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FY 2023

Verified NonprofitLast Filed 2023EIN 77-0071852

Thousand Currents

OAKLAND, CANTEE: Q300Founded 1988Website

mission statement

We fund, connect, and walk alongside grassroots groups transforming their communities.

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Total Revenue

$63.6M

FY 2023

Program Spending

90.7%

of total expenses

Known Funders

178

2019–2024 filings

Key Metrics (FY 2023)

The Numbers

$63.3M

Total Assets

$61.2M net

23.87 mo

Operating Reserves

FY 2023

+167%

Revenue Growth

YoY

Total Employees

FY 2023

Funding Track Record

Backed by 178 Institutional Funders

$112.3M raised across 436 grants · +$5.9M committed (2019–2024 filings)

Funder Geography

Funders across 31 states (2019–2024 filings)

Institutional Funding by Year

PaidCommittedBoth

Funder	Location	Total Awarded
Waverley Street Foundation	PALO ALTO, CA	$40,000,000
American Online Giving Foundation Inc	NEWARK, DE	$13,191,470
Climateworks Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$9,022,900
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc	WASHINGTON, DC	$8,355,795
NoVo Foundation	Brooklyn, NY	$6,158,000 +$3,750,000 committed
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund	BOSTON, MA	$4,375,003
Tides Foundation	SAN FRANCISCO, CA	$2,693,100
Impactassets Inc	BETHESDA, MD	$2,604,400
National Philanthropic Trust	JENKINTOWN, PA	$2,586,511
Foundation to Promote Open Society	NEW YORK, NY	$1,500,000 +$500,000 committed

Total tracked: $112,253,858 across 436 grants · +$5,926,000 committed across 14 commitments (2019–2024 filings)

Totals reflect grants as reported on funder tax returns. Timing may not match recipient revenue: funder and recipient fiscal years often differ, and grants paid by a funder in one year may be recognized by the recipient in a different year.

Programs (FY 2023)

What They Do

$26.4M in expenses

Grants and grantee services: in addition to providing financial resources to partners in africa, asia, and latin america, thousand currents organizes local and transnational learning exchanges and facilitates strategic networks and alliances. Through the climate leaders in movement action fund (clima), they work in collaboration with their peers to increase resources to our grassroots partners.

$1.5M in expenses

Philanthropic organizing and outreach: thousand currents works to educate, train and support philanthropists to engage in meaningful and transformative giving through programs such as the thousand currents academy which are housed under our new initiative, the center for transforming philanthropy. The center for transforming philanthropy is a comprehensive, timely, and field-building approach to shifting practices in the philanthropy.

Financial History