· Private foundation
Umsizi Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $620,000 |
| EDUCATE | $30,000 |
| EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Umsizi Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UPUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $267k · revenue +49%
- EEducate3× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +62%
- CICIYOTA INC DBA COBURWAS3× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- JLJ Lemaone grant, 2023 · $30k
- SHS Horneone grant, 2018 · $27k
- OWOne World Childrens Fundone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.
Ensuring young talented Africans participate in the digital transformation of Africa as creators and owners.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.
The mission of iearn-usa is to develop and empower an inclusive global community of students and educators who bridge cultural divides and work together to make a meaningful difference in the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is 1TO4. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Educate ↗
- Who funds GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC ↗
- Who funds WEST AFRICA VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds 1TO4 ↗
- Who funds CIYOTA INC DBA COBURWAS ↗
- Who funds One World Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds THE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TONIIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds Digital Divide Data ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · The Skoll Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Issroff Family Foundation · Mastercard Foundation · Segal Family Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Umsizi Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.