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Begin Today for Tomorrow

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$179kHealth$133kInternational$130kArts & Culture$125kHuman Services$108kEnvironment$78kAnimals$30kScience & Tech$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$554k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK$15,000
HAVERFORD SCHOOL$2,380
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 11%WE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK: $15k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $20k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILES: $20k → 14%FAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $20k → 14%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
IL
NY
OR
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$516k · 19 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$516k
$286k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+17%

Still filing today

63%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • AO
    AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +50%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +53%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SUN WORKS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +491%

Funded once

  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +40%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SF
    SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -32%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
5
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
6
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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7
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
8
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
9
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
10
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
11
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
12
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Musk Ox Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KPCC 893 FM: $75,000 · OtherKPCC 893 FMPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODKPCC 893: $50,000 · OtherKPCC 893AIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES: $30,000 · OtherAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELESWATERKEEPERS ALLIANCE: $20,000 · OtherWATERKEEPERS ALLIANCEPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $12,500 · Other+13 more: $91,380 · Other+13 moreFeeding America: $150,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDA…Mercy Corps: $10,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsFAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES UNIT…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…WE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWE ARE FAMILY…AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $22,500 · AnimalsEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $15,000 · AnimalsFOREVER WILD EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $15,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $5,000 · AnimalsNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC: $20,000 · Science & TechApla Health & Wellness: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Health
Other$328,880Food & Nutrition$175,000International$130,000Human Services$95,000Animals$57,500Science & Tech$20,000Health$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFeeding America: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES UNITING FAMILIES: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAIDS PROJECT LOS ANGELES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC CORPORATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SUN WORKS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY SENIOR OUTREACH NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER WILD EXOTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK UNITED FUND OF ILLINOIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SOLDIERS PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusk Ox Development Corporation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $2,380 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Begin Today for Tomorrow funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Begin Today for Tomorrow. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 33 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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