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128 Collective Initiatives Inc

Promote voter registration, political participation, and civic involvement, particularly among groups that are historically marginalized, disenfranchised, or otherwise disadvantaged by the political process.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Public Benefit$2.5MCivil Rights$2.2MEnvironment$2.0MEmployment$215kCommunity Improvement$150kYouth Development$115kInternational$100kHuman Services$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $2,040,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,100,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $247k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$76k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC$175,000
PEOPLE'S ACTION$150,000
PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND$100,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$100,000
PODER$100,000
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC$100,000
DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA$100,000
CLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA$83,500
JUSTICE DEMOCRATS NON-FEDERAL PAC$75,000
MORE PERFECT UNION ACTION$75,000
PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC$75,000
PEOPLE'S ACTION$60,000
MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND$50,000
CAROLINA FEDERATION$50,000
PENNSYLVANIA UNITED$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $50k → 11%DOWN HOME NORTH CAROLINA: $100k → 13%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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CA
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GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 19 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

$5.0M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+12%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $675k · revenue +18%
  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $670k · revenue +57%
  • MP
    MORE PERFECT UNION ACTION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $450k · revenue +252% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • TF
    TIOGA FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -82% · 36% of their budget
  • PA
    PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $190k · revenue -34%
  • SP
    STATE POWER ACTION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +295%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
2
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
3
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
4
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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5
Greenlight Action

Greenlight action mobilizes grassroots power to get more clean energy projects built more quickly across the united states.

Environment
6
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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7
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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8
Women for Political Action Change Education & Advo

We holistically invest in the leadership and political power of young women and trans & non-binary folks.

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9
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
10
Nextgen Climate Action

Nextgen america empowers young people to engage in the democratic process through voter registration and civic engagement on issues of public policy. this is achieved through innovative digital outreach, communications, and grassroots…

Unclassified
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Act for America

Advocacy concerning democratic values, national security and defense; lobbying of government officials in favor of policies that further the defense of the u.s. and its constitution; development of coalitions with other organizations to…

Civil Rights
12
Friends of the Earth (Action) Inc

To improve the environment through education and policy work, with an emphasis on pollution, climate change, and energy issues; and how congress and the administration stand on these issues.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Movement Strategy Center Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is Kansans for Constitutional Freedom Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%37%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
4/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,502

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
24/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES ADVOCACY — $675,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $490,000 · OtherSUNRISE MOVEMENTMORE PERFECT UNION ACTION — $450,000 · OtherMORE PERFECT UNION ACTIONWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS — $291,000 · OtherWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILSGen-Z For Change Inc — $250,000 · OtherGen-Z For Change IncMAINE POWER FOR MAINE PEOPLE — $200,000 · OtherORGANIZE FOR JUSTICE — $200,000 · OtherJUSTICE DEMOCRATS PAC — $175,000 · Other+26 more — $1,096,000 · Other+26 moreWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $670,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATI…TIOGA FUND INC — $200,000 · Civil RightsTIOGA FUND INCPODER — $150,000 · Civil RightsPODERWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INCCAROLINA FEDERATION — $135,000 · Civil RightsCAROLINA FEDERATIONPennsylvania United — $125,000 · Civil RightsPennsylvania UnitedCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITI…STATE POWER ACTION FUND — $75,000 · Civil RightsARAB AMERICANS FOR PROGRESS — $62,500 · Civil Rights+5 more — $170,000 · Civil Rights+5 morePEOPLE'S ACTION — $620,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTIONPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $190,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE'S ACTION…PENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA ST…SAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA — $48,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $290,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA — $83,500 · EnvironmentTexas Campaign for the Environment — $50,000 · EnvironmentDOWN HOME NC — $100,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $75,000 · Human ServicesEVERGREEN ACTION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $100,000 · Public BenefitGround Game Texas — $25,000 · Public BenefitPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA — $50,000 · Health
Other$3,827,000Civil Rights$1,837,500Community Improvement$1,008,000Environment$423,500Human Services$225,000Public Benefit$125,000Health$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $675,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $670,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION — $620,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT — $490,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetMORE PERFECT UNION ACTION — $450,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetWESTERN ORGANIZATION OF RESOURCE COUNCILS — $291,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND — $290,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGen-Z For Change Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTIOGA FUND INC — $200,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMAINE POWER FOR MAINE PEOPLE — $200,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetORGANIZE FOR JUSTICE — $200,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $190,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPODER — $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetWAY TO WIN ACTION FUND INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINA FEDERATION — $135,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC — $125,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPennsylvania United — $125,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ACTION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDOWN HOME NC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $100,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA CLIMATE PROGRAM — $100,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCLEAN AND PROSPEROUS AMERICA — $83,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE POWER ACTION FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $65,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetARAB AMERICANS FOR PROGRESS — $62,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFair Elections Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ACTION FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCare in Action Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVERGREEN ACTION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ALLIANCE ADVOCATES SERVING AK HI ID IN KY AND WA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAVE OUR SCHOOLS ARIZONA — $48,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE BLOC INC — $37,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTION FUND INC — $35,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTREEAGE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCOWORKER SOLIDARITY FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAmerica Votes — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDurham For All — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWORKMONEY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGround Game Texas — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetONE Peoples Campaign — $13,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetJEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ACTION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Way to Win Action Fun…Open Society Action F…Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesPro-Democracy CampaignWomen Donors Network …NEO Philanthropy Acti…North FundTides FoundationWorking Families Orga…
Tides AdvocacyCA64.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Women Donors Network Action · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · North Fund · Tides Foundation · Working Families Organization Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 128 Collective Initiatives Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to 128 Collective Initiatives Inc?

    Find your warmest path to 128 Collective Initiatives Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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