· Private foundation
Soros Economic Development Fund
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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACUMEN FUND | $3,000,000 |
| ABORTION COALITION OF TELEMEDICINE | $1,000,000 |
| SCROLL MEDIA INC | $270,000 |
| REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE INC | $250,000 |
| INDIEGRAF MEDIA INC | $250,000 |
| FREE DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE REIMAGINATION LAB | $250,000 |
| THE GLOBAL STEERING GROUP FOR IMPACT INVESTMENT | $200,000 |
| NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH NETWORK | $195,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK | $150,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE | $150,000 |
| IPAS | $150,000 |
| MAYDAY HEALTH | $150,000 |
| GENDER IDEAL DBA REPRODUCTIVE & MATERNAL HEALTH | $100,000 |
| SYMPLIFICA | $100,000 |
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: 77% of grant dollars ($9.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($2.8M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
Beyond the US: 24% of all-years giving ($2.8M)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 5% of Soros Economic Development 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 0% since the first grant, against -41% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MDMEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $760k · revenue -44%
- AMAVON MUTUAL LTD2× · 2020–2021 · $419k
- SWSOUTH WEST MUTUAL LTD2× · 2020–2021 · $419k
Funded once
- HHHONEYBEE HEALTH INCone grant, 2023 · $650k
- HSHALA SYSTEMS INCone grant, 2022 · $500k
NONPROFIT FINANCE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -41%
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.
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…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
Finreglab is a d.c.-based research organization working at the intersection of financial innovation and public policy. our mission is to advance technology and data use to help people and small businesses manage their financial lives,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION COALITION FOR TELEMEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT FINANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds 50BREAKTHROUGHS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE VOTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Reimagination Lab Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds IPAS ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds Gender IDEAL Inc dba Reproductive & Maternal Health Com ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY 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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · The Rockefeller Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · New Venture Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Soros Economic Development Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Soros Economic Development Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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