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Fwdus Education Fund Inc

Fwd.us education fund educates the public about immigration and criminal justice policy and reform.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
67
Grants FY2024
73
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$294,500
Organizations funded a year
14 to 100
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
20
Total assets, FY2024
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Fwdus Education Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving65$2.6M42%
FY202373$5.8M29%
FY202277$6.3M47%
FY2021100$17M59%
FY202057$5.8M40%
FY201976$5.6M67%
FY201855$7.2M89%
FY201714$2.2Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$18MCivil Rights$17MHuman Services$6.9MPublic Benefit$3.7MInternational$2.5MArts & Culture$1.9MEducation$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.2MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Promise of Justice Initiative$1,880,000527%
Justice Action Center$1,835,500744%
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc$1,658,820461%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$1,600,00031%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$1,240,00084%
Al Otro Lado$1,224,558610%
DC Justice Lab$1,175,000551%
Welcomeus Inc$1,080,000282%
One Voice$919,500416%
Texas Public Policy Foundation$900,00032%
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All grantees of Fwdus Education Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Promise of Justice Initiative$1,880,000527%
Justice Action Center$1,835,500744%
Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc$1,658,820461%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$1,600,00031%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$1,240,00084%
Al Otro Lado$1,224,558610%
DC Justice Lab$1,175,000551%
Welcomeus Inc$1,080,000282%
One Voice$919,500416%
Texas Public Policy Foundation$900,00032%
Global Response Management Inc$789,539514%
Seneca Family of Agencies$700,00011%
Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc$670,20057%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$666,01642%
Family Action Network Movement Inc$655,000124%
African Communities Together Inc$636,500410%
Transgender Law Center$620,00033%
The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls$610,00059%
Oklahoma Policy Inc$575,58949%
Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc$534,00041%
International Rescue Committee INC$523,85540%
Kind Inc$508,50030%
La Union del Pueblo Entero$495,70066%
Peace Lutheran Church Evangelical Inc$492,5003n/a
United We Dream Network Inc$492,22532%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$490,00031%
Cornell University$473,45210%
Black Alliance for Just Immigration$470,000110%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$468,00063%
American Friends Service Committee$463,0003n/a
National Center for Civic Innovation In$460,00033%
Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California$450,00025%
Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc$440,00032%
Haitian Bridge Alliance$440,0003n/a
Together & Free Inc$415,000267%
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc$408,500411%
Alianza Americas$400,00017%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$375,00030%
International Mayan League$365,000278%
Arouet Foundation$362,500433%
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc$355,30049%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$350,00022%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy$345,00026%
Hope Border Institute$345,000238%
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim$340,000345%
Jewish Family Service of San Diego$337,58040%
Katal Center for Equity Health and Justice Inc$325,0001n/a
Empower Mississippi Foundation$310,333317%
A Little Piece of Light Inc$307,000248%
Campesinos Sin Fronteras$300,00019%
National Immigration Forum$300,00023%
National Immigration Law Center$300,00012%
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights$300,00023%
American Immigration Council$300,00033%
National Day Laborer Organizing Network$296,00046%
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center$280,500410%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc$280,00041%
Haitian Bridge Alliance$280,000314%
Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc$270,00027%
University of Mississippi Foundation$268,02540%
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice$260,00026%
The Praxis Project Inc$258,50061%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$257,50030%
Lawyers for Good Government Inc$255,000313%
Sidewalk School Inc$254,0004n/a
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$250,00031%
The Lighthouse Black Girl Project$250,000284%
Justice in Motion Inc$237,00027%
Immigrant Defenders Law Center$236,20432%
Maldef - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund$225,00022%
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization$225,000114%
The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc$225,00013%
First Institutional Baptist Church$220,0002n/a
Mission Border Hope$220,00024%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$212,50021%
Arizona Interagency Farmworkers Coalition Inc$210,0001n/a
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc$200,00023%
Casa Inc$200,00011%
The Fortune Society Inc$200,00011%
Voice of the Experienced Vote$200,00022%
Sacred Heart Church$200,0002n/a
Community Initiatives$200,00011%
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc$200,00022%
Teambrownsville Inc$190,000211%
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants$190,000285%
Make the Road New York$186,00031%
Respond Crisis Translation$185,00026%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$175,00011%
Alterna Inc$175,000293%
Clergy for Prison Reform$175,0001n/a
Duke University$175,00010%
Parole Preparation Project Inc$175,000157%
Arizona Ecumenical Council$165,300326%
Builders of The Highway Foundation Inc$165,000224%
Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy$165,000229%
African Bureau of Immigration and Social Affairs (Abisa)$160,0001n/a
Office of New Americans of Miami-Dade Inc$160,0001n/a
Arizona Center for Empowerment$150,000116%
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley$150,00013%
Dignity and Power Now$150,00014%
Community Connections for Youth Inc$150,00014%
Annunciation House Inc$150,0002n/a
The George W Bush Foundation$150,00010%
New Life Fellowship Ministries Inc$150,000156%
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals$150,00010%
