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Possibility Labs

Our mission is to co-create a new economy where black, indigenous, people of color, and historically low-income communities have the power of self-determination.

$25M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
173
Itemized grants FY2024
150
Organizations funded FY2023
55%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$24M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$65,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,845,011
Organizations funded a year
8 to 150
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
33
Total assets, FY2024
$46M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Possibility Labs funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving165$23M55%
FY2023150$24M55%
FY202297$8.9M100%
FY20218$1.5Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Community Improvement$12MCivil Rights$9.3MEnvironment$9.2MFood & Nutrition$5.0MArts & Culture$4.7MPhilanthropy$4.6MHousing & Shelter$3.2MHealth$2.5MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Visible Hands$2,097,5012n/a
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital$2,000,000237%
Bridge for Billions$1,845,0111n/a
The Working World Inc$1,719,012312%
The Guild$1,680,0001n/a
Urban Tilth$1,437,50035%
Project South Inc$1,360,000323%
Solutions Project Inc$1,350,00036%
Indigenous Environmental Network$1,350,000311%
Native Movement$1,332,50037%
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All grantees of Possibility Labs by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Visible Hands$2,097,5012n/a
Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital$2,000,000237%
Bridge for Billions$1,845,0111n/a
The Working World Inc$1,719,012312%
The Guild$1,680,0001n/a
Urban Tilth$1,437,50035%
Project South Inc$1,360,000323%
Solutions Project Inc$1,350,00036%
Indigenous Environmental Network$1,350,000311%
Native Movement$1,332,50037%
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc$1,050,00034%
Rural Prosperity Center$1,000,000199%
South Tower Community Land Trust$1,000,0001n/a
Bridge for Billions$912,0001n/a
Enterprise Capital Institute$869,4401n/a
National Black Food and Justice Alliance$700,00026%
Radiant Strategies$632,9491n/a
Apoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc$610,500232%
Florida Rising Together Inc$600,00032%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$560,00031%
Centro Por la Justicia$550,000320%
Taller Salud Inc$548,70029%
The Reconciliation Center Inc$516,700210%
The Translatin Coalition$500,00014%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project$500,00014%
Bold Training Institute Inc$450,00034%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$450,00026%
The Guild$429,6001n/a
Radiant Strategies$421,9481n/a
Groundswell Fund$421,70031%
Women Watch Afrika$416,700323%
Grassroots Global Justice$416,70033%
Black Women for Wellness$416,70034%
Women With A Vision$416,70035%
Uniov Inc$400,500193%
Possibility Labs$375,49311%
Climate Justice Alliance$355,00032%
Honor the Earth$355,00033%
Center For Fair Housing Inc$350,500328%
Farmworker Association of Florida Inc$350,50039%
ACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom$350,000316%
Grow Greater Englewood Inc$350,00034%
To Nizhoni Ani$350,000312%
Wecount$350,00039%
Dine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment$350,000323%
Native Renewables Inc$350,00036%
Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy$350,000324%
United Tribes of Bristol Bay$350,0003n/a
Taproot Earth$350,00031%
Alternate RootsInc$350,00034%
Southwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc$300,00037%
Fusion Partnership Inc$295,00031%
Tewa Women United$266,70032%
Cihuapactli Collective$266,70039%
Earth Island Institute Inc$262,50030%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education$250,00028%
Purposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation$250,000127%
Oceanic Ascent Education & Athletics Inc$250,000235%
Miami Workers Center Inc$250,000111%
Changing Woman Initiative$250,000217%
Enterprise Capital Institute$224,0001n/a
Imagine US$220,8001n/a
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans$216,700314%
Question Culture$211,2001n/a
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$208,00030%
North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec$200,25034%
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women$200,00036%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$200,00030%
My Native Sisters Fire Inc$200,0003n/a
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc$200,00037%
The Ole Education Fund$200,00033%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund$200,00031%
Awali Inc$200,000356%
Sustainable Economies Law Center$200,00032%
Institute for Social and Cultural Communications Inc$200,0001n/a
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc$200,00033%
The Grand Canyon Trust Inc$200,00031%
San Francisco Community Land Trust$200,00011%
Family Action Network Movement Inc$200,00035%
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network$200,00036%
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc$200,000314%
Utah Dine Bikeyah$200,000315%
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute$200,000118%
Mississippi Association of Cooperatives Inc$200,000310%
Alaska Community Action on Toxics$200,00035%
Pueblo Unido CDC$200,00017%
Tenemos Que Reclamar y Unidos Salvar la Tierra-South La$200,00013%
Fideicomiso Comunitario Tierra Libre$200,000134%
Acta Non Verba Youth Urban Farm Project$200,000110%
Black Oaks Center for Sustainable Renewable Living$200,00037%
Maryland Philanthropy Network$200,00031%
Native Peoples Action Community Fund$200,000321%
Communities for a Better Environment$200,00032%
Chickaloon Village Traditional Council$200,0003n/a
Alliance for a Just Society$200,00032%
Oakland Community Land Trust$200,00017%
Island Food Security Inc$200,0001n/a
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund$200,00011%
Beverly-Vermont Community Land Trust$200,000125%
Koihonua$200,00036%
Brthright$192,0001n/a
Roanhorse Consulting$191,2501n/a
Fellowship of Reconciliation Inc$175,000213%
Murph$158,1501n/a
Sacramento Community Land Trust Inc$150,000181%
Richmond Land$150,000110%
Coharie Intra-Tribal Council Inc$150,000110%
Casa Familiar Inc$150,00012%
Thrive Santa Ana$150,000125%
South Bay Community Land Trust$150,000125%
El Sereno Community Land Trust$150,000122%
The Praxis Project Inc$150,00011%
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc$150,00013%
Voces de la Frontera Inc$150,00014%
Northeast Native Network of Kinship And$150,000116%
Imagine US$144,0001n/a
Confrerie de la Chaine Des Rotisseurs Ltd$129,6001n/a
Bowie State University Foundation Inc$125,00011%
Equity Legal Services Inc$120,000116%
Wepower$120,00014%
Program for Early Parent Support$115,00024%
Black Church Food Security Network$106,000114%
Our Children's Trust$102,50021%
Southern Sector Rising$100,500131%
Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico Inc$100,00028%
The Semilla Project$100,00014%
Family Promise Inc$100,00012%
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability$100,00012%
The Freedom Lab Inc$100,0001n/a
Metropolitan Congregations United for St Louis$100,0001n/a
Housatonic River Initiative Inc$100,0001n/a
Greenroots Inc$100,00012%
Umoja Coworking & Incubator$100,000154%
Non Extractive Finance Global$96,0001n/a
Faith Crusades Ministries Home$93,8001n/a
Agriculture for Community Restoration Economic Justice Susta$80,000124%
Solidarity Stl Inc$80,000132%
Aurora Commons$76,3341n/a
Learning Center at the Euchee Butterfly Farm Inc$75,000112%
Community Networking Resources Inc$75,0001n/a
Euchee Yuchi Language Project Inc$75,00013%
The Peoples Land Fund$75,00011%
Realize Impact$75,00020%
Solidaire Network Inc$70,00021%
Sistersong Inc$66,70010%
Black Feminist Future Inc$66,70012%
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund$65,00011%
Great Rivers Environmental Law Center$65,00019%
Beacon of Light Ministry$65,000191%
Ujima$65,0001n/a
A Red Circle$65,00013%
Rustic Roots Sanctuary Co$65,00019%
Westside Youth Inc$63,0001n/a
Farmworkers Institute Educational Leadership$62,50010%
Justice Outside$62,50011%
California Environmental Justice Alliance$62,5001n/a
West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (Woeip)$62,50015%
City Slicker Farms$62,500127%
Self-Help Enterprises$62,50010%
Community Action Partnership of Kern$62,50010%
California Farmlink$62,50012%
Fresno Arts Council Inc$55,00016%
Mathtalk Pbc$51,7501n/a
Free Speech for People Inc$50,00012%
United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties$50,00011%
Charles Sherrod Community Dev Corp$50,00013%
Kiss the Ground$50,00011%
Gateway Public Schools$50,00020%
Community Harvest Project Inc$50,00011%
Stand$50,00010%
Evolution Forward Incorporated$48,0001n/a
Center for Urban and Racial Equity LLC$48,0001n/a
Wayland Community Fund Inc$45,0001n/a
The May 13 Group$42,0001n/a
Retreat Farm Ltd$40,00012%
Fresno Metro Black Chamber Foundation$40,00011%
Border Youth Tennis Exchange Inc$40,00024%
OTV Open Television Inc$34,33512%
Coordinadora Paz Para la Mujer Inc$30,00012%
Girls on the Run Napa & Solano Inc Dba Girls on the Run North Bay$30,00023%
Radical Family Farms$28,0901n/a
Firebaugh Regional Health Council Inc$25,0001n/a
Merced Lgbtq Alliance$25,0001n/a
Fresno Freedom School Inc$25,000133%
Fiscal Sponsorship Allies Inc$25,00010%
Wespac Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation$25,00011%
Connectup Institute$25,00014%
TREND Community Development Corporation$25,00012%
Earthseed Anahuac$24,0001n/a
Rwanda Girls Initiative$24,00022%
The Bautista Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Families of Color Seattle$20,00021%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$20,00011%
Fresno Metropolitan Ministry$20,00010%
Creative Nomads Ltd$19,16615%
Helping Givers Give$17,0001n/a
Datable Services$17,0001n/a
Women's Foundation of California$15,00010%
Upvalley Family Centers of Napa County$15,00010%
The Lunar Foundation$15,000111%
Prospera Community Development$15,00011%
Ignite$15,00011%
Unmanageable$15,00014%
Jubilee Gift Galaxy Inc$15,00010%
Cowrie Initiative$15,0001n/a
Melvin Consulting Pllc$15,0001n/a
Crownkeepers$15,0001n/a
Pathways to Remembrance$15,0001n/a
Centipede Collective (Caesar Assad)$14,8001n/a
Organizing Money LLC$14,5001n/a
Coach G Academy Inc$13,50015%
Impact Ventures Accelerator dba Impact Ventures$12,80011%
Bold Ventures LLC$12,8001n/a
Cardenas Coaching LLC$12,8001n/a
Everyday People for Change Inc$12,80011%
Asian Business Institute & Resource Center$12,50011%
Manifesting Alternative Economic Realities$12,5001n/a
Educurious Partners$12,00010%
Creative Commons Corporation$12,00010%
Education Writers Association$12,00010%
Open Education Global Incorporated$12,00011%
National Center for Learning Disabilities Inc$12,00011%
Simon Fraser University$12,00010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$12,00010%
The Rebus Foundation$12,0001n/a
United We Lead Foundation$12,00011%
Internationals Network for Public Schools Inc$12,00011%
HEART Women & Girls$10,00011%
Fresno American Indian Health Project$10,00010%
New Vision Aviation$10,00013%
Defending Rights and Dissent Inc$10,00010%
Central California Land Trust$10,0001n/a
West Fresno Health Care Coalition Dba West Fresno Family Resource Center$10,00011%
The Black Organizing Project Inc$10,00010%
Reservoir Hill Association Inc$10,0001n/a
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$10,00010%
The Latino Equity Advocacy and Policy Institute$10,00011%
Higher Education for All$10,0001n/a
El Dorado Park CDC$10,0001n/a
Isaiah$10,00010%
Highway City Community Development Inc$10,00013%
Transformative Leadership for Change$10,00014%
New Israel Fund$10,0001n/a
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy$10,00010%
Black Executive Directors Network$10,00016%
Southwest Fresno Development Corporation$10,00014%
The Labyrinth Art Collective$10,0001n/a
HASER Inc$10,00011%
Brown Girl Wellness Incorporated$10,00013%
Allied Media Projects Inc$10,00010%
Community Alliance With Family Farmers$10,00010%
Rancho de Rodney$10,000146%
Lowell Community Development Corporation$10,00011%
Fly Girl Network Inc$9,850112%
Never Again Action$9,00016%
Wombwork Productions Inc$8,50013%
I Believe in Me Girls Inc$8,000110%
New Song Community Learning Center Inc$7,60010%
Jamica El$7,5001n/a
Greenmount West Community Center Foundation Inc$7,0951n/a
Trucha$6,76511%
Shes Well Networked Inc$6,66613%
Urban Youth Initiative Project Inc$6,5001n/a
Team of We Happyville$6,50012%
Mental Health Emergency Fund Inc$6,190132%
Fund for Educational Excellence Inc$6,09510%
Momcares$6,00012%
Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts and Entertainment District$6,00010%
Intersection of Change Inc$6,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Possibility Labs supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital: $2,000,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetThe Working World Inc: $1,719,012 over 3y, 12% of budgetUrban Tilth: $1,437,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetProject South Inc: $1,360,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $1,350,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetIndigenous Environmental Network: $1,350,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNative Movement: $1,332,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetSeventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc: $1,050,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetRural Prosperity Center: $1,000,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetNational Black Food and Justice Alliance: $700,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetApoyo Legal Al Emprendimiento Comunitario Inc: $610,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetFlorida Rising Together Inc: $600,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $560,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCentro Por la Justicia: $550,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTaller Salud Inc: $548,700 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetThe Reconciliation Center Inc: $516,700 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetThe Translatin Coalition: $500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project: $500,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBold Training Institute Inc: $450,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $450,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $421,700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWomen Watch Afrika: $416,700 over 3y, 23% of budgetGrassroots Global Justice: $416,700 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBlack Women for Wellness: $416,700 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetWomen With A Vision: $416,700 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetUniov Inc: $400,500 over 1y, 93% of budgetPossibility Labs: $375,493 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetClimate Justice Alliance: $355,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHonor the Earth: $355,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCenter For Fair Housing Inc: $350,500 over 3y, 28% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc: $350,500 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $350,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetGrow Greater Englewood Inc: $350,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTo Nizhoni Ani: $350,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWecount: $350,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetDine Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment: $350,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetNative Renewables Inc: $350,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTexas Environmental Justice Advocacy: $350,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTaproot Earth: $350,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAlternate RootsInc: $350,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSouthwest Ga Project for Community Education Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $295,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTewa Women United: $266,700 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCihuapactli Collective: $266,700 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $262,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $250,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetPurposed Focused Alternative Learning Corporation: $250,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetOceanic Ascent Education & Athletics Inc: $250,000 over 2y, 35% 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 200.

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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.

Common Counsel FoundationCA87.2× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Common Counsel Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Solutions Project Inc · Movement Strategy Center · Windward Fund · Solidaire Network Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Tides 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 Possibility Labs?

Find your warmest path to Possibility Labs 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 Possibility Labs

How much does Possibility Labs give?
Possibility Labs reported 173 itemized grants totaling $23,580,305, out of $24,825,759 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 150 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Possibility Labs fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (21%), Civil Rights (16%), Environment (16%).
Who are Possibility Labs's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Visible Hands ($2.1M), Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital ($2.0M), Bridge for Billions ($1.8M).
Does Possibility Labs fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Possibility Labs?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Common Counsel Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Rsf Social Finance Inc.
Where is Possibility Labs based?
Possibility Labs 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 286 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 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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