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UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF (New York) receives grants from 2605 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,307,983,882 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,249,754,307). 1257 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$835M
Revenue FY2025
2,605
Funders on record
$2.3B
Grants received
$442M
Net assets
1257/2605 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%

Against its field

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 39 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin29% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 39 international nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($474M) Expenses 100 ($476M) Net assets 100 ($112M)2018 Revenue 120 ($567M) Expenses 115 ($548M) Net assets 118 ($132M)2019 Revenue 114 ($539M) Expenses 109 ($521M) Net assets 135 ($151M)2020 Revenue 121 ($574M) Expenses 124 ($589M) Net assets 123 ($137M)2021 Revenue 108 ($511M) Expenses 101 ($479M) Net assets 153 ($172M)2022 Revenue 224 ($1.1B) Expenses 209 ($996M) Net assets 202 ($227M)2023 Revenue 175 ($829M) Expenses 180 ($858M) Net assets 179 ($201M)2024 Revenue 152 ($720M) Expenses 153 ($728M) Net assets 171 ($192M)2025 Revenue 176 ($835M) Expenses 125 ($594M) Net assets 394 ($442M)
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Revenue (176)Expenses (125)Net assets (394)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 97 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
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$19M
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$18M
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$15M
20
$32M
21
$66M
22
$29M
23
$7.3M
24
$241M
25
2.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 548 funders to 880 funders, grant income rose $183M → $401M.

193 of 2605 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)18% 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2605 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

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

37% 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF.

54%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 66% · 2019 67% · 2020 43% · 2021 45% · 2022 57% · 2023 53%diversifying over time.

“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

46% of UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 50 states in all.

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $423M arriving through sponsors registered in 39 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 2605 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF

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.

In New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 3%Fundraising 14%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

62%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 29 states

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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Unicef USA Impact Fund for Children Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: 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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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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF?
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF (New York) receives grants from 2605 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,307,983,882 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,249,754,307). 1257 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF have?
IRS filings report 2605 organizations giving $2,307,983,882 in grants to UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF, 1257 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF?
GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,249,754,307 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2605funders 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