· Private foundation
The Sprocket Foundation
Its FY2023 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 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k8 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY | $275,000 |
| PROTEUS FUND | $235,000 |
| COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION | $165,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $155,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL FUND | $110,000 |
| THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC | $100,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BREAD & ROSES | $85,000 |
| TRANS QUEER PUEBLO | $75,000 |
| FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE HEALING | $70,000 |
| DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT | $60,000 |
| FAITH FOR JUSTICE | $55,000 |
| MANO AMIGA | $55,000 |
| MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT | $55,000 |
| AMISTAD LAW PROJECT | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
28 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BPBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +81%
NEO Philanthropy Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $525k · revenue +58%- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC3× · 2021–2023 · $390k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- ACAUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $100k
- PPRXone grant, 2018 · $90k
- TPTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC FREE HEARTSone grant, 2021 · $90k
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.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
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,…
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
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…
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…
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…
PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 103 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 PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DEFENDING RIGHTS AND DISSENT INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds FAITH FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Greater Birmingham Ministries ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
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: Proteus Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The New World Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sprocket Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sprocket Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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