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Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$892kPublic Benefit$96kArts & Culture$42kHuman Services$23kHealth$23kCrime & Legal$7kCommunity Improvement$7k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $22,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $116,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $94,750 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.

$22,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROG NOW NEW MEX EDU FUND$22,000
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 (FY17–21, $902k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Forward Together Action: $400k → 10%NM Asian Family Center: $9k → 14%Sister Song: $6k → 13%Forward Together Action: $300k → 10%NM Asian Family Center: $7k → 14%Forward Together Action: $170k → 10%Young Women United: $10k → 14%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.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$994k · 4 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +241% since the first grant, against +177% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$994k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+241%
+177%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • FR
    FAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue ×11 · 33% of their budget
  • CENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +241%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER
    3× · 2018–2022 · $24k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUSTICE ACCESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +42%
  • BF
    BOLD FUTURES NMgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +64%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +326%

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
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
2
El Centro De Igualdad Y Derechos

El centro de igualdad y derechos is a civil rights and workers justice organization based in central new mexico that combines organizing, leadership development, information campaigns, and policy education.

Human Services
3
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.

Civil Rights
4
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

We demand health, dignity, and justice for our communities. We center and amplify Latine voices as we work to transform oppressive systems and narratives and to reclaim control over our bodies and lives. We build power by organizing our…

Health
5
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

6
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
7
Mujeres Unidas y Activas

MUAis an organization of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women with the mission of growing our personal and community power to achieve social and economic justice. Personal transformation and civic-political participation go hand in hand.

Human Services
8
Our Voice Nuestra Voz

Our Voice Nuestra Voice is a nation-building organization, anchoring ancestry while building Black and Brown solidarity in New Orleans. We remember our shared culture and language, reconnect to the land, and organize our community around…

Human Services
9
Law Access New Mexico

Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.

10
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
11
Casa Fortaleza

Casa fortaleza provides advocacy, case management services, therapy, and outreach to victims/survivors of sexual violence.

Health
12
Southern California Immigration Project

Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sistersong Inc and the most unlike its peers is Justice Access Support and Solutions for Health. 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION — $870,000 · Human ServicesFORWARD TOGETHER ACTIONFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION — $70,000 · Human ServicesFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION+3 more — $39,500 · Human ServicesCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC — $30,000 · Arts & CulturePROGRESSNOW NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $22,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE ACCESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTH — $15,000 · HealthNM0200 SANTA FE NOW — $6,800 · Other9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC — $6,500 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $12,000 · EducationSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $7,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$979,500Arts & Culture$30,000Civil Rights$22,000Health$15,000Other$13,300Education$12,000Environment$10,000Crime & Legal$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFORWARD TOGETHER ACTION — $870,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetFAITH ROOTS REPRODUCTIVE ACTION — $70,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW MEXICO ASIAN FAMILY CENTER — $23,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPROGRESSNOW NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND — $22,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJUSTICE ACCESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTH — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERSONG INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Santa Fe Community FoundationNM17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · New Mexico Fund for Women and Girls · Groundswell Fund · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Center for Civic Policy · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides 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 Forward Together 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 · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Forward Together?

    Find your warmest path to Forward Together 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 13 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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