· Public charity
Fwdus Education Fund Inc
Fwd.us education fund educates the public about immigration and criminal justice policy and reform.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AL OTRO LADO INC | $294,500 |
| DC JUSTICE LAB | $175,000 |
| KIND INC | $158,500 |
| PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITATIVE | $150,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC | $100,000 |
| AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER | $90,500 |
| BORDER SERVANT CORPS INC | $81,500 |
| NETWORK ON WOMEN IN PRISON | $75,000 |
| NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK | $75,000 |
| JUSTICE ACTION CENTER | $65,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD | $55,000 |
| UNDOCUBLACK NETWORK INC | $53,000 |
| NEW LIFE CENTERS OF CHICAGOLAND NFP | $50,500 |
| THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN AND G | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
119 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $751k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE5× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +69% · 27% of their budget
- JAJustice Action Center7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +773% · 44% of their budget
- NYNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +440%
Funded once
- SFSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $700k · revenue +44%
- FAFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INCone grant, 2021 · $655k · revenue -13%
Cornell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $473k · revenue +49%
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.
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.
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Ijc's mission is to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates to create a new generation of leaders with a lifelong commitment to immigrant justice.
Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…
Legal, immigration and community organizing
To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
To protect and promote the basic human rights of immigrants through a unique combination of free direct services, impact litigation, policy reform, and public education at local, state, and national levels.
The mission of Justice for All Immigrants is to provide low-income individuals and families with affordable, high quality immigration legal services, and to engage in immigration education and advocacy.
How this is measured
259 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 259 of the 291 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE PROMISE OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Justice Action Center ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds DC JUSTICE LAB ↗
- Who funds WELCOMEUS INC ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Response Management Inc ↗
- Who funds SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Settlement House Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds LA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds BLACK ALLIANCE FOR JUST IMMIGRATION ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds Central American Resource Center - CARECEN - of California ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER & FREE INC ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Alianza Americas ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fwdus Education Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fwdus Education Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc: 13% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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