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ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)

ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,658,199 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,295,450). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$11M
Funders on record
70
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$11M
35/70 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Endeavor Global Inc (F/K/A the Endeavor Initiative Inc) does

Mission

Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Partnerships and networks the partnerships and networks team is focused on building a world-class community of chief executive officers, business leaders, investors, and academia to mentor and support catalyst's portfolio of high-impact entrepreneurs. Current activities include: engaging a u.s.-based mentor network; leading the catalyst investor network of leading venture capital firms; building out a corporate network of top global companies that are interested in emerging and growth markets; and invest with the goal to generate long-term competitive financial returns and positive societal impact by providing support to our network in a sustainable manner. Endeavor provides opportunities for both staff members and key endeavor entrepreneurs to discuss with world-class philanthropists and socially responsible corporate leaders ways to give back to the community on a personal and professional level. Endeavor encourages all of its donors not just to contribute financially, but also to donate their time to mentoring entrepreneurs and to pushing forward the cause of economic development in emerging markets. Endeavor entrepreneurs are also spearheading the launch of affiliate-office…

    $5,308,962 spentof which $3,189,286 as grants$2,168,943 earned by the program
    52% of program spending
  2. Entrepreneur selection and growth (esg): working with a network of global business leaders, endeavor identifies and screens thousands of entrepreneur candidates annually who run high-growth businesses. Several times each year, a panel of experienced business people gather to select a new class of endeavor entrepreneurs - those individuals who demonstrate fulfillment of a specific set of values and conditions that match endeavor's expectations and goals at an international selection panel. Selected endeavor entrereneurs receive customized services that meet their specific challenges. Endeavor's services include connecting endeavor entrepreneurs with local and global mentors, managerial talent from blue-chip companies and top business schools, providing access to difficult-to-penetrate networks and educational programming for companies that seek venture capital/private equity and/or companies in later growth stages. At the same time, endeavor has built a peer network of entrepreneurs who provide a strong, supportive community to face any challenge. Upon the issue of this return, endeavor supported 2,546 entrepreneurs from over 1,562 companies across 42 markets around the world.

    $2,757,973 spentof which $137,420 as grants$8,000 earned by the program
    27% of program spending
  3. Endeavor community endeavor community's purpose is to allow every entrepreneur in the network to fulfill their full potential in creating jobs and driving innovation in their market. To support this, endeavor delivers an array of services; we put them in front of the best mentors in the world; curate communities where they can, with complete vulnerability, discuss their anxieties and aspirations; offer entrepreneurs exclusive learning programs and a lot more. To make the most of every connection and to continuously provide relevant supportive services to the network, endeavor gathers data though its proprietary intranet and, where appropriate, through its website, http://www.endeavor.org. Endeavor codifies the collected information and transfers the knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned to its 42 markets. Endeavor is in the process of developing a social networking site that will connect entrepreneurs, board members, staff, volunteers and network members around the world.

    $1,147,173 spentof which $179,021 as grants
    11% of program spending
  4. New country expansionendeavor believes that building strong local offices is the best way to ensure scalable and long-term success. This model places co-ownership of the endeavor brand and lead responsibility for program execution on the local or affiliate office. Moreover, a local presence enables the organization to raise funds from local country benefactors and local sources to sustain local operations. Until the point at which an affiliate office is legalized as a separate, independent entity and has established a board of directors, endeavor incurs all start-up and development costs.

    $649,105 spentof which $3,125 as grants
    6% of program spending
  5. Endeavor insightendeavor insight is endeavor's research team. Endeavor insight seeks to deepen understanding of how high-impact entrepreneurs and scale-ups contribute to job creation and long-term economic growth in order to educate key constituencies, such as policy makers. In addition, endeavor insight seeks to serve as a knowledge center for high-impact entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and others in order to provide useful information and tools that assist entrepreneurs as they grow their businesses.

    $383,641 spentof which $15,087 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,246,854.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.0M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($9.5M)2018 Revenue 114 ($9.1M) Expenses 97 ($10M) Net assets 86 ($8.2M)2019 Revenue 116 ($9.3M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 72 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 278 ($22M) Expenses 119 ($13M) Net assets 173 ($16M)2022 Revenue 187 ($15M) Expenses 112 ($12M) Net assets 206 ($20M)2023 Revenue 141 ($11M) Expenses 139 ($15M) Net assets 169 ($16M)2024 Revenue 138 ($11M) Expenses 144 ($15M) Net assets 120 ($11M)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (138)Expenses (144)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $23M (+28%).

$11M
$9.9M
$9.4M
$18M
$23M
$19M
$17M
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 388 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.7M
’17
−$1.3M
’18
−$1.4M
’19
$9.5M
’21
$3.0M
’22
−$3.6M
’23
−$4.4M
’24
5.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Linda Rottenberg

CEO & co-founder

Board chair

Edgar Bronfman Jr

Director & chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192021202220232024
Listed26212021222221
Joined·+2+2·+4+1+2
No longer listed·73·313
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $841k → $1.3M.

22 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $35M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Endeavor Catalyst Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) raised.

From the IRS filings of ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC).

37%
largest funder
50%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 42% · 2019 34% · 2020 35% · 2021 31% · 2022 40% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

29% of ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

51% of ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)'s grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.8M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 19 states.

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
KY
AR
TN
OK
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) is better cushioned than half of the 363 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−40% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 19%Fundraising 13%

Governance

12
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

48%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Endv Trading Asia Pte Ltd · disregarded
  • Endeavor Catalyst Inc · exempt
  • Endeavor Catalyst I LP · partnership
  • Endeavor Catalyst Idb Side Car LP · partnership
  • Endeavor Catalyst II LP · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)?
ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) (New York) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,658,199 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,295,450). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $11,658,199 in grants to ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC), 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC)?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,295,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ENDEAVOR GLOBAL INC (F/K/A THE ENDEAVOR INITIATIVE INC) find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing