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Upwardly Global

UPWARDLY GLOBAL removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. Economy.

$711k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$468k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$56,019
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$43M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Upwardly Global funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$468k71%
FY20236$123k100%
FY20212$93k50%
FY20201$60k0%
FY20191$76k0%
FY20181$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$252kCommunity Improvement$150kInternational$115kReligion$100kEducation$78kEmployment$75kCivil Rights$60kCrime & Legal$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
IN
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Alexandria$233,8894n/a
Hispanic Federation Inc$150,00010%
Church World Service Inc$100,00010%
United States Catholic Conference$100,0001n/a
Montgomery College$78,0282n/a
Jobs for Humanity Inc$50,000123%
Pars Equality Center$49,98721%
Asian Resources Inc$25,00011%
The Afya Foundation of America Inc$15,00010%
Washington Academy for International Medical Gradu$12,50016%
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All grantees of Upwardly Global by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Alexandria$233,8894n/a
Hispanic Federation Inc$150,00010%
Church World Service Inc$100,00010%
United States Catholic Conference$100,0001n/a
Montgomery College$78,0282n/a
Jobs for Humanity Inc$50,000123%
Pars Equality Center$49,98721%
Asian Resources Inc$25,00011%
The Afya Foundation of America Inc$15,00010%
Washington Academy for International Medical Gradu$12,50016%
Center for Law and Social Policy$10,00010%
National Immigration Forum$9,99710%
My Connect Community$5,52110%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Upwardly Global supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHispanic Federation Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChurch World Service Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJobs for Humanity Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetPars Equality Center: $49,987 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAsian Resources Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Afya Foundation of America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Academy for International Medical Gradu: $12,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCenter for Law and Social Policy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Immigration Forum: $9,997 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Connect Community: $5,521 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Network for GoodDC8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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.

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About Upwardly Global

How much does Upwardly Global give?
Upwardly Global reported 7 itemized grants totaling $467,925, out of $711,496 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Upwardly Global fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Community Improvement (18%), International (14%).
Who are Upwardly Global's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: City of Alexandria ($234k), Hispanic Federation Inc ($150k), Church World Service Inc ($100k).
Does Upwardly Global fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Upwardly Global?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Upwardly Global based?
Upwardly Global is based in NY.

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 13 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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