Grassroots Leadership Inc$150,000211%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$146,50020%
Choose Love Inc$145,00030%
Migration Policy Institute$140,00031%
Correctional Association of New York$140,00023%
Sacramento Area Congregations Together$135,00019%
Dream Big Nevada$133,200449%
Women's Refugee Commission Inc$130,00022%
Refugee Health Alliance$127,500113%
Chicago Community Foundation$125,0001n/a
Chicago Freedom School$125,00015%
The Bronx Defenders$125,00020%
Rainbow Defense Fund Inc$125,000363%
Just Communities Arizona$120,000137%
Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc$120,00011%
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc$120,00012%
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Inc$120,00050%
Restoreher Usamerica Inc$120,0002n/a
The Primavera Foundation Inc$120,00011%
Trans Queer Pueblo - Semilla de Liberacion$115,00028%
Center for American Progress$105,00040%
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights$100,00010%
The Legal Aid Society$100,00010%
Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren)$100,00015%
Save The Children Federation Inc$100,00010%
The Appeal Inc$100,000110%
Repairers of the Breach$100,00014%
The Free School$100,0001n/a
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$100,00010%
Faith in Action$100,0001n/a
Cato Institute$100,00020%
Common Justice Inc$100,00012%
The Niskanen Center Inc$100,00011%
The Center for Economic Research and Social Change Inc$95,00031%
Prison Fellowship Ministries$95,00050%
Ayuda Inc$91,00021%
The Inn of Southern Arizona Inc$85,000226%
Beloved Community Incubator Inc$82,50034%
Border Servant Corps Inc$81,50010%
Innovation Law Lab$80,0001n/a
Mayer Brown$79,0001n/a
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children$75,00012%
Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition$75,00012%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$75,00010%
Progress Texas Institute$75,00024%
America's Voice Education Fund$75,00013%
Just Futures Law Inc$75,00015%
Espacio Migrante$75,0001n/a
Families for Justice as Healing Inc$75,000133%
Somos Inc$70,00024%
Atlas Strategy Group Inc$70,0002n/a
Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition$67,00019%
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$65,00021%
The Missionary Society of St Columban$61,0001n/a
National Security Action$60,00011%
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc$60,00064%
Mitu$60,0001n/a
Latin American Association$59,00031%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights$55,50020%
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc$55,00011%
Ameelio Inc$55,00013%
Somos Inc$54,0002n/a
Undocublack Network Inc$53,00012%
New Life Centers of Chicagoland$50,50010%
The Political Report Inc$50,00013%
Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores$50,00015%
Ufw Foundation$50,00010%
Kino Border Initiative Inc$50,00012%
Faith and Politics Institute$50,00013%
Interfaith Welcome Coalition$50,00016%
Lawyers for Good Government$50,0001n/a
Sand Lake Baptist Church$50,0001n/a
Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc$50,00011%
Texas Immigration Law Council$50,00011%
Immigration Project Inc$50,00015%
The Center for Cultural Power$50,00011%
Oak Lawn United Methodist Church$50,0001n/a
The Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center Inc$45,00023%
Neighborhood Ministries Inc$45,00012%
Congressional Progressive Caucus Center$45,00022%
Justice for Migrant Families Wny$45,000217%
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition$40,00030%
Center for Houston's Future Inc$40,00013%
Arizona Town Hall$40,00025%
Protectaz Health Inc$39,5001n/a
Brooklyn Defender Services$38,00010%
The Osborne Association Inc$37,00030%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston$35,00010%
Immigrant Advocate Response Collaborative Inc$35,00016%
State Power Fund$35,00010%
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition$33,00020%
Trabajadores Unidos de Washington DC$32,500110%
Cabrini Immigrant Services of New York City Inc$32,47025%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$30,00020%
Solidarity Inc$30,00016%
Georgia Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$30,00016%
Explicia Media Solutions LLC$30,0001n/a
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$28,85020%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition$26,00021%
Mississippi Center for Justice$25,00010%
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest$25,00010%
Detention Watch Network$25,00011%
University of Texas$25,0001n/a
Washington Immigrant Defense Network$25,0001n/a
Panorama Global$25,00010%
Unlocal Inc$25,00021%
Third Way Institute$25,00010%
Catholic Charities Community Services Archdiocese of New York$25,00010%
Aliento Education Fund$25,00011%
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of San Antonio Inc$25,0001n/a
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc$20,00011%
Comunidades Indigenas En Liderazgo Corp$20,00010%
Laredo Immigrant Alliance$20,000118%
Catholic Charities$20,00010%
Foundation for the Mid South Inc$18,00011%
Breakthrough$17,00020%
Gofundmeorg$15,05020%
Housing Works Inc$15,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,00010%
Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition$15,00015%
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson$15,0001n/a
We Got US Now Inc$15,00013%
Catalyst California$15,00010%
Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation Inc$15,00010%
United African Organization$15,00010%
Haitian Community Help & Support Ce$15,00012%
The Fortune Society$15,0001n/a
National Association of Hispanic Journalists$15,0001n/a
Govern for America Inc$15,000110%
Justleadershipusa Inc$15,00010%
Migrant Equity Southeast Inc$15,00014%
Good Causes Inc$15,00016%
Mauritanian Network for Human Rights in the US$15,0001n/a
Fiel Houston Inc$14,0001n/a
North Texas Dream Team$14,000111%
Cleveland Jobs With Justice$12,500115%
Community Connections for Youth$12,4001n/a
Define American Inc$12,00010%
Caged Dreams$10,5001n/a
The ALM Triumph Center Inc$10,3951n/a
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$10,25010%
JusticeAid$10,0001n/a
Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab$10,00010%
New York State Association of Blackpuerto Rican Hispanic & Asian Legislator$10,00010%
Douglass Leadership Institute Inc$10,00012%
Coco B Productions LLC$10,0001n/a
Catholic Charities Legal Services Archdiocese of Miami Inc$10,00010%
Netroots Foundation$10,00012%
National Partnership for New Americans$10,00010%
