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One World Fund at a glance

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One World Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$850k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$129k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$660kPhilanthropy$330kHuman Services$290kPublic Benefit$260kYouth Development$250kCommunity Improvement$190kCrime & Legal$180kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $456k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $351k
$19,902
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PUBLIC THEATER$129,422
FSISIDISSENT$90,559
NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE$80,000
DORRANCE DANCE$51,055
GREAT GLOBE FOUNDATION INC$40,000
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC$40,000
SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC$39,650
CELEBRATE THE BEAT$35,310
JOBS WITH JUSTICE$34,939
V-DAY$30,468
FRIENDS OF JUDSON INC$30,000
JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD$29,592
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$20,328
DAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND$20,063
DSA FUND$20,000
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 (FY22–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 10%FAITH IN INDIA: $30k → 16%FAITH IN INDIA: $25k → 16%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 35 repeat orgs$800k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
25

Total granted

$3.1M
$646k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+1%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalSocial SciencePublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $214k · revenue +2%
  • CF
    COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +13%
  • DD
    DORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED
    3× · 2023–2025 · $81k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $71k · revenue +34%
  • GP
    Grassroots Power Project
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +1%
  • CC
    COMMONWEALTH CORPORATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +99%
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.

1
Theatre for a New Audience Inc

The mission of theatre for a new audience is to develop and vitalize the performance and study of shakespeare and classic drama. the theatre is dedicated to the language and ideas of writers - to a dialogue over centuries between…

Arts & Culture
2
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
3
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
4
The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture
5
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
6
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
10
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
11
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
28/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 · OtherGREAT GLOBE FOUNDATION INCFSISIDISSENT: $230,396 · OtherFSISIDISSENTCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INCINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE INC: $139,278 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE INCNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS: $115,000 · OtherNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTSIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+32 more: $861,330 · Other+32 moreNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $214,464 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALCELEBRATE THE BEAT: $175,934 · Arts & CultureCELEBRATE THE BEATDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $81,420 · Arts & CultureDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATEDThe Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CultureThe Alliance For Media Arts C…PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE: $73,022 · Arts & CulturePHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTR…THE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $70,905 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INCNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $69,520 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTEFRIENDS OF JUDSON INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureElevator Repair Service Theater Inc: $54,655 · Arts & CultureTRUTHOUT: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $162,163 · Arts & Culture+10 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $239,650 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUN…AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $104,799 · EducationAUBURN THEOLOGI…GOOD JOBS FIRST: $70,350 · EducationGOOD JOBS FIRSTGrassroots Power Project: $70,000 · EducationGrassroots Powe…THE WOMEN'S EDGE: $40,000 · EducationTHE WOMEN'S EDG…REED INSTITUTE: $21,829 · EducationDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20,063 · EducationNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative: $325,000 · InternationalNational E…HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,507 · InternationalHAITIAN HE…Peace Development Fund: $16,000 · InternationalV-Day: $180,382 · Crime & LegalSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $35,261 · Public BenefitThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $35,000 · Public BenefitTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $56,324 · Membership Benefit
Other$1,871,004Arts & Culture$1,077,083Education$566,691International$381,507Crime & Legal$180,382Public Benefit$70,261Membership Benefit$56,324

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative: $325,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $239,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $214,464 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetV-Day: $180,382 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCELEBRATE THE BEAT: $175,934 over 6y, 12% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $104,799 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $81,420 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Alliance For Media Arts Culture Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetPHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE: $73,022 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROSPECT INC: $70,905 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGOOD JOBS FIRST: $70,350 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGrassroots Power Project: $70,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $69,520 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $56,324 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JUDSON INC: $55,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE WORKING THEATRE CO INC: $55,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFaith in Indiana: $55,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetElevator Repair Service Theater Inc: $54,655 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH CORPORATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,507 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S EDGE: $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTRUTHOUT: $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $35,261 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $25,281 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEN GARDE ARTS INC: $25,216 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLARK THEATRE COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetREED INSTITUTE: $21,829 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20,063 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetYOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $19,874 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LTD: $15,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $10,107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,223 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $3,069 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Ford FoundationTides FoundationThe Shubert Foundatio…Surdna Foundation IncJewish Communal FundMertz Gilmore Foundat…The Howard Gilman Fou…Boston Foundation IncFreedom Together Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundProteus Fund Inc
The Ford FoundationNY23.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Proteus Fund Inc

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 World Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from One World Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to One World Fund?

Find your warmest path to One World Fund 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 72 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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