· Private foundation
Pathfinder Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLASSROOMS 4 CLIMATE ACTION | $25,000 |
| RETHINKING SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| ECOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND | $15,000 |
| FOTOKIDS-FUNDACION DE NINOS ARTISTA | $15,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMM | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BONOBOS | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUD | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ECOFLIGHT | $2,000 |
| VOICES | $1,500 |
| WILDERNESS WORKSHOP | $1,500 |
| VERDE VALLE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RSRETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +25%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +39%
- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- DNDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALINGgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +156%
- GIGRASSROOTS INT'L MARTIN-BARO INone grant, 2022 · $10k
- OLOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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'…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nisgua. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 76 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED ↗
- Who funds VERDE VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BONOBOS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
- Who funds BOOK LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds NISGUA ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds Voices ↗
- Who funds Global Response Management Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Our Part co Marsha Soffer · Colorado Gives Foundation · Aspen Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The New World Foundation · California Community Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Patagoniaorg · Aspen Skiing Company Environment Foundation · Aspen Business Center 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 Pathfinder Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.