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One Day's Wages

One Day's Wages is a movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty.

$1.1M
Granted FY2022
22
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

International$3.9MFood & Nutrition$440kEducation$436kCrime & Legal$265kHuman Services$237kEnvironment$221kHealth$217kCommunity Improvement$150kOther$0
02FY2022 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $1,012,175, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,067,695 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,520 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $472k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $540k
$40,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$538k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION$128,956
GRACE TEA$104,519
WORLD RELIEF$86,801
FLYING KITES$59,528
ACCESSIBLE HOPE INTERNATIONAL$57,161
BEYOND BORDERS$52,733
HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE$50,075
PLANTING SEEDS INTERNATIONAL$43,931
RURAL HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE$41,145
EOS INTERNATIONAL$40,609
MAIA$40,000
FREELY IN HOPE$39,521
RESTORE HOPE$37,980
THE ADVENTURE PROJECT$34,388
MAVUNO$32,753
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $708k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $129k → 10%FREELY IN HOPE: $40k → 9%WILLOW INTERNATIONAL: $61k → 10%FREELY IN HOPE: $41k → 10%SHE'S THE FIRST: $30k → 17%CATALYST FOUNDATION: $43k → 12%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $73k → 10%WILLOW INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 10%FREELY IN HOPE: $15k → 10%THE WATER TRUST: $36k → 20%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $64k → 10%WILLOW INTERNATIONAL: $29k → 10%A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $38k → 10%RESCUE FREEDOM: $34k → 9%IMPACT A LIFE FOUNDATION: $26k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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Grants abroad, by region: $968k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$504k · 52% · 15 grants

Stated purpose: Program Services

South Asia$236k · 24% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: Program Services

Central America and the Caribbean$156k · 16% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Program Services

East Asia and the Pacific$71k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Program Services

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 25% of One Day's Wages’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 10%.

One Day's Wageslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 45% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 45 repeat orgs$992k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2022, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
26

Total granted

$5.1M
$703k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+18%

Still filing today

89%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
    5× · 2017–2022 · $700k · revenue +163%
  • WR
    World Renew
    4× · 2017–2020 · $544k · revenue +47%
  • AB
    A BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $304k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SN
    SEMILLA NUEVAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $51k · revenue +956%
  • RF
    RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $46k · revenue -10%
  • CF
    CATALYST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue -67%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Empowering Lives International

Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…

Religion
2
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
3
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
4
Together Women Rise

Together women rise champions gender equality because womens rights are human rights. when women and girls are treated equally, the world is healthier, safer, more peaceful, inclusive, and economically just for everyone.

Philanthropy
5
Splash International

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…

Environment
6
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
7
Second Nile Global Corp

Our commitment to providing accessible clean water extends beyond the boundaries of countries, continents, and cultures. We are driven by a shared belief in the power of technology to transform lives, uplift communities, and create a more…

International
8
The Global Hunger Project

The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…

International
9
Assist International Inc

Assist international partners with changemakers around the world to provide solutions that save lives and build resilient communities. we accomplish our mission with actionable projects that make a lasting and sustainable impact on the…

International
10
Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International
11
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
12
Global Strategies

Global Strategies empowers communities in the most neglected areas of the world to improve the lives of women and children through healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Network International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Catalyst 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

