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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 FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$4.8M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Crime & Legal$14MEducation$11MHealth$4.7MEnvironment$4.4MHuman Services$2.5MCivil Rights$1.1MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$906kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 48 grants below total $12,941,108 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $15,229,830 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,288,722 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $3.2M
  • $250k+14 grants · $9.5M
$141,079
Median grant
10
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FreeWorld$4,786,422
Adalat AI$682,034
Lenny Learning$550,723
ColorStack$405,418
Lemontree Foods Inc$398,100
Dollar For$383,850
Koko AI$302,500
Career Village Inc$298,000
Upchieve$295,000
Unlocked Labs$288,000
Farmers For Forests Inc$282,426
Rocket Learning Foundation$270,869
Climate Cabinet Education$260,829
ASAP$250,500
Uprooted Academy$247,803
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Dollar For: $384k → 9%Think of Us Inc: $12k → 10%Dollar For: $138k → 9%Closegap: $173k → 14%ASAP: $251k → 17%Tarjimly: $119k → 8%Closegap: $170k → 14%Tarjimly: $58k → 8%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Projec: $79k → 17%Tarjimly: $58k → 8%Tarjimly: $36k → 8%Tarjimly: $25k → 8%Tarjimly: $20k → 8%Tarjimly: $11k → 8%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Projec: $10k → 17%Edward Charles Foundation: $79k → 14%SameSame: $95k → 17%SameSame: $15k → 17%Thorn: $158k → 14%Thorn: $141k → 14%Thorn: $118k → 14%Thorn: $107k → 14%Thorn: $75k → 14%ReMake: $439k → 10%ReMake: $322k → 10%ReMake: $290k → 10%ReMake: $165k → 10%ReMake: $64k → 10%ReMake: $8k → 10%One Degree: $25k → 10%One Degree: $9k → 10%Farmers For Forests Inc: $282k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $2.3M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$1.8M · 79% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$360k · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

North America (Canada and Mexico)$125k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 72 repeat orgs$9.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
20

Total granted

$36M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
-13%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • JF
    JOIN FREEWORLD INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6.9M · revenue +110% · 65% of their budget
  • CI
    COMMONLIT INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +281%
  • RL
    Rocket Learning Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue ×28 · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • PF
    PROJECT FOUNDED INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $400k · revenue -100% · 100% of their budget
  • JE
    JOY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $108k · revenue +16% · 36% of their budget
  • IL
    IMMIGRANTS LIKE US INC
    one grant, 2020 · $102k · revenue -98% · 64% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

2
Center for Humane Technology

Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.

Science & Tech
3
Voteorg

Vote.org's primary purpose is to build web-based technologies that remove barriers to voting and increase vote turnout.

Civil Rights
4
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
5
Brave New Software Project Inc

Brave New Software is dedicated to keeping the Internet open and decentralized. We build open source software tools that helps users access an uncensored internet, and create a more open and protected information infrastructure for us all.

Civil Rights
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Techequity Action

Our missions is to ensure that the tech industry is a force for justice in our economy. we do this by empowering tech workers to advocate for structural change through progressive policy and candidate campaigns.

Civil Rights
8
Project Include

Project Include's mission is to give everyone a fair chance to succeed in tech. We are a non-profit that uses data and advocacy to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry.

Employment
9
Development Data Lab Inc

DDL`s Work is designed to widen public access to and use of economic, demographic and physical data that describes, defines and seeks to alleviate poverty, especially in the developing world

International
10
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.

Philanthropy
11
IDENTITY2020 Systems Inc

Id2020 brings together diverse voices to set technical requirements, influence policy, and accelerate the implementation of digital id programs that benefit the most vulnerable.

12
Responsible Innovation Labs Inc

Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Founded Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Joy Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringImmigrant Worker SupportDomestic Violence ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Mentoring ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Social ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 9 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%15%<5yr15%42%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr13%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%14%<5yr15%42%5–10yr20%42%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr11%0%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%4/105
the rest of the field
14%
26,001/186,873

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

35
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/100
Grantees still filing
63/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMONLIT INC — $2,422,190 · EducationCOMMONLIT INCRocket Learning Foundation — $1,337,326 · EducationRocket Learning FoundationTALKINGPOINTS — $1,310,839 · EducationTALKINGPOINTSEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC — $839,168 · EducationEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INCDARSEL — $706,153 · EducationDARSELFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC — $684,229 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUA…UPCHIEVE INC — $662,688 · EducationUPCHIEVE INCDost Education — $553,538 · EducationCAREERVILLAGE INC — $505,640 · Education+16 more — $2,561,121 · Education+16 moreJOIN FREEWORLD INC — $6,886,928 · Crime & LegalJOIN FREEWORLD INCAdalat AI Inc — $682,034 · Crime & LegalAdalat AI IncUPSOLVE INC — $466,461 · Crime & LegalUNLOCKED LABS — $377,981 · Crime & LegalRECIDIVIZ INC — $348,066 · Crime & Legal+6 more — $731,556 · Crime & Legal+6 moreJOIN FREEWORLD INC — $4,786,422 · OtherJOIN FREEWORLD INCOnward — $1,623,510 · OtherOnwardLEMONTREE FOODS INC — $513,772 · OtherPROJECT FOUNDED INCORPORATED — $400,000 · OtherWATTTIME CORPORATION — $632,688 · OtherWATTTIME CORPORATIONRaheem Ai DBA Community Response Works — $551,459 · OtherCOLORSTACK INC — $405,418 · Other+28 more — $2,588,177 · Other+28 moreRemake — $1,287,601 · Human ServicesRemakeTHORN — $600,151 · Human ServicesTHORNDOLLAR FOR — $521,778 · Human ServicesDOLLAR FORALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY — $386,514 · Human ServicesALLIES AGA…CloseGap — $342,875 · Human ServicesCloseGapASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $339,272 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEE…Tarjimly Inc — $326,556 · Human ServicesTarjimly I…Farmers for Forests Inc — $282,426 · Human ServicesFarmers fo…+4 more — $235,550 · Human Services+4 moreSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM — $792,434 · HealthSUPPORTIN…LENNY LEARNING INC — $550,723 · HealthLENNY LEA…Hopebound Mental Health — $546,145 · HealthHopebound…Koko AI Inc — $440,650 · HealthKoko AI I…NEXLEAF ANALYTICS — $428,251 · HealthNEXLEAF A…MEDIC MOBILE INC — $217,756 · HealthMEDIC MOB…NOORA HEALTH — $169,770 · Health+8 more — $621,016 · Health+8 moreCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $2,803,110 · EnvironmentOpenAQ Inc — $296,792 · EnvironmentClimate Neutral — $218,644 · EnvironmentGRAMHAL INC — $449,372 · InternationalRefugees United Foundation USA — $368,400 · InternationalINTELEHEALTH INC — $301,751 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDS — $234,936 · International
Education$11,582,892Crime & Legal$9,493,026Other$11,501,446Human Services$4,322,723Health$3,766,745Environment$3,318,546International$1,354,459

