· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $768k
- $50k–250k99 grants · $9.5M
- $250k+21 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +19% · 37% of their budget
- TWTHE WORKING WORLD INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +26%
- UTUrban Tilth3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TGThe Guildone grant, 2023 · $1.7M · revenue -79%
- STSouth Tower Community Land Trustone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- BFBRIDGE FOR BILLIONSone 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.
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.
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,…
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…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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…
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…
To uplift low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley by ensuring access to clean air, water, land, and food sovereignty.
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.
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…
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.
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 VISIBLE HANDS ↗
- Who funds Fresno Community Development Financial Institution dba Access Plus Capital ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds The Guild ↗
- Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rural Prosperity Center ↗
- Who funds South Tower Community Land Trust ↗
- Who funds National Black Food and Justice Alliance ↗
- Who funds APOYO LEGAL AL EMPRENDIMIENTO COMUNITARIO INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO POR LA JUSTICIA ↗
- Who funds TALLER SALUD INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIN COALITION ↗
- Who funds MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOLD TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Native American food sovereignty alliance dba NAFSA ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds WOMEN WATCH AFRIKA ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds Women With A Vision ↗
- Who funds Uniov Inc ↗
- Who funds POSSIBILITY LABS ↗
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: 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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
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.
Play a game based on Possibility Labs’ filings →