· Private foundation
Gitlab Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+38 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC | $600,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $500,000 |
| UAW CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING A GREEN ECONOMY | $500,000 |
| FUNDACION SANTO DOMINGO | $456,000 |
| COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $400,000 |
| SKILLUP COALITION | $400,000 |
| MRELIEF | $400,000 |
| PURSUIT | $375,000 |
| UPWARDLY GLOBAL | $375,000 |
| THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS | $350,000 |
| CODE THE DREAM INC | $350,000 |
| GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC | $300,000 |
| NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS | $300,000 |
| JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA | $300,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 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 7% of Gitlab 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, 25% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JFJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2.4M · revenue 0%
Realize Impact2× · 2024–2025 · $885k · revenue 0%- CDCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $800k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- PSPER SCHOLAS INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- JFJOIN FREEWORLD INCone grant, 2024 · $375k
- GAGRID ALTERNATIVES INCone grant, 2024 · $370k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
An employer-led initiative aimed at transforming the hiring process. we use a skills-based approach to identify, train and hire talent. the traditional credentials-based focus must evolve to give all qualified job seekers a chance to prove…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…
To promote macroeconomic policies that ensure the sustained advancement of labor market outcomes for all american workers, i.e. tight labor markets, higher wages and better quality employment.
Development gateway (dg) creates tools and design processes that help collect, visualize, and use data for a more equitable world. for 20 years, we have built systems, dashboards, and tools to create more effective, open, and engaging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Coalfield Development Corporation. 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.
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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Realize Impact ↗
- Who funds COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SKILLUP COALITION ↗
- Who funds UPWARDLY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds CODEPATHORG ↗
- Who funds CODE THE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds mRelief ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UAW CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING A GREEN ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOIN FREEWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds BENEFITS DATA TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS ↗
- Who funds Human-I-T ↗
- Who funds JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LABORATORIA INC ↗
- Who funds 10 ACADEMY CORP ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Friends Of Raising The Village Incorporated ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INTERNATIONAL US ↗
- Who funds Carina ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gates Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Salesforce Foundation · Ffwd · Impactassetsinc · Schultz Family Foundation · The Patrick J McGovern Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc
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 organization Gitlab 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.
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
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 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Gitlab Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Gitlab 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.