· Public charity
The Pad Project
The Pad Project is a global nonprofit that expands access to menstrual care products, combats period stigma, and champions menstrual equity for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $148,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $243,336 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,886 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k41 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Kwek Society | $27,202 |
| Concord Rotary Endowment | $9,000 |
| I Support the Girls | $7,600 |
| The Thurman Perry Foundation | $7,500 |
| Go With the Flow | $6,000 |
| Indigenous Women Rising | $5,100 |
| Pencils of Promise | $5,000 |
| Covenant House California | $5,000 |
| Dignity Grows | $5,000 |
| Women 4 Women Tempe | $4,950 |
| Alexandria House | $4,500 |
| Ma'i Movement Recipients in Hawaii - The UPS Store | $3,753 |
| Power Pump Girls Inc | $3,500 |
| Eden-Valley Watkins School District #463 | $3,000 |
| Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those 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
Grants abroad, by region — $65k on the FY2023 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Pad making machines
Stated purpose: Pad making machines
Stated purpose: Washable cloth pad
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.
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 +138% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
For the Girls Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue +138%- DGDIGNITY GROWS INC2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +314%
- TTTHE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- MLMinas List Incone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +126%
- NCNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +10%
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 The Source Lgbt Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 16 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 64 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 For the Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds The KWEK Society ↗
- Who funds Minas List Inc ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds THE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Concord Rotary Endowment ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS WOMEN RISING INDIGEOUS WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds PENCILS OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Women4Women Tempe Inc ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MAI MOVEMENT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds POWER PUMP GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FINDLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
- Who funds Beauty Marks for Girls ↗
- Who funds PERIOD INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SOURIS VALLEY UNITED WAY ↗
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: GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Share Our Strength · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 Pad Project 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.
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Period Inc — 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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