77 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. 77 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $699,928 · InternationalWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSTHE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP: $238,414 · InternationalTHE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORPEL PORVENIR: $204,311 · InternationalEL PORVENIRThe Freedom Story: $152,071 · InternationalAccessible Hope International: $129,966 · InternationalFREEDOM FIRM USA: $127,468 · InternationalAFRICAN ROAD INC: $104,273 · International+30 more: $1,449,075 · International+30 moreWorld Renew: $544,352 · OtherWorld RenewCREATE INC: $109,460 · OtherCREATE INCWORLD CONCERN DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $74,350 · OtherNEXT GENERATION NEPAL: $72,512 · OtherHOPE FOR LIFE: $71,623 · OtherMAVUNO: $64,434 · OtherOne Heart World-Wide: $52,499 · OtherKula Project Inc: $96,485 · OtherKula Project IncPOWER OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $58,950 · Other+12 more: $296,379 · Other+12 moreA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $303,809 · Human ServicesA BREEZE OF HOP…Willow International Everfree: $139,704 · Human ServicesWillow Internat…FREELY IN HOPE: $95,512 · Human ServicesFREELY IN HOPETHE WATER TRUST INC: $82,994 · Human ServicesTHE WATER TRUST…TEARFUND USA INC: $62,564 · Human ServicesTEARFUND USA IN…RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $46,404 · Human ServicesRAIN FOR THE SA…CATALYST FOUNDATION: $42,658 · Human ServicesRESCUE- FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL: $34,000 · Human ServicesSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $25,771 · Human ServicesNUYA INC: $180,000 · EducationJUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL: $67,876 · EducationLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $39,712 · EducationNURTURING MINDS INC: $31,622 · EducationWest African Vocational Schools: $31,219 · EducationKOMERA INC: $29,191 · EducationRURAL HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE: $41,145 · HealthCHERISH A CHILD USA: $40,042 · HealthRESTORE HOPE: $37,980 · HealthGRACE TEA: $104,519 · ReligionCORD MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: $9,414 · ReligionMWANZO: $109,160 · Food & Nutrition
International$3,105,506Other$1,441,044Human Services$863,416Education$379,620Health$119,167Religion$113,933Food & Nutrition$109,160

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $699,928 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Renew: $544,352 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetA BREEZE OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $303,809 over 4y, 22% of budgetTHE ADVENTURE PROJECT CORP: $238,414 over 3y, 19% of budgetEL PORVENIR: $204,311 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNUYA INC: $180,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe Freedom Story: $152,071 over 3y, 13% of budgetWillow International Everfree: $139,704 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAccessible Hope International: $129,966 over 2y, 22% of budgetCREATE INC: $109,460 over 2y, 33% of budgetMWANZO: $109,160 over 3y, 22% of budgetGRACE TEA: $104,519 over 1y, 33% of budgetAFRICAN ROAD INC: $104,273 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $98,166 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetKula Project Inc: $96,485 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFREELY IN HOPE: $95,512 over 3y, 14% of budgetIMPACT NETWORK INTERNATIONAL INC: $87,959 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetBEYOND BORDERS INC: $85,566 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE INC: $83,392 over 2y, 25% of budgetTHE WATER TRUST INC: $82,994 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetAsante Africa Foundation Inc: $82,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWORLD CONCERN DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $74,350 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetZoe Empowers: $74,226 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEXT GENERATION NEPAL: $72,512 over 3y, 17% of budgetMAIA: $71,110 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetZIMELE USA A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $70,162 over 2y, 17% of budgetJUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL: $67,876 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPEACETREES VIETNAM: $65,426 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMAVUNO: $64,434 over 2y, 20% of budgetWater for South Sudan Inc: $62,656 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTEARFUND USA INC: $62,564 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUgandan Water Project: $60,224 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPOWER OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $58,950 over 2y, 11% of budgetCROSSLINK DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL: $55,103 over 2y, 28% of budgetOne Heart World-Wide: $52,499 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSEMILLA NUEVA: $51,404 over 1y, 12% of budgetRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $46,404 over 1y, 10% of budgetAlliance for Children Everywhere: $45,708 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPlanting Seeds International: $43,931 over 1y, 21% of budgetCATALYST FOUNDATION: $42,658 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetRURAL HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE: $41,145 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHERISH A CHILD USA: $40,042 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLIMITLESS HORIZONS IXIL INC: $39,712 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $38,145 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRESTORE HOPE: $37,980 over 1y, 15% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $35,086 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC: $31,622 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BOMA PROJECT INC: $31,347 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Globalgiving Foundati…Together Women RiseCircle of Sisterhood …Imago Dei FundGirls Rights ProjectMicah 68 FoundationKathryn B McQuade Fou…ImpactassetsincWeyerhaeuser Family F…Silicon Valley Commun…The Vibrant Village F…Journey Charitable Fo…
Globalgiving Foundation IncDC36.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Together Women Rise · Circle of Sisterhood Foundation Inc · Imago Dei Fund · Girls Rights Project · Micah 68 Foundation · Kathryn B McQuade Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Vibrant Village Foundation · Journey Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization One Day's Wages funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from One Day's Wages. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to One Day's Wages 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $968k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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