California · Public charity
U-Go Initiative
U-go helps ambitious and promising young women in low-income countries to pursue tertiary education by providing financial scholarships funded by individuals and companies in high-income countries.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $613k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $206,692
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $286,530
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations U-Go Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $613k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $959k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $435k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $244k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milaan Foundation | $995,341 | 4 | 45% |
| Developments in Literacy Inc | $724,550 | 4 | 10% |
| Nurturing Minds Inc | $192,441 | 2 | 4% |
| Give Foundation Inc | $184,831 | 2 | 4% |
| Coral Tree Education Foundation Inc | $78,228 | 2 | 24% |
| GIVE Foundation | $75,393 | 1 | n/a |
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About U-Go Initiative
- How much does U-Go Initiative give?
- U-Go Initiative reported 4 itemized grants totaling $613,229, out of $2,408,698 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does U-Go Initiative fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are U-Go Initiative's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Milaan Foundation ($995k), Developments in Literacy Inc ($725k), Nurturing Minds Inc ($192k).
- Does U-Go Initiative fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as U-Go Initiative?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is U-Go Initiative based?
- U-Go Initiative is based in CA.
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