· Private foundation
The Isabel Allende 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $543k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN | $310,000 |
| NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION | $145,000 |
| TOO YOUNG TO WED | $130,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $125,000 |
| ADESO | $125,000 |
| THISTLE FARMS INC | $110,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $100,000 |
| REFUGE POINT | $100,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE | $65,000 |
| EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT | $65,000 |
| FLORENCE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT | $60,000 |
| YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $60,000 |
| ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMERICAN WEST | $60,000 |
| KIND | $60,000 |
| MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS | $55,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Isabel Allende Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 34%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
106 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 11 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +74%
- TFTHISTLE FARMS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $939k · revenue +186%
- NYNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $877k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SSISTERREACHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +71%
- ADAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONSone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SWSISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVEone grant, 2020 · $30k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
The LGBTAP is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gener identity and/or HIV…
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
Center for Intimacy Justice (CIJ) works to create equity and wellbeing in people's intimate lives. CIJ's first program is changing Big Tech platforms discriminatory suppression of womens sexual and reproductive health information online.
The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
How this is measured
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 179 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA ↗
- Who funds Global Response Management Inc ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE EFFECT IMAGES ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARMATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERREACH ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Isabel Allende Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Isabel Allende Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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