California · Public charity
Ffwd
FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.
- $15M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $13M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $141,079
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,786,422
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Ffwd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $833k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 47 | $13M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $15M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $6.3M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $3.8M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $2.5M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $2.2M | 76% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $1.7M | 86% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $425k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Join Freeworld Inc | $6,886,928 | 3 | 65% |
| Join Freeworld Inc | $4,786,422 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizens Climate Education Corp | $2,803,110 | 3 | 56% |
| Commonlit Inc | $2,422,190 | 5 | 12% |
| Onward | $1,623,510 | 4 | n/a |
| Rocket Learning Foundation | $1,337,326 | 4 | 30% |
| Talkingpoints | $1,310,839 | 4 | 6% |
| Remake | $1,287,601 | 6 | 39% |
| Empirical Resolution Inc | $839,168 | 5 | 14% |
| Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine - Sirum | $792,434 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 103 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Ffwd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 35 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation · Rippleworks Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Mulago Foundation · The Roddenberry Foundation · Echoing Green Inc · Full Circle Fund
How this is measured
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About Ffwd
- How much does Ffwd give?
- Ffwd reported 48 itemized grants totaling $12,941,108, out of $15,229,830 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Ffwd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (31%), Education (25%), Health (10%).
- Who are Ffwd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Join Freeworld Inc ($6.9M), Join Freeworld Inc ($4.8M), Citizens Climate Education Corp ($2.8M).
- Does Ffwd fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ffwd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, Impactassetsinc, The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ffwd based?
- Ffwd is based in CA.
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