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United States Fund for Unicef at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United States Fund for Unicef

The organization's mission is to relentlessly pursue a better world for every child.

$469M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$122MHealth$9.5MEducation$5.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.4MCrime & Legal$2.0MRecreation & Sports$739kHuman Services$504kSocial Science$262kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $17,277,959, the rows itemized in this filing. The $468,530,820 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $451,252,861 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
  • $250k+3 grants · $17M
$980,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$515M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children$15,015,418
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School$1,187,228
United Nations Foundation Inc$980,000
Avenir Health Inc$79,085
New York University$16,228
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 (FY17–17, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COGIC CHARITIES: $10k → 17%UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50k → 16%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

WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $451M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$203M · 45% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

Middle East and North Africa$79M · 17% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

South Asia$76M · 17% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

Russia and Neighboring States$32M · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

East Asia and the Pacific$23M · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$15M · 3% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

South America$11M · 3% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

Central America and the Caribbean$10M · 2% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

North America (Canada and Mexico)$2.1M · 0% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: SEE PART V

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134M · 20 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
40

Total granted

$134M
$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +64%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $824k · revenue +44%
  • MH
    Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $432k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2.6M · revenue +45%
  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +291%
  • FF
    Foundation for Educational Development Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +42%
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
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

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

International
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
8
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
9
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
10
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
11
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City; the most unlike its peers is University of Manitoba. 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

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc: $117,554,939 · PhilanthropyUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc+3 more: $230,500 · PhilanthropyJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,353,275 · EducationJOHNS HOPKI…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,052,800 · EducationPresident a…+5 more: $890,197 · Education+5 moreACTIVE FOR GOOD INC: $2,535,000 · OtherGuideStar USA Inc: $600,600 · OtherUniversity of Manitoba: $260,981 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $824,225 · OtherAFRICAN POPULATION & HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER INC: $262,000 · OtherISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $250,000 · Other+25 more: $1,034,190 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $2,556,160 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $980,000 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $251,577 · InternationalCHILDREN OF PERSIA INC: $216,165 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY SYSTEMS FOUNDATION: $134,000 · InternationalPATH: $128,815 · InternationalTOSTAN INC: $100,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $75,000 · International+3 more: $99,455 · InternationalHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $46,500 · Community Improvement+2 more: $42,500 · Community ImprovementMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $431,781 · HealthARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INC: $250,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · HealthAVENIR HEALTH INC: $79,085 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $32,000 · Health
Philanthropy$117,785,439Education$15,296,272Other$5,766,996Youth Development$2,571,160International$2,135,012Community Improvement$1,089,000Health$1,047,866

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children Inc: $117,554,939 over 5y, 75% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,353,275 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,052,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $2,556,160 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetACTIVE FOR GOOD INC: $2,535,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $824,225 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGuideStar USA Inc: $600,600 over 2y, 46% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $431,781 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetAFRICAN POPULATION & HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER INC: $262,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $251,577 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INC: $250,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $219,570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN OF PERSIA INC: $216,165 over 4y, 56% of budgetNew York University: $210,627 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $192,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $142,038 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPATH: $128,815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOSTAN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $99,785 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Rising dba Hope Rising Ministries: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $48,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $46,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABYSSINIAN FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR AID RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE INC: $39,255 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH INC: $32,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $27,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $21,730 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOGIC CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MICHAEL BOLTON CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Conrad N Hilton Found…Gates FoundationShell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX15.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Gates Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 States Fund for Unicef funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United States Fund for Unicef. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Management Sciences for Health Inc: 67% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Foundation for Educational Development Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Avenir Health Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home