Realize Impact
Bainbridge Island, WA · EIN 46-3594732. Reported 93 grants totalling $19.2M to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Realize Impact, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 19% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 61% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,863 and $186,729; the smallest was $5,033 and the largest $3,168,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business Silver Lining | New York, NY | $3,671,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The New Climate | Menlo Park, CA | $3,168,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beneficial Returns | Portland, OR | $2,186,329 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| DELTA40 Venture Studio Corporation | Lake Placid, NY | $2,071,875 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gitlab Org Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $975,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Black Lives Matter 5280 | Denver, CO | $942,815 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Denkyem | Renton, WA | $897,429 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mission Driven Finance LLC | San Diego, CA | $853,125 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Risekit | Chicago, IL | $563,460 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Artha Networks | Belmont, MA | $487,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gdiapers | West Linn, OR | $287,247 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Impactassets Inc | Bethesda, MD | $254,855 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Making Space | Tujunga, CA | $243,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tailwind Climate | Berkeley, CA | $219,375 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Campus Evolve | Medina, WA | $195,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Impact Entrepreneur | Sheffield, MA | $191,368 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Socap | San Francisco, CA | $190,125 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kokua Country Foods Cooperative | Honolulu, HI | $171,768 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Seattle Foundation | Seattle, WA | $145,758 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Up Until Now | Brooklyn, NY | $120,409 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Amp Community | New York, NY | $117,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ocean Plastics Recovery Project | Kodiak, AK | $100,001 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cooperatives for a Better World | Jamaica Plain, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Silvaseed Company | Roy, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Malvern, PA | $98,443 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Daintree Capital | Chevy Chase, MD | $74,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Climeon | Shoreline, WA | $68,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Driven Finance | San Diego, CA | $58,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Bessemer Giving Fund | Woodbridge, NJ | $52,683 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tmc Community Capital | San Jose, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Startcoop | Jamaica Plain, MA | $44,432 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Community Foundation of Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $43,313 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Third Act Education Fund Inc | New York, NY | $40,364 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Natural Provisions | Oakland, CA | $39,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $36,342 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Heroic Enterprises | Austin, TX | $32,996 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Investors Circle | Durham, NC | $32,824 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Donor Advised Charitable Giving | Lone Tree, CO | $30,851 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bessemer Giving Trust | Seattle, WA | $29,807 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $29,164 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Easy Expunctions | San Antonio, TX | $27,032 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Farm Link Hawai'i Inc | Honolulu, HI | $24,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Mexico Angels Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $23,156 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Giveteam | Menlo Park, CA | $20,963 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goodsend | Schaumburg, IL | $14,533 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Agrarian Craft Inc (dba Bonsall Berry Farm) | Bonsall, CA | $13,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tiny Superheroes | Chesterfield, MO | $10,617 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridging Virginia Inc | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Missoula Interfaith Collaborative | Missoula, MT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tierra & Lava LLC | Dover, DE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Flip | New York, NY | $9,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Daf Capital Partners | Sauslito, CA | $9,692 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $8,527 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Relationspot | New York, NY | $5,363 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Gift Fund | Wilmington, DE | $5,146 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Grady School | Redmond, WA | $5,146 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Philanthropic Tr | Jenkintown, PA | $5,033 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
23 of 57 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The New Climate
Fiscal Sponsorship Grants
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 20 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $3,001,505 | $52,683 |
| 2022 | 13 | $2,032,797 | $97,500 |
| 2023 | 33 | $5,944,440 | $39,500 |
| 2024 | 36 | $8,249,449 | $46,453 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
31% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Realize Impact's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 271 Winslow Way E 10234, Bainbridge Island, WA, 98110.
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