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Race Forward
Washington, DC · EIN 94-2759879. Reported 89 grants totalling $4,760,271 to 77 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 Race Forward, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S50Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 77 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 15% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
20 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,020,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Americans for the Arts Inc | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Race Forward Action Inc | New York, NY | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alliance for Global Justice | Tucson, AZ | $298,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Earth Care International | Santa Fe, NM | $240,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West Atlanta Watershed Alliance Inc | Atlanta, GA | $240,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Open Buffalo Inc | Buffalo, NY | $160,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Vespernina Place Inc | Newfield, NY | $144,776 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund | Oakland, CA | $135,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Red Media | Santa Fe, NM | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition | Nashville, TN | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | Detroit, MI | $83,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Food for the Spirit | Naples, NY | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Allgo | Austin, TX | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Anti Police-Terror Project Inc | Oakland, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Assets Under Movement | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Black Swan Academy Inc | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brighton Park Neighborhood Council | Chicago, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carolina Youth Action Project | N Charleston, SC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Democracy at Work Institute | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Mexico Community Foundation | Santa Fe, NM | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Vision Alliance | Durham, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $68,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Environmental Justice Network | Raleigh, NC | $67,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network | Oakland, CA | $63,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arch City Defenders Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Organizing Project Inc | Oakland, CA | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blueprint North Carolina | Durham, NC | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for the City of New York Inc | New York, NY | $58,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 482FORWARD | Detroit, MI | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Family Life in Sunset Park Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Co-Op Ed Center Nfp | Oak Park, IL | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Make the Road States Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nexus Community Partners | Minneapolis, MN | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pioneer Valley Planning Commission | Springfield, MA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of Erie | Erie, CO | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Education Justice Alliance | Raleigh, NC | $52,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cvpe Educational Forum Inc | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Maine Peoples Resource Center | Portland, ME | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hoosier Action Resource Center | New Albany, IN | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| We Are Down Home | Greensboro, NC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda Inc | Atlanta, GA | $40,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Opportunity Agenda Inc | New York, NY | $31,369 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michael Brown SR Chosen for Change Foundation Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Inadvance | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations California | Anaheim, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Amani Collective | Greenville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Olneyville Housing Corp | Providence, RI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Third World Organizing | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Equity and Transformation | Berwyn, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Freedom Community Center | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freedom Inc | Madison, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Humans of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jamaa Birth Village | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mission Attempt | Florissant, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks | Albuquerque, NM | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Organized Communities Against Deportations | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sophia Project Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Hana Center | Chicago, IL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Until We Are All Free Movement | Minneapolis, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wespac Foundation Inc | White Plains, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education | Providence, RI | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Youth Connection | Oakland, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc | Bronx, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Poder in Action Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Childrens Aid Society | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $8,626 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Acce Institute | Los Angeles, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Housing California | Sacramento, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Housingnola | New Orleans, LA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lilac | Philadelphia, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood Partnerships Inc | Portland, OR | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pittsburgh United | Pittsburgh, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Right to the City Alliance Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | Boston, MA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington Low Income Housing Alliance | Seattle, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
7 of 77 (9%) 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.
- Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
TO SUPPORT ADVANCEMENT OF RACIALLY EQUITABLE POLICY ON IMMIGRATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE - Allied Media Projects
TO SUPPORT BLACK IMMIGRANT FUTURES PROJECT - Alliance for Global Justice
TO SUPPORT ADVANCEMENT OF RACIALLY EQUITABLE POLICY IN CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE - Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
TO SUPPORT COMMUNITIES FIRST FUND - Democracy at Work Institute
TO SUPPORT THE RAPID RESPONSE COOPERATIVE MODEL - Carolina Youth Action Project
TO PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 67 of 77 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 | 20 | $1,020,000 | $58,000 |
| 2022 | 34 | $1,488,500 | $51,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $1,760,145 | $22,500 |
| 2024 | 15 | $491,626 | $15,000 |
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
24% 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.
Down to the city
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 Race Forward's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 96353, Washington, DC, 20090.
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