Navigation Charitable Fund (Fka Further Future Foundation)
ActiveScience & Technology
About Navigation Charitable Fund (Fka Further Future Foundation)
Advancing bold solutions to the world's most urgent problems through expert-led grantmaking.
Focus Areas
Climate ChangeFarm Animal WelfareTransforming Criminal JusticeOpen ScienceNuclear Safety (via partner)
Who They Fund
movement organizations and activistsresearchers and open-science practitionerspeople impacted by the criminal justice systemtechnology/AI project teams
Funding Style
general operating / unrestricted supportseed / prototype development fundingmovement-building / movement support
About Navigation Charitable Fund (Fka Further Future Foundation)
Navigation Charitable Fund (fka Further Future Foundation) uses large, expert-led grants to back new program areas and movement infrastructure. One of its clearest signals is the $5,000,000 grant to New York University for a new program area, alongside major general support for Humane America Animal Foundation and Vanguard Charitable. The foundation’s portfolio also includes targeted support for open science, criminal justice reform, climate change, farm animal welfare, and digital sentience-related project logistics. Its recent awards show a mix of institutional grants and smaller specialized contracts, with funding directed to researchers, advocates, and organizations building capacity or testing prototypes. The funder’s active programs emphasize ambitious ideas, institutional change, and non-carceral or non-animal agriculture solutions, while the open science program has already concluded and future work continues through a program housed at Astera. Across the recent grants list, the pattern is not limited to one issue area: it includes general support, prototype development, movement support, and project-specific logistics funding.
What Navigation Charitable Fund (Fka Further Future Foundation) Funds
In criminal justice reform, the foundation gave $1,750,000 to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program for criminal justice reform, reflecting support for non-carceral solutions and system change. In open science, it awarded $70,000 to Fideus Labs LLC for an open science project, matching the fund’s prior support for researchers, tool builders, and communities advancing open science practices. For movement work, it made smaller operating-style awards such as $51,000 to Liana Paris Consulting LLC for movement support and $6,700 to Stb Consulting LLC for movement support. The grant list also includes a $47,270 award to Fortier Public Relations for logistics to support a digital sentience project, showing support for project-level coordination tied to technology and AI ethics work.
How Navigation Charitable Fund (Fka Further Future Foundation) Gives
Typical awards are large: the 25th percentile is $1,906,250, the median is $2,062,500, and the 75th percentile is $2,218,750. The recent list also shows a few much smaller grants for prototype development, movement support, and project logistics. Recipients can appear in multiple years; Humane America Animal Foundation received grants in both 2024 and 2025, and Vanguard Charitable appeared in both 2024 and 2025 as well. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. The active programs described here generally use invitation-only funding cycles, and the open science program is no longer accepting new proposals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$35.1M
Total Assets
$1.3B
Total Revenue
$19M
Total Expenses
$39.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $1.9M and $2.2M, with a median of $2.1M.
25th Percentile
$1.9M
Median
$2.1M
75th Percentile
$2.2M
Geographic Reach
Regional2 states funded
About 50% of grants go to recipients in RI.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
SEEMAY CHOU
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