· Private foundation
Verizon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5403 grants · $4.2M
- $10k–50k54 grants · $794k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $1,000,000 |
| VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $400,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $300,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CSRA | $100,000 |
| GEORGIA FOUMDAION FOR AGRICULTURE INC | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SOUTH GEORGIA INC | $50,000 |
| GREATER VALDOSTA UNITED WAY INC | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $34,452 |
| V M I FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $30,800 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUND | $25,597 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $23,691 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $23,541 |
| NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION | $21,900 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $21,450 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $20,675 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Verizon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
1500 repeat relationships: 1094 still active in FY2024, 406 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +20%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +38%
Save The Children Federation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
Funded once
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $7.5M · revenue -21%- CECITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -74% · 26% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
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.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
A private four-year university providing higher education to individuals seeking advancement.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders in the sciences. see sch. ouniversity of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and…
Fielding provides doctoral, master's and graduate-level certificate programs in the fields of educational leadership, organization development, and psychology.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
To confer the associate, baccalaureate and graduate degrees on qualified students.
Advancing integrated health care through innovative education, research and clinical services
How this is measured
1431 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. 1431 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY FOUNDATION FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION INC D/B/A CSFORALL ↗
- Who funds ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Older Adults Technology Services ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CODEPATHORG ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Union Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Mondelez International Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Magyarbank Charitable Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · The Tyler Foundation · E and S Van Houten Memorial Fund · The Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc · Sahara Foundation · Gertrude L Hirsch Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Verizon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Verizon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Camden Community Partnership Inc: 94% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around: 61% of income from government
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Urban League of Broward County Inc: 44% of income from government
- Family Counseling Center of St Paul's: 41% of income from government
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc: 40% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Hispa Inc: 26% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College: 6% of income from government
- Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Southern Nazarene University: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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