· Public charity
Zebras Unite
Mission Statement-Zebras Unite is committed to fostering a more inclusive, equitable and ethical environment for technology startups and other early-stage businesses.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 200 Million Artisans | $65,720 |
| New Majority Capital | $50,000 |
| Akiptan | $50,000 |
| University Impact | $50,000 |
| Vestedin | $50,000 |
| Main Street Phoenix Project | $50,000 |
| Black & Brown Founders | $5,000 |
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 — 90% of grant dollars ($568k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($66k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 69% 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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($66k)
1 country, 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.
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.
To provide education and resources to minority operated businesses
Helping minority entrepreneurs succeed.
Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
To connect bipoc entrepreneurs in twin cities neighborhoods with the financial and social capital they need to grow and sustain their businesses by activating untapped individual wealth, ultimately working to eliminate the racial wealth…
Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.
The mission is to develop and promote Black business enterprises through education, training, loans, investments, and other activities and aggressively promote an atmosphere conducive to their development.
Form 990 - organization's mission or most significant activitiesboston impact initiative (bii) is a nonprofit impact investment fund and certified community development financial institution (cdfi). bii provides small businesses,…
Our mission is to create economic opportunity by empowering entrepreneurs.Through innovative partnerships we provide business owners with capital, education, and relationships that allow them to flourish. Our collaborative approach helps…
Advancing economic prosperity of the latino community.
Build supportive ecosystem for black-owned business to help them be successful by providing information and coaching
The national center for american indian enterprise development (ncaied) assists american indian tribes and their enterprises with business and economic development. ncaied works to develop and expand the american indian private sector…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Majority Capital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triangle Strategic and Financial Advising for Not-for-Profits Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 BLACK AND BROWN FOUNDERS INC ↗
- Who funds AKIPTAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MAJORITY CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VESTEDIN ↗
- Who funds University Impact ↗
- Who funds BSIDE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds EAGLE MARKET STREETS DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL ADVISING FOR NOT-FOR-PROFITS INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Manufacturing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER ↗
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: Wells Fargo Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Zebras Unite 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.
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