Massachusetts · Public charity
Solidago Foundation
The organization's mission is to promote justice, equity, sustainability and enfranchisement for all through charitable grant-making to and work with progressive, empowering community-based organizations and collaborations.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,475,233
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 135
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Solidago Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $2.1M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $440k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $1.4M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $650k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $2.2M | 66% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $1.2M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 135 | $5.9M | 59% |
| FY2017 | 93 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Circle for Justice Innovations Inc | $1,557,130 | 1 | 69% |
| See Forward Fund Inc | $1,550,000 | 6 | 55% |
| Neighborhood Funders Group | $860,852 | 4 | 14% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $702,647 | 1 | 1% |
| The Workers Lab | $572,775 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Economic Democracy Inc | $537,628 | 1 | 46% |
| Blueprint North Carolina | $360,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Workers Defense Project | $296,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates of Southern California | $291,500 | 3 | 7% |
| Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En Lucha | $237,500 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 236 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($175k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Solidago Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 187 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Windward Fund · Tides Center · Common Counsel Foundation · Tides Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Movement Strategy Center · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
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About Solidago Foundation
- How much does Solidago Foundation give?
- Solidago Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $2,067,130, out of $2,252,129 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 135 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Solidago Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (20%), Philanthropy (16%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are Solidago Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Circle for Justice Innovations Inc ($1.6M), See Forward Fund Inc ($1.6M), Neighborhood Funders Group ($861k).
- Does Solidago Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Solidago Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Proteus Fund Inc.
- Where is Solidago Foundation based?
- Solidago Foundation is based in MA.
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