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Feedback Labs

FEEDBACK LABS' mission is to support philanthropy, nonprofits, and other social sector organizations to regularly listen and act on feedback in high-quality, equitable, and inclusive ways. These supported organizations will exchange information and share power with people at the heart of their work for more effective and equitable…

$73k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$58k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Feedback Labs funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$58k100%
FY20235$38k100%
FY20225$50k100%
FY20211$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

International$68kCrime & Legal$18kFood & Nutrition$18kHuman Services$18kCommunity Improvement$15kPhilanthropy$15kEmployment$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Feedback Labs supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBusara Center for Behavioral Economics Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreshfarm Markets: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilver Lining Mentoring Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGatherfor Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetAyuda Legal Puerto Rico Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCorporation for a Skilled Workforce: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMinority Veterans of America: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMy Village Project Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (1361): $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Philanthropy Alliance Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPossibility Labs: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Seattle: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Young Farmers Coalition Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE5.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Feedback Labs?

Find your warmest path to Feedback Labs 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.

About Feedback Labs

How much does Feedback Labs give?
Feedback Labs reported 6 itemized grants totaling $57,500, out of $72,564 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Feedback Labs fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (35%), Crime & Legal (9%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Feedback Labs's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Busara Center for Behavioral Economics Inc ($50k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($18k), Freshfarm Markets ($10k).
Does Feedback Labs fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Feedback Labs?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Feedback Labs based?
Feedback Labs is based in DC.

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 17 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.

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