Global Philanthropy Partnership
Chicago, IL · EIN 56-2342600. Reported 94 grants totalling $4,280,246 to 73 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Global Philanthropy Partnership, the IRS classifies it as a voluntarism promotion organization (NTEE T40).
- How spread out its giving is. 73 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $47,627. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $51,800; the smallest was $5,358 and the largest $170,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active Transportation Alliance | Chicago, IL | $266,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pittsburghers for Public Transit Association | Pittsburgh, PA | $195,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | New York, NY | $170,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nextgen Climate America Inc | Redwood City, CA | $165,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $146,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $120,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Geosyntec Consultants Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $109,995 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alliance for Metropolitan Stability | Minneapolis, MN | $101,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | Chicago, IL | $101,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mobilise Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $101,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Transportation Riders United Inc | Detroit, MI | $101,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fresh Coast Capital Llcdba Greenprint Partners | Chicago, IL | $95,255 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Paul Transportation Management Organization | Saint Paul, MN | $91,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $84,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Link Houston | Houston, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Riders Alliance Fund Inc | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Propel Atl Inc | Atlanta, GA | $73,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Smart Growth America | Washington, DC | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Action for Equity Inc | Dorchestr Ctr, MA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fastlinkdtla the Downtown Los Angeles Transportation Management | Los Angeles, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeast Transportation Connections | Denver, CO | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Streets | Minneapolis, MN | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Partnership for Community Action | Albuquerque, NM | $58,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bike Walk Kc | Kansas City, MO | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown | Johnstown, PA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Front and Centered | Seattle, WA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bike Cleveland | Cleveland, OH | $51,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| M O S E S Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength | Detroit, MI | $51,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Inc | Stevens Point, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boston Cyclists Union | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Neighborhood Technology | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Bay Bicycle Coalition | Oakland, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Evergreen Collaborative | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Piedmont Environmental Council | Warrenton, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Seattle Streets Alliance | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sustain Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Transportation Alternatives Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Unlimited Potential Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Francisco Bicycle Coalitioneducation Fund Inc | San Francisco, CA | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Shared-Use Mobility Center | Chicago, IL | $47,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Biohabitats | Baltimore, MD | $46,725 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hopeprint Inc | Syracuse, NY | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Futurewise | Seattle, WA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Payne-Phalen Community Council | Saint Paul, MN | $44,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| League of Michigan Bicyclists | Lansing, MI | $43,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Milwaukee, WI | $40,064 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Livable Streets Transportation Alliance of Boston Inc | Cambridge, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transport for Nola | New Orleans, LA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Transportation Choices Coalition | Seattle, WA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rva Rapid Transit Inc | Richmond, VA | $34,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (swbno) | New Orleans, LA | $33,940 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | Boulder, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Alliance for a Just Society | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| America Walks Inc | Annandale, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health By Design Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Inc | East Troy, WI | $22,517 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sustainable Watershed Designs Inc (lotus Water Engineering) | San Francisco, CA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ceres Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jobs to Move America | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Caucus of Environmental Legislators | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Surge for Water Inc | Chicago, IL | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Forth | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village Capital Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $13,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Council for An Energy Efficient Economy | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Art Works Projects | Oakbrook Ter, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| League of American Wheelmen Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Resource for Education Advocacy Communication and Housing | Whittier, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 73 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Natural Resources Defense Council Inc
EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FUND/ CLEAN RIDES - Pittsburghers for Public Transportation
EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FUND/CLEAN RIDES - Transportation Riders United Inc
EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FUND - Unlimited Potentional Inc
EQUITABLE TRANSPORATION FUND - Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
MICHIGAN AGRICULTURE ADVANCEMENT - Art Works Projects
SIMMONS CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHICAGO
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 59 of 73 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | $392,000 | $43,750 |
| 2021 | 12 | $515,257 | $48,877 |
| 2022 | 10 | $448,468 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $1,428,390 | $47,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $1,496,131 | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
15 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 30 grants totalling $2,630,938 to Global Philanthropy Partnership. That is 35% of the 43 funders we can see giving to it. Those 15 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
8 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Summit Charitable Foundation Inc | District of Columbia | $613,400 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| The California Endowment | California | $432,938 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Freedom Together Foundation | New York | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Holthues Trust | Iowa | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Builders Vision Foundation | Illinois | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transitcenter Inc | New York | $230,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Walton Family Foundation Inc | Arkansas | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cnh Industrial Foundation | Illinois | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| John D and Catherine T Macarthur | Illinois | $103,600 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Lumpkin Family Foundation | Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 15.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $47,627 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Global Philanthropy Partnership's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 303 E Wacker Drive Suite 2108, Chicago, IL, 60601.
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