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Virgin Unite USA Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Virgin Unite USA Inc

Promote entrepreneurial approaches to social and envrionmental issues and adminstration of various fundraising activities.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$167k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$11MInternational$7.5MCrime & Legal$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MCommunity Improvement$769kYouth Development$510kAnimals$95kPhilanthropy$79kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $457,513, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,226,405 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,768,892 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

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $317k
$14,596
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS$12,500
THE AFRICAN CENTER$12,500
DIGITAL CITIZEN FUND INC$12,500
LIFT INC$10,000
FUND A MOM$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TELEVERDE FOUNDATION: $44k → 11%THE B TEAM: $177k → 10%LAST MILE HEALTH: $800k → 16%POLICYLINK: $27k → 10%LIVING GOODS: $2.0M → 10%JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 17%THE BAIL PROJECT INC: $500k → 28%OCEAN UNITE: $180k → 14%GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION: $15k → 15%SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS: $19k → 13%ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CONGREGATION OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRY: $15k → 23%FORTIFY INC: $38k → 13%THE B TEAM: $167k → 10%LAST MILE HEALTH: $700k → 16%LIVING GOODS: $1.8M → 10%JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $27k → 17%THE BAIL PROJECT INC: $500k → 28%OCEAN UNITE: $167k → 14%SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS: $13k → 13%ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%FORTIFY INC: $30k → 13%THE B TEAM: $167k → 10%LAST MILE HEALTH: $504k → 16%LIVING GOODS: $1.1M → 10%JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%SAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS: $13k → 13%SIGHTSAVERS INC: $3.1M → 16%JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%OCEAN UNITE: $150k → 14%SIGHTSAVERS INC: $3.0M → 16%COMMUNITERE INTERNATIONAL INC: $42k → 10%SIGHTSAVERS INC: $2.9M → 16%SIGHTSAVERS INC: $1.3M → 16%NEO PHILANTHROPY INC: $42k → 17%SIGHTSAVERS INC: $570k → 16%NEO PHILANTHROPY INC: $37k → 17%LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $50k → 17%LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $45k → 17%LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $22k → 17%DIGITAL CITIZEN FUND INC: $56k → 17%DIGITAL CITIZEN FUND INC: $34k → 17%THE B TEAM HQ INC: $167k → 17%THE B TEAM HQ INC: $167k → 17%THE B TEAM HQ INC: $154k → 17%THE AFRICA CENTER: $27k → 17%THE AFRICAN CENTER: $25k → 17%CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $125k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
CA
CO
DE
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

Central America and the Caribbean$1.5M · 87% · 4 grants

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

Sub-Saharan Africa$130k · 7% · 2 grants

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

Middle East and North Africa$75k · 4% · 1 grant

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

East Asia and the Pacific$13k · 1% · 1 grant

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

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$8k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING OF DYSLEXIA

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 21 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
4

Total granted

$21M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-22%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementSocial ScienceAnimalsOther
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

  • OR
    OCEAN RISK AND RESILIENCE ACTION ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $497k · revenue ×11
  • Rocky Mountain Institute
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +26%
  • JC
    JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $132k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • OI
    OCEANELDERS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -79%
  • CT
    CRISIS TEXT LINE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -22%
  • CI
    COMMUNITERE INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $42k · revenue 0% · 100% of their budget
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
3
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
4
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
5
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
8
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
9
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
10
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
11
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
12
Sustainable World Inc

See schedule o part i for description of the organizations mission.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIGHTSAVERS INC: $10,730,845 · HealthSIGHTSAVERS INCLAST MILE HEALTH: $2,004,237 · HealthLAST MILE HEALTH+3 more: $194,757 · HealthLIVING GOODS: $4,925,527 · InternationalLIVING GOODS+3 more: $225,274 · InternationalTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE BAIL P…THE B TEAM: $510,044 · OtherTHE B TEAMRocky Mountain Institute: $300,000 · OtherRocky Moun…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $79,334 · OtherTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER: $76,507 · Other+6 more: $125,188 · Other+6 moreOCEAN RISK AND RESILIENCE ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $497,071 · EnvironmentB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $487,176 · EnvironmentOCEANELDERS INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $116,799 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINK: $32,757 · Community ImprovementJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $131,924 · Social ScienceREWILD: $95,000 · Animals
Health$12,929,839International$5,150,801Other$2,091,073Environment$1,234,247Community Improvement$149,556Social Science$131,924Animals$95,000

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 budgetSIGHTSAVERS INC: $10,730,845 over 5y, 20% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $4,925,527 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $2,004,237 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetOCEAN RISK AND RESILIENCE ACTION ALLIANCE INC: $497,071 over 3y, 15% of budgetB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $487,176 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $131,924 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $116,799 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDigital Citizen Fund Inc: $115,513 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetREWILD: $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $79,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART D/B/A THE AFRICA CENTER: $76,507 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFortify Inc: $67,979 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSAFE HANDS FOR GIRLS INC: $49,757 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTeleverde Foundation: $43,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITERE INTERNATIONAL INC: $41,782 over 1y, 100% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $32,757 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFUND A MOM INC: $20,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $14,842 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $14,596 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Gates FoundationNew Venture FundNational Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Virgin Unite USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virgin Unite USA Inc. 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 →median 0%
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of 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.
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How do I get to Virgin Unite USA Inc?

Find your warmest path to Virgin Unite USA Inc 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 27 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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