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FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT

FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,731,312 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$48M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
$9.3M
13/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Foundation for the Global Compact does

Mission

The foundation for global compact is a non profit organization established to help raise funds to support the work of the un global compact office and global compact-related activities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation supported the un global compact to plan and implement its programmatic goals. The un global compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 12,000 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and 69 local networks. Businesses that join the initiative commit at the ceo-level to align their corporate strategies and operations with ten principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions to support the sustainable development goals. Through providing authoritative guidance, training, tools and support, and connecting stakeholders across the globe, the un global compact enables businesses of all sizes and from all sectors to achieve their sustainability objectives. The un global compact has an enduring track record on delivering impact, and works alongside several strategic partners to do so, including the largest responsible investment and responsible management education initiatives in the world. The principles for responsible investment (pri) initiative is a network of international investors that counts more than 20,000 participants from the financial sector with…

    $43,649,310 spentof which $9,794,371 as grants$880,277 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,649,310.

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 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($6.5M)2018 Revenue 123 ($15M) Expenses 93 ($12M) Net assets 136 ($8.8M)2019 Revenue 145 ($18M) Expenses 123 ($16M) Net assets 131 ($8.5M)2020 Revenue 209 ($25M) Expenses 151 ($20M) Net assets 225 ($15M)2021 Revenue 220 ($27M) Expenses 168 ($22M) Net assets 252 ($16M)2022 Revenue 340 ($42M) Expenses 264 ($35M) Net assets 287 ($19M)2023 Revenue 403 ($49M) Expenses 341 ($46M) Net assets 204 ($13M)2024 Revenue 396 ($48M) Expenses 387 ($52M) Net assets 143 ($9.3M)
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Revenue (396)Expenses (387)Net assets (143)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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $20M (+59%).

$9.5M
$12M
$13M
$20M
$22M
$26M
$31M
$26M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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

98% of FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.2M
’17
$2.5M
’18
$1.3M
’19
$5.3M
’20
$4.5M
’21
$6.2M
’22
$3.7M
’23
−$3.4M
’24
0.4
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.

Board chair

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed910111111141315
Joined·+4+3+2+3+5+1+6
No longer listed·3223224
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $71k → $893k.

5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

31% 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT.

40%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 23% · 2019 73% · 2020 70% · 2021 72% · 2022 49% · 2023 56% — 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

23% of FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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

FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.

NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
DC
TX
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $282k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

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

Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT

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

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Corp Sustainability Solutions LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT?
FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT (New York) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,731,312 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,731,312 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT?
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR THE GLOBAL COMPACT 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 20 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