California · Public charity
Forward Impact
Represent justice turns stories into action to change the justice system, while building the capacity of system-impacted communities. Our vision is a fair legal system, dignity for system-impacted communities, and an end to extreme sentencing and mass incarceration.
- $148k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $23k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $23,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Forward Impact 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; $9k 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 | 1 | $23k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $100k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal Justice Initiative | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Art for Justice | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tides Advocacy | $246,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Color of Changeorg Education Fund | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth | $130,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Millennial Action Project Dba Future Caucus | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Women on the Rise | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries Inc | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation | $45,000 | 1 | 5% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forward Impact supplied at peak.
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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: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Center · The Just Trust for Education · Solidago Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Forward Impact through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Forward Impact
- How much does Forward Impact give?
- Forward Impact reported 1 itemized grants totaling $23,000, out of $148,157 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Forward Impact fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (48%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Civil Rights (17%).
- Who are Forward Impact's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Equal Justice Initiative ($1.0M), Art for Justice ($500k), Tides Advocacy ($246k).
- Does Forward Impact fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Forward Impact?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, Tides Foundation, The Ford Foundation.
- Where is Forward Impact based?
- Forward Impact is based in CA.
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