Funding search · EIN 823785197 · San Francisco, CA

Give Forward Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

206
grants reported
$27.3M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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  • Bay Education Fund5 grants · $4.7M
  • Ravenswood Education Foundation5 grants · $2.0M
  • Leading Educators5 grants · $884,686
  • Tipping Point Community3 grants · $867,750
  • Teach for America8 grants · $855,000
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula5 grants · $851,000
  • Instruction Partners4 grants · $850,000
  • Silicon Schools Fund3 grants · $750,000
  • Educators for Excellence3 grants · $750,000
  • Alder Graduate School of Education3 grants · $750,000

Giving over time

$7.3M
2022
$8.5M
2023
$11.5M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 206 grants.

  • $1.5M

    Bay Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $1.1M

    Bay Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $1.1M

    Bay Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $1.0M

    Ravenswood Education Foundation · Menlo Park, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $652,174

    Bay Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $500,000

    Ravenswood Education Foundation · Menlo Park, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $500,000

    Ravenswood Education Foundation · Menlo Park, CA · 2022

    $500,000 for general operating support and $500,000 for the talent initiative

  • $346,750

    Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $280,500

    Bay Education Fund · San Rafael, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $271,000

    Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Alder Graduate School of Education · Redwood City, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University · Tempe, AZ · 2024

    General operating support for next education workforce at asus mary lou fulton teachers college

  • $250,000

    Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula · Menlo Park, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Educators for Excellence · New York, NY · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Instruction Partners · Nashville, TN · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Leading Educators · Dallas, TX · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Lifemoves · Santa Clara, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Leaders · New York, NY · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Teacher Center · City of Industry, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Our American Future Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024

    For general operating support of future forward education fund

  • $250,000

    Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Teach for America · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    General operating support for teach for america, bay area

  • $250,000

    Teach Plus Incorporated · Boston, MA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Alder Graduate School of Education · Redwood City, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula · Menlo Park, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Educators for Excellence · New York, NY · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Instruction Partners · Nashville, TN · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Leading Educators · New Orleans, LA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Leaders · New York, NY · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Teacher Center · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Teach for America · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Teach Plus Incorporated · Boston, MA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Alder Graduate School of Education · Redwood City, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula · Menlo Park, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Educators for Excellence · New York, NY · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Instruction Partners · Nashville, TN · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Leading Educators · New Orleans, LA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Leaders · New York, NY · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    New Teacher Center · Santa Cruz, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Silicon Schools Fund · Oakland, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Teach for America · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General operating support - tfa bay area

  • $250,000

    Teach Plus Incorporated · Boston, MA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $250,000

    Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $236,000

    Public Impact Llc · Carrboro, NC · 2024

    For the charitable purposes of expanding opportunity culture's work in california

  • $215,000

    Redwood City Education Foundation · Redwood City, CA · 2022

    To support academic intervention and behavioral supports in three schools (taft, garfield and hoover) for the school year '22-'23

  • $210,000

    Circuit Epa · East Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $206,000

    San Francisco Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General operating support to san francisco education fund. The foundation's preference is for san francisco education fund to use this grant to support the work of bay ed fund

  • $200,000

    Immigrant Legal Resource Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    Half for general operating support and half to support the crisp collaborative

  • $200,000

    Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (Iiba) · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Sobrato Early Academic Language Program · Milpitas, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Teach for All · New York, NY · 2024

    General operating support, can be used toward match or challenge grant

  • $200,000

    Immigrant Legal Resource Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Half for general operating support and half to support the crisp collaborative for work through june 2025

  • $200,000

    Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (Iiba) · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Public Impact Llc · Carrboro, NC · 2023

    For the charitable purpose of expanding the opportunity culture work to california

  • $200,000

    Sobrato Early Academic Language Program · Milpitas, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Teach for All · New York, NY · 2023

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Immigrant Legal Resource Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Half for general operating support and half to support the crisp collaborative for work through june 2025

  • $200,000

    Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (Iiba) · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Los Atlos, CA · 2022

    General operating support for evergreen collective

  • $200,000

    Sobrato Early Academic Language Program · Milpitas, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $200,000

    Teach for All · New York, NY · 2022

    General operating support, can be used toward match or challenge grant

  • $175,000

    Education Resource Strategies · Watertown, MA · 2024

    Coalition to reimagine teaching

  • $150,000

    Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto · East Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $150,000

    Education Leaders of Color · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    For the charitable purposes of reconstruction

  • $150,000

    Education Pioneers · Boston, MA · 2024

    Bay area general operating support

  • $150,000

    Edvoice Institute for Research and Education · Sacramento, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $150,000

    Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto · East Palo Alto, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $150,000

    Education Leaders of Color · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the charitable purposes of reconstruction to support scholarships and their fellowship program for black curriculum writers

  • $150,000

    Education Resource Strategies · Watertown, MA · 2023

    Coalition to reimagine the teaching role

  • $150,000

    Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto · East Palo Alto, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $150,000

    Education Leaders of Color · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    For the charitable purposes of reconstruction to support scholarships and their fellowship program for black curriculum writers

  • $128,565

    San Francisco Education Fund · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To support the work of bay ed fund to san francisco education fund

  • $125,000

    President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    For the graduate school of education case development fund (255-313799)

  • $100,000

    Ambition Angels · Palo Alto, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Braven · Chicago, IL · 2024

    For bay area programming

  • $100,000

    Coastside Hope · Half Moon Bay, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Franklin Education Forum · Washington, DC · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Innovate Public Schools · San Jose, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Instruction Partners · Nashville, TN · 2024

    Middle school math initiative

  • $100,000

    La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Latinos for Education · Boston, MA · 2024

    Bay area expansion

  • $100,000

    Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County · Redwood City, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Pangea Legal Services · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Social Justice Collaborative · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Braven · Chicago, IL · 2023

    For bay area programming

  • $100,000

    Coastside Hope · El Granada, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Edward Charles Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2023

    For the charitable purposes of teachstart for general operating support toward assisting in education of the public

  • $100,000

    La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Latinos for Education · Boston, MA · 2023

    Bay area expansion

  • $100,000

    Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County · Redwood City, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Pangea Legal Services · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Reach Institute for School Leadership · Oakland, CA · 2023

    To support the charitable work of ambition angels

  • $100,000

    Services & Immigrant Rights and Education Network · San Jose, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Social Justice Collaborative · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Streetcode Academy · East Palo Alto, CA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula · Menlo Park, CA · 2022

    General operating support

  • $100,000

    Braven · Chicago, IL · 2022

    For bay area programming

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.