· Public charity
The Malala Fund
We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $1,523,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,095,096 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,572,096 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
- $50k–250k6 grants · $823k
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTIC COUNCIL US | $450,000 |
| DEFAW INC | $250,000 |
| CIVIC ENGAGEMENT PROJECT DBA INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS | $239,000 |
| WARTISTS (ARTLORDS) | $150,000 |
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $135,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE | $100,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION & RELIEF | $100,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $99,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $12M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $12M to organizations and $67k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR ADVOCACY AND OPERATIONS · DIGITAL EDUCATION FOR AFGHAN GIRLS · ADVOCACY TO RECOGNIZE GENDER APARTHEID IN AFGHANISTAN
Stated purpose: SUPPORT FOR ADVOCACY AND OPERATIONS · KEEP TANZANIAN GIRLS IN SCHOOL BY ADDRESSING BARRIERS TO EDUCATION · INCREASE EDUCATION FUNDING FOR MARRIED AND PREGNANT GIRLS IN NIGERIA
Stated purpose: REINTEGRATION OF OUT OF SCHOOL GIRLS · STRENGTHEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO INCREASE EDUCATION ACCESS AND RETENTION · HELP GIRLS TRANSITION FROM PRIMARY TO SECONDARY SCHOOL
Stated purpose: STRENGTHEN PUBLIC POLICIES ON GENDER EQUALITY · PROMOTE QUILOMBOLA GIRLS' EDUCATION RIGHTS IN BRAZIL · IMPLEMENT PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION POLICY AND FINANCING
Stated purpose: SUPPORT EDUCATION OF GIRLS AFFECTED BY CONFLICT · EDUCATION SUPPORT FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES
Stated purpose: ADVOCACY TO RECOGNIZE GENDER APARTHEID IN AFGHANISTAN
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of The Malala Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 16% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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Research and education of United Nations activities
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
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We work to ensure all girls can access and complete 12 years of education. by completing 12 years of quality schooling, girls will have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to reach their full potential, make their own life…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Need of Development Education and Relief Kinder Usa and the most unlike its peers is The Brookings Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR STATE EFFECTIVENESS ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
- Who funds Wartists Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEARN AFGHAN INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND RELIEF KINDER USA ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Roots and Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION-US ↗
- Who funds Afghans Empowered Corp ↗
- Who funds CARE ABOUT CLIMATE INC ↗
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 Ford Foundation · Choose Love Inc · Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Malala 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.
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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