Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Prosperity Now
PROSPERITY NOW inspires bold action and provides organizations with the tools, research, and resources needed to help people build prosperity so everyone can thrive.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,909,214
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Prosperity Now funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $2.0M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.1M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $4.0M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $4.8M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $1.3M | 87% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $494k | 69% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $840k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common Future | $2,000,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Pacific Community Ventures Inc | $1,909,214 | 1 | 15% |
| Entrepreneur Ready Inc | $1,900,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Economic Development Association | $1,255,657 | 3 | 5% |
| Prosperity Now | $860,000 | 2 | 3% |
| City First Enterprises Inc | $535,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Bbcdc Inc | $375,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Community First Fund | $375,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Veteran Business Project Inc | $333,218 | 1 | 94% |
| East la Community Corporation | $241,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 172 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Prosperity Now supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 147 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Wells Fargo Foundation · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · Target Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Citi Foundation · National Community Reinvestment Coalition Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Opportunity Finance Network · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Capital One Foundation Inc · Pnc Foundation
How this is measured
About Prosperity Now
- How much does Prosperity Now give?
- Prosperity Now reported 4 grants totaling $2,138,661 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Prosperity Now fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (52%), Philanthropy (32%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Prosperity Now's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Common Future ($2.0M), Pacific Community Ventures Inc ($1.9M), Entrepreneur Ready Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Prosperity Now fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Prosperity Now?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wells Fargo Foundation, Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc, Target Foundation.
- Where is Prosperity Now based?
- Prosperity Now is based in DC.
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