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Umsizi Fund at a glance

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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.

$670k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$620k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$3.7MEducation$409kEmployment$371kHuman Services$300kPhilanthropy$34kCrime & Legal$25kYouth Development$5kSocial Science$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $620k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$620,000
EDUCATE$30,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA$10,000
EDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CIYOTA INC: $5k → 11%CIYOTA INC: $20k → 12%CIYOTA INC: $1k → 12%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

NH
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 18% of Umsizi Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Umsizi Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 15 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -51% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$3.9M
$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
-51%

Still filing today

60%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UP
    UBUNTU PATHWAYS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $267k · revenue +49%
  • E
    Educate
    3× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +62%
  • CI
    CIYOTA INC DBA COBURWAS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • JL
    J Lema
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • SH
    S Horne
    one grant, 2018 · $27k
  • OW
    One World Childrens Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -52%
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.

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Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
2
Vision for Africa
Religion
3
Eduaid Network
Education
4
World Education Fund
Education
5
Train the Nations
Religion
6
Impact Africa Network Inc

Ensuring young talented Africans participate in the digital transformation of Africa as creators and owners.

Employment
7
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
8
Zoe Empowers

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…

International
9
Building Schools in Africa
Education
10
Empowering Lives International

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…

Religion
11
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
12
Iearn Inc

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 35 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,493,000 · EducationAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $266,666 · EducationUBUNTU PATHWAYS INCMYRIAD USA INC: $793,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $316,102 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENTEducate: $90,000 · InternationalEducate+4 more: $86,692 · International+4 moreSHUJAAZINC LIMITED: $300,000 · OtherSHUJAAZINC LIMIT…HARVARD COLLEGE: $160,651 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGEM Tarawally: $40,000 · OtherM Tarawally1TO4: $30,000 · OtherJ Lema: $30,000 · OtherJ Muyambanza: $27,000 · OtherS Horne: $27,000 · Other+12 more: $92,533 · Other+12 moreOne World Childrens Fund: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTONIIC INSTITUTE: $24,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIYOTA INC DBA COBURWAS: $26,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$2,759,666International$1,285,794Other$707,184Philanthropy$59,000Youth Development$45,000Human Services$27,000Crime & Legal$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,493,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $793,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $316,102 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetUBUNTU PATHWAYS INC: $266,666 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetEducate: $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST AFRICA VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $31,692 over 2y, 10% of budget1TO4: $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCIYOTA INC DBA COBURWAS: $26,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTONIIC INSTITUTE: $24,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ST JUDE TANZANIA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDigital Divide Data: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $2,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $1,000 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.

ImpactassetsincThe Skoll FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Boston Foundation IncThe Issroff Family Fo…Mastercard FoundationSegal Family Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…
ImpactassetsincMD20.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Umsizi Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Umsizi Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 65%
  • Education Development Center Inc: 65% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 35 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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