· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BuildOn | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EBCLC | $10,000 |
| Hoops Homework | $10,000 |
| Homeless Prenatal | $10,000 |
| 826 Valencia | $10,000 |
| Inside Circle | $10,000 |
| Play Marin | $10,000 |
| Huckelberry Youth | $10,000 |
| Cristo Rey Boston | $10,000 |
| FARMpreneurs | $10,000 |
| SeriousFun | $10,000 |
| Compass | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 83% of The Futures Project’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 14%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BUILDON INC6× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +39%- 8V826 Valencia4× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +131%
- HYHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC3× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- UUNDOCUFUNDone grant, 2017 · $16k
- TRThe Richmond Neighborhood Centerone grant, 2024 · $10k
- AIAfter Innocencegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +44%
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,…
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.
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…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
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.
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,…
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 76 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
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 BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CORAZON INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The East Oakland Collective ↗
- Who funds After Innocence ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds RYSE INC ↗
- Who funds INSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Farm to Pantry ↗
- Who funds OCCUR ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ROOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITY YOUTH NOW FKA VOLUNTEER AUXILIARY YOUTH GUIDANCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Futures Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Futures Project. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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