· Private foundation
Shockwave Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $336
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYRIAD USA | $183,513 |
| RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SEMILLA NUEVA | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $100,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| BLOODWATER | $100,000 |
| SAHA GLOBAL | $75,000 |
| GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC | $75,000 |
| WATER FOR PEOPLE | $75,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL WATER ADAPTATION | $22,000 |
| PACIFIC INSTITUTE | $336 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 22% of Shockwave Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $850k · revenue +64%
- TGTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +9%
- SGSAHA GLOBAL INC2× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +434%
Funded once
- BMBLOODWATER MISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -8%
- RCROOT CAPITAL INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -58%
- FFCDEone grant, 2023 · $80k
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Global water center (gwc) accelerates progress toward reliable access to safe water by strengthening the people and institutions responsible for rural water service delivery to the 1.3 billion people living in water poverty in those areas.…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Our commitment to providing accessible clean water extends beyond the boundaries of countries, continents, and cultures. We are driven by a shared belief in the power of technology to transform lives, uplift communities, and create a more…
Nrgi envisions a world where natural resources enable fair, prosperous and sustainable societies, instead of undermining them. nrgi exists because decisions about how natural resources are governed determine the well-being of people in…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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.
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 THE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA NUEVA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds SAHA GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOODWATER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL WATER ADAPTATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & EMPOWERMENT ↗
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: Mulago Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shockwave Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shockwave Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
How this is measured
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