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOIN FREEWORLD INC — $6,886,928 over 3y, 65% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $2,803,110 over 3y, 56% of budgetCOMMONLIT INC — $2,422,190 over 5y, 12% of budgetRocket Learning Foundation — $1,337,326 over 4y, 30% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS — $1,310,839 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetRemake — $1,287,601 over 6y, 39% of budgetEMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC — $839,168 over 5y, 14% of budgetSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM — $792,434 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetDARSEL — $706,153 over 4y, 98% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC — $684,229 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetAdalat AI Inc — $682,034 over 1y, 98% of budgetUPCHIEVE INC — $662,688 over 7y, 32% of budgetWATTTIME CORPORATION — $632,688 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHORN — $600,151 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDost Education — $553,538 over 6y, 30% of budgetRaheem Ai DBA Community Response Works — $551,459 over 3y, 82% of budgetHopebound Mental Health — $546,145 over 5y, 31% of budgetDOLLAR FOR — $521,778 over 2y, 23% of budgetLEMONTREE FOODS INC — $513,772 over 3y, 33% of budgetCAREERVILLAGE INC — $505,640 over 7y, 11% of budgetUPSOLVE INC — $466,461 over 6y, 12% of budgetGRAMHAL INC — $449,372 over 3y, 90% of budgetKoko AI Inc — $440,650 over 2y, 21% of budgetNEXLEAF ANALYTICS — $428,251 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCOLORSTACK INC — $405,418 over 1y, 30% of budgetPROJECT FOUNDED INCORPORATED — $400,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY — $386,514 over 4y, 20% of budgetUNLOCKED LABS — $377,981 over 3y, 23% of budgetRefugees United Foundation USA — $368,400 over 4y, 64% of budgetRECIDIVIZ INC — $348,066 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCloseGap — $342,875 over 2y, 48% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $339,272 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetEMPOWR CO — $337,021 over 3y, 48% of budgetTarjimly Inc — $326,556 over 7y, 98% of budgetBEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC — $324,810 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetINTELEHEALTH INC — $301,751 over 3y, 18% of budgetOpenAQ Inc — $296,792 over 6y, 22% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $282,653 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFarmers for Forests Inc — $282,426 over 1y, 49% of budgetEmpower Work Inc — $277,883 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetUPROOTED WAY — $247,803 over 1y, 40% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS — $234,936 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetClimate Neutral — $218,644 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetMEDIC MOBILE INC — $217,756 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetImmigration Project Inc — $205,106 over 2y, 15% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $201,318 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOP FOR GOOD — $198,313 over 3y, 12% of budgetRAINFOREST CONNECTION — $193,753 over 3y, 3.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds JOIN FREEWORLD INC
  • Who funds JOIN FREEWORLD INC
  • Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP
  • Who funds COMMONLIT INC
  • Who funds Rocket Learning Foundation
  • Who funds TALKINGPOINTS
  • Who funds Remake
  • Who funds EMPIRICAL RESOLUTION INC
  • Who funds SUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM
  • Who funds DARSEL
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING EQUALITY INC
  • Who funds Adalat AI Inc
  • Who funds UPCHIEVE INC
  • Who funds WATTTIME CORPORATION
  • Who funds THORN
  • Who funds Dost Education
  • Who funds Raheem Ai DBA Community Response Works
  • Who funds LENNY LEARNING INC
  • Who funds Hopebound Mental Health
  • Who funds DOLLAR FOR
  • Who funds LEMONTREE FOODS INC
  • Who funds CAREERVILLAGE INC
  • Who funds UPSOLVE INC
  • Who funds GRAMHAL INC
  • Who funds Koko AI Inc
  • Who funds NEXLEAF ANALYTICS
  • Who funds COLORSTACK INC
  • Who funds PROJECT FOUNDED INCORPORATED
  • Who funds ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY
  • Who funds UNLOCKED LABS
  • Who funds Refugees United Foundation USA
  • Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC
  • Who funds CloseGap
  • Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC
  • Who funds EMPOWR CO
  • Who funds Tarjimly Inc
  • Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds INTELEHEALTH INC
  • Who funds OpenAQ Inc

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides FoundationCA42.5× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ffwd funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Hera Inc100% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ffwd?

Find your warmest path to Ffwd 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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