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The Convergence Institute at a glance

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The Convergence Institute

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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$100kInternational$52kHuman Services$37kEnvironment$20kArts & Culture$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kEducation$6kReligion$5k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
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States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCSF FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNBOUND: $15k → 16%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

NY
IA
PA
CA
MO
VA
KS
GA
TX
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.
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.

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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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Rainforest Alliance Holding 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.

Environment
3
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
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Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
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World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
8
MRIGlobal

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

Science & Tech
9
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
10
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
11
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
12
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malaria Consortium Us Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unbound. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONKHAN ACADEMY INC: $6,290 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INCGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $37,253 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCUnbound: $15,311 · Human ServicesUnboundBRAC USA INC: $9,340 · InternationalBRAC USA …RAINFOREST TRUST: $6,667 · InternationalRAINFORES…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $3,533 · InternationalHELEN KEL…THE CLEAR FUND: $19,167 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR…ALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION: $13,330 · EnvironmentCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $8,244 · OtherCATHOLIC …PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF CHESTNUT HILL: $2,500 · OtherPRESBYTER…JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherJOHN PAUL…MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $3,560 · OtherMALARIA C…The Against Malaria Foundation: $1,178 · OtherThe Again…CICERO RESEARCH: $6,667 · Arts & Culture
Education$106,290Human Services$52,564International$19,540Philanthropy$19,167Environment$13,330Other$20,482Arts & Culture$6,667

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $37,253 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $19,167 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $15,311 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR INT'L REFORESTATION: $13,330 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $9,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCICERO RESEARCH: $6,667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $6,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $6,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $3,560 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $3,533 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,178 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.

American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
American Endowment FoundationOH11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Convergence Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Convergence Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    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 15 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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