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T-Mobile USA 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $7.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $7,206,980 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $175,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $46,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $28,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 13 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA2× · 2019–2024 · $975k · revenue +66%
CITY YEAR INC3× · 2019–2023 · $245k · revenue +0%
WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- AAAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $405k · revenue +27%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -54%
Chinese for Affirmative Actionone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the boys and girls clubs of greater st. louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To inspire and enable all young people, and especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. we provide prevention-focused programming for youth, ages 2-19, within our core…
To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
The mission of boys and girls clubs of greater washington is to help boys and girls of all backgrounds, especially those who need us most, build confidence, develop character and acquire the skills needed to become productive,…
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To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as responsible, caring, and productive citizens.
To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in washington; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in washington without regard…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
183 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 183 of the 251 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BELLEVUE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds 1MILLION PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds 22KILL ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Keep Colorado Springs Beautiful Inc ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP INC (F/K/A NETWORK OF EXECUTIVE WOMEN INC) ↗
- Who funds EXTRA BASES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Carmax Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of King County
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization T-Mobile USA Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Beat the Odds Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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