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Woka 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+21 grants · $9.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Green America | $1,000,000 |
| New Energy Nexus | $1,000,000 |
| Activate | $700,000 |
| Elemental Excelerator Elemental Imp | $500,000 |
| Ashoka | $500,000 |
| African Women Rising | $400,000 |
| Global Greengrants | $400,000 |
| Rockefeller Family Fund FCOG | $400,000 |
| Climate Foundation | $400,000 |
| Center for Climate Integrity | $350,000 |
| International Biochar Initiative | $350,000 |
| Oil Change International | $350,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $330,000 |
| Groundswell International | $300,000 |
| Agroecology Fund | $300,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
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 6% of Woka 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. Read by recipient address, 26% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 23% — 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.
44 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 84% 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
- PCPRIME COALITION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $4.3M · revenue +57%
GREEN AMERICA5× · 2020–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +4%- CFClimate Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +41% · 86% of their budget
Funded once
- TRTHE REGENERATION PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -90%
- TLThe Living Lab World Resources Instone grant, 2023 · $250k
- CCLIMAone grant, 2020 · $120k
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.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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 accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Regeneration Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 59 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 PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Climate Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds International Biochar Initiative ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds DEPLOYUS INC ↗
- Who funds MAD AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds Groundswell International Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Land-Based Learning ↗
- Who funds VertueLab ↗
- Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
- Who funds Regenerative Farms Inc ↗
- Who funds MANGROVE ACTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
- Who funds Oil Change International Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY ↗
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: Impactassetsinc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II
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 Woka 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Regenerative Farms Inc — 64% of income from government
- VertueLab — 12% 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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