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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.

$711k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$252kCommunity Improvement$150kInternational$115kReligion$100kEducation$78kEmployment$75kCivil Rights$60kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $467,925, the rows itemized in this filing. The $711,496 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $243,571 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $406k
$56,019
Median grant
6
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISPANIC FEDERATION INC$150,000
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC$100,000
UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS$100,000
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE$56,019
PARS EQUALITY CENTER$31,385
ASIAN RESOURCES INC$25,000
MY CONNECT COMMUNITY$5,521
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 (FY21–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 9%MY CONNECT COMMUNITY: $6k → 16%WASHINGTON ACADEMY FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES: $13k → 9%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
NY
IN
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $238k 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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$238k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CONTRACTOR - POLAND UKRAINIAN REFUGEE PROGRAM

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$362k · 3 repeat orgs$478k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$362k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+28%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $381k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • CO
    CITY OF ALEXANDRIA
    4× · 2018–2021 · $234k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $78k
  • PE
    PARS EQUALITY CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • JF
    JOBS FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TA
    THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +28%
  • WA
    Washington Academy for International Medical Gradugraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +97%
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
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.

Employment
2
Hispanic Access Foundation

Hispanic access foundation connects latinos and others to partners and opportunities to improve lives and create an equitable society.

Human Services
3
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
4
New American Pathways Inc

New american pathways is an atlanta based nonprofit with the mission of helping refugees and georgia thrive.

Human Services
5
Institute for Sound Public Policy Fka Progressives for Immigration Re

Progressives for immigration reform's mission is to protect low wage american workers from unemployment and wage suppression caused by unfair labor and trade practices, including importation of large numbers of low wage foreign workers who…

Civil Rights
6
Americans for Immigrant Justice Inc F/K/a Fla Immigrant Advocacy Center

To protect and promote the basic human rights of immigrants through a unique combination of free direct services, impact litigation, policy reform, and public education at local, state, and national levels.

Crime & Legal
7
Luminus Network Inc

To help ensure equitable access to legal immigration services and community resources and opportunities for immigrants.

Human Services
8
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc

Ijc's mission is to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates to create a new generation of leaders with a lifelong commitment to immigrant justice.

Crime & Legal
9
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

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10
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights

To advance the human & civil rights of immigrants & refugees in los angeles; promote harmonious multi-ethnic human relations.

Civil Rights
11
Ayuda Inc

Ayuda's mission is to advocate for low-income immigrants through direct legal, social and language services, training and outreach in washington, d.c., maryland, and virginia. we envision a community where all immigrants succeed and thrive…

Human Services
12
Hias Inc

Hias is the international jewish nonprofit that stands for a world in which forcibly displaced people find welcome, safety, and opportunity.(continued on schedule o)there have never been more people seeking safety and so few places willing…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Washington Academy for International Medical Gradu. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF ALEXANDRIA: $233,889 · OtherCITY OF ALEXANDRIAUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $100,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEMONTGOMERY COLLEGE: $78,028 · OtherMONTGOMERY COLLEGE+1 more: $9,997 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION …CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $100,000 · InternationalCHURCH WORLD …JOBS FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPARS EQUALITY CENTER: $49,987 · Civil RightsTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWashington Academy for International Medical Gradu: $12,500 · Human ServicesMy Connect Community: $5,521 · Human ServicesASIAN RESOURCES INC: $25,000 · HealthCENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$421,914Community Improvement$150,000International$100,000Philanthropy$50,000Civil Rights$49,987Human Services$33,021Health$25,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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 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
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.

Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Upwardly Global funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upwardly Global. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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 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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