New York · Private foundation
Forward Vision
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2017
- 15
- Grants FY2017
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2017
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of Forward Vision’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Forward Vision named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2017
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2017
- $526,853
- States reached, FY2017
- 6
- Total assets, FY2017
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hood Foundation | $1,022,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $541,753 | 4 | 0% |
| Third Way Institute | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Acceleration Project Inc | $419,444 | 8 | 13% |
| Santa Fe Institute | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Friends of the Scarsdale Library Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Regional Plan Association Inc | $95,040 | 7 | 0% |
| White Plains Hospital Medical Center | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City Harvest Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forward Vision supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Charles S Raizen Foundation Inc · The V & L Marx Foundation · Siegel Family Endowment · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Milton Pollack Family Foundation Inc C/O Stephanie Miller · The Rosalie Katz Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Plm Foundation Philip L Milstein Trustee · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Forward Vision?
Find your warmest path to Forward Vision 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.
About Forward Vision
- How much does Forward Vision give?
- Forward Vision reported 15 grants totaling $1,540,393 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
- What does Forward Vision fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (57%), Education (21%), Community Improvement (5%).
- Who are Forward Vision's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Robin Hood Foundation ($1.0M), Georgetown University ($542k), Third Way Institute ($500k).
- Does Forward Vision accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Forward Vision?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Charles S Raizen Foundation Inc, The V & L Marx Foundation.
- Where is Forward Vision based?
- Forward Vision is based in NY.
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