How much does The Futures Project give?

The Futures Project reported 14 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Futures Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (18%), Education (14%), Youth Development (14%).

Who are The Futures Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buildon Inc ($68k), 826 Valencia ($40k), Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc ($30k).

Does The Futures Project fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Futures Project accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Futures Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation.

Where is The Futures Project based?

The Futures Project is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

The Futures Project

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$145k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 72%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $15,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 18; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $1.8M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 72% of the organizations The Futures Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	14	$145k	43%
FY2024	18	$155k	72%
FY2023	13	$121k	46%
FY2022	14	$130k	71%
FY2021	15	$130k	80%
FY2019	12	$120k	75%
FY2018	11	$116k	91%
FY2017	10	$114k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$183kEducation$141kYouth Development$140kHuman Services$136kCrime & Legal$80kInternational$78kHousing & Shelter$60kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Buildon Inc	$67,800	6	0%
826 Valencia	$40,000	4	0%
Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Corazon Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Hidden Genius Project	$30,000	3	1%
The East Oakland Collective	$20,000	2	n/a
Mission Dolores Academy	$15,000	2	n/a
After Innocence	$10,000	1	2%
Vision to Learn	$10,000	1	n/a
La Cocina	$10,000	1	0%

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All grantees of The Futures Project by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Buildon Inc	$67,800	6	0%
826 Valencia	$40,000	4	0%
Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Corazon Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Hidden Genius Project	$30,000	3	1%
The East Oakland Collective	$20,000	2	n/a
Mission Dolores Academy	$15,000	2	n/a
After Innocence	$10,000	1	2%
Vision to Learn	$10,000	1	n/a
La Cocina	$10,000	1	0%
East Bay Community Law Center	$10,000	1	0%
Ryse Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Inside-Outside Circle Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Farm to Pantry	$10,000	1	5%
Occur	$10,000	1	0%
Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco	$10,000	1	0%
The Living Room Center	$10,000	1	0%
City Youth Now Fka Volunteer Auxiliary Youth Guidance Center of San Francisco	$10,000	1	2%
10000 Degrees	$10,000	1	0%
Root & Rebound	$10,000	1	0%
One Degree	$10,000	1	n/a
Compass Family Services	$10,000	1	0%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Dovetail Learning Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Hack the Hood Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Trybe Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Play Marin	$10,000	1	2%
Planting Justice	$10,000	1	0%
La Casa de las Madres	$10,000	1	0%
Robin Hood Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
St Anthony Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Girls Inc	$10,000	1	0%
La Familia Sana	$10,000	1	2%
TURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE	$10,000	1	0%
Larkin Street Youth Services	$10,000	1	0%
East Oakland Youth Development Center	$10,000	1	n/a
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco	$10,000	1	1%
Scopa Has a Dream Inc Dba Corazon Healdsburg	$10,000	1	0%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Avenues for Justice Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Raphael House of San Francisco Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Spanish Speaking Unity Council of Alameda County Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Prep for Prep	$10,000	1	0%
Homeless Childrens Network	$10,000	1	0%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa	$6,000	1	0%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$1,027	1	0%
Alk Positive Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($420k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Futures Project supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA36.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · The California Endowment · Bothin Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation

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.

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About The Futures Project

How much does The Futures Project give?: The Futures Project reported 14 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Futures Project fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (18%), Education (14%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are The Futures Project's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Buildon Inc ($68k), 826 Valencia ($40k), Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc ($30k).
Does The Futures Project fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Futures Project accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Futures Project?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation.
Where is The Futures Project based?: The Futures Project is based in CA.