· Public charity
Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance
To mobilize our alliance's 100,000 highly-skilled volunteers to stimulate sustainable economic growth in emerging markets.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k3 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $357k
- $250k+5 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPS | $9,104,422 |
| CNFA | $3,858,210 |
| LAND O'LAKES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND | $1,479,421 |
| FINANCIAL SERVICES VOLUNTEER CORPS | $1,350,561 |
| WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS | $930,388 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | $149,923 |
| FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FAMU) | $122,469 |
| DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL | $84,975 |
| FAVACA | $45,213 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $42,774 |
| INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION | $10,910 |
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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 70% of Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance’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. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in DC; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -61% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IEIMPROVING ECONOMIES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES2× · 2017–2018 · $31M · revenue +25% · 84% of their budget
- CCNFA2× · 2017–2018 · $7.2M · revenue +28%
- FSFinancial Services Volunteer Corps Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $2.8M · revenue +131% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- CLCOOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $95k · revenue -61%
- EWENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERSone grant, 2017 · $75k
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Improving Economies for Stronger Communities and the most unlike its peers is Development Solutions International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 IMPROVING ECONOMIES FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CNFA ↗
- Who funds Financial Services Volunteer Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ASSOC FOR VOLUNTEER ACTION IN THE CARIBBEAN &THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance 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.
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.