Give Forward Foundation
San Francisco, CA · EIN 82-3785197. Reported 259 grants totalling $33.0M to 108 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Give Forward Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
5 of the organizations Give Forward Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 10 grants totalling $1,357,250 to them. That is 4% of the $30.9M of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tipping Point Community | grantmaking organization | California | $1,117,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Los Altos Mountain View | community foundation | California | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Hopewell Fund | grantmaking organization | District of Columbia | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Grantmakers Concerned With | grantmaking organization | California | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Community Initiatives | grantmaking organization | California | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $100,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $200,000; the smallest was $360 and the largest $1,500,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Education Fund | San Francisco, CA | $4,650,066 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ravenswood Education Foundation | Menlo Park, CA | $3,282,500 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Instruction Partners | Nashville, TN | $1,100,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teach for America Inc | San Francisco, CA | $1,070,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Teach Plus Incorporated | Boston, MA | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alder Graduate School of Education | Redwood City, CA | $950,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Educators for Excellence | New York, NY | $950,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tipping Point Community | San Francisco, CA | $867,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | Menlo Park, CA | $851,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Leading Educators Inc | New Orleans, LA | $850,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | San Francisco, CA | $800,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (iiba) | San Francisco, CA | $800,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Leaders | New York, NY | $750,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Teacher Center | Santa Cruz, CA | $750,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Silicon Schools Fund | Oakland, CA | $750,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Teach for All Inc | New York, NY | $750,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Schools Fund | Oakland, CA | $700,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto | East Palo Alto, CA | $600,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sobrato Early Academic Language Program | Milpitas, CA | $600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Education Leaders of Color | Los Angeles, CA | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pangea Legal Services | San Francisco, CA | $450,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Public Impact LLC | Carrboro, NC | $436,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Coastside Hope | El Granada, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Social Justice Collaborative | Berkeley, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Streetcode Academy | East Palo Alto, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Innovate Public Schools | San Jose, CA | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Education Fund | San Francisco, CA | $334,565 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Education Resource Strategies Inc | Watertown, MA | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Braven Inc | Chicago, IL | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Services & Immigrant Rights and Education Network | San Jose, CA | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Circuit Epa | East Palo Alto, CA | $285,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Leading Educators Inc | Dallas, TX | $284,686 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lifemoves | Santa Clara, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our American Future Foundation | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tipping Point | San Francisco, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula | Menlo Park, CA | $225,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Redwood City Education Foundation | Redwood City, CA | $215,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| All Five | Menlo Park, CA | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Edward Charles Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Latinos for Education Inc | Boston, MA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation | Los Atlos, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Center for Youth Law | Oakland, CA | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Edvoice Institute for Research and Education | Sacramento, CA | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Education Pioneers Inc | Boston, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith in Action Bay Area | Redwood City, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Good Information Foundation | New York City, NY | $150,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tntp | New York, NY | $135,185 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodside School Foundation | Woodside, CA | $125,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | Menlo Park, CA | $105,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ambition Angels | Palo Alto, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detention Watch Network | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Franklin Education Forum | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Reach Institute for School Leadership | Oakland, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sarvodaya USA | Alexandria, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| West Chop Community Fund Inc | Vineyard Haven, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| World Collaborative for Transformative Community | Stanford, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City Year San Josesilicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $89,564 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ucsf Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Cheshire Project | Lincoln, VT | $60,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cambiar Education | San Diego, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detention Watch Network | Washington, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mijente Support Committee | Phoenix, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Philanthropic Trust | Jenkintown, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Policy Innovators in Education Network | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sugar Bowl Ski Team & Academy | Norden, CA | $47,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $45,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Playworks Education Energized | Oakland, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Child Mind Institute Inc | New York, NY | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kqed Inc | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alexander Twilight Academy | Boston, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Crystal Springs Uplands School | Hillsborough, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Teach for America Inc | Boston, MA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Woodside Village Church | Woodside, CA | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Digital Promise Global | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hopewell Fund | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Latinos United for a New America | San Jose, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Noticeability Inc | Cambridge, MA | $18,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Calling All Crows | Arvada, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sima Studios | West Hollywood, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YWCA North Central Indiana | South Bend, IN | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oakland Reach | Oakland, CA | $11,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Citizen Schools National | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Civic News Company | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hope Chicago Inc | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Love Light and Melody a Not for Profit Corporation | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marthas Vineyard Center for Education and Training Inc | Vineyard Haven, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marthas Vineyard Museum Inc | Vineyard Haven, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teach for America Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Team Esface Inc | Redwood City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Youth United for Community Action | East Palo Alto, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Common Sense Media | San Francisco, CA | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees | Petaluma, CA | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edsource | Oakland, CA | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | San Jose, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Margaret's House | South Bend, IN | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Will S Way Foundation | Chicago, IL | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boa Foundation Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chalkbeat Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Menlo-Atherton High School | Atherton, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $583 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | Palo Alto, CA | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
59 of 108 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 75%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Ravenswood Education Foundation
$500,000 FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT AND $500,000 FOR THE TALENT INITIATIVE - Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR NEXT EDUCATION WORKFORCE AT ASUS MARY LOU FULTON TEACHERS COLLEGE - Our American Future Foundation
FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT OF FUTURE FORWARD EDUCATION FUND - Teach for America Inc
GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR TEACH FOR AMERICA, BAY AREA - Public Impact LLC
FOR THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF EXPANDING OPPORTUNITY CULTURE'S WORK IN CALIFORNIA - Redwood City Education Foundation
TO SUPPORT ACADEMIC INTERVENTION AND BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTS IN THREE SCHOOLS (TAFT, GARFIELD AND HOOVER) FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR '22-'23
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 212 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 52 | $5,134,360 | $75,000 |
| 2022 | 63 | $7,309,333 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 69 | $8,967,370 | $100,000 |
| 2024 | 75 | $11.5M | $100,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Give Forward Foundation has 82 of them, worth $21.5M. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| New Leaders | New York, NY | $1,000,000 |
| Asu Foundation | Tempe, AZ | $750,000 |
| Educators for Excellence | New York, NY | $750,000 |
| Instruction Partners | Nashville, TN | $750,000 |
| Leading Educators | New Orleans, LA | $750,000 |
| New Leaders Inc | New York, NY | $750,000 |
| Teach for All Inc | New York, NY | $750,000 |
| New Schools Fund | Oakland, CA | $500,000 |
| Lifemoves | Santa Clara, CA | $500,000 |
| Alder Graduate School of Education | Redwood City, CA | $500,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | Menlo Park, CA | $500,000 |
| Educators for Excellence | New York, NY | $500,000 |
| New Teacher Center | Santa Cruz, CA | $500,000 |
| Silicon Schools Fund | Oakland, CA | $500,000 |
| Teach for America Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $500,000 |
Where its money goes
73% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Give Forward Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1660 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA, 94109. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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