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The Giving Back Fund

To improve lives by expanding the number of people and the amount of resources dedicated to giving.

$27M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$3.0MInternational$2.9MEnvironment$1.7MScience & Tech$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MRecreation & Sports$660kEducation$658kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $2,814,926 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,509,896 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,694,970 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $680k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$71,264
Median grant
11
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
rewild$1,000,000
Globalgiving Foundation$526,000
WaterAid America$518,000
Moses West Foundation$219,500
State Funding Devials$100,000
National Jewish Center$90,000
United American Committee$87,000
Individual grant recipient$71,264
Common Crawl Foundation$62,500
Nomad Solutions$50,000
AMIT Children Inc$23,662
Intelligent Advocacy$20,000
Georgia Institute of Tech$15,000
Pen & Shield Project$12,000
Acupuncturists$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WITHOUT BOARDERS INTERNATIONAL: $22k → 9%CRESCENT COVE: $10k → 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $120k → 6%CASITA COPAN: $20k → 11%SHOW HOPE: $5k → 8%LORAIN POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%YOUTH SERVICE SYSTEM INC: $10k → 15%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITES: $50k → 23%ACTS OF RANDOM KINDNESS: $35k → 6%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $99k → 15%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $20k → 6%LEGENDS OF BASKETBALL NYC: $8k → 17%FULAA LIFELINE INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 6%ERLANGER LIONS CHARITIES INC: $10k → 11%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $33k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%CONGREGATION FOR KIDS INC: $10k → 10%LYDIA HOMES SAFE FAMILIES NATIONAL: $40k → 14%FULAA LIFELINE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 6%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $30k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $35k → 14%MY FRIEND'S HOUSE FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $10k → 4%SENTINEL FOUNDATION: $55k → 10%LYDIA HOMESSAFE FAMILIES NATIONAL: $25k → 14%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $15k → 14%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%LYDIA HOMES SAFE FAMILIES NATIONAL: $20k → 14%CASITA COPAN: $25k → 11%FREE FOR LIFE INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 14%CASITA COPAN: $20k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION: $18k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%LYDIA HOMES SAFE FAMILIES NATIONAL: $15k → 14%CASITA COPAN: $5k → 11%NATIONAL CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME: $25k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $25k → 9%TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $4.5M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$2.4M · 53% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: Community Sustain · Disability Grant · Emergency Relief

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.4M · 30% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: General Assistance

Sub-Saharan Africa$758k · 17% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Youth at Risk

Singapore$35k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 28 repeat orgs$22M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
190

Total granted

$5.2M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+20%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthOther

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

  • HH
    HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +135%
  • LF
    LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $429k · revenue +164%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    3× · 2018–2020 · $330k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • VA
    VARIOUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2023 · $13M
  • MO
    MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC
    one grant, 2018 · $520k · revenue -34%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $333k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
5
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
6
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
7
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
8
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
9
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
10
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

The mission of the wikimedia foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. (see schedule…

Education
11
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
12
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art Therapy Project Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportCancer Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Ymca Youth DevelopmentImmigrant Worker SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Military Veterans SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
12/232
the rest of the field
13%
240,384/1,819,333

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.

04the grantee network

135 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. 135 of the 243 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
126/135
Grantees still filing
80/135
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — $12,776,573 · OtherVARIOUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTSANFORD — $1,331,352 · OtherSANFORDNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $707,291 · Other+145 more — $5,350,617 · Other+145 moreGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $526,000 · InternationalWATERAID AMERICA INC — $518,000 · InternationalLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $428,793 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $333,333 · International+4 more — $103,662 · InternationalHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $124,810 · HealthStarkey Hearing Foundation — $87,500 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $52,220 · Health+3 more — $106,684 · HealthTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $487,000 · PhilanthropyEarth Innovation Institute — $265,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $47,500 · PhilanthropyThe New Horizons Foundation Inc — $45,000 · PhilanthropyLudacris Foundation Inc — $45,000 · PhilanthropyG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $44,881 · Philanthropy+7 more — $110,650 · PhilanthropyCONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE — $145,000 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $140,000 · Human ServicesLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION — $120,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $99,428 · Human ServicesTOGETHER FOR GOOD — $77,500 · Human ServicesBoth Hands Foundation — $70,000 · Human ServicesCASITA COPAN INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesSentinel Foundation — $55,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES — $50,000 · Human ServicesActs of Random Kindness — $35,000 · Human Services+10 more — $182,500 · Human ServicesREWILD — $1,000,000 · AnimalsMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC — $520,000 · ReligionFor Charlotte Inc — $30,000 · Religion
Other$20,165,833International$1,909,788Health$1,371,214Philanthropy$1,145,031Human Services$1,044,428Animals$1,000,000Religion$550,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREWILD — $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC — $520,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC — $518,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $487,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $428,793 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $333,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $330,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $272,680 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEarth Innovation Institute — $265,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetL U O INC — $198,500 over 4y, 58% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE — $145,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $124,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION — $120,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTRIBAL TRUST FOUNDATION INC — $120,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $99,428 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation — $87,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTROJAN CLUB — $82,525 over 1y, 35% of budgetTOGETHER FOR GOOD — $77,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetBoth Hands Foundation — $70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCASITA COPAN INC — $70,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSentinel Foundation — $55,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC — $53,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $52,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAAD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Elijah Interfaith Institute USA Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONGO-VOICE — $45,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLudacris Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF WASHINGTON — $45,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetG FRED DIBONA JR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $44,881 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $42,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $38,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABIDE NETWORK INC — $36,149 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEWCOURTLAND — $34,494 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVE FYTT CORPORATION — $32,500 over 1y, 94% of budgetFULAA LIFELINE INTERNATIONAL — $30,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetWide Rainbow Corporation — $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFor Charlotte Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI WESTSIDE LA — $29,690 over 1y, 9.6% of budget
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.

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.

Retailroi IncServant FoundationGlobalgiving Foundati…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Signatry Charitab…Assurant FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…California Community …McKesson Foundation I…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Minneapolis Found…Christian Community F…
Retailroi IncTN34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Retailroi Inc · Servant Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Assurant Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · California Community Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc

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 Giving Back Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • National Center for Victims of Crime Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Kickstand Comedy — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 243 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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