· Private foundation
Zendesk Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
69% of Zendesk Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Zendesk Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 31 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k9 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $933k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $300,000 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | $300,000 |
| Team4Tech Foundation | $200,000 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | $200,000 |
| Young Professionals in Foreign Policy dba Globally | $50,000 |
| JOBCARE CLG | $50,000 |
| The Immigration Project dba Mobile Pathways | $50,000 |
| KINDWORK INC | $50,000 |
| Rare dba Rare Inc | $50,000 |
| NPower Inc | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTO DA OPORTUNIDADE SOCIAL | $50,000 |
| TechSoup Global | $50,000 |
| THE ASIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GLIDE | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 63% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 37% that went abroad ($6.8M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.6M) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 37% of all-years giving ($6.8M)
24 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of Zendesk Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
90 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2022, 49 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC3× · 2020–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +63%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2021–2022 · $809k · revenue +167%- GFGLIDE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $414k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- NUNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -65%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -10%
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +117%
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.
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
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…
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
How this is measured
96 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. 96 of the 183 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM4TECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURRY SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINDWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · McNabb Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Zendesk Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zendesk Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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