· Public charity
Pledges Inc
To support social development and humanitarian causes across the globe, especially for technical training in developing countries.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PCRF | $75,000 |
| APRICOT INC | $55,000 |
| HIDDEN HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| SAB SATH INC | $30,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $71k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $62k to organizations and $9k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: DONATIONS · DONATION · EMAN TABASH
Stated purpose: DONATION RECOVERABLE STUDENT FINANCIAL
Stated purpose: DONATIONS
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Pledges Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 26%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue 0%
- TDTIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA2× · 2021–2022 · $57k · revenue -99%
- COCollective of Concerned Black2× · 2021–2022 · $47k
Funded once
- WSWorld Systems Solutions Incone grant, 2021 · $452k · revenue +16% · 51% of their budget
- SFSunflower Fundone grant, 2022 · $360k · revenue -85%
- CLChoice Lab LLCone grant, 2022 · $160k
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.
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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Operation Broken Silence is building a global movement to empower the Sudanese people through innovate programs as a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
Volunteer based aid for global communities in conflict zones
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.
Rahma delivers emergency and development programs to needy communities, without discrimination based on gender, race, religion, or location. we aim to empower and develop individuals and communities affected by hardship globally.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds World Systems Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds Sunflower Fund ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds HEAL PALESTINE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds TIGRAY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Health Professionals Network for Tigray ↗
- Who funds Seemore Impact Labs ↗
- Who funds SAB SAATH INC ↗
- Who funds PLEDGES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD UNITED MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Vasona Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds Empowerment Works Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pledges Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pledges Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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