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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.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$450kEnvironment$340kArts & Culture$212kInternational$42kCivil Rights$21kAnimals$17kPublic Benefit$14kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$479k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RETHINKING SCHOOLS$25,000
CLASSROOMS 4 CLIMATE ACTION$25,000
FOTOKIDS-FUNDACION DE NINOS ARTISTA$15,000
ECOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND$15,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMM$5,000
ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUD$2,500
FRIENDS OF BONOBOS$2,500
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ECOFLIGHT$2,000
VOICES$1,500
WILDERNESS WORKSHOP$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEDS OF LOVE: $1k → 8%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $3k → 18%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

NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 31 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
37

Total granted

$1.1M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

68%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • RS
    RETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +25%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +39%
  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • DN
    DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALINGgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +156%
  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INT'L MARTIN-BARO IN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • FF
    Food For Thought Denver
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Nature for Justice

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.

Environment
3
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

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'…

International
8
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
9
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
10
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
11
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
12
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc; 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.
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 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
28/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOTOKIDS-FUNDACION DE NINOS ARTISTA: $175,000 · OtherFOTOKIDS-FUNDACION DE NINOS ARTISTAVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL: $142,000 · OtherVERDE VALLEY SCHOOLCLASSROOMS 4 CLIMATE ACTION: $125,000 · OtherCLASSROOMS 4 CLIMATE ACTION+42 more: $146,900 · Other+42 moreRETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED: $200,000 · EducationRETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITEDCARLETON COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGENETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC: $12,500 · Education+4 more: $12,750 · EducationECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $141,000 · EnvironmentECO-LOGIC DEVELOPME…ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $32,000 · EnvironmentASPEN CENTER FOR EN…Earth Island Institute Inc: $9,500 · Environment+7 more: $14,000 · Environment+7 moreTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureBOOK LOVE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Arts & CultureVoices: $2,500 · Arts & CultureJustice Committee Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,500 · InternationalGlobal Response Management Inc: $2,500 · InternationalTEACHING FOR CHANGE: $1,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $9,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BONOBOS: $9,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $4,500 · AnimalsDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $10,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,500 · HealthHealth in Harmony: $1,000 · Health
Other$588,900Education$285,250Environment$196,500Arts & Culture$26,000International$25,000Animals$23,000Health$12,500

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 budgetRETHINKING SCHOOLS LIMITED: $200,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SCHOOL: $142,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: $141,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $32,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BONOBOS: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOOK LOVE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetWILDERNESS WORKSHOP: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood For Thought Denver: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC EDUCATION & BUSINESS COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOXICS ACTION CENTER INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetECOFLIGHT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNISGUA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetVoices: $2,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350ORG: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Response Management Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEnglish in Action: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD ACT EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING FOR CHANGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350 COLORADO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoaring Fork Safe Passages: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARARA INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF LOVE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetY2Y NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PEACEABLE COMMUNITIES INC: $750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVOCES UNIDAS DE LAS MONTANAS: $500 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.

ImpactassetsincOur Part co Marsha So…Colorado Gives Founda…Aspen Community Found…The Denver FoundationThe New World Foundat…California Community …Rose Community Founda…Rsf Social Finance IncPatagoniaorgAspen Skiing Company …Aspen Business Center…
ImpactassetsincMD21.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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