· Public charity
Redf
Redefine alliance invests in businesses that reveal and reinforce the talent of people breaking through barriers to employment.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $734k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC | $250,000 |
| BIKES NOT BOMBS INC | $236,500 |
| RISE UP INDUSTRIES | $210,000 |
| PEOPLE ADVANCING REINTEGRATION INC | $209,850 |
| ALL SQUARE | $205,000 |
| WILDFLYER COFFEE | $175,000 |
| DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER | $175,000 |
| GROUND UP PDX | $174,900 |
| URBAN ALCHEMY | $170,000 |
| GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD | $152,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $150,000 |
| CONBODY INC | $150,000 |
| OIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $150,000 |
| WELD SEATTLE | $150,000 |
| SEEDS OF CHANGE LLC | $140,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 32% of Redf’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 29% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 18%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
107 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $901k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC5× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +261%- JVJUMA VENTURES INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +119%
- CCCHRYSALIS CENTER5× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +180%
Funded once
- RIREDF IMPACT INVESTING FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.3M · revenue +36% · 98% of their budget
- DSDowntown Streets Incone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
- FHFARMING HOPEone grant, 2024 · $170k
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.
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…
As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
At Would Works, we are committed to help youth with barriers to employment to heal, learn new skills, grow their confidence and prepare for their next opportunities, by providing paid, creative, hands-on woodworking training in a…
Training and jobs for exoffenders
Se works' mission is to strengthen the economic health and well being of our diverse community by facilitating successful connections between job seekers and employers.
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,…
We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.
Our mission is to empower underemployed adults living in Richmond's East End to obtain the skills and necessary support to qualify for and ultimately gain thriving careers. Our commitment is to partner with each participant until they are…
Our mission is to help people return to independent living and be self-sufficient. The HWH model is partner based and encompasses housing, mental health services, workforce training and employment. This supportive structure and services…
An employer-led initiative aimed at transforming the hiring process. we use a skills-based approach to identify, train and hire talent. the traditional credentials-based focus must evolve to give all qualified job seekers a chance to prove…
How this is measured
202 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 202 of the 251 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds REDF IMPACT INVESTING FUND ↗
- Who funds JUMA VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL TEMPORARY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds ORION INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK FOR BETTER FUTURES DBA BETTER FUTURES MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WELD SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds URBAN ALCHEMY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
- Who funds The Knowledge House Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GRID ALTERNATIVES GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COALFIELD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RETURN INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON REBUILDING WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
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: Jacques Pepin Foundation The · Stand Together Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Farestart · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The James Irvine Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Weingart Foundation · National Basketball Association Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Redf funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Redf. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oic of South Florida Inc: 89% of income from government
- City Seed Inc: 87% of income from government
- Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
- Maryland Reentry Resource Center: 77% of income from government
- Civic Works Inc: 63% of income from government
- Emerge Connecticut Inc: 47% of income from government
- Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
- Havenly: 40% of income from government
- Challenge Program Inc: 36% of income from government
- Interseminarian - Project Place Inc: 32% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- Stone Soup Pdx: 20% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
- Vehicles for Change Inc: 16% of income from government
- Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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