· Private foundation
The Roddenberry Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $885k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE J GLADSTONE INSTITUTE | $1,000,000 |
| ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| ELYPTA | $333,333 |
| THE CONTENTMENT FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE CONTENTMENT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HARMONY PROJECT | $75,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| RASA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) | $50,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION | $50,000 |
| FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS | $50,000 |
| FREE ALAS | $50,000 |
| GENUNITY INC | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE TOGETHER | $50,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($23M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($6.3M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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
Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($6.3M)
58 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 99 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, 54% 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
- TJTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES2× · 2018–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +38%
- CFCONTENTMENT FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +256% · 28% of their budget
- HPHarmony Project7× · 2018–2024 · $660k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- GIGLADSTONE INSTITUTES-PER AGREEMENTone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $333k
- GYGENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -28%
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.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
How this is measured
186 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. 186 of the 684 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 ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds CONTENTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Space for Giants USA Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERATION YOU EMPLOYED INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOTE RUN LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Game Changers Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds SEACAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION X LABS INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds DASRA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds POP CULTURE HERO COALITION ↗
- Who funds FERNANDO PULLUM COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
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: Echoing Green Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Profit Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Ffwd · Camelback Ventures · Dovetail Impact Foundation (Fka David Weekley Family Foundation) · Impactassetsinc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Roddenberry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roddenberry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hera Inc: 100% of income from government
- Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
- Chainless Change Inc: 0% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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