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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.
$56M
Granted FY2024
85
Grants
18
Communities
$4.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
chldrn hlthofcwmn popworld'sunite nonprofitsnonprofits strengthenstrengthen sector
2019
children's healthwomen populationstrengtheninghealth malariasecretary eosgadvocacy unfenvironment energy
2020
wmn popchldrn hlthbusinesscity'scleangovernor'sfuture
2021
chldrn hltreservewmn popstrngthclimate actionmarket-basedcompliance carbon
2022
malariaagriculturecommission refugeesrefugees unhcrcountryeliminationcontrol
2023
everytransformingovercrisisreportchildrengirls wmn
2024
international ptnrshpsenergy envnmtenvnmt affrsgirls wmninformationreproductiveoffice energy
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 85 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+29 grants · $27M
$139,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$285M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
- 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
- UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS$584,430
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $685k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$121M · 83 repeat orgs$51M to everyone else
83 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
83
124
Total granted
$121M
$27M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+38%
+42%
Still filing today
60%
42%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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 FUND6× · 2017–2022 · $20M · revenue +41% · 85% of their budget
- PFPURPOSE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $2.9M · revenue +1344%
AMERICAN FORESTS4× · 2019–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +340%
Funded once
- EOEXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERALone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.3M · revenue +27%- IIINDEX INITIATIVEone grant, 2018 · $1.7M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
International Budget Partnership
Ibp works to make public finance systems in developing countries more open & accountable to citizens.
International
2
International Aids Vaccine
Translate scientific discoveries into affordable, globally accessible public health solutions
International
3
Institute for State Effectiveness
To develop and support integrated citizen centered approaches to state and market building and provides independent, authoritative and practical policy advice to the international community and national leaders who are tasked with creating…
International
4
Global Ties Us
To build trust and advance peace and prosperity though international exchange.
International
5
International Development Enterprises
Ide creates income and livelihood opportunities for poor, rural households.
International
6
The International Institute for
International
7
International Women's Forum Inc
We unite our global community to advance women's leadership today and tomorrow.
Education
8
Fuller Project for International
Global newsroom is dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.
International
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute
Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy
International
10
Witness Inc
Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…
International
11
International Food Policy Research
To provide research-based policy solutions that reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition
Food & Nutrition
12
Center for International
The center for international private enterprise (cipe) is a non-profit global organization that works to strengthen democracy and build competitive, resilient markets in many of the world's most challenging environments. working alongside…
International
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Center for Research On and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Institute. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/141
the rest of the field
8%
10,118/120,619
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.
05the grantee network
107 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
73/107
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$122,746,464International$34,215,868Education$4,800,573Environment$4,126,870Health$3,496,598Community Improvement$1,417,029Human Services$740,321
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 ↗
- Who funds POPULATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PURPOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FORESTS ↗
- Who funds UNICEF ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PRNTHD FED AMER ↗
- Who funds POPULATION ACTION INTL ↗
- Who funds INTL CTR FOR RESRCH WOMN ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DATA WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IGARAPE INC RUA MIRANDA VALVERDE ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Gates FoundationWA47.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Rockefeller Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc · United States Energy Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships — 100% of income from government
- Northeast States for Coordinated — 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
- Clean Energy States Alliance Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BETTER WORLD FUND.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 582366765 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BETTER WORLD FUND, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 85% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Nations Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to United Nations Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines