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The Change the World Foundation Trust

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.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.1MFood & Nutrition$665kRecreation & Sports$515kEducation$376kPublic Safety & Disaster$190kReligion$150kHealth$134kInternational$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION$100,000
TIMANOUS FOUNDATION$25,000
MSK GIVING (MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER)$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%TOM MARTINEZ GOAL LINE FOUNDATION FOR MATCHING DONORS: $10k → 7%ALL HANDS AND HEARTS: $10k → 8%THE COLLEGE AXIS PROJECT: $10k → 11%GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $250k → 16%JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 7%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY FOUNDATION: $50k → 12%THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $10k → 14%EVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $10k → 17%RIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL: $50k → 28%IAIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUND: $100k → 14%MARKUS PAUL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%NATIONAL CMV FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%BEST BUDDIES: $20k → 15%VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%CAMP KESEM: $10k → 8%FIRST DESCENTS: $10k → 12%FEEDING AMERICA: $250k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVACY: $35k → 7%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NO: $10k → 17%ST BERNARD PROJECT: $10k → 23%FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $5k → 6%JBV CHARITABLE FUND: $300k → 11%TIMANOUS FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%THE ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION: $500k → 16%JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 7%TEDDY'S TEAM: $10k → 14%TAMPA FOOD BANK: $150k → 13%VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $500k → 19%CAMP KESEM UTAH VALLEY: $10k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 16%JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 7%DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%SAINT DAVIDS SCHOOL: $25k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY OF TAMPA BAY INC: $50k → 13%JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 7%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $10k → 14%SAINT DAVIDS SCHOOL: $25k → 17%ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP: $100k → 7%UCLA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BRAZIL FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP: $50k → 7%ABACO RELIEF FUND: $50k → 14%THE JIMMY FUND: $10k → 7%RAINFOREST ALLIANCE: $25k → 17%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

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MT
IL
NY
MA
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CA
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CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of The Change the World Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Change the World Foundation Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
40

Total granted

$1.3M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+24%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
PhilanthropyEducationPublic Safety & DisasterInternationalHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue ×45 · 90% of their budget
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2020–2022 · $255k · revenue +40%
  • SD
    SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +7%
  • JC
    JBV CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +1%
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
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
7
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Descents; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JBV CHARITABLE FUND: $300,000 · OtherJBV CHARITABLE FUNDGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $250,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCJUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherJUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTAMPA FOOD BANK: $150,000 · OtherTAMPA FOOD BANKHURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUND: $100,000 · OtherHURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUND+29 more: $424,500 · Other+29 moreVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION I…THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOU…Pebble Beach Company Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPebble Beach Company Foundatio…+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureESPLANADE ASSOCIA…NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFeeding America: $255,000 · Food & NutritionRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationHILLCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DBA HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $4,600 · Education+1 more: $300 · EducationBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $40,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $50,000 · AnimalsPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · Animals
Other$1,574,500Philanthropy$925,000Arts & Culture$525,000Food & Nutrition$255,000Education$79,900International$70,000Animals$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFeeding America: $255,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPebble Beach Company Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CMV FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMARKUS PAUL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetTimanous Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCollege Axis Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DBA HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASTER'S SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $300 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for Good
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 The Change the World Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Change the World Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–40%
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 52 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home