Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Race Forward
RACE FORWARD supports communities and public institutions to achieve a just multiracial democratic society through governance that advances social justice.
- $494k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 79% of the organizations Race Forward funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 15 | $492k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.7M | 79% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $1.4M | 97% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $874k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $714k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $859k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for Southern Equity | $600,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Puget Sound Sage | $600,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Empower DC | $600,000 | 3 | 23% |
| Race Forward Action Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 99% |
| Americans for the Arts Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 19% |
| West Atlanta Watershed Alliance | $240,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Earth Care International Earth Care New Mexico | $240,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Alliance for Global Justice Corp | $240,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Open Buffalo Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Vespernina Place Inc | $144,776 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 98 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Race Forward supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The Schott Foundation for Public Education · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Center · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Surdna Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About Race Forward
- How much does Race Forward give?
- Race Forward reported 15 grants totaling $494,126 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Race Forward fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (48%), Civil Rights (20%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Race Forward's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Partnership for Southern Equity ($600k), Puget Sound Sage ($600k), Empower DC ($600k).
- Does Race Forward fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Race Forward?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Common Counsel Foundation.
- Where is Race Forward based?
- Race Forward is based in DC.
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