· Private foundation
Building Futures Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $40,000 |
| GREAT CHICAGO FOOD | $25,000 |
| FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| FU-JEN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| THE MARIN ARTS | $10,000 |
| LA FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HIGH JUMP | $10,000 |
| AABC | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO DANCE HEALTH | $5,000 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT 5170 FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| MOMS AGAINST POVERTY | $4,000 |
| STUF UNITED FUND | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Indiana University Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $758k · revenue +30%- FOFRIENDS OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $153k · revenue +56%
- SUSTUF UNITED FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITYCANCER DISCOVERY FUNone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SCSOUTHERN CA FOOD ALLERGY INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TCTHE CANAL ARTSone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The united states-japan bridging foundation provides u.s. undergraduates who demonstrate financial need and academic merit with scholarships to study abroad in japan, along with mentorship and networking opportunities.
Fudan Fuzhong Overseas Foundation, Inc. ("FFOF") was established by five alumni from Fudan Fuzhong, the high school affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Fudan University is one of the leading institutes of higher education…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
See Disclosure Above.
Roosevelt university is an independent, non-profit, metropolitan university and national leader in educating socially conscious citizens for active and dedicated lives as leaders in their professions and their communities. the university's…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds STUF UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5170 Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOMS AGAINST POVERTY ↗
- Who funds TAO AND ZEN SOCIETY OF USA ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
- Who funds CBC Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Building Futures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building Futures Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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