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Vodafone Americas Foundation at a glance

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Vodafone Americas 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.

$516k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$2.2MPhilanthropy$1.8MEducation$1.1MScience & Tech$667kHuman Services$587kInternational$436kHealth$303kCrime & Legal$202kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC$100,000
WOMENS CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$100,000
GIRLS WHO CODE$50,000
THE NO MORE FOUNDATION$50,000
TECHNOVATION$50,000
WOMENS WORLD BANKING$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
ONE WARM COAT$20,000
MY GOOD DEED$15,000
JUMA VENTURES$10,000
THE NO MORE FOUNDATION$10,000
JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR GLOBAL WOMEN'S HEALTH AND GENDER EQUITY$10,000
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE$5,000
MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION$5,000
DIABLO REGIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATION$4,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $748k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMENS CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%WORLD PULSE VOICES: $50k → 12%NO MORE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%WOMENS CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%WORLD PULSE VOICES: $50k → 12%WOMENRISING: $7k → 14%THE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%WOMENS CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%WORLD PULSE VOICES: $50k → 12%THE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%WORLD PULSE VOICES: $50k → 12%THE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%GIRLS WHO CODE: $50k → 17%ONE WARM COAT: $20k → 10%ONE WARM COAT: $15k → 10%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $16k → 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

IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Vodafone Americas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Vodafone Americas Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 21 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
38

Total granted

$4.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GE
    GIRL EFFECT INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +150%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +16%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • PU
    PURDUE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PRORAM SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • F
    FFWDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +236%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $67k · revenue +4%
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
Activate Global Inc

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…

Environment
2
Waterorg

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

International
3
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
4
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
5
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
6
Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Women's Business Enterprise National Council

Wbenc's mission is to fuel economic growth globally by identifying, certifying, and facilitating the development of women-owned businesses.

Civil Rights
10
Stichting to Promote Women's World Banking

The mission of stichting to promote women's world banking is to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge and markets. for more…

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11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Women in Product

Our mission is to equip women and non-binary folks to thrive in product management careers at all levels. we want all people to have equitable opportunities to build rewarding careers and shape the products of the future.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Biscayne Bay Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
35/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY …IMPACTASSETSINC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyFFWD: $75,000 · Philanthropy911 DAY: $75,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $38,000 · PhilanthropyGIRL EFFECT INC: $1,775,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL EFFECT INC+2 more: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentIndividual grant recipient: $525,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISUALIZE INC: $200,000 · OtherVISUALIZE INCPURDUE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED PRORAM SERVICES: $150,000 · OtherPURDUE UNIVERSITY SPONSORED P…CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECNOLOGY-SANITATION PROJECT: $100,000 · OtherNEW ENERGY NEXUS: $83,400 · OtherNOMI NETWORK INC: $150,000 · OtherNOMI NETWORK INCGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $105,000 · Other+39 more: $736,716 · Other+39 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $266,680 · EducationMassachusetts…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN …FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC: $225,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FO…Vanderbilt University: $99,950 · EducationVanderbilt Un…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $66,650 · EducationCALIFORNIA ST…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $33,300 · EducationWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $300,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CEN…World Pulse Voices: $200,000 · Human ServicesWorld Pulse…THE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Human ServicesTHE NO MORE…GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO C…ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $50,000 · Human ServicesALLIES AGAI…ONE WARM COAT: $35,000 · Human Services+4 more: $73,000 · Human Services+4 moreKIVA MICROFUNDS: $75,000 · InternationalPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $50,020 · InternationalAtma Connect: $50,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC: $50,000 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $25,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalGSMA MOBILE FOR DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalTECHNOVATION: $220,000 · Science & TechInveneo Inc: $21,000 · Science & Tech
Philanthropy$1,783,000Youth Development$1,782,500Other$2,050,116Education$941,580Human Services$823,000International$290,020Science & Tech$241,000

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 budgetGIRL EFFECT INC: $1,775,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $300,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $266,680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC: $225,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTECHNOVATION: $220,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWorld Pulse Voices: $200,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NO MORE FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $105,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVanderbilt University: $99,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFFWD: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget911 DAY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $66,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL: $50,020 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNPOWER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAtma Connect: $50,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetEmpower Work Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBioHealth Innovation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS IN TECH INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $38,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetONE WARM COAT: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $33,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentro Community Partners: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInveneo Inc: $21,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetURBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGSMA MOBILE FOR DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN RISING INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREADING POWER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH RADIO: $5,000 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.

Tides FoundationThe William & Flora H…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Express Foun…ImpactassetsincThe Patrick J McGover…East Bay Community Fo…Community Foundation …Nfl Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…The Bessemer Giving F…The James Irvine Foun…
Tides FoundationCA21.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Nfl Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The James Irvine 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 Vodafone Americas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vodafone Americas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Women Rising Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vodafone Americas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vodafone Americas Foundation 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 79 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-PF 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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