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Fthree Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
102
Grants FY2024
89
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
61 to 99
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$30M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Fthree Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving94$1.7M20%
FY202389$1.5M8%
FY202286$1.5M9%
FY202192$1.3M17%
FY202099$1.3M38%
FY201961$975k13%
FY201869$1.0M26%
FY201761$959kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$4.7MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MCivil Rights$1.2MEnvironment$346kYouth Development$335kInternational$317kPhilanthropy$300kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CT
RI
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VA
MD
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kqed Inc$800,00080%
MapLight$530,00085%
Issue One$480,00082%
Ignite$415,00084%
Mi Familia En Accion$415,00083%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$400,00041%
CalMatters$400,00082%
The News Literacy Project Inc$400,00082%
Rock the Vote$375,00085%
Youth Radio$285,00071%
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All grantees of Fthree Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kqed Inc$800,00080%
MapLight$530,00085%
Issue One$480,00082%
Ignite$415,00084%
Mi Familia En Accion$415,00083%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$400,00041%
CalMatters$400,00082%
The News Literacy Project Inc$400,00082%
Rock the Vote$375,00085%
Youth Radio$285,00071%
The Howard University$255,00030%
Protect Democracy Project$250,00070%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$250,00050%
The Center for Public Integrity$210,00071%
State Democracy Project$205,000417%
National Public Radio Inc$200,00040%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$175,00031%
Icivics Inc$175,00041%
Education Pioneers$150,00031%
Voteorg$140,00042%
Defending Democracy Together Institute$125,00041%
Marin Promise Partnership$110,00034%
New Georgia Project Inc$87,50040%
The Center for Civic Alternatives$75,000317%
RepresentUs Education Fund$60,00030%
Redress Movement$55,00032%
City Bureau Nfp$50,00021%
National Trust for Local News$50,00021%
Democracy Works Inc$50,00040%
Local Media Foundation$50,00020%
The Collective Education Fund$50,0002n/a
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano$47,50050%
San Francisco Food Bank$45,00080%
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation$45,00080%
The Philanthropy Workshop Inc Dba Forward Global$44,00040%
International Rescue Committee INC$40,00080%
The Trust for Public Land$40,00080%
Human Rights Watch Inc$40,00080%
Marin Agricultural Land Trust$40,00080%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$40,00080%
Southwire Cares Inc$40,00041%
The Carter Center Inc$40,00080%
Safe & Sound$40,00080%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$40,00070%
One Hundred Miles Inc$40,00081%
Root Capital Inc$40,00080%
Music Will Inc$37,50080%
Summer Search$36,00080%
Tilting Futures Incorporated$36,00080%
North Bay Organizing Project$36,00040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$35,00050%
10000 Degrees$35,00060%
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence$35,00070%
Aim High$35,00071%
The Thacher School Inc$35,00070%
Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc$35,00070%
Compass Family Services$35,00080%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$31,00070%
Refugepoint Inc$30,00060%
Canal Alliance$27,50050%
Friends of the Urban Forest$25,50080%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation$25,00011%
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$25,00020%
Global Fund for Women Inc$25,00050%
Amah Mutsun Land Trust$25,00011%
Voter Formation Project$25,00010%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf$25,00010%
Storycorps Inc$25,00010%
Point Reyes Bird Observatory$25,00010%
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc$25,00080%
SD Foundation$25,0001n/a
Multiplier$25,00010%
Southerners on New Ground Inc$22,50050%
Redford Center Inc$20,00040%
The Voter Participation Center$20,00060%
Fairvote$20,00050%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Inc$20,00040%
Urban Tilth$20,00040%
Project Open Hand Inc$17,5002n/a
Firstline Schools Inc$17,00050%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$15,00030%
Urban Gleaners$15,00050%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$15,00060%
San Francisco Parks Alliance$14,00060%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$14,00032%
Save The Bay$14,00060%
California Academy of Sciences$13,00080%
Affect Real Change Inc$12,50020%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$12,50020%
Network of Engaged International Donors Global Inc$12,50041%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$12,50020%
Golden State Opportunity$10,00010%
Focusing Philanthropy Inc$10,00020%
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$10,00060%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$10,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$10,00030%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$10,00030%
Meritus College Fund$10,00020%
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc$10,0002n/a
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$10,00010%
Creo Family Office Syndicate Inc$10,00010%
Media Impact Funders Inc$8,00080%
350org$8,00080%
Community Action Marin$7,50020%
St Johns Episcopal Church$7,5003n/a
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners$7,00070%
Solutions Project Inc$6,00020%
Citizens Climate Education Corp$6,00020%
California Film Institute$5,00010%
The Marshall Project Inc$5,00010%
Givedirectly Inc$5,00010%
National Marine Mammal Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Johnny Mac Tennis Project Inc$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Davidson College$5,00010%
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology$5,00010%
The Task Force for Global Health Inc$5,00010%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$5,00010%
Together SF$5,00011%
Neighbors for a Better San Francisco$5,00010%
San Francisco Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum$5,00020%
The Bronx Documentary Center$5,00050%
826 Valencia$4,00040%
Georgia-Alabama Land Trust Inc$4,00040%
New York Public Radio$4,00040%
The Bronx Defenders$3,50020%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees$3,00020%
Gordon Research Conferences Inc$2,50010%
Gateway Mountain Center Inc$2,5001n/a
Scripted Inc Dba Code Nation$2,50010%
Save the Redwoods League$2,50010%
World Savvy$2,50010%
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco$2,50010%
Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc$2,00010%
On Being Project$2,00040%
Reading Partners$2,00020%
The American Society for Cell Biology$1,00020%
Community Initiatives$1,00010%
The Preemptive Love Coalition$1,00010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$1,00010%
Jamestown Community Center$1,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$50010%
Unc Health Foundation Inc$50010%
The American Society for Clinical Investigation Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($897k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fthree Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKqed Inc: $800,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMapLight: $530,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetIssue One: $480,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetIgnite: $415,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetMi Familia En Accion: $415,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCalMatters: $400,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetThe News Literacy Project Inc: $400,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetRock the Vote: $375,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetYouth Radio: $285,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe Howard University: $255,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProtect Democracy Project: $250,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Public Integrity: $210,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetState Democracy Project: $205,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Campaign Legal Center Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIcivics Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEducation Pioneers: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVoteorg: $140,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDefending Democracy Together Institute: $125,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMarin Promise Partnership: $110,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNew Georgia Project Inc: $87,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Civic Alternatives: $75,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRedress Movement: $55,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCity Bureau Nfp: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNational Trust for Local News: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDemocracy Works Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLocal Media Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFood Bank of Contra Costa and Solano: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSandy Hook Promise Foundation: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Philanthropy Workshop Inc Dba Forward Global: $44,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Agricultural Land Trust: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwire Cares Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSafe & Sound: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRoot Capital Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Will Inc: $37,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSummer Search: $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTilting Futures Incorporated: $36,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 138.

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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 Community FoundationCA39.9× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Crankstart Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc

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.

Compare Fthree Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Fthree Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fthree Foundation 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 Fthree Foundation

How much does Fthree Foundation give?
Fthree Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $1,880,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 99 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fthree Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (43%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Fthree Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kqed Inc ($800k), MapLight ($530k), Issue One ($480k).
Does Fthree Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fthree Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fthree Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is Fthree Foundation based?
Fthree Foundation is based in GA.

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 189 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-PF 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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