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Fund for a Better Future Inc

FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC.'s mission is to promote the common good by upholding democratic values, protecting the environment, promoting health, and advancing social equity.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Environment$56MPublic Benefit$54MCivil Rights$24MHuman Services$3.0MCrime & Legal$2.0MAnimals$196kCommunity Improvement$100kPhilanthropy$20k
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+14 grants · $9.5M
$200,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND$1,500,000
CLIMATE POWER$1,105,882
PRIORITIES USA$1,000,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$750,000
ELECTORAL COLLECTIVE ACTION$750,000
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT$750,000
TEXAS CAMPAIGN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT$530,000
HIP HOP CAUCUS ACTION FUND$500,000
YES ON PROP 4 CALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER & WILDFIRE PREVENTION$500,000
PENNSYLVANIA UNITED$500,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD$500,000
CLEAN AIR ACTION FUND$450,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND$445,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC$250,000
BLACK MEN VOTE CIVIC ACTION FUND$200,000
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 (FY20–20, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION: $196k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
NV
PA
CA
CO
MO
WV
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$103M · 17 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
30

Total granted

$103M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+47%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +104%
  • IP
    INDIVISIBLE PROJECT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +11%
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR ACTION FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $700k · revenue +91% · 88% of their budget

Funded once

  • CP
    CLIMATE POWER ACTION
    one grant, 2022 · $5.7M
  • AF
    AB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +260%
  • HM
    HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3.0M · revenue +229%

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
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
Climate Innovation Action Inc

To educate policymakers about climate policies generally and to directly advocate for specific legislation on climate change.

Environment
4
Nrdc Action Fund Inc

To build political support for advancing the goals of the natural resources defense council.

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5
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
6
Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

Environment
7
Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in public education within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. the corporation may engage in public interest research, policy development, analysis, public education,…

Environment
8
Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc

To improve the environment through education and policy work, with an emphasis on pollution, climate change, and energy issues; and how congress and the administration stand on these issues.

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9
Evergreen Action

Advocate for and reform to climate policies at the national and state level.

Human Services
10
Nextgen Climate Action

Nextgen america empowers young people to engage in the democratic process through voter registration and civic engagement on issues of public policy. this is achieved through innovative digital outreach, communications, and grassroots…

Unclassified
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment America Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Approach Montana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%19%<5yr14%23%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr15%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%23%<5yr14%48%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%3%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 23% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,932

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 69 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
33/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRIORITIES USA — $44,285,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USALEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $13,717,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INCINDIVISIBLE PROJECT — $4,250,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE PROJECT+9 more — $3,063,000 · Civil RightsCLIMATE POWER — $22,405,882 · EnvironmentCLIMATE POWERSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $1,770,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDThe Partnership Project Action Fund — $1,169,260 · Environment+13 more — $2,764,700 · Environment+13 moreCLIMATE POWER ACTION — $5,700,000 · OtherCLIMATE POWER A…BBT INC — $5,040,000 · OtherBBT INCWORKMONEY INC — $2,940,000 · OtherWORKMONEY INCNEVADA ALLIANCE — $2,000,000 · OtherNEVADA ALLIANCETIDES ADVOCACY — $750,000 · Other+21 more — $2,130,000 · Other+21 moreAB FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 · Public BenefitAB FOUNDA…FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION — $2,500,000 · Public BenefitFUTURE FO…DEMAND JUSTICE — $2,000,000 · Public BenefitDEMAND JU…CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $1,050,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FO…CLEAN AIR ACTION FUND — $700,000 · Public BenefitCLEAN AIR…RUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND — $419,400 · Public Benefit+2 more — $100,000 · Public BenefitFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $8,037,000 · Education+1 more — $50,000 · EducationHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $3,000,000 · Community ImprovementPATRIOT MAJORITY USA — $1,960,000 · Community ImprovementAmerica Votes — $250,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED STATES MEGAFIRE RESPONSE — $2,000,000 · Human ServicesANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION — $196,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$65,315,000Environment$28,109,842Other$18,560,000Public Benefit$11,769,400Education$8,087,000Community Improvement$5,210,000Human Services$2,196,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRIORITIES USA — $44,285,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetCLIMATE POWER — $22,405,882 over 2y, 60% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC — $13,717,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC — $8,037,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBBT INC — $5,040,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetAB FOUNDATION — $5,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT — $4,250,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD — $3,000,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWORKMONEY INC — $2,940,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION — $2,500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDEMAND JUSTICE — $2,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE — $2,000,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetPATRIOT MAJORITY USA — $1,960,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $1,770,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund — $1,169,260 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND — $1,050,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetElectoral Collective Action — $750,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $750,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLEAN AIR ACTION FUND — $700,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetPennsylvania United — $600,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment — $530,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCALIFORNIANS FOR SAFE DRINKING WATER AND WILDFIRE PREVENTION — $500,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetALL VOTING IS LOCAL ACTION — $500,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetENERGY ACTION FUND — $500,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHIP HOP CAUCUS ACTION FUND — $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD — $500,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetVOTO LATINO INC — $450,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — $445,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRUN FOR SOMETHING ACTION FUND — $419,400 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBLACK MEN VOTE CIVIC ACTION FUND — $400,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAmerica Votes — $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD & WATER ACTION FUND — $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION — $196,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA INC — $152,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION — $125,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFor West Virginia's Future Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND — $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetClean Energy For America Inc — $120,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Inc — $120,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWILDERNESS SOCIETY ACTION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNew Approach Montana — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS — $88,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION — $60,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER ACTION — $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNORTH FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUPERMAJORITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…America VotesTides AdvocacyOur American Future A…NEO Philanthropy Acti…Way to Win Action Fun…League of Conservatio…Hopewell FundNational Education As…Future Forward USA Ac…Advocacy Action Fund …
Sixteen Thirty FundDC66× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · America Votes · Tides Advocacy · Our American Future Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · League of Conservation Voters Inc · Hopewell Fund · National Education Association of the United States · Future Forward USA Action · Advocacy Action Fund Inc

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 Fund for a Better Future Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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

    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 Fund for a Better Future Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Fund for a Better Future Inc 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 69 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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