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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 FY2024still arriving
92
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$4.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$131MEnvironment$24MHealth$6.1MEducation$3.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MCivil Rights$1.1MScience & Tech$989kOther$0
02FY2024 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 92 grants below total $33,411,568, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,670,303 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,258,735 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $585k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+31 grants · $28M
$139,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$285M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HAITI RENEWAL ALLIANCE: $11k → 6%SISTERSONG INC: $100k → 13%HAITI RENEWAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 6%SISTERSONG: $100k → 13%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $120k → 17%PVBLIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%PVBLIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%PROMUNDO-US: $115k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $200k → 14%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

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$4.4M · 29% · 30 grants

Stated purpose: GIRLS & WMN · ADVOCACY · ENVIRONMENT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$4.4M · 29% · 18 grants

Stated purpose: ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN · ENVIRONMENT

East Asia and the Pacific$3.8M · 24% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT · ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN

South Asia$1.6M · 11% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN · ENVIRONMENT

Central America and the Caribbean$805k · 5% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: ADVOCACY · GIRLS & WMN · ENVIRONMENT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$330k · 2% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: GIRLS & WMN · ADVOCACY

South America$95k · 1% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: GIRLS & WMN · ADVOCACY

Middle East and North Africa$5k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ADVOCACY

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124M · 83 repeat orgs$50M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
118

Total granted

$124M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+36%

Still filing today

64%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BW
    BETTER WORLD FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $20M · revenue +41% · 85% of their budget
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6.0M · revenue +46%
  • American Forests
    4× · 2019–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • EO
    EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $1.7M
  • UF
    UN FUND FOR INTL PRTNRSHPS
    one grant, 2018 · $1.4M
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.

1
Institute for State Effectiveness

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…

International
2
Open Government Partnership Secretariat

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.

International
3
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
4
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
5
Center for Global Development

Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…

Human Services
6
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
7
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
8
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
11
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
12
Nuru International

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malaria No More Fund; the most unlike its peers is Path. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 217 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/110
Grantees still filing
68/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS: $46,204,862 · OtherUNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPSUNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPS: $24,266,638 · OtherUNITED NATIONS FUND FOR INTL PTNRSHPSUNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND: $11,685,214 · OtherUNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND+130 more: $38,220,615 · Other+130 moreBETTER WORLD FUND INC: $20,053,745 · InternationalBETTER WORLD FUND INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,979,731 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UN…THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $3,835,080 · InternationalTHE POPULATION COUNCIL IN…Save The Children Federation Inc: $1,779,759 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,738,935 · International+18 more: $5,601,048 · International+18 morePURPOSE FOUNDATION: $2,909,729 · EducationOPEN DATA WATCH INC: $628,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $423,820 · EducationEmory University: $261,241 · EducationBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $196,000 · Education+8 more: $409,796 · EducationAmerican Forests: $2,361,716 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS: $396,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY: $333,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST STATES FOR COORDINATED AIR USE MANAGEMENT INC: $271,500 · EnvironmentTHE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF: $249,155 · Environment+6 more: $503,499 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,590,000 · HealthPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $1,500,000 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $150,000 · HealthPublic Health Institute: $150,000 · Health+2 more: $81,598 · HealthGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $480,000 · Community ImprovementMIFOS INITIATIVE: $373,850 · Community ImprovementFinancial Alliance for Women Inc: $289,170 · Community ImprovementGeneral Federation of Womens Clubs: $139,000 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL COALITION OF GIRLS SCHOOLS: $120,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $30,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $200,031 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC: $119,585 · Human ServicesEQUIMUNDO CENTER FOR MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL JUS: $115,136 · Human ServicesJORDAN RIVER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesPVBLIC FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,569 · Human Services
Other$120,377,329International$38,988,298Education$4,828,586Environment$4,114,870Health$3,471,598Community Improvement$1,507,020Human Services$740,321

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBETTER WORLD FUND INC: $20,053,745 over 6y, 85% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,979,731 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $3,835,080 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetPURPOSE FOUNDATION: $2,909,729 over 2y, 17% of budgetAmerican Forests: $2,361,716 over 4y, 13% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,779,759 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,738,935 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,590,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL: $1,500,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,093,002 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN: $937,808 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $653,061 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN DATA WATCH INC: $628,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $605,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetIGARAPE INC: $598,620 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC: $480,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMENENGAGE GLOBAL ALLIANCE: $425,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $423,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $419,387 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC: $400,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNORTHEAST ENERGY EFFICIENCY PARTNERSHIPS: $396,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMIFOS INITIATIVE: $373,850 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $373,060 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY: $333,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFinancial Alliance for Women Inc: $289,170 over 3y, 15% of budgetNORTHEAST STATES FOR COORDINATED AIR USE MANAGEMENT INC: $271,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGlobal Impact: $269,832 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmory University: $261,241 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATER INSTITUTE OF THE GULF: $249,155 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL: $238,275 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBATONGA FOUNDATION: $231,881 over 2y, 25% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $205,440 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $200,031 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $196,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNGO COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN NY INC: $165,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetMOJALOOP FOUNDATION INC: $158,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE US INC: $140,066 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGeneral Federation of Womens Clubs: $139,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS: $139,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONERS: $134,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $129,486 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAUN FOUNDATION FOR GIRLS: $127,335 over 1y, 37% of budgetUSHAHIDI INC: $125,870 over 1y, 5.7% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Gates FoundationNew Venture FundThe Rockefeller Found…Foundation to Promote…The William & Flora H…Climateworks Foundati…The David and Lucile …Wellspring Philanthro…Jsi Research & Traini…United States Energy …PathThe Energy Foundation
Gates FoundationWA48.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Nations Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Nations Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 217 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 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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