· Private foundation
Furthur Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MontPIRG | $20,000 |
| Forward Montana Foundation | $20,000 |
| CA Environmental Grassroots Fund | $20,000 |
| League of Women Voters Helena Leagu | $20,000 |
| Pegasus Project | $5,000 |
| Pulama | $5,000 |
| Be The Change Charities | $5,000 |
| The Berkeley Music Group | $4,000 |
| Center for Independent Documentary | $4,000 |
| Recycle Hawai | $4,000 |
| Intersection for the Arts | $3,500 |
| San Francisco Intl Arts Found | $3,500 |
| Color Outside the Lines | $3,500 |
| Hack the Hood | $3,000 |
| Southern CA Immigration Project | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Furthur Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COColor Outside The Lines7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +62%
- TCTHE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +26%
- AARTogether4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- CIColumbus Institute for Contemporaryone grant, 2021 · $20k
- FRFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
- 1P1HOOD POWERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue ×12
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
MG advances a Just Transition away from profit and pollution, towards healthy and resilient local economies. We've engaged over 160 organizations and thousands of change agents through retreats, political education, skills workshops,…
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
The Corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. Earthworks is dedicated to protecting communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development while seeking…
Magic Canoe is a champion of a reimagined future that is driven by local-based bottom-up regenerative solutions for a more equitable and healthier bioregion that is Salmon Nation.
APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.
We're community members organizing for a better world , and we invite you to join us. We're building infrastructure against oppression and empowering our communities through shared resources and support.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowered by Light and the most unlike its peers is Pegasus Project. 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.
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 13 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 156 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FORWARD MT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Color Outside The Lines ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS VOYAGES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTogether ↗
- Who funds WINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW ↗
- Who funds AMAZON FRONTLINES ↗
- Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSAR MAYA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cinnamongirl Inc ↗
- Who funds Indigenous Peoples Power Project Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHTEAM ↗
- Who funds YOU CAN VOTE ↗
- Who funds Diaspora Arts Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY MUSIC GROUP ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD POWER ↗
- Who funds POLLINATE GROUP ↗
- Who funds POWER INTERFAITH INC ↗
- Who funds Snow Leopard Conservancy ↗
- Who funds HOMEMORE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAIN US INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · New Place Fund Inc · Patagoniaorg · East Bay Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation
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 Furthur Foundation 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.
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Color Outside the Lines — 3% of income from government
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.
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