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Tiny Pebbles Foundation at a glance

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Tiny Pebbles Foundation

To promote cooperation and sustainability on the personal, community, ecological and global levels.

$197k
Granted FY2019
11
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2019 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $168,419, the rows itemized in this filing. The $197,297 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,878 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $154k
$13,990
Median grant
7
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAF AMERICA$28,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$23,990
THE WATER PROJECT$20,490
FINCA$16,490
MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL$14,989
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$13,990
NEW STORY INC$13,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$12,990
THE OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFIC FOUNDATION$10,000
ZOE EMPOWERS$7,490
MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES$6,990
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%NEW STORY INC: $13k → 10%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.
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 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
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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4
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
5
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
WATER4 Inc

Water4, inc. is a faith-based nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the state of oklahoma and accredited by the evangelical council for financial accountability (ecfa). (continued on schedule o)

Human Services
8
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
9
Second Nile Global Corp

Our commitment to providing accessible clean water extends beyond the boundaries of countries, continents, and cultures. We are driven by a shared belief in the power of technology to transform lives, uplift communities, and create a more…

International
10
Land O'lakes VENTURE37

To replace poverty with prosperity by implementing donor-funded projects that provide global humanitarian aid to communities and individuals in developing countries through in-kind, financial and technical assistance.

International
11
Changing Narratives Africa

We accelerate African entrepreneurs to start and scale resilient and sustainable agribusinesses that feed Africa and the world by providing training, funding opportunities, trade linkages, and fostering a vibrant community of changemakers.…

Food & Nutrition
12
Village Empowerment Inc

Village empowerment inc. (hereinafter referred to as 've') is a non-profit organization incorporated on 4th january, 2007. it is registered under section 501(c)(3) of the u.s. internal revenue code. ve is an organization dedicated to bring…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Finca International Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International Rescue Committee INC: $23,990 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $20,490 · InternationalTHE WATER PROJECT INCFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $16,490 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCGlobal Impact: $12,990 · InternationalGlobal ImpactZoe Empowers: $7,490 · InternationalZoe EmpowersCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $28,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AME…MSI US: $14,989 · PhilanthropyMSI USTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,990 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS…NEW STORY INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $6,990 · Religion
International$81,450Philanthropy$42,989Other$23,990Human Services$13,000Religion$6,990

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $23,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATER PROJECT INC: $20,490 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $16,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMSI US: $14,989 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Impact: $12,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZoe Empowers: $7,490 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $6,990 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy FundNY13.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Tiny Pebbles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tiny Pebbles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $19k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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