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Massachusetts · Public charity

ActBlue Civics Inc

To develop and promote innovative fundraising tools and practices that utilize internet technology among social welfare organizations for the purpose of increasing grassroots engagement in social welfare activities, as well as accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in those social welfare organizations.

$153k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$9.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations ActBlue Civics Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$150k0%
FY202122$682k100%
FY20208$557kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Civil Rights$660kPublic Benefit$470kCrime & Legal$216kYouth Development$31kCommunity Improvement$9kArts & Culture$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$383,09711%
Colorofchangeorg$278,44811%
Grassroots Law Project$205,22317%
Tides Advocacy$164,07420%
Aware La$73,0331n/a
Black Lives Matter Seattle King County$69,9661n/a
Black Youth Project 100 NFP$31,46111%
Black Lives Matter$30,9101n/a
UltraViolet Action$20,7361n/a
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc$19,84910%
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All grantees of ActBlue Civics Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$383,09711%
Colorofchangeorg$278,44811%
Grassroots Law Project$205,22317%
Tides Advocacy$164,07420%
Aware La$73,0331n/a
Black Lives Matter Seattle King County$69,9661n/a
Black Youth Project 100 NFP$31,46111%
Black Lives Matter$30,9101n/a
UltraViolet Action$20,7361n/a
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc$19,84910%
Until Freedom Inc$18,48911%
All Hands on Deck Network Inc$13,81210%
Showing Up for Racial Justice Inc$12,16511%
Higher Heights for America$11,10111%
Emergency Release Fund$10,90412%
Mijente$7,51111%
Comm Organizing Methodical Resistance Against Discrimination Everywhere Inc$4,949122%
Fair Fight Action Inc$4,73210%
American Civil Liberties Union Inc$4,63410%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$4,5871n/a
Repower$3,26310%
NAACP Georgia State Conference$2,9241n/a
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc$2,70810%
Collective Future$1,7831n/a
Action for Liberation$1,74510%
Pennsylvania Stands Up Inc$1,52510%
Liberation Policy Action Cente$1,24414%
John Lewis Bridge Project$1,20711%
Center for Empowered Politics$1,16010%
The Comedy Resistance Inc$1,11311%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget ActBlue Civics Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People: $383,097 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetColorofchangeorg: $278,448 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrassroots Law Project: $205,223 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTides Advocacy: $164,074 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlack Youth Project 100 NFP: $31,461 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $19,849 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUntil Freedom Inc: $18,489 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAll Hands on Deck Network Inc: $13,812 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShowing Up for Racial Justice Inc: $12,165 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHigher Heights for America: $11,101 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEmergency Release Fund: $10,904 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMijente: $7,511 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetComm Organizing Methodical Resistance Against Discrimination Everywhere Inc: $4,949 over 1y, 22% of budgetFair Fight Action Inc: $4,732 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Inc: $4,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRepower: $3,263 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc: $2,708 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAction for Liberation: $1,745 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPennsylvania Stands Up Inc: $1,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiberation Policy Action Cente: $1,244 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJohn Lewis Bridge Project: $1,207 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCenter for Empowered Politics: $1,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Comedy Resistance Inc: $1,113 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Tides AdvocacyCA33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Advocacy · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Tides Foundation · Proteus Action League · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Accountable Justice Action Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About ActBlue Civics Inc

How much does ActBlue Civics Inc give?
ActBlue Civics Inc reported 1 grants totaling $152,500 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does ActBlue Civics Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Civil Rights (48%), Public Benefit (34%), Crime & Legal (16%).
Who are ActBlue Civics Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ($383k), Colorofchangeorg ($278k), Grassroots Law Project ($205k).
Does ActBlue Civics Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as ActBlue Civics Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Advocacy, Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes.
Where is ActBlue Civics Inc based?
ActBlue Civics Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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