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The Tripadvisor Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Tripadvisor Charitable 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$329k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.1MInternational$3.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.7MHousing & Shelter$500kEducation$403kHuman Services$301kCommunity Improvement$219kCrime & Legal$200kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $395k
  • $250k+2 grants · $629k
$52,710
Median grant
6
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Online Giving Foundation$329,405
World Central Kitchen$300,000
The UK Online Giving Foundation$167,576
Global Giving Foundation$122,000
Charitable Giving$53,011
Rise Against Hunger$52,710
Goodera Foundation Inc$15,000
Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,793
Australian Online Giving Foundation$4,559
Donors Choose$3,000
Brookline Food Coop$1,000
Juneteenth March Incorporated$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($1.3M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Camp Kesem National: $1k → 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

NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
NC
DC
LA
FL

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($1.3M)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$1.2M · 10 grants
Australia$40k · 5 grants
Canada$27k · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of The Tripadvisor Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Tripadvisor Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 8 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$6.5M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

38%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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
InternationalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +21%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +63%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • G
    GOFUNDMEORGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +26%
  • CS
    Community Sponsorship Hub
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
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
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
2
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
3
Global Greengrants Fund

Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…

Environment
4
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
5
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
6
Mission Asset Fund

To help people become visible, active, and successful in their financial lives.

Community Improvement
7
Accountability Counsel

Accountability Counsel amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their rights and environment. As experts in strategies to demand justice, we work alongside those whose rights, livelihoods, and environment are under…

Environment
8
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
9
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
10
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
11
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc

ACF is dedicated to supporting and increasing philanthropy by making grants to tax exempt organizations for their charitable, educational, scientific, literary or other 501c3 activities; promoting donor education and engagement, and civic…

Philanthropy
12
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Online Giving Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,731,085 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,475,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCMercy Corps: $1,000,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsKIVA MICROFUNDS: $380,000 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDS+2 more: $174,710 · InternationalThe UK Online Giving Foundation: $1,026,204 · OtherThe UK Online Giving FoundationCommunity Sponsorship Hub: $500,000 · OtherCommunity Sponsorship HubIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAmerican Online Giving Foundation: $368,915 · OtherAmerican Online Giving Foundatio…MILES4MIGRANTS: $300,000 · OtherMILES4MIGRANTSCharitable Giving: $188,893 · OtherCharitable Giving+7 more: $198,890 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,555,268 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING…GOFUNDMEORG: $750,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORGUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $100,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $61,490 · PhilanthropyACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING IMPACT INC: $18,750 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP: $200,000 · Crime & LegalRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionDONORSCHOOSEORG: $3,000 · EducationCamp Kesem National: $1,000 · Human Services
International$5,760,795Other$3,482,902Philanthropy$2,466,758Community Improvement$218,750Crime & Legal$200,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Education$3,000Human Services$1,000

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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,731,085 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $1,555,268 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,475,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $750,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $380,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMILES4MIGRANTS: $300,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $122,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESTAURANT WORKERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $52,710 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGoodera Foundation INC: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $6,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETS AND PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Tripadvisor Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tripadvisor Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp: 68% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 33 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 unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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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