FWD.us Education Fund

Name

FWD.us Education Fund

Legal name

FWD.us Education Fund, Inc.

Website

https://fwduseducationfund.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Policy Advocacy and Research

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (6117)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

STEM, Digital Literacy & Maker Education Nonprofits (BPAGADAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Learning & Training Content Development (EDAGAKAC), Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK), Grantmaking Agencies & Education Program Grants Administration (EDADAHAD)

Keywords

• Criminal justice reform
• Immigration policy research
• Nonprofit advocacy
• Policy analysis reports
• Bipartisan education

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donations: As a 501(c)(3) public charity, FWD.us Education Fund relies on charitable contributions from donors. The organization accepts donations via website, check, and wire transfer.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FWD.us Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that develops and distributes research reports, policy analyses, and storytelling content focused on U.S. criminal justice and immigration reform. It also operates resource platforms (notably Informed Immigrant) that connect immigrant communities and service providers with information, and produces employer guides to help businesses support justice-impacted staff and DACA employees. All outputs are offered free of charge and funded through charitable donations.

Product overview

FWD.us Education Fund is a bipartisan advocacy organization (not a technology company) focused on immigration and criminal justice reform. It operates as a collection of programs and research initiatives rather than a unified software product or platform. Core offerings include research reports and policy analyses on criminal justice issues (Arizona imprisonment, Oklahoma reforms, Mississippi habitual laws), immigration research (parole policy, rural population decline), and resource platforms (Informed Immigrant). The organization also produces employer guides to help businesses support justice-impacted employees and DACA holders. These are advocacy programs and informational resources, not commercial software products with technical integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• People First: A business outreach program that works with HR and business executives to develop best practices for employing people impacted by the incarceration crisis.
• Informed Immigrant
• I Stand With Immigrants

Products and services

• EverySecond: The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America's Families Seminal research collaboration with Cornell University that for the first time counts the number of Americans with direct family members who are currently or formerly incarcerated. Targeted at policymakers, journalists, and the general public seeking evidence on the scale of mass incarceration.
• Arizona's Imprisonment Crisis: The High Price of Prison Growth
• Advancing Public Safety and Moving Justice Forward
• Turning the Page: Oklahoma's Criminal Justice Story
• We All Pay: Mississippi's Harmful Habitual Laws
• Informed Immigrant
• I Stand With Immigrants: Moving the Culture, Shaping Our Future
• National Dignity for Families Fund
• Parole Policy for America's Effectively Manages Migration (CHNV Parole)
• Immigration Can Reverse Rural Population Decline
• DACA Employer Guide
• People First Employer Guide
• People First: The Use and Impact of Criminal Justice Labels in Media Coverage
• Informed Immigrant Temporary Protected Status Guide

Quantifiable outcome

• Expanded freedom and opportunity for tens of millions of Americans over the past decade

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Cornell UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative research partnership with Cornell University for the Every Second initiative, which counts for the first time the number of Americans with direct family members currently or formerly incarcerated. This represents the organization's flagship academic research collaboration.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• JustLeadershipUSA: Smaller criminal justice advocacy organization led by directly impacted individuals, sharing FWD.us Education Fund's focus on dignity, reentry, and justice-impacted communities with overlapping employer-facing work.

Direct peers

• Define American: Nonprofit using storytelling and cultural strategy to shift narratives about immigrants, directly comparable to FWD.us Education Fund's I Stand With Immigrants cultural strategy and narrative-change work.
• The Sentencing Project: Research and advocacy nonprofit producing data-driven reports on incarceration, sentencing, and racial disparities — directly comparable to FWD.us Education Fund's criminal-justice research output and policy framing.
• National Immigration Law Center: Immigration-focused advocacy and policy organization that combines research, litigation, and public education — directly comparable to FWD.us Education Fund's immigration-side research and empowerment work.
• Immigration Legal Resource Center: Provides immigration-related educational resources, policy analysis, and storytelling for immigrant communities and service providers, closely paralleling Informed Immigrant's resource platform model.

Broad incumbents

• UnidosUS: Large Latino civil rights and education nonprofit combining research, advocacy, and community empowerment on immigration — directly comparable in scale, community-empowerment approach, and education-fund structure.
• Center for American Progress: Large progressive policy think tank producing reports across multiple domains including immigration and criminal justice, with comparable scale, breadth, and policy-research-driven model.
• Brennan Center for Justice: Policy and research organization producing rigorous analysis on criminal justice, immigration, and democracy, with comparable academic-grade research outputs and bipartisan framing aspirations.
• Vera Institute of Justice: Long-established nonprofit that combines research, policy analysis, and direct programmatic work on criminal justice and immigration, closely paralleling FWD.us Education Fund's research-and-advocacy model across both issue areas.

Regional players

• CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy): Anti-poverty policy organization producing research and advocacy on immigrant integration and justice issues, sharing FWD.us Education Fund's evidence-based policy framing across overlapping constituencies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/fwdus
• Xx.com/fwdus

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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