How much did Furthur Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of Furthur Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

clean energycsebusinessessalesagentsmentransition

2020

vocallow-incomeensemblegreencamp phoenixmadereed

2021

volunteer firecreeknativedistrictfire protectionwest africanaccidents

2022

ultimateathleticfire protectionbmgperformancesearthabilities

2023

voter educationofficialsloc conferenceattend loctraining

2024

actofficialsmountainunderservedloc conferenceattend loccultural

2025

bonothrivebmgperformancesberkeleyyoungtheatre

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $68k
$10k–50k4 grants · $80k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

MontPIRG$20,000
League of Women Voters Helena Leagu$20,000
Forward Montana Foundation$20,000
CA Environmental Grassroots Fund$20,000
Pulama$5,000
Be The Change Charities$5,000
Pegasus Project$5,000
Center for Independent Documentary$4,000
The Berkeley Music Group$4,000
Recycle Hawai$4,000
Color Outside the Lines$3,500
San Francisco Intl Arts Found$3,500
Intersection for the Arts$3,500
Sunsar Maya$3,000
Diaspora Arts Connection$3,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 12% 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, 49% 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.

Furthur Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$331k · 40 repeat orgs$374k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$331k

$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+81%

Still filing today

38%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

CO
Color Outside the Lines
6× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +68%
A
ARTogether
4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +2049%
AF
Amazon Frontlines
4× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +3154%

Funded once

CI
Columbus Institute for Contemporary
one grant, 2021 · $20k
NF
New Florida Majority Education Fundgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +483%
SU
Sustain US
one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -98%

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.

350 Bay Area

We are building a grassroots climate movement in the Bay Area and beyond to eliminate carbon pollution and achieve a clean energy future with racial, economic, and environmental justice.

Environment

Transformca

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights

Arts West

ArtsWest produces artistic events that provoke conversation, incite the imagination, and use live theater as a powerful agent of change.

Arts & Culture

Movement Generation

MG nourishes analysis and strategy via political education while strengthening the ecosystem of alliances that are achieving a Just Transition. Through cultural strategy we advance a vision of ecological justice. MG is building a community…

Education

The Representation Project

The Representation Project uses storytelling to challenge harmful gender stereotypes and norms, shift attitudes and behavior, and transform culture. Were committed to building a thriving and inclusive society through films, education, and…

Civil Rights

The Pangea Network

The Pangea Network is dedicated to empowering women and youth in Kenya and in the U.S. with the knowledge, skills and ongoing network of support in order to achieve their dreams and make positive, life-changing contributions in the…

Human Services

Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

Nature for Justice

Mobilize funds and provide the necessary technical resources to leading, in-country organizations working with local, indigenous communities to achieve climate resiliency.

Environment

Asian Pacific Environmental Network

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.

Environment

Pangea World Theater

Pangea World Theater strives to build a just world by creating multi-disciplinary theater that embodies decolonizing practices of solidarity, sustainability and equity.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Color Outside the Lines 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.

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 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 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/66

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,912

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.

06the grantee network

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/61

Grantees still filing

43/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$461,250Arts & Culture$64,500Environment$53,500Human Services$42,000Civil Rights$37,000Youth Development$24,500Health$22,000

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.

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.

New Place Fund IncCA26.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Place Fund Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San · The Barrios Trust · 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Empower Generation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 452610872 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Empower Generation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Furthur Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Furthur Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Furthur Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Furthur Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Furthur Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Furthur Foundation?

More from the funding graph