrainians

Providing services to Ukrainian Citizens

International
3
Ukraine War Relief Fund
International
4
Heal Traumas International Inc

Heal Ukraine Trauma (HUT) is the first initiative of Heal Traumas International, Inc., a mental health non-profit founded in 2022. Our mission is to help Ukrainians heal from the trauma of war so they can live fulfilling, productive lives.

Health
5
Iowans for Ukrainians
Philanthropy
6
Ukrainian American Community (Uac) Foundation Inc
Education
7
Ukrainian Foundation

In 2006, Ukrainian Foundation was established by the immigrants from Ukraine to help the Ukrainian refugees adjust to their new home in the United States. Our base is in Portland, OR, a home to over 100,000 immigrants from Ukraine. With…

Human Services
8
Ukrainian Hearts Foundation Corporation

Humanitarian support for ukraine

International
9
Ukraine Freedom Fund

To help create a free, independent, and democratic Ukraine where Ukrainians and people of other nationalities will have the right to freely associate and express their will in an open civil society free from corruption.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Lift Up Ukraine

Lift Up Ukraine is a completely volunteer-based organization. In response to the deplorable human tragedy created by Russia's invasion, the mission is to help provide survival supplies & support to Ukraine's civilian defenders and…

International
11
Ukrainian Refugee Foundation

URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Rebuild Ukraine

The mission of rebuild ukraine is to work directly with partners in eastern europe to provide immediate humanitarian aid to ukraine, including its refugees and residents, as well as to offer support and education for children affected by…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rememberusorg Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ukraine Global Scholars 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $790,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN COALITION FOR UKRAINE — $37,500 · Other+2 more — $20,500 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $107,034 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FO…I AM U ARE WORLD INC — $70,000 · InternationalI AM U ARE WORLD INCRAZOM INC — $40,000 · InternationalRAZOM INCDignitas Ukraine Inc — $15,420 · InternationalDignitas Ukraine IncFUTURE FOR UKRAINE — $10,500 · International+1 more — $6,000 · InternationalREMEMBERUSORG INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureREMEMBERUS…ENGin — $20,000 · Arts & CultureENGinUKRAINE GLOBAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $48,500 · EducationTIDES CENTER — $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB — $20,000 · Science & TechHANDS ON GLOBAL INC — $6,500 · Public Benefit
Other$848,000International$248,954Arts & Culture$120,000Education$48,500Human Services$27,500Science & Tech$20,000Public Benefit$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $107,034 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMEMBERUSORG INC — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetI AM U ARE WORLD INC — $70,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetUKRAINE GLOBAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $48,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetRAZOM INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENGin — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDignitas Ukraine Inc — $15,420 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFUTURE FOR UKRAINE — $10,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHANDS ON GLOBAL INC — $6,500 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Nova Ukraine 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
202122232425
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nova Ukraine?

    Find your warmest path to Nova Ukraine 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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