Massachusetts · Public charity
Accelerate Change Inc
To develop and test new models for citizen organizing, particularly in communities of color, that are scalable, financially self-sustaining, and build deep, trusted relationships that can move people to take action.
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $330,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Accelerate Change Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $4.6M | 60% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $4.8M | 75% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $2.6M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $2.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pushblack | $8,015,715 | 4 | 52% |
| Nowthis Media Group LLC | $3,880,000 | 2 | n/a |
| ParentsTogether Foundation | $3,214,516 | 4 | 73% |
| Project Pulso Inc | $800,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gen-Z For Change Inc | $481,601 | 1 | n/a |
| Head Count Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Rock the Vote | $250,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Project Pulso Action Inc | $230,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Her Campus Media LLC | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Takeaction Mn Education Fund | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pushblack | $8,015,715 | 4 | 52% |
| Nowthis Media Group LLC | $3,880,000 | 2 | n/a |
| ParentsTogether Foundation | $3,214,516 | 4 | 73% |
| Project Pulso Inc | $800,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gen-Z For Change Inc | $481,601 | 1 | n/a |
| Head Count Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Rock the Vote | $250,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Project Pulso Action Inc | $230,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Her Campus Media LLC | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Takeaction Mn Education Fund | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New Georgia Project Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Casa Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Make the Road New York | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Organize Pennsylvania | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Organize Now Inc Dba Organize Florida Inc | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Accelerate Change Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Accelerate Action Inc · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
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About Accelerate Change Inc
- How much does Accelerate Change Inc give?
- Accelerate Change Inc reported 5 grants totaling $4,641,601 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Accelerate Change Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (50%), Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are Accelerate Change Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Pushblack ($8.0M), Nowthis Media Group LLC ($3.9M), ParentsTogether Foundation ($3.2M).
- Does Accelerate Change Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Accelerate Change Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Accelerate Action Inc, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Accelerate Change Inc based?
- Accelerate Change Inc is based in MA.
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