· Private foundation
Wallace Global Fund II
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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $914k
- $50k–250k141 grants · $12M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINDWARD FUND | $300,000 |
| AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT | $300,000 |
| SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND | $250,000 |
| GREENFAITH | $250,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY | $250,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $250,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| STANDEARTH | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECO AND FIN ANALYSIS | $200,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $200,000 |
| GREENPEACE | $200,000 |
| TRADE JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND | $200,000 |
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 — 86% of grant dollars ($92M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($16M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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 — 14% of all-years giving ($16M)
25 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 990filings; 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 15% of Wallace Global Fund II’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 +23% for the ones you funded once.
213 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 111 since wound down; 36 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
NEO Philanthropy Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +58%- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +170%
- GIGREENFAITH INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +54% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- TETaproot Earthone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -71%
- CFCENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $250k
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +29%
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.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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 20 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
267 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. 267 of the 438 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds GREENFAITH INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds STAND ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Repairers of the Breach ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds Oil Change International Inc ↗
- Who funds American Sustainable Business Institute 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Park Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The Schmidt Family Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Windward Fund · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc
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 Wallace Global Fund II 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.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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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