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Furthur Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$164kPublic Benefit$147kArts & Culture$143kYouth Development$70kHealth$63kPhilanthropy$34kCivil Rights$34kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
$3,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CA Environmental Grassroots Fund$20,000
League of Women Voters Helena Leagu$20,000
Forward Montana Foundation$20,000
MontPIRG$20,000
Pegasus Project$5,000
Pulama$5,000
Be The Change Charities$5,000
Recycle Hawai$4,000
Center for Independent Documentary$4,000
The Berkeley Music Group$4,000
San Francisco Intl Arts Found$3,500
Color Outside the Lines$3,500
Intersection for the Arts$3,500
The HomeMore Project$3,000
Felidae Conservation Fund$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pegasus Project: $5k → 10%Pegasus Project: $5k → 10%She Should Run: $2k → 14%Western Regional Advoacy Project: $3k → 10%Circle of Hearts Foundation: $4k → 10%Homeless Garden Project: $2k → 13%Circle of Hearts Foundation: $4k → 10%Circle of Hearts Foundation: $3k → 10%Circle of Hearts Foundation: $3k → 10%Circle of Hearts Foundation: $3k → 10%Asian Immigrant Women's Advocate: $1k → 10%Remake: $5k → 10%Trybe: $4k → 10%Girl Ventures: $2k → 10%Kitka: $1k → 10%Children's book project: $1k → 10%Oakland Communities United for Equi: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
ID
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Furthur Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 43%.

Furthur Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$358k · 42 repeat orgs$407k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
102

Total granted

$358k
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentCrime & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CO
    Color Outside The Lines
    7× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +62%
  • TC
    THE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +32%
  • A
    ARTogether
    4× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • CI
    Columbus Institute for Contemporary
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • FR
    FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
  • 1P
    1HOOD POWERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue ×12
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.

1
Movement Generation

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,…

Education
2
California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
3
Amazon Watch Inc

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…

Environment
4
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
5
Earthworks

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…

Public Benefit
6
Taproot Earth

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

Environment
7
Magic Canoe

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.

Environment
8
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
9
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
10
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
11
NorCal Resist

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.

Civil Rights
12
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowered by Light; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/95
Grantees still filing
49/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rising Tide Foundation: $23,500 · OtherCA Environmental Grassroots Fund: $20,000 · OtherLeague of Women Voters Helena Leagu: $20,000 · OtherMontPIRG: $20,000 · OtherColumbus Institute for Contemporary: $20,000 · OtherPEGASUS VOYAGES INC: $17,000 · Other+89 more: $333,750 · Other+89 moreAMAZON FRONTLINES: $14,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON FRO…ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EnvironmentABUNDANT E…EARTHTEAM: $8,500 · EnvironmentEARTHTEAMSUSTAIN US INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAIN US…McKenzie River Trust: $5,000 · EnvironmentMcKenzie R…CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY: $4,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR…RECYCLE HAWAII: $4,000 · EnvironmentRECYCLE HA…GREENFAITH INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $3,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE CLEARWATER INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentUNITE THE PARKS: $2,500 · Environment+3 more: $6,000 · Environment+3 moreARTogether: $16,000 · Arts & CultureARTogetherBERKELEY MUSIC GROUP: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY M…Diaspora Arts Connection Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureDiaspora A…World Arts West: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWorld Arts…THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER…Intersection for the Arts: $3,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · Arts & CultureYouth in Arts: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSOUND ORCHARD: $3,000 · Arts & CultureHack the Hood Inc: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTHE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesPEGASUS PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMEMORE PROJECT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesRemake: $5,000 · Human ServicesTRYBE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesOakland Communities United for Equity and Justice: $3,000 · Human ServicesWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $3,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $2,000 · Human ServicesSHE SHOULD RUN: $2,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURES: $2,000 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsYOU CAN VOTE: $7,000 · Civil Rights1HOOD POWER: $6,000 · Civil RightsKEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 · Civil RightsVOTER FORMATION PROJECT: $5,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA: $5,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $5,000 · Civil RightsPUSHBLACK: $4,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsColor Outside The Lines: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCinnamongirl Inc: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP PHOENIX: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentUltimate Impact Inc: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentBROTHERS ON THE RISE: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORWARD MT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INC: $11,500 · HealthProject Commotion: $2,000 · Health
Other$454,250Environment$68,000Arts & Culture$67,500Human Services$57,000Civil Rights$48,000Youth Development$36,500Health$33,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColor Outside The Lines: $20,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetTHE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetPEGASUS VOYAGES INC: $17,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetARTogether: $16,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetAMAZON FRONTLINES: $14,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW: $14,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSUNSAR MAYA INC: $10,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCinnamongirl Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIndigenous Peoples Power Project Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEARTHTEAM: $8,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBERKELEY MUSIC GROUP: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDiaspora Arts Connection Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSnow Leopard Conservancy: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget1HOOD POWER: $6,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSUSTAIN US INC: $6,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMEMORE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPOLLINATE GROUP: $6,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetKEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJUST ACT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRemake: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMcKenzie River Trust: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWorld Arts West: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOTER FORMATION PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAW FORWARD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital: $4,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRECYCLE HAWAII: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPUSHBLACK: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Slicker Farms: $4,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOT & REBOUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmpowered by Light: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOakland Communities United for Equity and Justice: $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHAIR THE HOPE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds FORWARD MT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Color Outside The Lines ↗
  • Who funds THE CIRCLE OF HEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEGASUS VOYAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTogether ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON FRONTLINES ↗
  • Who funds WINNARAINBOW INC DBA CAMP WINNARAINBOW ↗
  • Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNSAR MAYA INC ↗
  • Who funds PEGASUS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
  • Who funds Cinnamongirl Inc ↗
  • Who funds ABUNDANT EARTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Indigenous Peoples Power Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds EARTHTEAM ↗
  • Who funds YOU CAN VOTE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SHASTA BIOREGIONAL ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BERKELEY MUSIC GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Diaspora Arts Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds Snow Leopard Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds 1HOOD POWER ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAIN US INC ↗
  • Who funds POWER INTERFAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEMORE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds POLLINATE GROUP ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…New Place Fund IncPatagoniaorgEast Bay Community Fo…Rsf Social Finance IncMarin Community Found…Clif Family FoundationTides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Amalgamated Charitabl…ImpactassetsincThe Joseph and Vera L…
The San Francisco FoundationCA41.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Furthur Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Furthur Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
22report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Furthur Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Furthur Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 156 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$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