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128 Collective Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$9.5MPhilanthropy$5.6MPublic Benefit$4.6MCivil Rights$4.4MEmployment$3.6MInternational$3.2MScience & Tech$2.3MHealth$2.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k63 grants · $7.3M
  • $250k+11 grants · $3.9M
$105,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES CENTER$500,000
VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE$500,000
LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT$500,000
UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND$490,000
THE HACK FOUNDATION$320,000
THE HACK FOUNDATION$300,000
UNDAUNTEDK12$300,000
NEW ECONOMY ORGANISERS NETWORK$250,000
CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER$250,000
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE$250,000
STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT$250,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND$225,000
TIDES CENTER$200,000
CENTER FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISE$200,000
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH HOMES INC: $10k → 9%PROGRESSIVE CODERS NETWORK II: $75k → 8%GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA: $75k → 13%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $20k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZANAAFRICA CORP: $30k → 14%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $10k → 9%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ZANAAFRICA CORP: $30k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $150k → 14%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $10k → 9%FAMILY BUILDERS BY ADOPTION: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $500k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $275k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of 128 Collective Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

128 Collective Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 64 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
82

Total granted

$22M
$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+6%

Still filing today

89%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TH
    THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB
    3× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +635%
  • UR
    UE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +257% · 80% of their budget
  • LE
    LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +25% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SUNRISE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +521%
  • Potential Energy Coalition Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +10%
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -2%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
7
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
8
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trapped Voices Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

170 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 170 of the 190 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/170
Grantees still filing
91/170
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SUNRISE PROJECT INC: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE SUNRISE PROJECT …VOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $966,550 · EnvironmentVOICES FOR A SUSTAIN…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE…SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $465,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS …The Partnership Project Inc: $305,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $300,000 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR GREEN CAPITAL D/B/A AMERICAN GREEN BANK CONSORTIUM: $300,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 · EnvironmentBENEFICIAL ELECTRIFICATION LEAGUE: $300,000 · EnvironmentUndauntedK12: $300,000 · Environment350 Seattle: $250,000 · Environment+21 more: $2,232,850 · Environment+21 morePotential Energy Coalition Inc: $1,000,000 · OtherPotential Energy Coalition IncPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $1,050,000 · OtherPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTETHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $2,187,800 · OtherTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUBCUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES FOUNDATION INC: $607,000 · OtherLABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT: $1,080,000 · OtherLABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT+82 more: $9,952,908 · Other+82 moreUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND: $1,660,000 · InternationalUE RESEARCH A…GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $565,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND F…FULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC: $500,000 · InternationalFULLER PROJEC…LIVING GOODS: $470,000 · InternationalLIVING GOODSPROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE: $160,000 · International+19 more: $1,444,700 · International+19 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $1,798,500 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUN…HOPEWELL FUND: $410,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL F…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $325,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLE…FFWD: $300,000 · PhilanthropyFFWDTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FR…One World Childrens Fund: $248,384 · PhilanthropyOne World …CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $213,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES …+3 more: $140,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $539,000 · Civil RightsMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Civil RightsTRANS QUEER PUEBLO - SEMILLA DE LIBERACION: $300,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $250,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR CIVIC ALTERNATIVES: $200,000 · Civil RightsFair Elections Center: $150,000 · Civil RightsACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $125,000 · Civil RightsIFWHENHOW: $100,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsKendra Alexander Foundation: $100,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $100,000 · Civil Rights+6 more: $228,800 · Civil RightsTIDES CENTER: $1,880,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $150,000 · Human Services+8 more: $325,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $910,000 · Public BenefitCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $500,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISE INC: $407,500 · Public BenefitSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 · Public BenefitPittsburghers for Public Transit: $150,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $90,000 · Public Benefit
Environment$7,219,400Other$15,877,708International$4,799,700Philanthropy$3,684,884Civil Rights$2,792,800Human Services$2,605,000Public Benefit$2,407,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $2,187,800 over 3y, 16% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,880,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $1,798,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND: $1,660,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetLABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH PROJECT: $1,080,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $1,050,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE SUNRISE PROJECT INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $966,550 over 3y, 25% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $910,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES FOUNDATION INC: $607,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $565,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $539,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CENTER: $500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL REPORTING INC: $500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $470,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $465,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $460,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $410,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISE INC: $407,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPOWERSWITCH ACTION: $392,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $325,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $305,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFFWD: $300,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $300,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTRANS QUEER PUEBLO - SEMILLA DE LIBERACION: $300,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOALITION FOR GREEN CAPITAL D/B/A AMERICAN GREEN BANK CONSORTIUM: $300,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENEFICIAL ELECTRIFICATION LEAGUE: $300,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetUndauntedK12: $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC: $300,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $250,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget350 Seattle: $250,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $248,384 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC: $225,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $215,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $213,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $205,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRailroad Workers Education & Legal Defense Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 69% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundTides FoundationThe William & Flora H…United States Energy …Wellspring Philanthro…Windward FundImpactassetsincSilicon Valley Commun…Foundation to Promote…The Schmidt Family Fo…Wallace Global Fund II
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC53.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Windward Fund · Impactassetsinc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 128 Collective Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 128 Collective Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to 128 Collective Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 128 Collective Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 190 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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