· Public charity
United Nations Foundation Inc
The un foundation supports the un and un causes by advocating for the un and providing a platform to generate ideas, resources, and partnerships to help the un solve global problems and undertake lifesaving activities.
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.
The 92 grants below total $33,411,568 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $55,670,303 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,258,735 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $585k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+31 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $4,211,942 |
| POPULATION COUNCIL | $2,676,309 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,923,990 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,738,500 |
| HUA NANI PARTNERS | $1,550,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,484,817 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,395,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,200,976 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,079,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,079,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,021,284 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $1,000,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $874,200 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $826,050 |
| UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS | $825,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $16M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: GIRLS & WMN · ADVOCACY · ENVIRONMENT
Stated purpose: ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN · ENVIRONMENT
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT · ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN
Stated purpose: ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN · ENVIRONMENT
Stated purpose: ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN · ENVIRONMENT
Stated purpose: GIRLS & WMN · ADVOCACY
Stated purpose: GIRLS & WMN · ADVOCACY
Stated purpose: ADVOCACY
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
83 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 12 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, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M 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
- BWBETTER WORLD FUND INC6× · 2017–2022 · $20M · revenue +41% · 85% of their budget
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF3× · 2020–2022 · $6.0M · revenue +46%
American Forests4× · 2019–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +253%
Funded once
- EOEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERALone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $1.7M
- UFUN FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To secure concrete commitments from governments to their citizenry to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies to strengthen citizen centered governance.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Ibp works with civil society, governments, international institutions and the private sector to bring about a world in which empowered citizens participate in open, inclusive public budgeting processes to shape policies and practices that…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independent Sector and the most unlike its peers is OpenMRS1 Limited Dba Openmrs Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 217 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 BETTER WORLD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR REGIONAL SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DATA WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds IGARAPE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 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: Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Path · The Energy 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 United Nations Foundation Inc 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.
- New Buildings Institute — 100% of income from government
- Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships — 100% of income from government
- Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Clean Energy States Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.