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Simon Bolivar Foundation Inc at a glance

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Simon Bolivar Foundation Inc

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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$34MInternational$16MHuman Services$583kReligion$450kFood & Nutrition$430kEducation$382kPublic Safety & Disaster$220kPhilanthropy$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $262k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pan American Development Foundation$1,470,000
Texas Children's Hospital$745,500
Project Hope-The People-To-People$437,500
Medical Teams International$437,500
Individual grant recipient$317,937
GlobalGiving Foundation$295,000
Fundahigado America Foundation$281,598
Scalabrini Intl Migration Network Inc$270,000
International Federation of Red Cross$250,000
International Medical Corps$250,000
Foundation Caring For Colombia LTD$165,000
Friends of the Children of Venezuela Inc$156,250
Individual grant recipient$151,798
Venezuela Now Inc$150,000
Global Impact$134,426
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.

US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($46M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($5.5M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Ven da Tu Mano Fundacion Inc: $250k → 15%I love Venezuela Foundation: $200k → 15%Mission of Mercy Inc: $100k → 17%Ven da Tu Mano Fundacion Inc: $175k → 15%SVC Foundation Corp: $40k → 15%Friends of the Children of Venezuela Inc: $250k → 15%Friends of the Children of Venezuela Inc: $156k → 15%Friends of the Children of Venezuela Inc: $156k → 15%Friends of the Children of Venezuel: $75k → 15%Latin Women Initiative: $8k → 16%Local Infant Formula for Emergencies: $5k → 16%Local Infant Formula for Emergencies: $3k → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($5.5M)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Venezuela$3.3M · 22 grants
Switzerland$2.2M · 5 grants
Italy$20k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 48 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
37

Total granted

$22M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+39%

Still filing today

42%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $914k 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
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $981k · revenue +8%
  • MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $906k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • AF
    AID FOR AIDS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $550k · revenue -23%
  • IF
    International Federation of Red Cro
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -45%
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
Global Health Teams

Medical care and healthcare related support and education to under served or marginalized people throughout the world.

Unclassified
2
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Doctors for You International Co Vistex

To provide sustainable, equitable and effecient health care services to the most vulnerable individuals and communities around the world.

Health
5
Health Missions International Inc

To provide free healthcare services

International
6
World Health Foundation
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7
Americares Foundation Inc

Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).

International
8
Foundation for International Missions Inc

Ffim grants funds to misiones internationaies in honduras. in 2024 the clinic saw 7,569 patients, 2,225 were new patients, 20 emergency births, 458 papsmears, 129 minor surgeries, 1,345 blood pressure, 1,121 diabeties control among other…

International
9
Health Poverty Action Usa

Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…

International
10
Partner Haiti

To reduce childhood malnutrition in Haiti and provide people in rural areas access to life-saving medical care.

—
11
Alliance for International Medicine

Provided medical training to healthcare provides in selected markets throughout the world.

Health
12
Foundation for Argentinean Development
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

50 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. 50 of the 94 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pan American Development Foundation: $2,436,000 · OtherPan American Development FoundationInternational Federation of Red Cross: $1,911,893 · OtherInternational Federation of Red CrossFundacion Instituto Carabobeno p la: $1,768,663 · OtherFundacion Instituto Carabobeno p laIndividual grant recipient: $1,136,413 · OtherIndividual grant recipientProject Hope - The people: $649,998 · OtherSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC: $585,000 · OtherHospital Materno Infantil: $469,876 · OtherHospital Dr Rafael Medina Jimenez: $467,206 · Other+48 more: $4,590,136 · Other+48 moreGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,777,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $980,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $906,250 · InternationalMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONALGlobal Impact: $518,852 · InternationalGlobal ImpactPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $437,500 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO…FOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $250,000 · InternationalFOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTD: $234,926 · International+9 more: $619,193 · International+9 moreTexas Children's Hospital: $1,131,979 · HealthTexas Child…FUNDAHIGADO AMERICA FOUNDATION: $579,369 · HealthFUNDAHIGADO…MedGlobal Inc: $427,736 · HealthMedGlobal I…SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $110,000 · HealthWest Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation: $100,000 · HealthHarris County Hospital District Foundation: $100,000 · HealthLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Health+2 more: $85,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF VENEZUELA INC: $637,613 · Human ServicesVEN DA TU MANO FUNDACION INC: $425,000 · Human ServicesWE LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesMISSION OF MERCY INC: $100,000 · Human Services+3 more: $55,000 · Human ServicesAID FOR AIDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $550,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $129,895 · Civil RightsVenezuela NOW Inc: $450,000 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $100,000 · ReligionSociedad Amigos del HEP Inc: $470,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$14,015,185International$6,724,721Health$2,634,084Human Services$1,417,613Civil Rights$679,895Religion$550,000Public Safety & Disaster$490,000

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 budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $2,777,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $1,131,979 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $980,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $906,250 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF VENEZUELA INC: $637,613 over 4y, 51% of budgetSCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC: $585,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetFUNDAHIGADO AMERICA FOUNDATION: $579,369 over 3y, 49% of budgetAID FOR AIDS INTERNATIONAL INC: $550,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGlobal Impact: $518,852 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSociedad Amigos del HEP Inc: $470,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetVenezuela NOW Inc: $450,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $437,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMedGlobal Inc: $427,736 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVEN DA TU MANO FUNDACION INC: $425,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTD: $234,926 over 2y, 60% of budgetWE LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCADENA FOUNDATION INC: $160,710 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $129,895 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCUATRO POR VENEZUELA: $120,451 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $110,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $104,976 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWest Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHarris County Hospital District Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetACTION FOR SOLIDARITY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetLEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF MERCY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaludos Connection: $89,695 over 3y, 69% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $74,365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDriscoll Children's Hospital: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation: $67,711 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSVC FOUNDATION CORP: $40,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetAmerican Jesuits International Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN VENEZUELAN ENGAGEMENT: $22,288 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE SALESIAN WOMEN ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChrist Clinic: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLATIN WOMENS INITIATIVE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWELLNESS FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $3,500 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.

  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF VENEZUELA INC ↗
  • Who funds SCALABRINI INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FUNDAHIGADO AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AID FOR AIDS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Global Impact ↗
  • Who funds Sociedad Amigos del HEP Inc ↗
  • Who funds Venezuela NOW Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
  • Who funds VEN DA TU MANO FUNDACION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION CARING FOR COLOMBIA LTD ↗
  • Who funds WE LOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CADENA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…The Methodist HospitalGlobalgiving Foundati…We Love Foundation IncCullen Trust For Heal…Astros FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Greater Houston Commu…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX15.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · We Love Foundation Inc · Cullen Trust For Health Care · Astros Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Simon Bolivar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simon Bolivar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • American Venezuelan Engagement: 10% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
  • Cadena Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 94 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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