Skip to content
Incite Labs Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION - INDUSTRIOUS LABS$250,000
MIT - ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS INITIATIVE$175,000
CLEAR GENE INC$75,000
UNITED WAY WORLD WIDE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
MISSION LOCAL$5,000
ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALL INDIA MOVEMENT FOR SEVA: $5k → 12%LARKIN ST YOUTH SERVICES: $32k → 10%FII NATIONAL: $10k → 10%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

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

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 19 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
53

Total granted

$8.5M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+74%

Still filing today

58%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $540k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +81% · 26% of their budget
  • AE
    Advanced Energy Institute
    3× · 2020–2022 · $555k · revenue +67%
  • C
    CarbonPlan
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JOBS PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • AG
    ACTIVATE GLOBAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +721%
  • TI
    THE INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION FUND (AKA INDUSTRIOUS LABS) CO TIDES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $400k
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
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
3
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
6
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
7
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
8
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
9
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
10
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
11
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
12
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is Actuate Innovation Inc. 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

45 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. 45 of the 82 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FL RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION EDUCATION FUND: $700,000 · OtherFL RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION EDUCATION FUNDAEE INSTITUTE: $600,000 · OtherAEE INSTITUTEAMERICAN JOBS PROJECT: $500,000 · OtherAMERICAN JOBS PROJECTPLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States: $500,000 · OtherPLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United StatesTHE INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION FUND (AKA INDUSTRIOUS LABS) CO TIDES FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherPLUS FUND PAID LEAVE FOR US: $400,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER-PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $350,000 · OtherHOPEWELL FUND CO-EQUAL 501C3: $350,000 · OtherEDUCATION FDTN OF ALACHUA CO: $340,250 · Other+48 more: $4,495,781 · Other+48 moreCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $1,750,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVALAdvanced Energy Institute: $555,278 · EnvironmentAdvanced Energy InstituteCarbonPlan: $500,000 · EnvironmentCarbonPlanACTIVATE GLOBAL INC: $500,000 · EnvironmentACTIVATE GLOBAL INCMULTIPLIER: $450,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER+1 more: $125,000 · EnvironmentVOTEORG: $710,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORGLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY: $200,000 · Civil RightsLEADERSHI…THIRD WAY INSTITUTE: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAY…PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $100,000 · Civil RightsPUBLIC RI…ALIANZA CENTER INC: $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsHOPEWELL FUND: $200,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $125,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC: $255,250 · EducationFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $100,000 · EducationGainesville for All: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $11,000 · EducationNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $365,000 · Science & TechACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA: $150,000 · Public BenefitB LAB COMPANY: $105,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE: $50,000 · Public Benefit
Other$8,636,031Environment$3,880,278Civil Rights$1,220,000Philanthropy$475,000Education$416,250Science & Tech$365,000Public Benefit$305,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
  • Who funds VOTEORG ↗
  • Who funds Advanced Energy Institute ↗
  • Who funds CarbonPlan ↗
  • Who funds PLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States ↗
  • Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOUVES FOUNDATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds ACTUATE INNOVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
  • Who funds THIRD WAY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATOR FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Freedmen Heirs Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UPSOLVE INC ↗
  • Who funds UndauntedK12 ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds B LAB COMPANY ↗

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…New Venture FundThe William & Flora H…Tides FoundationImpactassetsincAmalgamated Charitabl…Hopewell FundTides CenterJewish Community Fede…John D and Catherine …Marin Community Found…Catena Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Incite Labs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Incite Labs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Gainesville for All: 0% of income from government
  • Alianza Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Incite Labs’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home