· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k2 grants · $380k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUSHBLACK | $3,450,000 |
| GEN-Z FOR CHANGE INITIATIVE INC | $481,601 |
| NOWTHIS MEDIA GROUP LLC | $330,000 |
| PROJECT PULSO INC | $230,000 |
| HER CAMPUS MEDIA LLC | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Accelerate Change Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +193% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $862k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPUSHBLACK4× · 2021–2025 · $8.0M · revenue -60% · 52% of their budget
- NMNOWTHIS MEDIA GROUP LLC2× · 2024–2025 · $3.9M
- PFParentsTogether Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +193% · 73% of their budget
Funded once
- PPPROJECT PULSO INCone grant, 2024 · $800k
- HCHEAD COUNT INCone grant, 2024 · $400k · revenue 0%
- RTROCK THE VOTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +751%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Vote.org's primary purpose is to build web-based technologies that remove barriers to voting and increase vote turnout.
Issue one is the leading crosspartisan political reform organization that educates the public, engages capitol hill, and advocates for solutions to fix our broken political system.
MoveOn.org Civic Action is a people-powered force for progress. MoveOn wields independent grassroots power by bringing millions together to take action to create a country with a place of honor and dignity for everyone. For more than a…
RepresentUs is America's leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working for a government accountable to the people. We unite people from all backgrounds to defend democracy, root out corruption, mobilize action, and support campaigns…
Color of change.org education fund exists to empower our members - black americans and our allies to make decision makers more responsive to the concerns of black americans and to bring about positive social change for everyone.
Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
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…
PODER Inc. is a non-partisan organization that combats voter suppression by engaging Black and Brown New Yorkers around local, state, and federal elections.
Tennessee progress works to uplift the values and voices of the progressive movement across tennessee by elevating the issues that matter most to our communities. tennessee progress is a digital and communications hub for the progressive…
Action tn is dedicated to helping grassroots groups across tennessee expand and coordinate their civic and political engagement efforts in service of building power around our shared values, with a particular focus on empowering…
Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PUSHBLACK ↗
- Who funds ParentsTogether Foundation ↗
- Who funds Gen-Z For Change Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAD COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE VOTE ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Accelerate Change Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accelerate Change Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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