Nonprofit
GLOBAL WITNESS
GLOBAL WITNESS receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,031,039 to it, the largest being THE JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST ($6,850,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GLOBAL WITNESS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundationshared funders
- David and Anita Keller Foundationportfolio match
- Humanity United Actionportfolio match
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.
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 15% · 2020 18% · 2021 7% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GLOBAL WITNESS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $62k → $6.8M.
From the IRS filings of GLOBAL WITNESS’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
GLOBAL WITNESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 GLOBAL WITNESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
- David and Anita Keller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanity United Actionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Freedom Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eleanor Crook Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nommontu Foundation Inc Fka Marisa Muller Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avina Americas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Channel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trellis Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedom Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Jewish World Service Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GLOBAL WITNESS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Global Witness Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GLOBAL WITNESS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GLOBAL WITNESS?
- GLOBAL WITNESS receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,031,039 to it, the largest being THE JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST ($6,850,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GLOBAL WITNESS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,031,039 in grants to GLOBAL WITNESS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GLOBAL WITNESS?
- THE JEREMY AND HANNELORE GRANTHAM ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GLOBAL WITNESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing