How much did REDF grant in FY2024?

REDF reported 69 grants totaling $5,649,379 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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REDF

REDF is a non-profit organization that supports employment social enterprises (eses): businesses that seek not only financial results, but also to create jobs, stability, and economic mobility for people overcoming the toughest barriers to employment.REDF's support for eses is largely in three forms: (I) capital (including grants, loans,…

$5.6M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$228k

Largest

01What you fund

0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Employment$9.2MHuman Services$4.2MCommunity Improvement$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.1MCrime & Legal$1.5MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MHealth$798kOther$10.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

employermodelsexchange divertsdiverts materialsmaterials fromlandfillsandfromlandfillsand makesmakes accessible

2019

marindallastraining membersmembers seekingseeking rebuildrebuild addictionsaddictions homelessness

2020

interngrand streetnowbrooklynhead startexpansionbronx

2021

growth portfolioacceleratorgainfulrulaskilldisadvantagedchange

2022

growth portfolioacceleratorhuman-traffickingraisingendmentoringpathway

2023

growth portfoliomagic woodworkswoodworks manufactureacceleratorapprenticeshippaidapprentices

2024

portfoliowelcomeend homelessnesssan josesantaoperatessafe haven

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k31 grants · $607k
$50k–250k38 grants · $4.9M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$40M

Total assets

Largest grants

JUST Q'IN BBQ$228,000
WELD SEATTLE$200,000
DOWNTOWN STREETS INC$180,000
TOUCH A HEART$175,000
INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING$175,000
COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH$175,000
FARMING HOPE$170,000
SEEDS OF CHANGE LLC$166,000
COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION DBA SUSTAINU$164,000
MISSOULA INTERFAITH COLLABORATIVE$160,000
FREEDOM A LA CART$150,000
GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD$146,000
PERALTA SERVICE CORPORATION$145,000
URBAN ASS OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS DBA FORESTRY AND FIRE RECRUIT$140,000
URBAN ALCHEMY$140,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of REDF’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 19% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

REDFlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$30M · 93 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +135% since the first grant, against +76% for the ones you funded once.

93 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111

Total granted

$30M

$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%

+76%

Still filing today

82%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $925k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EmploymentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

Center for Employment Opportunities
5× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +167%
JV
Juma Ventures
6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +119%
TC
The Chrysalis Center dba Chrysalis
4× · 2017–2020 · $950k · revenue +180%

Funded once

RI
REDF Impact Investing Fundgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1.3M · revenue +36% · 98% of their budget
TO
The Osborne Associationgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +67%
C
Comprenew
one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue -5%

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.

The WorkWell Partnership

The WorkWell Partnership operates a four-week job training program consisting of training and counseling, with qualified trainers, mentors and advocates helping to prepare formerly incarcerated citizens for employment that can be sustained…

Education

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

ReWork Richmond Inc

To prepare and connect underemployed adults in the East End of Richmond with the right family-sustaining careers.

Employment

Goodwill Industries of

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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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

Goodwill's Green Works Inc

To provide training and develop skills of people with employment challenges to enable them to work.

Employment

Project Restart Inc

To help people on their path toward self-sufficiency with a culinary program that provides job training and mental health support, leading to sustained employment.

Housing & Shelter

Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

Through the work of goodwill, people will have the opportunity to achieve their greatest potential.

Human Services

New Haven Works Inc

New haven works connects new haven residents to good jobs and employers to qualified pre-screened candidates.

Education

The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment

Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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Crossroads Industries Inc

Provides opportunities for employment and social independence. crossroads offers employability training and skill building services to help people with disabilities develop and enhance job skills necessary to find and maintain a job in the…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Enterprise and Training Center and the most unlike its peers is Weld Seattle. 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.

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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%5/232

the rest of the field

11%

206,159/1,819,333

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.

06the grantee network

183 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

176/183

Grantees still filing

153/183

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Employment$9,198,288Other$12,924,700Human Services$4,188,448Community Improvement$2,691,159Housing & Shelter$2,086,500Crime & Legal$1,481,000Education$1,441,560

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

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.

Jacques Pepin Foundation TheRI32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jacques Pepin Foundation The · Stand Together Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg · Tipping Point Community · The James Irvine Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Farestart · Clif Family Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · National Basketball Association · Weingart Foundation · Youthbuild USA Inc

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 organisation REDF 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REDF Impact Investing Fund.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~153 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842301234 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REDF Impact Investing Fund, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 153 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Redf?

Find your warmest path to Redf through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

REDF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

183 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Redf?

More from the funding graph

REDF

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

183 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Redf?

More from the funding graph