· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+30 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alliance for Early Success | $1,500,000 |
| All Our Kin Inc | $1,500,000 |
| National Black Child Development Institute Inc | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| PelotonU Inc | $500,000 |
| Association of Community College Trustees | $500,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 31% of all-years giving ($20M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
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 Imaginable Futures Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
68 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. 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION ↗
- 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 CAPITA SOCIAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UBONGO INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Imaginable Futures Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imaginable Futures Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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