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Somebody Else Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$6kEnvironment$3kInternational$3kAnimals$3kCrime & Legal$3kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,300
Median grant
4
States reached
$273k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Feeding America$3,300
Immigrant Defenders Law Center$3,300
American Bird Conservancy$3,300
Individual grant recipient$3,300
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 11%KINDER RELIEF FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Immigrant Defenders Law Center: $3k → 14%ANARTIC AND SOUTHRN OCEAN COALITION: $1k → 14%PALESTINIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1k → 12%Carrie Schwarz NIJC: $3k → 14%MUSLIM AID AMERICA: $1k → 6%American Bird Conservancy: $3k → 6%ANARTIC AND SOUTHRN OCEAN COALITION: $1k → 14%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.
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.
03Its 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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Bank Climate Advocates

Bank Climate Advocates (BCA) combats climate change and its adverse effects primarily by using legal advocacy and action to align public financial institutions' investment policies and practices with the 1.5 degrees C warming limitation…

Environment
5
International Rescue Committee Inc

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.

International
6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
8
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
9
Solar Cookers International

The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Muslim Aid America. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $6,170 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $3,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKINDER RELIEF FOUNDATION: $1,220 · OtherKINDER RELIEF FOUNDATIONAmerican Bird Conservancy: $3,300 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Cons…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,075 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGI…Immigrant Defenders Law Center: $3,300 · Crime & LegalImmigrant Def…Feeding America: $3,300 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ameri…Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition: $2,295 · EnvironmentAntarctic…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,220 · InternationalWORLD CEN…PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,075 · InternationalPALESTINE…MUSLIM AID AMERICA: $1,075 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$10,690Animals$4,375Crime & Legal$3,300Food & Nutrition$3,300Environment$2,295International$2,295Public Safety & Disaster$1,075

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAntarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition: $2,295 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSLIM AID AMERICA: $1,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $1,075 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Somebody Else Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Somebody Else Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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