· Private foundation
Three Graces Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $529k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Clear Fund d/b/a GiveWell | $2,429,225 |
| Clean Air Task Force | $100,000 |
| Coalition for Rainforest Nations | $100,000 |
| Asian Cine-Vision Inc. | $100,000 |
| Givedirectly, Inc. | $66,667 |
| IIBA Immigration Institute of Bay Area | $62,500 |
| Refed Inc. | $50,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund Inc. | $50,000 |
| Center for Carbon Removal dba Carbon180 | $33,000 |
| The United Way of Central Maryland | $5,000 |
| Daily Californian Education Fdn | $5,000 |
| Adventist Health International | $4,893 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $3.7M · revenue +31%
- ACASIAN CINE-VISION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +109% · 95% of their budget
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IFINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $216k · revenue +10%
- AAASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -77%
- PCPUC Churchone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Optimizing the clean energy transition - 100%+ clean energy economy for the 100%.
Climate imperative foundation's mission is to employ science and economics to cut global carbon emissions to secure a better future for all.
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…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The california clean energy fund supports entrepreneurs to drive innovation and build equity into the clean economy.
The energy foundation's mission is to achieve greenhouse gas emissions neutrality, world-class air quality, energy access, and green growth through transforming energy and optimizing economic structure.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
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.
The chartered alternative investment analyst association, inc. (caia) is a global professional credentialing body dedicated to creating greater alignment, transparency, and knowledge for all investors, with a specific emphasis on…
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN CINE-VISION INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REFED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Daily Californian Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Adventist Health International ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Three Graces Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Three Graces Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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