· Private foundation
The Nduna Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $475k
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $500,000 |
| THE ELDERS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| CRISIS ACTION LTD | $200,000 |
| THE TRINITY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $75,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN | $50,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| THE INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC | $15,000 |
| THE WITNESS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DIKEMBE MUTOMBO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 — 80% of grant dollars ($5.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($1.3M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 — 20% of all-years giving ($1.3M)
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 +53% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k 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
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC3× · 2017–2019 · $385k · revenue +53%
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $225k · revenue +62%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +133%
Funded once
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2.6M · revenue -13%- FPFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INCone grant, 2018 · $255k · revenue -9%
- WIWITNESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Center for Research On Women and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 22 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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SKWC A New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds DMF Internationl Inc ↗
- Who funds BATONGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER SARANAC LAKE FOUNDATION 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 · The Skoll Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Nduna 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.