How much does Fund for a Better Future Inc give?

Fund for a Better Future Inc reported 30 grants totaling $10,736,382 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Fund for a Better Future Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Public Benefit (39%), Civil Rights (17%).

Who are Fund for a Better Future Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Priorities USA ($44M), Climate Power ($22M), League of Conservation Voters Inc ($14M).

Does Fund for a Better Future Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for a Better Future Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Open Society Action Fund Inc, America Votes.

Where is Fund for a Better Future Inc based?

Fund for a Better Future Inc is based in CA.

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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 FY2024(still arriving): 30
Grants FY2024: 13
Organizations funded FY2023: 54%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $200,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,500,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 20; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Fund for a Better Future Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentPublic BenefitCivil RightsHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	28	$9.2M	61%
FY2023	13	$36M	54%
FY2022	20	$26M	65%
FY2021	13	$34M	62%
FY2020	19	$32M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Priorities USA	$44,285,000	5	74%
Climate Power	$22,405,882	2	60%
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$13,717,000	4	9%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$8,037,000	2	16%
Climate Power Action	$5,700,000	1	n/a
Bbt Inc	$5,040,000	3	28%
Ab Foundation	$5,000,000	1	24%
Indivisible Project	$4,250,000	5	9%
House Majority Forward	$3,000,000	1	10%
Workmoney Inc	$2,940,000	1	14%

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All grantees of Fund for a Better Future Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Priorities USA	$44,285,000	5	74%
Climate Power	$22,405,882	2	60%
League of Conservation Voters Inc	$13,717,000	4	9%
Fair Fight Action Inc	$8,037,000	2	16%
Climate Power Action	$5,700,000	1	n/a
Bbt Inc	$5,040,000	3	28%
Ab Foundation	$5,000,000	1	24%
Indivisible Project	$4,250,000	5	9%
House Majority Forward	$3,000,000	1	10%
Workmoney Inc	$2,940,000	1	14%
Future Forward USA Action	$2,500,000	1	4%
Demand Justice	$2,000,000	1	34%
United States Megafire Response	$2,000,000	1	n/a
Nevada Alliance	$2,000,000	1	54%
Patriot Majority USA	$1,960,000	1	30%
The Partnership Project Action Fund	$1,169,260	3	6%
Center for American Progress Action Fund	$1,050,000	2	8%
Tides Advocacy	$750,000	1	1%
Electoral Collective Action	$750,000	1	55%
Clean Air Action Fund	$700,000	2	88%
Pennsylvania United	$600,000	2	7%
Texas Campaign for the Environment	$530,000	1	50%
All Voting Is Local Action	$500,000	2	24%
Californians for Safe Drinking Water and Wildfire Prevention	$500,000	1	5%
Democracy Forward	$500,000	1	100%
Hip Hop Caucus Action Fund	$500,000	1	20%
Energy Action Fund	$500,000	1	3%
Voto Latino Inc	$450,000	3	3%
Environmental Defense Action Fund	$445,000	1	1%
Run for Something Action Fund	$419,400	2	4%
Black Men Vote Civic Action Fund	$400,000	2	3%
America Votes	$250,000	2	1%
Change Now Inc	$200,000	1	n/a
Food & Water Action Fund	$200,000	1	15%
Animal Wellness Action	$196,000	1	23%
Environment America Inc	$152,500	1	1%
Black Progressive Action Coalition	$125,000	1	5%
Forward Action Fund	$125,000	1	1%
For West Virginia's Future Inc	$125,000	1	4%
Clean Energy For America Inc	$120,000	1	9%
BlueGreen Alliance Inc	$120,000	1	3%
New Approach Montana	$100,000	1	1%
Votevets Action Fund Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Wilderness Society Action Fund	$100,000	1	6%
California Environmental Voters	$88,000	3	1%
Resources Legacy Fund	$65,000	2	0%
Washington Conservation Action	$60,000	1	4%
Supermajority	$50,000	1	1%
National Redistricting Action Fund	$50,000	1	0%
Our Hawaii Action Aka Our Hawaii	$50,000	1	27%
Americans for Contraception	$50,000	1	0%
Taxpayers for Common Sense Action	$50,000	1	n/a
Campaign Legal Center Action	$50,000	1	29%
Civic Nation	$50,000	1	0%
Karuk Tribe	$50,000	1	n/a
Air Alliance Houston	$47,200	1	1%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$45,000	1	0%
Emerge America	$25,000	1	n/a
Montana Wilderness Association	$25,000	1	1%
Western Resource Advocates	$20,000	1	0%
Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Wild Montana Action Fund	$15,000	1	10%
Corazon Latino Inc	$15,000	1	3%
Meridian Implementation Fund	$10,000	1	1%

Fund for a Better Future Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 58.

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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.

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

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.

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About Fund for a Better Future Inc

How much does Fund for a Better Future Inc give?: Fund for a Better Future Inc reported 30 grants totaling $10,736,382 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Fund for a Better Future Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (40%), Public Benefit (39%), Civil Rights (17%).
Who are Fund for a Better Future Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Priorities USA ($44M), Climate Power ($22M), League of Conservation Voters Inc ($14M).
Does Fund for a Better Future Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for a Better Future Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Open Society Action Fund Inc, America Votes.
Where is Fund for a Better Future Inc based?: Fund for a Better Future Inc is based in CA.