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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$183kEducation$141kYouth Development$140kHuman Services$136kCrime & Legal$80kInternational$78kHousing & Shelter$60kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BuildOn$15,000
Hoops Homework$10,000
Inside Circle$10,000
Compass$10,000
Play Marin$10,000
Huckelberry Youth$10,000
SeriousFun$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FARMpreneurs$10,000
EBCLC$10,000
Homeless Prenatal$10,000
826 Valencia$10,000
Cristo Rey Boston$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Inside Circle: $10k → 12%Living Room Center Inc: $10k → 9%City Youth Now: $10k → 10%DOVETAIL LEARNING: $10k → 9%Homeless Childrens Network: $10k → 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs: $10k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 10%Corazon Healdsburg: $10k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $10k → 10%Larkin Street Youth Services: $10k → 10%Compass Family Services: $10k → 10%Oakland Trybe: $10k → 10%ONE DEGREE: $10k → 10%Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa: $6k → 9%St Vincent School for Boys: $10k → 10%Raphael House: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 83% of The Futures Project’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Futures Projectlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$466k · 16 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
54

Total granted

$466k
$505k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+11%

Still filing today

38%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BUILDON INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +39%
  • 8V
    826 Valencia
    4× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +131%
  • HG
    HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT
    3× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +669%

Funded once

  • U
    UNDOCUFUND
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • FT
    Farm to Pantrygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +178%
  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Services
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
3
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
4
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
5
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
6
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
7
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
8
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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9
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
10
East Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc

The mission of the East Bay Childrens Law Offices, Inc. is to protect and defend the rights of children and youth through holistic, vigorous and compassionate legal advocacy. EBCLO strives to provide a voice for children in and out of…

Crime & Legal
11
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
12
Floreciendo

The mission of Oakland Bloom is to advance food and economic justice community power and resilience with working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs. Oakland Bloom does this through stewarding Open Test Kitchen as a kitchen and…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr20%15%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr12%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
11%
4,436/39,410

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCristo Rey Boston — $36,000 · OtherCristo Rey BostonCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLAR — $31,250 · OtherCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARHoops Homework — $30,000 · OtherHoops HomeworkCRISTO REY NETWORK — $20,000 · OtherHuckelberry Youth — $20,000 · OtherCovenant House — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · Other+35 more — $337,675 · Other+35 moreHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH…Larkin Street Youth Services — $10,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street You…RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF …THE LIVING ROOM CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIVING ROOM C…CITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 · Human ServicesCITY YOUTH NOW FK…CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIE…ONE DEGREE — $10,000 · Human ServicesONE DEGREEDovetail Learning Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesDovetail Learning…Homeless Childrens Network — $10,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Children…COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SE…SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $10,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM…TRYBE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTRYBE INCINSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesINSIDE-OUTSIDE CI…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $6,000 · Human ServicesBUILDON INC — $67,800 · InternationalBUILDON INCCORAZON INC — $30,000 · InternationalCORAZON INCSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 · InternationalSave The Ch…826 Valencia — $40,000 · Education826 Valen…HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $30,000 · EducationHIDDEN GE…10000 DEGREES — $10,000 · Education10000 DEG…PREP FOR PREP — $10,000 · EducationPREP FOR …The East Oakland Collective — $20,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINA — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementOCCUR — $10,000 · Community ImprovementROOT & REBOUND — $10,000 · Crime & LegalTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE — $10,000 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $10,000 · Crime & LegalAfter Innocence — $10,000 · Crime & LegalAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $10,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN — $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,027 · Health
Other$555,925Human Services$156,000International$107,800Education$90,000Community Improvement$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Health$21,027

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUILDON INC — $67,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCORAZON INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFarm to Pantry — $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOT & REBOUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLA COCINA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlanting Justice — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPLAY MARIN — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget10000 DEGREES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHack the Hood Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCUR — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAfter Innocence — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLA RAZA CENTRO LEGAL - SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILIA SANA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRYSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDovetail Learning Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHomeless Childrens Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRYBE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALK POSITIVE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…Marin Community Found…The California Wellne…Tipping Point Communi…Kaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationThe California Endowm…Bothin FoundationCrankstart FoundationSonoma County Communi…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Futures Project funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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