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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k16 grants · $486k
- $50k–250k85 grants · $6.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $907k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS | $400,000 |
| CHARITY PROJECTS DBA COMIC RELIEF | $256,820 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $250,000 |
| TRUST FOR LONDON TRUSTEE | $195,795 |
| Individual grant recipient | $166,638 |
| PROTEUS FUND INC | $150,000 |
| RESILIENCE FORCE | $150,000 |
| AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND | $148,750 |
| IMMIGRATION LAW PRACTITIONERS' ASSOCIATION | $136,740 |
| INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT | $125,000 |
| AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL INC | $120,000 |
| THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES | $118,125 |
| RURALORGANIZING-DOT-ORG EDUCATION FUND | $112,500 |
| RE-IMAGINING MIGRATION | $112,500 |
| NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE INC | $100,000 |
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 US giving — 63% of grant dollars ($36M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($21M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
Beyond the US — 37% of all-years giving ($21M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Unbound Philanthropy’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 +52% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 17 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
NEO Philanthropy Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +58%- NPNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +48%
- NKNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +237%
Funded once
- CPCHARITY PROJECTSone grant, 2021 · $283k
- COCLIMATE OUTREACH INFORMATION NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $192k
- CFCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESSone grant, 2020 · $170k · revenue -26%
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 national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
The action fund raises the profile of, and advocates for, policies that value of immigrants and immigration at the federal, state and local level.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The california immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in california by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.
Legal, immigration and community organizing
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.
To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Opportunity Agenda Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 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. 103 of the 240 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds RACE FORWARD ↗
- Who funds DEFINE AMERICAN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS 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: 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
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 Unbound Philanthropy 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% 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.
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