· Public charity
Virgin Unite USA Inc
Promote entrepreneurial approaches to social and envrionmental issues and adminstration of various fundraising activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $457,513 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,226,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,768,892 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $317k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE B TEAM HQ INC | $166,667 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| TELEVERDE FOUNDATION | $43,750 |
| JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION | $14,596 |
| THE AFRICAN CENTER | $12,500 |
| DIGITAL CITIZEN FUND INC | $12,500 |
| SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS | $12,500 |
| LIFT INC | $10,000 |
| FUND A MOM | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.7M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: 2023 OPERATING SUPPORT FOR CARIBBEAN CLIMATE-SMART ACCELERATOR · PROGRAMME GRANT TO UNITE BVI FOR 2023 · TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS FOCUSING ON CLIMATE AND WOMEN-LED ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Stated purpose: CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) SHELTERS TO KEEP FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES SAFE WITHIN THE WAR- AND PANDEMIC-IMPACTED REGION OF NORTHERN UGANDA. · TO PROVIDE CLEAN WATER, EDUCATION, LIVELIHOODS, EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK TO BENEFIT CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES LIVING IN AND AROUND THE SABI SANDS AREA IN SOUTH AFRICA
Stated purpose: TO LAUNCH AND OPERATE A STUDY CENTER IN THE ASNI VILLAGE IN RURAL MORCOCCO TO PROVIDE A SAFE & EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL WEEK FOR APPROX. 80 LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT ANY ONE TIME
Stated purpose: TO RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE LESUER ECOSYSTEM,INDONESIA, TO PROVIDE USE CASES DEMONSTRATING THE BENEFITS OF USING NON-EXPLOITATIVE LIVELIHOODS, FOCUSING ON NEW TYPES OF COMMODITIES THAT ARE NOT DESTRUCTIVE TO THE AREA'S BIODIVERSITY
Stated purpose: TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING OF DYSLEXIA
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OROCEAN RISK AND RESILIENCE ACTION ALLIANCE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $497k · revenue ×11
Rocky Mountain Institute2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +26%- JCJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $132k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- OIOCEANELDERS INCone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -79%
- CTCRISIS TEXT LINE INCone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -22%
- CICOMMUNITERE INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $42k · revenue 0% · 100% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds FUND A MOM INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Gates Foundation · New Venture Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Virgin Unite USA Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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