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The Human Family Unity 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $534k
- $250k+1 grant · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $404,830 |
| CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE FARRINGTON ALUMNI COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $82,000 |
| KARUNA CENTER FOR PEACE BUILDING | $82,000 |
| UNION MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $70,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE | $50,000 |
| DEPT OF AMERICAN STUDIES - UW MADISON | $50,000 |
| FOSTER | $40,000 |
| NEW DIMENSIONS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ASCS LEGACY FUND | $27,150 |
| UNITERRA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE BLACK STRING TRIAGE | $2,000 |
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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($2.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($460k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($460k)
1 country, 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 +118% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $448k · revenue +95%
- KCKARUNA CENTER FOR PEACEBUILDING INC2× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +13%
CREATE WISCONSIN INC2× · 2020–2021 · $80k · revenue +246% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- FOFOUNTAIN OF LIFE CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- ULURBAN LEAGUEone grant, 2021 · $55k
- HIHIAS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
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.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
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New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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…
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
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Wayforward resources, inc. brings our community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy.
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
Design impact as a non-profit social innovation firm, empowers communities, organizations and systems to innovate on their current practices and tackle seemingly unsolvable problems through a creative and inclusive lens.
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The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…
The mission of community housing initiatives, inc. is to leverage and maximize opportunities for vibrant and resilient communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centro Hispano Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Triage Incorporated. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 50 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 UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KARUNA CENTER FOR PEACEBUILDING INC ↗
- Who funds FARRINGTON ALUMNI & COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WIND BENEATH MY WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds ROMERO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
- Who funds New Dimensions Foundation ↗
- Who funds CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SONGWRITING WORKS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITERRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRUST FUND OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY PHARMACY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Human Family Unity 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Inc — 1% 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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