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United Support of Artists for Africa (Usa for Africa)

Make hunger and homelessness in the united states, and famine and poverty in the developing world, unacceptable.

$538k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
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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 2024.

Arts & Culture$26kInternational$21kFood & Nutrition$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEnvironment$7kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $14,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $538,254 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $524,254 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.
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$655k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT INC$7,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL iNC$7,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL iNC: $7k → 16%The Free History Project: $13k → 10%PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $7k → 14%WHYHUNGER INC: $10k → 17%O Street Museum Foundation: $8k → 14%Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Inc: $6k → 17%LOS ANGELES NAACP: $5k → 14%Operation USA: $14k → 14%Operation USA: $10k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region: $396k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$396k · 100% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: General support · GENERAL

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 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.

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The Hearst Foundation
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2
One Planet Research Foundation
Philanthropy
3
One Planet Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Freedom Archives

Freedom Archives is dedicated to organizing and preserving a growing collection of archival media. This includes historical audio and video chronicling progressive social movements, poetry, and music for over 30 years. The goal is to…

Arts & Culture
5
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
6
Heal the Planet Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Media Project
Religion
8
The Urban Memory Project Inc
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9
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
10
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
11
Philanthropy International
Philanthropy
12
One Days Wages

One Day's Wages is a movement of people, stories, and actions to alleviate extreme global poverty. One Day's Wages promotes awareness, invites giving, and supports sustainable relief through partnerships, especially with smaller…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whyhunger Inc; the most unlike its peers is O Street Museum Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Free History Project Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureThe Free History Project IncWHYHUNGER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INCO STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureO STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATIONTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INCOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $23,500 · InternationalOPERATION CALIFORNIA INCGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,000 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INCThe Partnership Project Inc: $7,000 · EnvironmentThe Partn…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $6,500 · HealthNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $5,250 · Other
Arts & Culture$36,000International$30,500Environment$7,000Health$6,500Other$5,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Free History Project Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetO STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $6,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Support of Artists for Africa (Usa for Africa) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Support of Artists for Africa (Usa for Africa). Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to United Support of Artists for Africa (Usa for Africa) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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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