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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 FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.5M
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$27MCrime & Legal$4.0MYouth Development$2.5MInternational$1.8MArts & Culture$1.3MHuman Services$948kCivil Rights$775kPublic Benefit$544kOther$0
02FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $342k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+18 grants · $7.5M
$100,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$113M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAY EDUCATION FUND$1,500,000
BAY EDUCATION FUND$1,108,696
RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000,000
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY$346,750
NEW LEADERS$250,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$250,000
EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE$250,000
OUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION$250,000
LIFEMOVES$250,000
LEADING EDUCATORS INC$250,000
NEW TEACHER CENTER$250,000
TEACH PLUS INCORPORATED$250,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$250,000
SILICON SCHOOLS FUND$250,000
INSTRUCTION PARTNERS$250,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LOVE LIGHT AND MELODY A NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION: $10k → 12%THE CHESHIRE PROJECT: $15k → 9%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE CHESHIRE PROJECT: $15k → 9%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%THE CHESHIRE PROJECT: $15k → 9%THE CHESHIRE PROJECT: $15k → 9%SERVICES & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK: $100k → 8%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $50k → 14%SIMA STUDIOS: $15k → 14%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 10%SERVICES & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK: $100k → 8%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 10%SERVICES & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK: $100k → 8%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 10%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $50k → 14%SERVICES & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK: $100k → 8%CIRCUIT EPA: $210k → 8%COASTSIDE HOPE: $100k → 7%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $200k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 10%CIRCUIT EPA: $75k → 8%COASTSIDE HOPE: $100k → 7%COASTSIDE HOPE: $100k → 7%COASTSIDE HOPE: $100k → 7%COASTSIDE HOPE: $60k → 7%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

VT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 68 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
25

Total granted

$37M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+3%

Still filing today

93%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • BE
    Bay Education Fund
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +371% · 40% of their budget
  • RE
    RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +198%
  • LE
    LEADING EDUCATORS INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • SF
    San Francisco Education Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $335k · revenue -36%
  • TG
    THE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +355% · 28% of their budget
  • MA
    MISSION ASSET FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -77%
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
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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2
The California Education Partners

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,…

Education
3
Deans for Impact

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…

Education
4
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
5
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

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…

Education
6
Partners in School Innovation

To transform teaching and learning in the lowest-performing public schools so that every student, regardless of background, thrives.

Philanthropy
7
Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education
8
The Language Academy of Sacramento

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…

Education
9
Springboard Collaborative

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…

Human Services
10
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
11
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 117 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/104
Grantees still filing
65/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bay Education Fund: $4,650,066 · EducationBay Education FundRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,317,500 · EducationRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTeach for America Inc: $1,645,000 · EducationTeach for America IncLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $1,600,000 · EducationLEADING EDUCATORS INCTEACH PLUS INC: $1,504,500 · EducationTEACH PLUS INCINSTRUCTION PARTNERS: $1,325,000 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $1,150,000 · EducationALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $1,100,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FUND: $900,000 · Education+34 more: $6,884,395 · Education+34 moreLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO: $500,000 · OtherLA RAZA CE…Public Impact LLC: $436,000 · OtherPublic Imp…INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOBRATO CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $300,000 · OtherINNOVATE P…REDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $290,000 · OtherREDWOOD CI…LEADING EDUCATORS INC: $284,686 · OtherLEADING ED…LIFEMOVES: $250,000 · OtherLIFEMOVESNational Center for Youth Law: $200,000 · OtherNational C…Faith In Action Bay Area: $150,000 · OtherSARVODAYA USA CORPORATION: $150,000 · OtherOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherOUR AMERIC…MISSION ASSET FUND: $150,000 · Other+27 more: $784,924 · Other+27 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $1,476,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC: $300,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $56,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $900,000 · Human ServicesCOASTSIDE HOPE: $460,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $400,000 · Human ServicesTHE CIRCUIT EPA: $285,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Human ServicesDetention Watch Network: $100,000 · Human Services+3 more: $85,000 · Human ServicesTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,367,750 · PhilanthropyINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $550,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyWEST CHOP COMMUNITY FUND INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $94,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $750,000 · Crime & LegalPangea Legal Services: $550,000 · Crime & LegalSOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE: $500,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County: $500,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $134,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$25,076,461Other$3,745,610Youth Development$2,432,000Human Services$2,430,000Philanthropy$2,312,250Crime & Legal$2,300,000Arts & Culture$1,734,000

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 budgetBay Education Fund: $4,650,066 over 3y, 40% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,317,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,645,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $1,600,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC: $1,504,500 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $1,476,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,367,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetINSTRUCTION PARTNERS: $1,325,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $1,150,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA: $1,000,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND: $900,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $900,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $750,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $750,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $750,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $750,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC: $750,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $600,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetSOBRATO EARLY ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM: $600,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $550,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPangea Legal Services: $550,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE: $500,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County: $500,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO: $500,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetCOASTSIDE HOPE: $460,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetEDUCATION LEADERS OF COLOR INC: $450,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $400,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund: $334,565 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetEDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES INC: $325,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetREDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $290,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE CIRCUIT EPA: $285,000 over 2y, 93% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR AMERICAN FUTURE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTNTP INC: $235,185 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAll Five: $200,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $191,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDVOICE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $175,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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…The San Francisco Fou…Walton Family Foundat…Gates FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…Carnegie Corporation …Jewish Community Fede…The William & Flora H…Charles and Helen Sch…Marin Community Found…The Heising-Simons Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA50.2× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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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.

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 117 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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