Global Philanthropy Partnership
Chicago, IL · EIN 56-2342600. Reported 67 grants totalling $2,784,115 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. 59 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. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $47,500. Half of what it reported fell between $24,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,358 and the largest $105,000. 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 | $155,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Geosyntec Consultants Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $109,995 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fresh Coast Capital Llcdba Greenprint Partners | Chicago, IL | $95,255 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baltimore Community Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Link Houston | Houston, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nextgen Climate America Inc | Redwood City, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Riders Alliance Fund Inc | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Propel Atl Inc | Atlanta, GA | $73,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Action for Equity Inc | Dorchester, 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 |
| Alliance for Metropolitan Stability | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boston Cyclists Union | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| East Bay Bicycle Coalition | Oakland, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Evergreen Collaborative | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Planning Council | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mobilise Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Piedmont Environmental Council | Warrenton, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pittsburghers for Public Transit Association | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seattle Streets Alliance | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Smart Growth America | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | Boulder, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Milwaukee, WI | $25,032 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alliance for a Just Society | Seattle, WA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health By Design Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 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 |
| Forth | Portland, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village Capital Corporation | Cleveland, OH | $13,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Surge for Water Inc | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michael Fields Agricultural Institute Inc | East Troy, WI | $5,358 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 59 (10%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Active Transportation Alliance
EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FUND/ CLEAN RIDES - Baltimore Community Foundation
EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FUND/CLEAN RIDES - Action for Equity Inc
EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION FUND - Unlimited Potentional Inc
EQUITABLE TRANSPORATION FUND - University of Wisconsin-Madison
MICHIGAN AGRICULTURE ADVANCEMENT - Resource for Education Advocacy Communication and Housing
SIMMONS CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHICAGO
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
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.
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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 $47,500 -- 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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 35 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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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