Gitlab Org Foundation
Invitation OnlySan Francisco, California · EIN 87-4241796 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2025)$19.4M
Organizations funded90
Typical grant$250,000
Total assets$21.3M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $125,000 and $250,000.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2025 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
81% of grants went outside California.
Grants paid in tax year 2025
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Green Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Scaling farmer chat to improve self-efficacy and incomes of smallholder farmers in kenya | $500,000 |
| Mobile Pathways | Berkeley, CA | To support increasing income for asylum seekers via accelerated authorizations | $500,000 |
| One Acre Fund | Highland Park, IL | To support driving greater income growth: tech-enabled crop commercialization for kenyan smallholders | $500,000 |
| The Industrial Commons | Morgantown, NC | Economic opportunity for textile workers | $500,000 |
| Realize Impact | Bainbridge Island, WA | National expansion project aimed to grow risekit's successful platform into two new markets | $475,000 |
| Fundacion Santo Domingo | Barranquilla, CO | Strengthen income generation capacities of migrant polulation, youth, and informal workers. | $460,000 |
| Cal Epic (Formerly California Mobility Center) | Sacramento, CA | Cal epic ev tech training program | $375,000 |
| Pursuit | Long Island City, NY | To support scaling pre-job training: increasing roi via industry engagement & in-person programs. | $375,000 |
| Buildher | Nairobi, KE | Renewal to buildher expansion: scaling proof to impact | $350,000 |
| Burning Glass Institute | Bala Cynwyd, PA | Integrating the credential value index into the indeed platform | $350,000 |
| Credential Engine | Washington, DC | To support credential attainment for people with some college to no credential and scaling outcome and quality data transformation through… | $350,000 |
| Join Freeworld Inc | Austin, TX | To support workforce efficiency engine. | $350,000 |
| Restoringvision | San Francisco, CA | Restoring vision, restoring livelihoods in kenya | $316,924 |
| Careervillageorg | San Francisco, CA | Career navigation for all fund: expanding can tool access globally | $300,000 |
| Colorado Cleantech Industry Association Foundation | Niwot, CO | Cleanpath colorado | $283,490 |
| Anniecannons Inc | Oakland, CA | To support thrivetech: trauma-informed advanced curriculum and workplace readiness initiative. | $250,000 |
| Arizona Community Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | Techsmart: driving education attainment for arizona's semiconductor workforce | $250,000 |
| Burning Glass Institute | Bala Cynwyd, PA | Education outcomes standards (eqos) and credential value index (cvi) | $250,000 |
| Cap Youth Empowerment Institute - Kenya | Nairobi, KE | Climate smart agriculture training and livelihoods hub | $250,000 |
| Center for Employment Opportunities | New York, NY | To support ai-driven workforce empowerment: customizing gpts for scalable support in reentry and job readiness. | $250,000 |
| Chicago Scholars Foundation | Chicago, IL | Reaching for green: scalable union and college pathways to economic mobility | $250,000 |
| Clean Power Institute | Washington, DC | Expanding access to careers in wind | $250,000 |
| Corporacion Centro de Estudios Artisticos Y Tecnicos | Bogota, DC | Ecolombia | $250,000 |
| Drexel University | Philadephia, PA | Equitable climate transition workforce development program in pennsylvania | $250,000 |
| Earn Inc Dba Saverlife | Arlington, VA | To support applying machine learning and genai to boost the financial security of 1099 workers | $250,000 |
| Footbridge for Families | Monroeville, PA | Resolving basic needs emergencies for workforce development participants | $250,000 |
| Fundacion Corona | Bogota, DC | Scaling digital and green pathways for global opportunity youth network | $250,000 |
| Generation You Employed Inc | Washington, DC | To support the durability collective | $250,000 |
| Givedirectly | New York, NY | To support ai-enabled conversation support for benefits applications | $250,000 |
| Integrity Transformations Community Development Corporation | Atlanta, GA | To support safety net toll for adults pursuing economic mobility via post secondary education & training. | $250,000 |
| Jobs for the Future Inc | Boston, MA | Increasing usage of high-quality credentials through a novel data framework (systems change) | $250,000 |
| Mercy Corps | Portland, OR | Jobtech x kenya | $250,000 |
| Mission Asset Fund | San Francisco, CA | Nurture child care businesses | $250,000 |
| National Governors Association Center for Best Practices | Washington, DC | Modernizing stale date systems to drive workforce outcomes. | $250,000 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | To support new jersy pilot project | $250,000 |
| Opportunity International | Chicago, IL | Economic empowerment for smallholder farmers in kenya | $250,000 |
| Pro Bono Net Inc | New York, NY | To support reclamo ai to combat wage theft and prevent proverty | $250,000 |
| Realize Impact | Bainbridge Island, WA | Building intelligent & scalable workforce development infrastructure in indiana: using philanthropic capital to unlock value in state… | $250,000 |
| Realize Impact | Bainbridge Island, WA | Making spcae for disable talent at scale | $250,000 |
| Recidiviz Inc | Oakland, CA | To support assisting with intelligence: using ai to reduce workloads and reduce incarcerated poulations. | $250,000 |
| Scholarship America Inc | Minneapolis, MN | To support rethinking college financial assistance: proactive support focused on achieving equity and ensuring pathways to good jobs. | $250,000 |
