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The Passport 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$9.1MHealth$2.9MEducation$692kInternational$535kHuman Services$429kFood & Nutrition$405kCivil Rights$323kPhilanthropy$201kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$40,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$300,000
EARTHJUSTICE$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$200,000
TOXIC-FREE FUTURE$175,000
COMING CLEAN INC$125,000
TOXIC-FREE FUTURE$125,000
INTERNATIONAL POLLUTANTS ELIMINATION NETWORK$125,000
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP$125,000
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK$110,000
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC$110,000
ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES AND THE ENVIRONMEN$100,000
BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS$100,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$80,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION$75,000
THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SALEM CHILDRENS CHARITY: $100 → 10%CENTRO MATER FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $104 → 12%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG B: $150 → 14%CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $100k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $1k → 10%WOMENS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER: $3k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $750 → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $525 → 17%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $500 → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $270 → 17%BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $200 → 17%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $259 → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $250 → 17%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $75k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $60k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $60k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $60k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $60k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 50 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
65

Total granted

$13M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+22%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    TOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +15%
  • H
    HABITABLE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +65%
  • M
    MIRACLEFEET
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN
    one grant, 2022 · $125k
  • PG
    PRACTICE GREENHEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +60%
  • UO
    UNIV OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO - UC REGENTS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
6
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
7
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
8
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
9
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is HUGZ4HAITI. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 128 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/107
Grantees still filing
77/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION: $1,620,000 · EnvironmentTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITIONEARTHJUSTICE: $772,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $740,750 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $475,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUPCOMING CLEAN INC: $405,126 · EnvironmentCOMING CLEAN INCGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $360,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK: $350,000 · EnvironmentDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $300,000 · Environment+21 more: $1,489,705 · Environment+21 moreMIRACLEFEET: $1,250,000 · HealthMIRACLEFEETBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $610,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER PREV…Center for Environmental Health: $285,000 · HealthCenter for Environ…BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $120,000 · HealthPRACTICE GREENHEALTH: $100,000 · Health+8 more: $157,418 · Health+8 moreINTERNATIONAL POLLUTANTS ELIMINATION NETWORK: $400,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL POLLU…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $325,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIF…TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW: $210,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF COLUMBI…THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN: $125,000 · OtherUNIV OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO - UC REGENTS: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO - UC REGE: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSA…BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $125,000 · OtherVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $270,000 · OtherVIRGINIA ORGANIZING…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $200,000 · OtherROCKEFELLER PHILANT…+51 more: $633,791 · Other+51 moreHABITABLE: $1,301,008 · Public Safety & DisasterHABITABLECENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $430,000 · InternationalPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $350,240 · InternationalBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $100,000 · International+6 more: $14,401 · InternationalTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $315,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $100,000 · Human Services+9 more: $16,797 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $400,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$7,013,081Health$2,522,418Other$2,663,791Public Safety & Disaster$1,301,008International$894,641Human Services$431,797Food & Nutrition$403,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION: $1,620,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetHABITABLE: $1,301,008 over 4y, 12% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $1,250,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $772,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $740,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $610,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $475,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC: $430,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC: $405,126 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $400,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREEN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE: $360,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $350,240 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NETWORK: $350,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $315,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDEFEND OUR HEALTH: $300,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health: $285,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $270,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AND HEALTHY NEW YORK: $190,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Foundation: $185,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America: $170,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $120,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCLEAN PRODUCTION ACTION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES: $110,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetPRACTICE GREENHEALTH: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROSE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITIES THE ENVIRONMENT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetWOMEN'S VOICES FOR THE EARTH: $95,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetChildren's Environmental Health Network: $80,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSustainable Purchasing Council Inc SustainablePurchasingLeadershipCouncil: $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe George Washington University: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEXAS DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGREEN CORPS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetZOUVES FOUNDATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE: $50,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetINTL SOCIETY FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH WATCH INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNTIL JUSTICE DATA PARTNERS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDATAKIND INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Forsythia Foundation …The Marisla FoundationMaine Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Resources Legacy FundCloud Mountain Founda…ImpactassetsincLisa & Douglas Goldma…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Amalgamated Charitabl…The Fine Fund
Forsythia Foundation IncDC34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Forsythia Foundation Inc · The Marisla Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Cloud Mountain Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fine Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Passport Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Passport Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Out in the Open Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home