· Public charity
Social Impact Fund
SIFs mission is to inspire efficient and accessible philanthropy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $870k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Latinos in Heritage Conservation | $752,403 |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $250,000 |
| Good Eats for Life LLC | $132,937 |
| Global Philanthropy Partnership | $100,000 |
| Global Empowerment Mission | $100,000 |
| Rett Syndrome Research Fund | $100,000 |
| Criminal Justice Report Foundation | $100,000 |
| Project Healthy Minds | $100,000 |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | $100,000 |
| Connections for Children | $100,000 |
| Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | $80,000 |
| J Paul Getty Trust | $75,000 |
| Community Health Councils | $75,000 |
| 4th Trimester | $75,000 |
| University of Southern CA | $73,140 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those 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: $2.1M on the FY2025 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.
Stated purpose: Home of Hope Mchinji Orphanage · Support of Staff at Mercy James Medical Center · Support Mercy James Paediatric Surgery Center
Stated purpose: Support LAROI Foundation
Stated purpose: Shelter Equipment
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 6% of Social Impact Fund’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 +23% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 54 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CTCOLLEGE TRACK5× · 2019–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +105%
- FRFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +5%
- ACACCELERATE CHANGE INC2× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +495%
Funded once
- GFGROUNDED FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $400k · 43% of their budget
- OOONLY ONE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +627%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $254k · revenue +18%
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.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
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…
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.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
How this is measured
244 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. 244 of the 253 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Latinos In Heritage Conservation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Notes For Notes Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOMS INC ↗
- Who funds ONLY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT AND FEED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds USA Track & Field Inc ↗
- Who funds TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds ONE EARTH PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds IMPACT DATA & EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENT SOCCER USA ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds GOOD EATS FOR LIFE LLC ↗
- Who funds URBAN GROWERS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HOLISTIC DEFENDERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNSW & STUDY ABROAD - FRIENDS AND US ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds FUNGI FOUNDATION 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: Liberty Hill Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Tides Center · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Social Impact Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Social Impact Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Centre for Wildlife Studies Inc: 20% of income from government
- Move United: 16% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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