| Shaping Our Appalachian Region | Pikeville, KY | Eastern kentucky nuclear workforce initiative | $250,000 |
| Social Finance Inc | Boston, MA | Mass climate careers fund | $250,000 |
| Social Finance Inc | Boston, MA | Mass climate careers fund | $250,000 |
| Social Finance Inc | Boston, MA | To support ai learning and innovation hub sandbox | $250,000 |
| Student Basic Needs Coalition | Knoxville, TN | To support identifying students eligible for federal benefits programs + application assistance | $250,000 |
| Tech 25 | Mount Oliver, PA | Tech25 max impact partnership | $250,000 |
| The National Accreditation Commission | Annandale, VA | To support ai-powered skills alighnment for next-generation accredidation | $250,000 |
| Upsolve Inc | New York, NY | Expanding the financial safety net with ai-powered bankruptcy support | $250,000 |
| Upwardly Global | New York, NY | Creating pathways to quality jobs for immigrant prfessionals by leveraging ethical ai | $250,000 |
| US Water Alliance | Oakland, CA | Building a strong & equitable water workforce | $250,000 |
| Makaia | Medellin, CO | Scaling STEM route: leveraging digital learning for economic opportunities in technology | $249,039 |
| Colorado Nonprofit Development Center | Denver, CO | To support trendlines colorado's project at the center for urban education - growing our own: the paraprofessionals to teachers pipeline | $200,000 |
| National Fund for Workforce Solutions | Washington, DC | Worcorce solutions grant | $200,000 |
| Pathways International US | Washington, DC | Scaling pathways systems in colmbia: phase II | $200,000 |
| Dreamorg | Oakland, CA | To support an ai springboard into green careers and leaderhip: dream.org x frontline gig. | $175,000 |
| Fundacion Zigma | Bogota, CO | Opportunities without borders: degree accreditation pathway | $175,000 |
| Trailhead Institute | Denver, CO | Unlocking colorado's public data and public dollars to build and scale a broader pipeline of eveidence-based workforce pathways | $175,000 |
| International Youth Foundation | Baltimore, MD | Tourism tech for youth | $150,000 |
| Realize Impact | Bainbridge Island, WA | Fair employment for marginalized groups pwered by proprietary ai | $150,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 90 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Careervillage Inc | Philadelphia, PA | Equitable climate transition workforce development program in pennsylvania | $600,000 |
| Skillup Coalition | San Francisco, CA | To support a learning and insights agenda | $400,000 |
| Industrial Commons | Morgantown, NC | Economic opportunity for textile workers | $400,000 |
| Freeworld | Washington, DC | To support workforce efficiency engine. | $350,000 |
| Restoringvision | New York, NY | Restoring vision, restoring livelihoods in kenya | $316,924 |
| Arizona Community Foundation Inc | Phoenix, AZ | Techsmart: driving education attainment for arizona's semiconductor workforce | $250,000 |
| Chicago Scholars Foundation | Chicago, IL | Reaching for green: scalable union and college pathways to economic mobility | $250,000 |
| Shaping Our Appalachian Region Inc | Pikeville, KY | Eastern kentucky nuclear workforce initiative | $250,000 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | Equitable climate transition workforce development program in pennsylvania | $250,000 |
| Fundacin Corona | Bogota, DC | Scaling digital and green pathways for global opportunity youth network | $250,000 |
| Corporacion Centro de Estudios Artisticos Y Tecnicos Ceart- | Bogota, DC | Ecolombia | $250,000 |
| Realize Impact | Bainbridge Island, WA | Making space for disabled talent at scale | $250,000 |
| Colorado Cleantech Industry Association Foundation | Niwot, CO | Cleanpath colorado | $216,510 |
| Mrelief | Chicago, IL | Amplify mrelief's growing impact on economic mobility | $200,000 |
| Dream Corps | Washington, DC | To support an ai springboard into green careers and leadership. | $175,000 |
| Makaia | San Francisco, CA | Scaling STEM route: leveraging digital learning for economic opportunities in technology | $150,000 |
| The African Center for Women Information and Communications Technology | Nairobi, | To support digital services for improved agricultural productivity, livelihoods, social-inclusion of women and youth small holder farmers… | $125,000 |
| Ser Jobs for Progress National Inc | Irving, TX | To support advancing ser jobs' data excellence to bolster affiliate network impact | $125,000 |
| Preschool Promise Inc | Dayton, OH | Empowering families through streamlined access to resources | $125,000 |
| Machinists Institute | Seattle, WA | Machinists institute boeing pre-employment training program expansion | $125,000 |
| West Virginia Women Work Inc | Morgantown, WV | Step up to the trades: building pathways into construction careers | $125,000 |
| Nextop Inc | Houston, TX | Nextop's future energy veteran employment program | $125,000 |
| Cal Epic (Formerly California Mobility Center) | Sacramento, CA | Cal epic ev tech training program | $125,000 |
| Sanergy Inc | Brookline, MA | Scaling opportunities for farmers and rural agripreneurs | $125,000 |
| The Semilla Project | Albuquerque, NM | To support climate resilience workforce development. | $125,000 |
| Trailhead Institute | Denver, CO | Unlocking colorado's public data and public dollars to build and scale a broader pipeline of evidence-based workforce pathways | $75,000 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $19,390,453 | 116 |
| 2024 | $14,106,133 | 94 |
| 2023 | $8,877,000 | 36 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2025, filed Jul 22, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202642039349100704
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 87-4241796
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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