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Population Connection

Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$8.5MInternational$610kEnvironment$493kAnimals$372kHuman Services$60kCivil Rights$35kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $2,012,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,394,061 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $382,061 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $365k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POPULATION CONNECTION ACTION FUND$1,500,000
KAKENYA'S DREAM$115,000
CONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH$50,000
WINGS$50,000
LEMUR LOVE ORGANIZATION$50,000
AFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM$50,000
GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA$50,000
WUQU KAWOQ$25,000
THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC$25,000
WOMEN FOR CONSERVATION$25,000
GREENLATINOS$20,000
GREEN 20$15,000
SHASHAMANE FOUNDATION$10,000
SEEDS FOR A FUTURE$10,000
TEWA WOMEN UNITED$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10k → 12%WUQU KAWOQ: $25k → 9%SISTERSONG: $15k → 13%WUQU KAWOQ SA (MAYA HEALTH ALLIANCE): $25k → 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

ME
VT
MN
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $283k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$213k · 75% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

Central America and the Caribbean$45k · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

South Asia$25k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PROGRAM SUPPORT

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 13 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$9.8M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • WI
    WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $215k · revenue +106%
  • CT
    CONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH
    4× · 2020–2024 · $212k · revenue +194%
  • KC
    KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $165k · revenue +279%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -41%
  • ONE ARIZONA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -13%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +11%
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
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
2
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
3
World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services
4
Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture & Natural Resource Man

To advance women's empowerment and gender equality to tackle climate change, food insecurity and poverty within enabling environments. WOCAN strengthens capacities of organizations and individuals for gender integration and leadership. It…

Food & Nutrition
5
Maia

MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.

International
6
Womens Justice Initiative Inc

The Womens Justice Initiative improves the lives of indigenous Guatemalan women and girls through education, access to legal services, and gender-based violence prevention.

Education
7
The Conversationalist
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8
Groundswell International Inc

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

International
9
Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International
10
Circle of Health International

COHIs mission is to work with women and their communities in times of crisis and disaster to ensure access to quality reproductive, maternal and newborn care. See Sch O for full mission.

—
11
Planet Women

To partner with women to care for the forest, waters, and communities essential to mitigating climate change while preparing women to lead; and to help environmental conservation oganizations to become more diverse and welcoming.

International
12
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tewa Women United; the most unlike its peers is Seeds for a Future. 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

22 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. 22 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POPULATION CONNECTION ACTION FUND: $8,475,000 · Public BenefitPOPULATION CONNECTION ACTION FUNDNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentThe Partnership Project Inc: $120,000 · EnvironmentGreenLatinos: $63,000 · EnvironmentGreen 20: $60,000 · EnvironmentWOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentWOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC: $215,000 · InternationalTURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · InternationalGIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA: $75,000 · InternationalAFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM: $70,000 · International+3 more: $27,000 · InternationalCONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH: $211,500 · AnimalsKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $165,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 · EducationLEMUR LOVE ORGANIZATION: $160,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherWuqu Kawoq SA: $50,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10,000 · Human ServicesONE ARIZONA: $25,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$8,475,000Environment$493,000International$472,000Animals$211,500Education$180,000Other$165,000Human Services$75,000Civil Rights$45,000

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 budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION ACTION FUND: $8,475,000 over 5y, 96% of budgetWOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC: $215,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLIC HEALTH: $211,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $165,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetGIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA: $75,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAFRICAN EDUCATION PROGRAM: $70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetGreenLatinos: $63,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGreen 20: $60,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR CONSERVATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSeeds for A Future: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SHASHAMANE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Abortions For Everyone: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationGlobalgiving Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Population Connection funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Population Connection. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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