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Visa 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 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+54 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $4,168,725 |
| GUDINA TUMSA FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| WOMENS WORLD BANKING INC | $1,200,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $1,200,000 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $1,164,875 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $1,000,000 |
| 2X GLOBAL LIMITED | $1,000,000 |
| SWISS ASSOCIATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING | $1,000,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC | $1,000,000 |
| VILCAP INC | $1,000,000 |
| BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| INCO COMMUNITY INC | $1,000,000 |
| ROOT CAPITAL INC | $800,000 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $751,627 |
| BLACK INNOVATION ALLIANCE | $750,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($134M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($24M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $12.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those 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
Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($24M)
19 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Visa Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 29 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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
- WWWOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC6× · 2019–2024 · $20M · revenue +50% · 45% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2019–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +39%
- TITECHNOSERVE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +51%
Funded once
- GAGAVI ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $4.5M · revenue -84%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO - UC REGEone grant, 2019 · $1.5M
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +6%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
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.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Akhuwat Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 134 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.
- Who funds WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds GAVI ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VILCAP INC ↗
- Who funds PRO MUJER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds ROOT CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Black Ambition Opportunity Inc ↗
- Who funds INCO Community Inc FKACALSO Community Inc ↗
- Who funds SECONDMUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT FREEDOM INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SPECIAL EVENTS COMMITTEE ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Rockefeller Foundation · The Ford Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Mastercard Impact Fund
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 Visa Foundation 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc — 9% 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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