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See Forward Fund Inc

The organization's purpose is to support social welfare purposes, primarily public education and advocacy on issues of social justice, environmental protection, civil rights and civic participation.

$240k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.1MCivil Rights$674kEmployment$504kCommunity Improvement$485kPhilanthropy$242kHuman Services$125kEducation$75kEnvironment$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$676k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA$50,000
WORKING FAMILIES POWER$40,000
ADVANCE CAROLINA$35,000
PROGRESS ARIZONA$30,000
LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE ARIZONA (LUCHA)$30,000
INDIVISIBLE PROJECT$30,000
BLACK VOTERS MATTER FUND (BVM)$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE ARIZONA (LUCHA): $30k → 11%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND: $20k → 16%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $20k → 14%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 16%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC: $79k → 14%LUCHA: $30k → 11%CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $20k → 14%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INC: $25k → 17%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $35k → 16%LUCHA: $30k → 11%LUCHA: $30k → 11%ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWOSIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK ACTION: $25k → 10%BLACK YOUTH PROJECT 100: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 16 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
35

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $335k · revenue +130%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +57%
  • AN
    ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NEO Philanthropy Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $242k · revenue +17%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -2%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +11%
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.

04Its field

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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Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
Center for Popular Democracy Inc

The center for popular democracy (cpd) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world. we upend business and politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all…

Public Benefit
3
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
4
New American Leaders Action Fund Inc

New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.

Civil Rights
5
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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6
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
7
One for Democracy Action Fund

One for democracy unlocks resources to build a healthy democracy by fostering meaningful relationships between philanthropists and the democracy leaders of our time.

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8
Progressive Caucus Action Fund

The progressive caucus action fund ("the pcaf") is working across the progressive movement to unite stakeholders around common goals, build infrastructure, and secure real policy wins. we advance peopl-centered policies that build racial,…

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9
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
10
Climate Equity Action Fund

The climate equity action fund (ceaf) works hand-in-hand with community-based partners in critical states across the country to secure and sustain policy wins for climate and clean energy. building on over a decade of trust with leading…

Environment
11
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Strategy Center Action Fund; the most unlike its peers is Rural Arizona Engagement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 55 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $255,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INCRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $160,000 · Civil RightsRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENTCENTER FOR CIVIC ACTION: $125,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CIVIC ACTIONCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUNDBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INCARIZONA WINS: $80,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA WINSNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $75,000 · Civil RightsNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITYOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $70,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS ACCION: $70,000 · Civil RightsCOPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $70,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA: $50,000 · Civil Rights+10 more: $245,000 · Civil Rights+10 moreTHE WORKERS LAB: $503,704 · OtherTHE WORKERS LABTIDES ADVOCACY: $335,078 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $115,000 · OtherNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUNDBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $90,000 · OtherBlack Voters Matter Fund IncCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $50,000 · Other+12 more: $248,550 · Other+12 morePEOPLE'S ACTION: $395,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTIONADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC: $190,000 · Community ImprovementADVANCE NORTH C…+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $120,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNI…DOWN HOME NC: $85,000 · Human ServicesDOWN HOME …Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $79,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia In…Asian Pacific Environmental Network Action: $35,000 · Human ServicesAsian Paci…NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBOR T…NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK S…CALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $20,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEO Philanthropy Inc: $242,482 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $75,000 · Public BenefitPROTEUS FUND INC: $75,000 · EducationUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $70,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $50,000 · EducationLAND STEWARDSHIP ACTION FUND: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Civil Rights$1,390,000Other$1,342,332Community Improvement$595,000Human Services$414,000Public Benefit$317,482Education$195,000Food & Nutrition$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $395,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $335,078 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $255,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $242,482 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC: $190,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetRURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT: $160,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC ACTION: $125,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND: $115,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWN HOME NC: $85,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetARIZONA WINS: $80,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $79,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA: $70,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSOMOS ACCION: $70,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetCOPAL COMMUNIDADES ORGANIZANDO EL PODER Y LA A: $70,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $70,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION: $40,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetRENEW NEW ENGLAND: $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLAND STEWARDSHIP ACTION FUND: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPROGRESS ARIZONA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINDIVISIBLE PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCenter For Racial and Gender E NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE ACTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $25,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetFAITH IN MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA CALLS ACTION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMASS ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $5,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Sixteen Thirty FundTides AdvocacyWay to Win Action Fun…Open Society Action F…Women Donors Network …Center for Community …NEO Philanthropy Acti…Tides FoundationAmerica VotesPro-Democracy CampaignClimate Equity Action…
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA63.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · Center for Community Change Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · America Votes · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Climate Equity Action Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization See Forward Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from See Forward Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to See Forward Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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