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The Global Uplift Project

The Global Uplift Project (TGUP) helps the worlds children learn by building small-scale, high impact educational infrastructure projects in developing countries. These include classrooms, libraries, science labs, playgrounds, and other projects that improve life chances for some of the poorest people in the world. 100% of every dollar…

$520k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
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Itemized, FY2025
$41k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,957
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,200
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$194k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Omena Inc$12,20016%
Humanity for Children$8,39515%
Because International Corp$7,9571n/a
Little Sisters Fund Inc$6,42711%
Seeds of Learning$6,3431n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to The Global Uplift Project through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Global Uplift Project

How much does The Global Uplift Project give?
The Global Uplift Project reported 5 itemized grants totaling $41,322, out of $519,944 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Global Uplift Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (70%), Health (30%).
Who are The Global Uplift Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Omena Inc ($12k), Humanity for Children ($8k), Because International Corp ($8k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Global Uplift Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Global Uplift Project based?
The Global Uplift Project is based in CA.

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 5 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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