· Private foundation
First Push Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SKATE LIKE A GIRL | $3,000 |
| COWTOWN SKATE | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SKATEBOARDING HALL OF FAME | $1,480 |
| MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE | $1,000 |
| SKATEISTAN | $1,000 |
| FRESNO SKATEBOARD SALVAGE | $1,000 |
| LAUNCH COMMUNITY THROUGH SKATEBOARDING | $1,000 |
| BOARDS FOR BROS | $1,000 |
| THE SKATEPARK PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS | $1,000 |
| SKATE WILD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
Our mission is to increase the visibility of skaters and promote safety practices, while also creating positive and safe spaces for individuals new to skating, those aspiring to improve, and professional skaters. We are committed to…
To enrich the city of lebanon by cooperating with local skaters, businesses, and community at large to facilitate the construction of a public skatepark.
To make the mental health and wellness benefits of skateboarding available to children in underserved communities by providing free skateboards helmets, shoes, and lessons
Our mission is to empower youth and marginalized genders including women non-binary, and trans folk, and build community through action sports skill-building, equipment sharing, and accessible community events. We seek to transform…
our mission statement is helping underserved kids be part of an empowering, supportive and exciting culture one skateboard at a time.
Providing outdoor education through skateboarding camps and lessons to local youth
Advocacy, fundraising, and activation for action sports in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Gwl skatepark mission is to raise funds to build a skatepark accessible to the underprivilege youth and to develop appreciation for this sport in this unique community.
To be a light to the industry and culture of skateboarding by sharing the Gospel message.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Launch Community Through Skateboard and the most unlike its peers is Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SKATE LIKE A GIRL ↗
- Who funds COWTOWN SKATE ↗
- Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SKATE WILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE ↗
- Who funds Launch Community Through Skateboard ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY PARKS ↗
- Who funds TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds BOARDS FOR BROS INC ↗
- Who funds FRESNO SKATEBOARD SALVAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SKATEISTAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 First Push Foundation 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.
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.
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