· Public charity
Realize Impact
Realize Impact is organized and operated exclusively for the charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, specifically to provide financial support, mentorship, and other assistance to early-stage socially-, environmentally-, health-.
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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $415k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,168,000 |
| GitLab Foundation | $975,000 |
| Beneficial Returns | $651,510 |
| Delta40 Venture Studio Corporation | $609,375 |
| Small Business Silver Lining | $463,125 |
| Denkyem | $358,424 |
| gDiapers | $266,136 |
| Individual grant recipient | $243,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $219,375 |
| Artha Networks | $195,000 |
| SOCAP | $190,125 |
| Ocean Plastics Recovery Project | $100,001 |
| Campus Evolve | $95,000 |
| Vanguard Charitable | $77,859 |
| Up Until Now | $71,092 |
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 (FY21–24, $943k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
17 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSilver Lining Ltd USA4× · 2021–2024 · $3.7M
- BRBeneficial Returns3× · 2022–2024 · $2.2M
- DVDelta40 Venture Studio Corporation2× · 2023–2024 · $2.1M
Funded once
- TAThe AMP Communityone grant, 2023 · $117k
- SCSilvaseed Companyone grant, 2023 · $100k
- CFCooperatives for a Better Worldgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +105%
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 57 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
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Realize Impact funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Realize Impact. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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