· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+18 grants · $7.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY EDUCATION FUND | $1,500,000 |
| BAY EDUCATION FUND | $1,108,696 |
| RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $346,750 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $250,000 |
| EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE | $250,000 |
| NEW LEADERS | $250,000 |
| NEW TEACHER CENTER | $250,000 |
| TEACH PLUS INCORPORATED | $250,000 |
| LEADING EDUCATORS INC | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA | $250,000 |
| SILICON SCHOOLS FUND | $250,000 |
| OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 18 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- BEBay Education Fund3× · 2022–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +371% · 40% of their budget
- RERAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +198%
- LELEADING EDUCATORS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +108%
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco Education Fundone grant, 2022 · $335k · revenue -36%
- MAMISSION ASSET FUNDone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -77%
- TGTHE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +102% · 28% of their budget
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…
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…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is BelizeKidsOrg. 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 18 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 117 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 Bay Education Fund ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADING EDUCATORS INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds INSTRUCTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds SOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds STREETCODE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Pangea Legal Services ↗
- Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds LA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE HOPE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUIT EPA ↗
- Who funds REACH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · 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
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 Give Forward 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.
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Education Resource Strategies Inc — 4% 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.
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