· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $382k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC | $1,475,233 |
| SEE FORWARD FUND INC | $100,000 |
| CIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC | $81,897 |
| COMMON CAUSE | $50,000 |
| BLUEPRINT | $50,000 |
| BLUEPRINT | $50,000 |
| ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT (ACE) | $50,000 |
| BLACK MALE INITIATIVE GEORGIA (BMIGA) | $35,000 |
| PROGEORGIA | $35,000 |
| GEORGIA STAND-UP | $30,000 |
| CHISPA A PROGRAM OF LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $30,000 |
| RURAL AZ ENGAGEMENT (RAZE) | $30,000 |
| TRANS(FORMING) | $25,000 |
| TRANS(FORMING) | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
85 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 6 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNeighborhood Funders Group4× · 2017–2022 · $861k · revenue +242%
- WDWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT4× · 2017–2020 · $296k · revenue +13%
- KIKOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA3× · 2017–2019 · $292k · revenue +274%
Funded once
NEO Philanthropy Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $703k · revenue +103%- TWTHE WORKERS LABone grant, 2018 · $573k
CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $538k · revenue +448% · 46% of their budget
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.
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 are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
Workers Rights
We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
How this is measured
231 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. 231 of the 253 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 CIRCLE FOR JUSTICE INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SEE FORWARD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KOREAN IMMIGRANT WORKERS ADVOCATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE TRABAJADORES UNIDOS EN LUCHA ↗
- Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New York Taxi Workers Alliance ↗
- Who funds Chicago Workers' Collaborative NFP ↗
- Who funds 9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds FE Y JUSTICIA WORKER CENTER ↗
- Who funds RURAL ARIZONA ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR ↗
- Who funds COOPERATION JACKSON OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds WE ARE DOWN HOME ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WORKING WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Workers Lab ↗
- Who funds JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Solidago Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solidago Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
- Franklin County Community Development Corporation: 22% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
- Behavorial Health Systems Baltimore: 1% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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