· Private foundation
The Elsevier Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $693k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNESCO | $210,000 |
| CONCERN WORLDWIDE | $100,000 |
| FALLING WALLS FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| STICHTING AIDSFONDS SOA AIDS NEDERLAND | $90,000 |
| WILDTYPE TECHNOLOGIES PTE LTD | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RESEARCH 4 LIFE | $70,000 |
| CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (CRAC) | $57,600 |
| NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE | $32,000 |
| UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA | $27,972 |
| IMC WEEKENDSCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ITOCA | $16,790 |
| CHINESE WOMEN SCIENTISTS (CWAST) | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
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 US giving — 15% of grant dollars ($1.4M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 85% that went abroad ($7.8M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 85% of all-years giving ($7.8M)
26 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 25 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +25%
- NLNational League for Nursing2× · 2022–2023 · $105k · revenue +5%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- JGJK GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $151k
- KKONTO24one grant, 2022 · $100k
- SDSansum Diabetes Research Instituteone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -46%
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
See Disclosure Above.
1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Scientific research in information processing; fostering dev. of nat'l inf. infra.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National League for Nursing and the most unlike its peers is Kitten Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 93 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
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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RESEARCH4LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds National League for Nursing ↗
- Who funds Sansum Diabetes Research Institute ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds DATAKIND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Foundation 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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Elsevier 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.
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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