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Imaginable Futures 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+30 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| All Our Kin Inc | $1,500,000 |
| National Black Child Development Institute Inc | $1,500,000 |
| Alliance for Early Success | $1,500,000 |
| Fundo Socioambiental Casa | $1,365,000 |
| Firelight Foundation | $1,202,000 |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $1,166,667 |
| Generation Hope | $850,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $750,000 |
| Firelight Foundation | $602,000 |
| The Wildflower Foundation | $600,000 |
| Association of Community College Trustees | $500,000 |
| PelotonU Inc | $500,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
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 US giving — 69% of grant dollars ($46M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 31% that went abroad ($20M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% 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
Beyond the US — 31% of all-years giving ($20M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 Imaginable Futures 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 25 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +134%- AFALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +3%
- GHGENERATION HOPE3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +37%
Funded once
The Education Trust Incone grant, 2023 · $1.4M · revenue +0%
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $800k · revenue -20%- IWIMAGINE WORLDWIDEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +338%
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Global ties u.s. (global ties) powers individuals, communities, and nations to build trust and advance peace and prosperity through international exchange.
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
68 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. 68 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 THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS FKA BIRTH TO FIVE POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATION HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONU INC ↗
- Who funds Educate ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds CENTERING HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPITA SOCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds UBONGO INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Omidyar Network Fund Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Ecmc Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Efrusy Family Foundation · Valhalla Foundation · Buffett Early Childhood Fund · The Burke Foundation Inc · Bainum Family Foundation
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 Imaginable Futures 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% 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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