How much does Unbound Philanthropy give?

Unbound Philanthropy reported 104 grants totaling $8,053,735 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 85 and 110 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Unbound Philanthropy fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (43%), Philanthropy (12%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are Unbound Philanthropy's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: NEO Philanthropy Inc ($4.2M), United We Dream Network Inc ($1.3M), National Partnership for New Americans ($1.2M).

Does Unbound Philanthropy fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Unbound Philanthropy accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Unbound Philanthropy?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.

Where is Unbound Philanthropy based?

Unbound Philanthropy is based in NY.

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Unbound Philanthropy

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.

$8.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 104
Grants FY2024: 106
Organizations funded FY2023: 15%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $65,635
Largest grant, FY2024: $400,000
Organizations funded a year: 85 to 110; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $198M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Unbound Philanthropy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEnvironmentEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	83	$7.2M	20%
FY2023	106	$8.9M	15%
FY2022	110	$9.3M	25%
FY2021	106	$9.8M	31%
FY2020	103	$9.3M	50%
FY2019	85	$8.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$24MPhilanthropy$7.0MArts & Culture$5.6MCrime & Legal$3.0MHuman Services$2.8MPublic Benefit$2.7MInternational$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$4,178,450	6	1%
United We Dream Network Inc	$1,310,000	6	3%
National Partnership for New Americans	$1,222,500	6	9%
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc	$1,065,000	6	8%
America's Voice Education Fund	$942,500	6	26%
Migration Policy Institute	$785,000	6	3%
National Immigration Law Center	$727,500	6	1%
Race Forward	$630,000	2	3%
Define American Inc	$600,000	6	5%
National Day Laborer Organizing Network	$585,000	5	5%

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All grantees of Unbound Philanthropy by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$4,178,450	6	1%
United We Dream Network Inc	$1,310,000	6	3%
National Partnership for New Americans	$1,222,500	6	9%
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc	$1,065,000	6	8%
America's Voice Education Fund	$942,500	6	26%
Migration Policy Institute	$785,000	6	3%
National Immigration Law Center	$727,500	6	1%
Race Forward	$630,000	2	3%
Define American Inc	$600,000	6	5%
National Day Laborer Organizing Network	$585,000	5	5%
American Immigration Council	$572,500	6	1%
Black Alliance for Just Immigration	$550,000	5	7%
People's Action Institute	$550,000	6	1%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc	$545,000	5	1%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$534,439	5	0%
Women's Refugee Commission Inc	$500,000	4	3%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$475,000	6	n/a
Faith in Action Network	$450,000	3	1%
African Communities Together Inc	$450,000	4	3%
Taproot Earth	$350,000	3	2%
Solutions Project Inc	$350,000	2	2%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc	$340,000	5	1%
The Opportunity Agenda Inc	$300,000	4	3%
National Immigration Forum	$300,000	3	2%
Arizona Center for Empowerment	$297,000	4	2%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$290,000	5	1%
Poder in Action	$275,000	5	4%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center	$250,000	5	0%
The Center for Cultural Power	$250,000	3	2%
One Arizona	$250,000	3	1%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund	$245,000	3	0%
Aliento Education Fund	$231,000	3	5%
Undocublack Network Inc	$225,000	3	12%
Repairers of the Breach	$222,500	2	4%
Ruralorganizing-Dot-Org Education Fund	$187,500	2	13%
Center for American Progress	$170,000	1	0%
New York Foundation	$160,000	4	1%
Puente Human Rights Movement	$150,000	2	8%
Resilience Force	$150,000	1	2%
North Bay Jobs With Justice	$150,000	3	4%
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc	$150,000	2	3%
University of Hawaii Foundation	$143,426	3	0%
Sepa Mujer Inc	$140,000	3	7%
Re-Imagining Migration Inc	$112,500	1	7%
Oneamerica	$100,000	1	2%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Casa Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition	$100,000	1	3%
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace	$100,000	1	0%
Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Make the Road New York	$90,000	2	0%
Philanthropy New York Inc	$81,500	5	0%
Center for Community Change	$75,000	1	0%
Chicago Community Foundation	$75,000	1	n/a
The Semilla Project	$75,000	1	3%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees	$72,000	2	1%
Iclei - Local Governments for Sustainability USA Inc	$69,000	1	2%
Asian Law Caucus	$66,315	1	1%
Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence	$65,000	1	4%
Justice Action Center	$50,000	1	1%
Naleo Educational Fund	$50,000	1	0%
Hawaii Children's Action Network	$50,000	1	1%
Inadvance	$50,000	1	4%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc	$50,000	1	0%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy	$49,000	3	1%
The Legal Clinic	$40,000	1	6%
Community Initiatives	$40,000	1	0%
Al Otro Lado	$35,000	1	1%
The Roosevelt Institute	$35,000	1	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$33,000	1	0%
Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund	$31,500	1	1%
Strong Youth Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations	$26,360	5	0%
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah	$25,000	1	n/a
Immigrant Advocate Response Collaborative Inc	$25,000	1	4%
Mercado Global Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Refugee Council USA	$22,273	1	2%
Ohio Immigrant Alliance	$20,000	1	7%
Haitian Bridge Alliance	$20,000	1	1%
American University	$20,000	1	0%
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searac	$20,000	1	1%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum	$15,000	1	0%
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center	$15,000	1	1%
Fwdus Education Fund Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Greater Birmingham Ministries	$15,000	1	n/a
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc	$15,000	4	0%
Grantmakers in the Arts	$11,230	4	0%
Hedgebrook	$10,000	1	0%
Inspirational Triathlon Racing International Corp	$10,000	1	n/a
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Justice for Migrant Families Wny	$10,000	1	7%
Association of Black Foundation Executives Inc	$7,500	2	0%
Hispanics in Philanthropy	$7,500	3	0%
Environmental Grantmakers Association	$7,125	1	0%
Peak Grantmaking Inc	$6,750	3	0%
Neighborhood Funders Group	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 134 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.

Unbound Philanthropy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 91 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 91.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNY51.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Tides Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Borealis Philanthropy

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.

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About Unbound Philanthropy

How much does Unbound Philanthropy give?: Unbound Philanthropy reported 104 grants totaling $8,053,735 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 85 and 110 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Unbound Philanthropy fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (43%), Philanthropy (12%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Unbound Philanthropy's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: NEO Philanthropy Inc ($4.2M), United We Dream Network Inc ($1.3M), National Partnership for New Americans ($1.2M).
Does Unbound Philanthropy fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Unbound Philanthropy accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Unbound Philanthropy?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
Where is Unbound Philanthropy based?: Unbound Philanthropy is based in NY.