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Incite Labs Inc

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.

$590k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
92%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$42M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 92% of the organizations Incite Labs Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$540k100%
FY202312$1.0M92%
FY20229$840k22%
FY202119$2.6M58%
FY202017$2.9M82%
FY201922$3.6M77%
FY20188$1.8M63%
FY201712$1.5Mn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$4.0MCivil Rights$2.5MScience & Tech$2.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MPublic Benefit$1.1MEducation$982kEmployment$900kHealth$325kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Incite Labs Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Carbon Removal: $1,750,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetVoteorg: $710,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetAdvanced Energy Institute: $555,278 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCarbonPlan: $500,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States: $500,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetActivate Global Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMultiplier: $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNational Academy of Sciences: $365,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Education Foundation of Alachua County Inc: $255,250 over 2y, 11% of budgetZouves Foundation for Reproductive Medicine: $250,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetActuate Innovation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLeadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability: $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAs You Sow: $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThird Way Institute: $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAccelerator for America: $150,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFreedmen Heirs Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetUpsolve Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUndauntedK12: $125,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetB Lab Company: $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSociety of Environmental Journalists Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCarbon Removal Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFair Fight Action Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFloodlight Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetAlianza Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCenter for Technology and Civic Life: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGainesville for All: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetProjectcamp: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThe 19th News: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $32,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFarm to Pantry: $29,165 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFii - National: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaliber Public Schools: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLemontree Foods Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission Graduates: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission Local SF Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAll India Movement for Seva Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChallenge Success: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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 Community FoundationCA25.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · Tides Center · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Catena Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Incite Labs Inc?

Find your warmest path to Incite Labs Inc 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 Incite Labs Inc

How much does Incite Labs Inc give?
Incite Labs Inc reported 7 grants totaling $590,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Incite Labs Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Civil Rights (17%), Science & Tech (15%).
Who are Incite Labs Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Carbon Removal ($1.8M), Voteorg ($710k), Advanced Energy Institute ($555k).
Does Incite Labs Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Incite Labs Inc 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 Incite Labs Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, New Venture Fund, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where is Incite Labs Inc based?
Incite Labs Inc is based in CA.

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 82 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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