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Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc

To create better futures for disadvantaged people

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$4.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$16MPhilanthropy$7.5MCommunity Improvement$5.8MEducation$2.9MEmployment$2.5MScience & Tech$1.7MHealth$850kYouth Development$407kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $18,961,097, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,931,602 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,970,505 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+17 grants · $17M
$198,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UBS Financial Services Inc$4,400,000
Jewish Communal Fund$2,200,000
The Clear Fund DBA GiveWell$2,000,000
Founders Pledge Inc$2,000,000
MIT$1,152,452
Appleseed Inc$750,000
Center for Innovative Governa$750,000
One Acre Fund$750,000
Friends of Raising the Villag$500,000
Digital Divide Data$500,000
Ariadne Labs$500,000
Emma Torch$500,000
Maisha Meds Inc$300,000
Johns Hopkins University$255,250
The Agency Fund$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WelcomeNST: $10k → 11%Emma Torch: $500k → 20%Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhatta: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 11 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
25

Total granted

$15M
$6.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +23%
  • ARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +106% · 28% of their budget
  • OA
    ONE ACRE FUND
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • E
    Educate
    one grant, 2023 · $2.4M · revenue -11%
  • SH
    SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +28%
  • MI
    MALENGO INC
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue -11% · 59% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
3
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
Ja Africa

The mission of ja africa is to inspire and prepare young people in africa to succeed in a global economy.

Education
6
Keralink International Inc

Keralink international works to end avoidable blindness by developing, delivering, and scaling affordable solutions for all, powered by innovative technology and partnerships.

Health
7
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
8
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
9
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc

We enable countries to cure avoidable blindness by developing high quality, cost-effective eye care in underserved areas of the world.

International
10
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
11
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
12
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visionspring Inc; the most unlike its peers is Giving Wings Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
34/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CLEAR FUND: $5,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $2,200,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDFOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDERS PLEDGE INCARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $1,975,000 · PhilanthropyARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISINGAPPLESEED FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyAPPLESEED FOUNDATION INCPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INCFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $500,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $555,474 · PhilanthropyEducate: $2,400,000 · InternationalEducateONE ACRE FUND: $1,750,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUNDTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT …INKOMOKO: $550,000 · InternationalINKOMOKONetwork for Empowerment & Progressive Initiatives - Nepi Inc: $357,070 · InternationalMAISHA MEDS INC: $300,000 · International+15 more: $1,454,463 · International+15 moreUBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION US INC: $4,400,000 · OtherUBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION …Digital Divide Data: $1,800,000 · OtherDigital Divide DataMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $698,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM IN…CareCubes Inc: $300,000 · Other+6 more: $531,400 · Other+6 moreMIT International Inc: $1,152,452 · EducationMIT Internatio…SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $750,000 · EducationSHINING HOPE F…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $750,000 · EducationMassachusetts …MALENGO INC: $750,000 · EducationMALENGO INCUniversity of Chicago: $606,000 · EducationUniversity of …JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $255,250 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS …SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC: $165,000 · Education+5 more: $294,000 · Education+5 moreEYELLIANCE INC: $2,320,000 · HealthNOORA HEALTH: $100,000 · Health+4 more: $142,612 · HealthCenter for Innovative Governance Research: $750,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · Community ImprovementTHE RESOLUTION PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $500,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$13,730,474International$7,811,533Other$7,729,400Education$4,722,702Health$2,562,612Community Improvement$910,000Human Services$520,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $5,000,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEducate: $2,400,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetEYELLIANCE INC: $2,320,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $2,200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetARBOR BROTHERS INC DBA ARBOR RISING: $1,975,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetDigital Divide Data: $1,800,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $1,750,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMIT International Inc: $1,152,452 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCUBATOR INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAPPLESEED FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $750,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALENGO INC: $750,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCenter for Innovative Governance Research: $750,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $606,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINKOMOKO: $550,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $500,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNetwork for Empowerment & Progressive Initiatives - Nepi Inc: $357,070 over 2y, 23% of budgetMAISHA MEDS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $255,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE ACTION FOR SMALLHOLDERS (CASH) COALITION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE AGENCY FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE SOMO PROJECT: $250,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetVISIONSPRING INC: $199,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRedeem International: $170,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $165,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC: $165,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLABOR MOBILITY PARTNERSHIPS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLESEED INC: $131,963 over 1y, 30% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: $125,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetRocket Learning Foundation: $120,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEGAL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $105,974 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNOORA HEALTH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALIGHT: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN COLLABORATIVE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRESTORINGVISION: $73,668 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $64,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISION QUEST 2020: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSPARK MICROGRANTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNURU INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Dovetail Impact Found…Skoll FundMulago FoundationRippleworks IncThe Skoll FoundationGates FoundationWellspring Philanthro…Segal Family Foundati…Imago Dei FundMarin Community Found…The Horace W Goldsmit…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Skoll Fund · Mulago Foundation · Rippleworks Inc · The Skoll Foundation · Gates Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Segal Family Foundation Inc · Imago Dei Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Horace W Goldsmith 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Network for Empowerment & Progressive Initiatives - Nepi Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Follow Your Dream Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 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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