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Fwdus Inc

Fwd.us, inc.

$590k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Civil Rights$12MCrime & Legal$11MCommunity Improvement$796kHuman Services$539kPublic Benefit$207kFood & Nutrition$150kInternational$150kEmployment$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $558,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $589,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD$60,000
TEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION$50,000
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC$40,000
TEXAS NURSERY & LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION$40,000
TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS$35,000
NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION$30,000
TEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL$30,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC$25,000
COLLECTIVE FUTURE$25,000
NATIONAL REDISTRICTING ACTION FUND$25,000
MOMSRISING TOGETHER$25,000
DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE$25,000
KAIROS DEMOCRACY FUND$20,000
RIO GRANDE VALLEY PARTNERSHIP$20,000
STATE POLICY INSTITUTE$20,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $100k → 11%COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $200k → 14%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $15k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $35k → 20%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%DREAM BIG NEVADA: $50k → 13%CASA IN ACTION INC: $200k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA (LUCHA): $75k → 11%LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%MOMSRISING TOGETHER: $25k → 19%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA (LUCHA): $8k → 11%ALIENTO EDUCATION FUND: $94k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $20k → 17%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INC: $85k → 17%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $75k → 17%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $60k → 17%NILC IMMIGRATION JUSTICE FUND: $50k → 14%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $50k → 17%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $50k → 17%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND: $25k → 17%NATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND: $250k → 14%AMERICA IS BETTER: $450k → 14%AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK: $250k → 14%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
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 47 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
73

Total granted

$16M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+19%

Still filing today

81%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • CF
    COALITION FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +179% · 74% of their budget
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    3× · 2019–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +75%
  • EM
    EMPOWER MISSISSIPPI
    5× · 2019–2023 · $776k · revenue +92% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • YO
    YES ON PROP 57
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • OF
    OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $700k
  • AF
    ARIZONANS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND REHABILITATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
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
American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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2
National Immigration Forum

The forum advocates for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation. from a diversity of perspectives, the forum uses communication, advocacy and policy to create a vision, concensus and strategy to lead to a better, more…

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3
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
4
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
5
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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6
New American Leaders Action Fund Inc

New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.

Civil Rights
7
Public Affairs Council

Our mission is to advance the field of public affairs and provide tools and resources that enable public affairs executives and managers to achieve their business and professional goals.

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8
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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9
Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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11
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
12
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc

To focuses on public education and advocacy to generate public awareness of programs and services available to immigrants in Florida.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Texas Dream Team. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 135 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/116
Grantees still filing
73/116
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YES ON 805 INC: $3,450,001 · OtherYES ON 805 INCCOALITION FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM INC: $1,125,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM INCNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $1,057,095 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLETIDES ADVOCACY: $1,024,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYYES ON PROP 57: $1,000,000 · OtherYES ON PROP 57OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC: $700,000 · OtherARIZONANS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND REHABILITATION: $500,000 · Other+63 more: $4,396,050 · Other+63 moreSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $2,000,000 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRT…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $698,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND EN…NEW VENTURE FUND: $250,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE F…Care in Action Inc: $575,000 · Civil RightsCare in Acti…VOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUND: $415,000 · Civil RightsVOTERS ORGAN…PC ADVOCACY INITIATIVE: $350,000 · Civil RightsPC ADVOCACY …New York Communities For Change Inc: $280,000 · Civil RightsNew York Com…American Business Immigration Coalition Action: $225,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Bus…AMERICA'S VOICE: $200,000 · Civil RightsAMERICA'S VO…WORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $171,481 · Civil RightsWORKERS DEFE…AMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $128,625 · Civil RightsOKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM ACTION INC: $100,160 · Civil Rights+15 more: $355,400 · Civil Rights+15 moreNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND: $700,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL …NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $345,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK …American Action Network Inc: $250,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …CASA IN ACTION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesCASA IN A…Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund: $200,000 · Human ServicesCaliforni…LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $182,500 · Human ServicesLIVING UN…Aliento Education Fund: $94,000 · Human Services+7 more: $215,000 · Human Services+7 moreTEXAS NURSERY & LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION INC: $260,000 · Community ImprovementHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $210,000 · Community ImprovementState Business Executives: $175,000 · Community ImprovementBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC: $165,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $130,000 · Community ImprovementNISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 · Community ImprovementHOSPITALITY IS WORKING INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO: $98,700 · Community Improvement+5 more: $67,475 · Community ImprovementEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI: $776,000 · HealthVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $450,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC: $726,000 · Public BenefitPRODIGAL CHILD PROJECT PCP: $175,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $60,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND: $45,000 · Public Benefit+3 more: $35,135 · Public Benefit
Other$13,252,146Environment$2,948,000Civil Rights$2,800,666Human Services$2,186,500Community Improvement$1,331,175Health$1,236,000Public Benefit$1,191,135

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYES ON 805 INC: $3,450,001 over 2y, 37% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM INC: $1,125,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $1,024,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI: $776,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC: $726,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND: $700,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $698,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCare in Action Inc: $575,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $450,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetVOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUND: $415,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPC ADVOCACY INITIATIVE: $350,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetNEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $345,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $308,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc: $280,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I: $270,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTEXAS NURSERY & LANDSCAPE ASSOCIATION INC: $260,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Business Immigration Coalition Action: $225,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPAROLE PREPARATION PROJECT INC: $225,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetHOUSE MAJORITY FORWARD: $210,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWELCOMEUS INC: $208,500 over 2y, 34% of budgetVOTEVETS ACTION FUND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE: $200,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $182,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetState Business Executives: $175,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetPRODIGAL CHILD PROJECT PCP: $175,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $171,481 over 1y, 21% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC: $165,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS: $165,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $130,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICA'S VOICE EDUCATION FUND: $128,625 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTEXAS BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $120,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetOKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM ACTION INC: $100,160 over 1y, 28% of budgetHOSPITALITY IS WORKING INC: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFLIC VOTES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLUPE VOTES: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetMAJORITY FORWARD: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA UNION DEL PUEBLO ENTERO: $98,700 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAliento Education Fund: $94,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRIO GRANDE VALLEY PARTNERSHIP: $90,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $85,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGreater Houston Partnership Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Fwdus Education Fund …Sixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…NEO Philanthropy Acti…Center for Community …Tides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…American Federation o…The Heising-Simons Ac…America VotesChan Zuckerberg Initi…Communications Worker…
Fwdus Education Fund IncDC47.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Center for Community Change Action · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · America Votes · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report 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.

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 135 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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