New York · Nonprofit
GIVEDIRECTLY INC
GIVEDIRECTLY INC (New York) receives grants from 536 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,949,223 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($55,625,026). 260 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $207M
- Funders on record
- 536
- Grants received
- $431M
- Net assets
- $202M
What Givedirectly Inc does
Mission
To reduce poverty by providing financial assistance directly to those in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Givedirectly offers a service allowing individual donors, foundations, and others to deliver unconditional direct cash transfers to those in need. The organization's proprietary model re-engineers fieldwork for the digital era, allowing it to deliver these transfers securely, efficiently and transparently. Using the latest technology at every step, givedirectly locates recipients, integrates them into electronic payments networks, and monitors transfers end-to-end. Since 2009, givedirectly has reached more than 1.5m recipients in 15 countries.in 2024, givedirectly delivered $126m to 217,219 recipients across 11 countries via multiple programs. Highlights from 2024 include:- unprecedented poverty relief in malawi: delivered $32m over 12 months to 63,000 people in a single sub-district, equivalent to increasing local gdp by 125%. Research showed this cash influx caused virtually no inflation, demonstrating that direct cash can be scaled dramatically without harmful economic effects.- ai-powered disaster response: launched anticipatory cash transfers in nigeria using google research-developed flood forecasting models, delivering payments to 4,671 families 48 hours before predicted…
$113,567,081 spentof which $81,909,407 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,567,081.
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.
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 $88M to $184M (+110%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 8% · 2022 41% · 2023 8% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GIVEDIRECTLY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Nickolas Allardice
President & CEO as of 07/2024
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 64 funders to 184 funders, grant income rose $12M → $44M.
95 of 536 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 GIVEDIRECTLY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 536 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
GIVEDIRECTLY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
88% 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 GIVEDIRECTLY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 33% · 2019 21% · 2020 28% · 2021 51% · 2022 21% · 2023 27% — 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
32% of GIVEDIRECTLY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of GIVEDIRECTLY 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 $117M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 45 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 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.
Against its field
GIVEDIRECTLY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 248 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding GIVEDIRECTLY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.1M on record.
- Agency for International Development$72.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIVEDIRECTLY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIVEDIRECTLY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC?
- GIVEDIRECTLY INC (New York) receives grants from 536 organizations whose IRS filings report $430,949,223 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($55,625,026). 260 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIVEDIRECTLY INC have?
- IRS filings report 536 organizations giving $430,949,223 in grants to GIVEDIRECTLY INC, 260 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIVEDIRECTLY INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $55,625,026 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIVEDIRECTLY 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 536 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing