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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 FY2024still arriving
173
Grants FY2024still arriving
33
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2024 · 173 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 173 grants below total $23,580,305, the rows itemized in this filing. The $24,825,759 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,245,454 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $768k
  • $50k–250k99 grants · $9.5M
  • $250k+21 grants · $13M
$65,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGE FOR BILLIONS$1,845,011
PROJECT SOUTH INC$1,110,000
RURAL PROSPERITY CENTER$1,000,000
VISIBLE HANDS$967,750
ENTERPRISE CAPITAL INSTITUTE$869,440
TIDES CENTER$730,000
NATIVE MOVEMENT$720,000
URBAN TILTH$675,000
RADIANT STRATEGIES$632,949
APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC$500,500
MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT$500,000
THE TRANSLATIN COALITION$500,000
NATIONAL BLACK FOOD AND JUSTICE ALLIANCE$450,000
THE GUILD$429,600
UNIOV INC$400,500
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 (FY22–24, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOPI TUTSKWA: $200k → 26%NORTHEAST NATIVE NETWORK OF KINSHIP AND HEALING INCORPORATED: $150k → 8%UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $15k → 9%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%CASA FAMILIAR INC: $150k → 11%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $117k → 12%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $150k → 17%SDG IMPACT FUND: $100k → 10%REALIZE IMPACT: $40k → 10%THE TIDES CENTER: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $63k → 18%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND: $750k → 18%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $100k → 12%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $100k → 14%SOLIDARITY STL INC (DBA SOLIDARITY ECONOMY ST LOUIS): $80k → 21%PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT: $100k → 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $35k → 10%HEART WOMEN & GIRLS: $10k → 14%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND: $200k → 18%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $50k → 12%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $50k → 14%PEPS: $15k → 9%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $50k → 14%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $13k → 9%THE BLACK ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $10k → 10%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND POLICY EDUCATION: $150k → 14%THE FREEDOM LAB INC: $100k → 15%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $12k → 9%BROWN GIRL WELLNESS INC: $10k → 19%TIDES CENTER: $730k → 10%STRATEGIC CONCEPTS IN ORGANIZING AND: $100k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 10%WOMEN WATCH AFRIKA: $100k → 14%WOMEN WATCH AFRIKA: $167k → 14%WOMEN WATCH AFRIKA: $150k → 14%HIGHWAY CITY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $10k → 19%POSSIBILITY LABS: $375k → 10%WAYFINDER COMM-DRIVEN FUND: $45k → 10%FRESNO METROPOLITAN MINISTRY FBO FRESNO COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PART: $20k → 19%RURAL PROSPERITY CENTER: $1.0M → 19%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

AK
VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 82 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

82 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 90 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
105

Total granted

$34M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
0%

Still filing today

96%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +19% · 37% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WORKING WORLD INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +26%
  • UT
    Urban Tilth
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Guild
    one grant, 2023 · $1.7M · revenue -79%
  • ST
    South Tower Community Land Trust
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • BF
    BRIDGE FOR BILLIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $912k
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
3
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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4
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
5
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
6
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
7
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
8
Central California Environmental Justice Network

To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.

Environment
9
Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture
10
Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association

Carrying out the policy of Californias to support socially disadvantaged farmers through The Farmers Equity Act and with pending state funding, the mission of Ujamaa Farmer Collective Association is empowering historically underserved…

Community Improvement
11
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
12
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justice Outside; the most unlike its peers is I Believe in Me Girls 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

234 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. 234 of the 286 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
226/234
Grantees still filing
90/234
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGE FOR BILLIONS: $1,845,011 · OtherBRIDGE FOR BILLIONSPROJECT SOUTH INC: $1,360,000 · OtherBRIDGE FOR BILLIONS: $912,000 · OtherENTERPRISE CAPITAL INSTITUTE: $869,440 · OtherSouth Tower Community Land Trust: $1,000,000 · OtherINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $1,350,000 · OtherFresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital: $2,000,000 · OtherFresno Community Development Financial Institution…+91 more: $16,207,821 · Other+91 moreUrban Tilth: $1,437,500 · EnvironmentUrban TilthSolutions Project Inc: $1,350,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Projec…HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $560,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEA…Asian Pacific Environmental Network: $450,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific En…CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $355,000 · EnvironmentHONOR THE EARTH: $355,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $350,000 · EnvironmentDINE CITIZENS AGAINST RUINING OUR ENVIRONMENT: $350,000 · EnvironmentTEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY: $350,000 · EnvironmentTaproot Earth: $350,000 · Environment+16 more: $2,455,000 · Environment+16 moreSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $1,050,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENE…TIDES CENTER: $1,045,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERRural Prosperity Center: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesRural Prospe…MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $500,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO INDI…WOMEN WATCH AFRIKA: $416,700 · Human ServicesWOMEN WATCH …POSSIBILITY LABS: $375,493 · Human ServicesPOSSIBILITY …TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $266,700 · Human ServicesStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $250,000 · Human Services+15 more: $1,548,200 · Human Services+15 moreTHE WORKING WORLD INC: $1,719,012 · Community ImprovementTHE WORKING…NATIVE MOVEMENT: $1,332,500 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVE…CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA: $550,000 · Community ImprovementCENTRO POR …Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA: $450,000 · Community ImprovementNative Amer…FUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $295,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $200,000 · Community Improvement+12 more: $915,500 · Community Improvement+12 moreThe Guild: $1,680,000 · Arts & CultureUniov Inc: $400,500 · Arts & CultureACORN Center For Restoration & Freedom: $350,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE RENEWABLES INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureAlternate RootsInc: $350,000 · Arts & CultureCihuapactli Collective: $266,700 · Arts & CultureInstitute for Social and Cultural Communications Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILY ACTION NETWORK MOVEMENT INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNative Peoples Action Community Fund: $200,000 · Arts & CultureKOIHONUA: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $331,035 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $600,000 · Civil RightsTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $516,700 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $500,000 · Civil RightsBOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC: $450,000 · Civil RightsGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE: $416,700 · Civil RightsCenter For Fair Housing Inc: $350,500 · Civil RightsWECOUNT: $350,000 · Civil RightsTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 · Civil RightsFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc: $150,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $150,000 · Civil RightsVISIBLE HANDS: $2,097,501 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $416,700 · HealthWomen With A Vision: $416,700 · HealthCHANGING WOMAN INITIATIVE: $250,000 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $150,000 · Health+2 more: $73,000 · Health
Other$25,544,272Environment$8,362,500Human Services$6,452,093Community Improvement$5,662,012Arts & Culture$4,528,235Civil Rights$3,883,900Health$3,403,901

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,045,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 budgetNative American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA: $450,000 over 3y, 47% 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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Housatonic River Initiative Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Learning Center at the Euchee Butterfly Farm Inc: 56% of income from government
  • Northeast Native Network of Kinship and: 44% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd: 25% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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

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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.

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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