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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.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$900k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Employment$10MEducation$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.3MInternational$1.7MPhilanthropy$900kYouth Development$824kHousing & Shelter$800kHuman Services$750kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+38 grants · $12M
$250,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UPWARDLY GLOBAL$375,000
PURSUIT$375,000
THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS$350,000
CODE THE DREAM INC$350,000
STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC DBA CAEL STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$300,000
GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC$300,000
NATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS$300,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $250k → 12%REALIZE IMPACT: $360k → 10%CARINA: $250k → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $250k → 10%MRELIEF: $400k → 14%REALIZE IMPACT: $150k → 10%MRELIEF: $100k → 14%REALIZE IMPACT: $125k → 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

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WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
WV
DE
NM
NC
DC
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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 7% of Gitlab Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 20%.

Gitlab Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 18% 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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.5M · 14 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$9.5M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

93%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JF
    JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.4M · revenue 0%
  • Realize Impact
    2× · 2024–2025 · $885k · revenue 0%
  • SC
    SKILLUP COALITION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $800k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • PS
    PER SCHOLAS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JOIN FREEWORLD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $375k
  • GA
    GRID ALTERNATIVES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $370k
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
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
2
Code to Work Inc

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…

—
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
Devworks International

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.

Human Services
5
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
6
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
7
Accion International

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…

International
8
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
9
Center for Global Development

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…

Human Services
10
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Employ America

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.

Employment
12
Development Gateway Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation; 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.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
18/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $2,400,000 · EmploymentJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INCUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $750,000 · EmploymentUPWARDLY GLOBALPER SCHOLAS INC: $500,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INCUAW CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING A GREEN ECONOMY: $500,000 · EmploymentUAW CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING…THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS: $350,000 · EmploymentTHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONSJOBS TO MOVE AMERICA: $300,000 · EmploymentNATIONAL FUND FOR WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS: $300,000 · EmploymentThe Knowledge House Fellowship Inc: $250,000 · EmploymentEmpower Work Inc: $250,000 · Employment+2 more: $200,000 · EmploymentFUNDACION SANTO DOMINGO: $456,000 · OtherFUNDACION SANTO DOMINGOPURSUIT: $375,000 · OtherJOIN FREEWORLD INC: $375,000 · OtherGRID ALTERNATIVES INC: $370,000 · OtherMAKAIA: $348,680 · OtherHuman-I-T: $300,000 · OtherBUILDHER: $300,000 · OtherFUNDACION CORONA: $257,307 · OtherWTIA WORKFORCE INSTITUTE DBA APPRENTI: $250,000 · OtherGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 · OtherTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherUNIDOSUS: $250,000 · OtherPATHWAYS INTERNATIONAL US: $250,000 · OtherCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $800,000 · OtherCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $622,000 · OtherGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INCGROUNDED FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherUS WATER ALLIANCE: $250,000 · OtherSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 · Other+6 more: $675,000 · Other+6 moreSKILLUP COALITION: $800,000 · EducationSKILLUP COALITIONCODEPATHORG: $725,000 · EducationCODEPATHORGCODE THE DREAM INC: $700,000 · EducationCODE THE DREAM INCDIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationDIGITAL GREEN FOUNDA…BENEFITS DATA TRUST: $350,000 · EducationBENEFITS DATA TRUST10 ACADEMY CORP: $270,000 · Education10 ACADEMY CORPTECH IMPACT: $200,000 · EducationINNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES: $150,000 · EducationCAREERVILLAGE INC: $150,000 · Education+4 more: $450,000 · Education+4 moreRealize Impact: $885,000 · Human ServicesRealize I…mRelief: $500,000 · Human ServicesmReliefLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 · Human ServicesLAST MILE…Carina: $250,000 · Human ServicesCarinaLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $500,000 · Community ImprovementSTRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementACCELERATE MONTANA: $250,000 · Community ImprovementLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $250,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $125,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLABORATORIA INC: $300,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE: $300,000 · InternationalKIVA MICROFUNDS: $250,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND: $250,000 · InternationalWEST AFRICA VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $180,000 · InternationalROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $900,000 · PhilanthropyFriends Of Raising The Village Incorporated: $250,000 · PhilanthropyDATAKIND INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy
Employment$5,800,000Other$7,128,987Education$4,195,000Human Services$1,885,000Community Improvement$1,525,000International$1,280,000Philanthropy$1,250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $2,400,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRealize Impact: $885,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSKILLUP COALITION: $800,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCOALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $800,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL: $750,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCODEPATHORG: $725,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCODE THE DREAM INC: $700,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC: $622,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUAW CENTER FOR MANUFACTURING A GREEN ECONOMY: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetmRelief: $500,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetDIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBENEFITS DATA TRUST: $350,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLABORATORIA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGLOBAL FAIRNESS INITIATIVE: $300,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetACCELERATE MONTANA: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIDOSUS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS WATER ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCarina: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $250,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTECH IMPACT: $200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINNOVATIVE POLICY LAB RESEARCH IMPROVING PEOPLES LIVES: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCAREERVILLAGE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE SEMILLA PROJECT: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMDRC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURNING GLASS INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEdTech For Learning: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDATAKIND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationGates FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Rockefeller Found…Truist Foundation IncSalesforce FoundationFfwdImpactassetsincSchultz Family Founda…The Patrick J McGover…Ascendium Education S…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA30.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report 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

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.

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 67 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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