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Design Forward Alliance

Advocating for Human-Centered Design as a regional approach to improve economic, social, and civic life in our community.Design Forward Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to leveraging the power of design to drive social impact. As a collective of San Diego's leading design minds from industry and academia, it fosters…

$8k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$56k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Blupeak Credit Union$8,00010%

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About Design Forward Alliance

How much does Design Forward Alliance give?
Design Forward Alliance reported 1 grants totaling $8,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Design Forward Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (100%).
Who are Design Forward Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Blupeak Credit Union ($8k).
Where is Design Forward Alliance based?
Design Forward Alliance is based in CA.

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 1 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 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 but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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