· Private foundation
The Greenbaum Foundation
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.
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 $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $319k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KARUNA FOUNDATION | $1,060,873 |
| HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $543,000 |
| FREE TO THRIVE-THRIVE PHILANTHROPY | $404,225 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MED | $350,000 |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE | $300,000 |
| PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION | $218,200 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EARTH | $200,000 |
| ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS | $118,000 |
| GENERATION AWAKENING | $116,700 |
| JANEUNCHAINED NEWS NETWORK | $100,000 |
| GAME CHANGERS FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD INC | $100,000 |
| MERIDIAN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| FREEDOM FOR ALL INC | $100,000 |
| SEED | $100,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 19 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $887k 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
- KFKaruna Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +32%
- THTHE HUMANE LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +213%
- AWA Well-Fed World7× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- TITOSTAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $360k · revenue +32%
- EVEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +36%
- VLVERMOUNT LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $159k
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.
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
Animal and Vegan Advocacy International, Inc. is dedicated to creating a world in which animals are removed from the food system and other human uses. It furthers this mission by convening advocates through an international conference…
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…
Pax fauna exists to design a more effective social movement for animal freedom in the u.s., using original research as well as careful study of social movement literature and the recent history of the animal movement, in order to reverse…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Food animal concerns trust (fact) promotes the safe and humane production of meat, milk, and eggs. fact envisions that all food-producing animals be raised in a healthy and humane manner so that everyone will have access to safe and…
A Greener World empowers sustainable solutions in agriculture, promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering farmers and ranchers practical guidance, resources and support on achieving truly sustainable…
Well Beings is growing a next-gen movement that elevates and unites animal welfare and environmental protection by shining a spotlight on new models and helping to scale the most promising solutions.
The world federation for animals (wfa) is a membership organization to improve the well-being of all animals and end exploitation and suffering. wfa has three primary focus areas: policy research, analysis, and information sharing;…
Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy for Animals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speak Out for Animals. 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.
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 13 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
88 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. 88 of the 194 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 Karuna Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
- Who funds HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENTIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Nonhuman Rights Project Inc ↗
- Who funds UnchainedTV ↗
- Who funds PANORAMA GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds TOSTAN INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL DEFENSE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL OUTLOOK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds STOP ANIMAL EXPLOITATION NOW ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FISTULA ↗
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: The Quinn Foundation · Vegfund Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Humane America Animal Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Aceso Foundation Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Tipping Point Private Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Karuna Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40
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 Greenbaum 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.
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
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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