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Race Forward

RACE FORWARD supports communities and public institutions to achieve a just multiracial democratic society through governance that advances social justice.

$494k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$3.0MCivil Rights$1.2MArts & Culture$760kEducation$244kHuman Services$186kReligion$157kCommunity Improvement$150kEmployment$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED ALLIANCE$80,000
EARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL$80,000
ALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE$80,000
FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT INC$80,000
NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTIC$40,000
THE MICHAEL BROWN SR CHOSEN FOR CH$30,000
CAIR-SV$20,000
OLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION$15,000
HUMANS OF ST LOUIS$10,000
THE SOPHIA PROJECT$10,000
THE MISSION ATTEMPT$10,000
FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
JAMAA BIRTH VILLAGE$10,000
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY$8,626
ACCE INSTITUTE$8,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $357k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INADVANCE: $25k → 10%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $80k → 13%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $55k → 20%FREEDOM INC: $10k → 10%HOUSINGNOLA: $8k → 23%UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $10k → 11%OPEN BUFFALO INC: $80k → 13%INDIGENOUS RIGHTS CENTER: $20k → 14%HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $8k → 12%EQUITY AND TRANSFORMATION: $10k → 14%THE HANA CENTER: $10k → 14%GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLE AGENDA: $41k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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WA
MN
IL
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NY
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OR
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IN
PA
RI
CA
CO
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VA
MD
AZ
NM
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 9 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
77

Total granted

$2.8M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+6%

Still filing today

89%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $600k · revenue +197%
  • ED
    EMPOWER DC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $600k · revenue +88%
  • WA
    West Atlanta Watershed Alliance
    3× · 2022–2024 · $240k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • RF
    RACE FORWARD ACTION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · 99% of their budget
  • Americans for the Arts Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -11%
  • VP
    VESPERNINA PLACE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $145k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
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
3
Chicago United for Equity

Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.

Civil Rights
4
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
5
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
6
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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7
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
8
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
9
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Atlanta Inc

Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…

Human Services
10
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
11
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
12
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

The organization provides public education on the issues related to fair and just immigration policies.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Opportunity Agenda Inc and the most unlike its peers is Humans of St Louis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyImmigrant Worker SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsSchool District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportWomen & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%13%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%49%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/116
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,449

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 100 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/97
Grantees still filing
57/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RACE FORWARD ACTION INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsRACE FORWARD AC…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $135,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPO…TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $85,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIG…HOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER INC — $45,000 · Civil RightsHOOSIER ACTION …BYP100 Education Fund — $28,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $28,250 · Civil RightsVESPERNINA PLACE INC — $144,776 · OtherVESPERNINA PLACE INCOpen Buffalo Inc — $160,000 · OtherOpen Buffalo IncAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $240,000 · OtherAlliance for Global Justice CorpAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $75,000 · OtherDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $75,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THE SPIRIT INC — $80,000 · Other+58 more — $1,378,976 · Other+58 moreEMPOWER DC — $600,000 · Community ImprovementEMPOWER DCNAA KAANI NATIVE PROGRAM — $85,000 · Community ImprovementNAA KAANI NAT…+5 more — $54,000 · Community Improvement+5 moreAmericans for the Arts Inc — $500,000 · Arts & CultureAmericans fo…ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $90,370 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA…THE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC — $31,369 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $82,000 · Arts & Culture+10 morePARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY — $600,000 · ReligionPARTNERSHI…PUGET SOUND SAGE — $600,000 · Social SciencePUGET SOUN…West Atlanta Watershed Alliance — $240,000 · EnvironmentWest Atlan…EARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO — $240,000 · EnvironmentEARTH CARE…NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORK — $40,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CARO…RESOURCE MEDIA — $25,000 · Environment+2 more — $25,000 · Environment
Civil Rights$821,250Other$2,153,752Community Improvement$739,000Arts & Culture$703,739Religion$600,000Social Science$600,000Environment$570,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY — $600,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $600,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetEMPOWER DC — $600,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetRACE FORWARD ACTION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetAmericans for the Arts Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetWest Atlanta Watershed Alliance — $240,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetEARTH CARE INTERNATIONAL EARTH CARE NEW MEXICO — $240,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $240,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOpen Buffalo Inc — $160,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $135,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $90,370 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION — $85,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THE SPIRIT INC — $80,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetDEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP — $65,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBay Area Parent Leadership Action Network PLAN — $63,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetNEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $55,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LIFE IN SUNSET PARK INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $55,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget482 FORWARD — $55,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEducation Justice Alliance — $52,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION RESOURCE CENTER INC — $45,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWE ARE DOWN HOME — $45,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda — $40,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORK — $40,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY AGENDA INC — $31,369 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBYP100 Education Fund — $28,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINADVANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINDIGENOUS RIGHTS CENTER — $20,250 over 1y, 15% of budgetHELPING EDUCATE TO ADVANCE THE RIGHTS OF THE DEAF — $20,250 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE — $20,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOMESIGHT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAction Council of Monterey County Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC — $10,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANS OF ST LOUIS — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJAMAA BIRTH VILLAGE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HANA CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRED MEDIA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amalgamated Charitabl…Marguerite Casey Foun…Common Counsel Founda…The Schott Foundation…Tides FoundationNew Venture FundTides CenterNEO Philanthropy IncBorealis PhilanthropySurdna Foundation IncWindward FundThe Ford Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC61.5× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Race Forward funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Neighborhood Partnerships Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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