California · Private foundation
Give Forward Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $113M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Give Forward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $698k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 67 | $11M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $8.9M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $7.0M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $5.1M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $4.2M | 58% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $2.4M | 65% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $479k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Education Fund | $4,650,066 | 3 | 40% |
| Ravenswood Education Foundation | $4,317,500 | 7 | 18% |
| Teach for America Inc | $1,645,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Leading Educators Inc | $1,600,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Teach Plus Inc | $1,504,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $1,476,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Tipping Point Community | $1,367,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Instruction Partners | $1,325,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Educators for Excellence Inc | $1,150,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Alder Graduate School of Education | $1,100,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($819k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Give Forward Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 98 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Gates Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Give Forward Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Give Forward 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.
About Give Forward Foundation
- How much does Give Forward Foundation give?
- Give Forward Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $11,546,696 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Give Forward Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Crime & Legal (10%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Give Forward Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Bay Education Fund ($4.7M), Ravenswood Education Foundation ($4.3M), Teach for America Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Give Forward Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Give Forward Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Give Forward Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Walton Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Give Forward Foundation based?
- Give Forward Foundation is based in CA.
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