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.

Fthree Foundation

Fthree Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fthree Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

102

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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

02FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k64 grants · $246k
$10k–50k19 grants · $420k
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.2M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$30M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARIN PROMISE PARTNERSHIP	$100,000
CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING	$100,000
KQED INC	$100,000
MAPLIGHT	$85,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY	$85,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER	$75,000
ISSUE ONE	$60,000
PROTEUS FUND	$60,000
PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT	$50,000
ICIVICS	$50,000
TIDES FOUNDATION	$50,000
VOTING RIGHTS LAB -SD FOUNDATION	$50,000
MI FAMILIA VOTA EDUCATION FUND	$50,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE	$50,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.7M · 126 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

126 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126

Total granted

$9.7M

$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+62%

Still filing today

81%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

M
MapLight
8× · 2017–2024 · $530k · revenue +62%
ISSUE ONE
8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +105%
I
IGNITE
8× · 2017–2024 · $415k · revenue +59%

Funded once

R
REVEAL
one grant, 2021 · $100k
TL
THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPFgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +81%
SF
SD Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +104%

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.

California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit

Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education

National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Media Impact Funders Inc; the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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

156 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. 156 of the 189 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

154/156

Grantees still filing

99/156

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$2,539,500Civil Rights$2,087,500Other$2,778,000Public Benefit$1,492,000Arts & Culture$1,222,500Environment$404,500International$354,500

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

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 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home