Forward Impact$10,00010%
Darkness RISING Project$10,00012%
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc$10,00010%
Workers' Center of Central New York Inc$10,00014%
Paz Amigos Inc$10,0001n/a
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$10,00010%
St Louis Inter Faith Committee on Latin America$10,00011%
Opening Doors International Services Inc$10,00016%
The United Church of Christ$10,0001n/a
Momsrising Education Fund$10,00010%
Details Consulting LLC$10,0001n/a
Neighbors Link Corp$10,00010%
Cesar Chavez Memorial Alliance of South Texas$9,4751n/a
Central Arts Alliance$8,50011%
Utah Children$8,00011%
Center for Community Alternatives Inc$8,00010%
The Word A Storytelling Sanctuary Inc$8,00012%
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area$7,92010%
Make The Road States Inc$7,00010%
Homeboy Industries$6,25010%
Equity and Transformation$6,25010%
Hispanic Affairs Project$5,0001n/a
Florida International University Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Coalicion de Lideres Latinos Inc$5,0001n/a
Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Inc$5,00014%
Catholic Charities of Central Texas$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Fwdus Education Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Promise of Justice Initiative: $1,880,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetJustice Action Center: $1,835,500 over 7y, 44% of budgetOklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc: $1,658,820 over 4y, 61% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $1,600,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $1,240,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetAl Otro Lado: $1,224,558 over 6y, 10% of budgetDC Justice Lab: $1,175,000 over 5y, 51% of budgetWelcomeus Inc: $1,080,000 over 2y, 82% of budgetOne Voice: $919,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetTexas Public Policy Foundation: $900,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGlobal Response Management Inc: $789,539 over 5y, 14% of budgetSeneca Family of Agencies: $700,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGood Neighbor Settlement House Inc: $670,200 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $666,016 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFamily Action Network Movement Inc: $655,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetAfrican Communities Together Inc: $636,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $620,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls: $610,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetOklahoma Policy Inc: $575,589 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc: $534,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $523,855 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKind Inc: $508,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLa Union del Pueblo Entero: $495,700 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetUnited We Dream Network Inc: $492,225 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $490,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCornell University: $473,452 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Alliance for Just Immigration: $470,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetOficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc: $468,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNational Center for Civic Innovation In: $460,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCentral American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California: $450,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCatholic Legal Immigration Network Inc: $440,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTogether & Free Inc: $415,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetAsylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc: $408,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetAlianza Americas: $400,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Mayan League: $365,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetArouet Foundation: $362,500 over 4y, 33% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $355,300 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLos Angeles Alliance for a New Economy: $345,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetHope Border Institute: $345,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetComunidad Maya Pixan Ixim: $340,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetJewish Family Service of San Diego: $337,580 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEmpower Mississippi Foundation: $310,333 over 3y, 17% of budgetA Little Piece of Light Inc: $307,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetCampesinos Sin Fronteras: $300,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetNational Immigration Forum: $300,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $300,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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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 200.

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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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNY88.6× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Vera Institute of Justice Inc · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Fwdus Inc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund

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 Fwdus Education Fund Inc

How much does Fwdus Education Fund Inc give?
Fwdus Education Fund Inc reported 67 grants totaling $2,704,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 100 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fwdus Education Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (33%), Civil Rights (30%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Fwdus Education Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Promise of Justice Initiative ($1.9M), Justice Action Center ($1.8M), Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc ($1.7M).
Does Fwdus Education Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fwdus Education Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Borealis Philanthropy, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Fwdus Education Fund Inc based?
Fwdus Education Fund Inc is based in DC.

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 291 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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