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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
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Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
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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
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tides AdvocacyAdvance Native Political Leadership Action Fund$150,000
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Mijente Inc: $8k → 11%repower: $3k → 11%Pennsylvania Stands Up: $2k → 22%ColorOfChangeorg: $278k → 10%Tides AdvocacyAdvance Native Political Leadership Action Fund: $150k → 10%The Comedy Resistance: $1k → 14%Emergency Relief Fund: $11k → 17%Showing Up for Racial Justice Inc: $12k → 20%Until Freedom: $18k → 28%Collective Future: $2k → 14%Liberation Political Action Committee: $1k → 16%Action for Liberation: $2k → 21%Higher Heights for America: $11k → 11%Georgia NAACP: $3k → 13%Fair Fight Action Inc: $5k → 14%COMRADE INC Black Lives Matter: $5k → 13%Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County: $70k → 9%Black Youth Project 100 NFP: $28k → 14%Black Lives Matter: $31k → 14%NAACP: $383k → 19%Tides AdvocacyBLack Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC): $8k → 10%AWARE LA: $73k → 14%American Civil Liberties Union Inc: $5k → 17%The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: $3k → 14%Black Voters Matter Fund Inc: $20k → 13%Black Youth Project 100 NFP: $1k → 14%Tides AdvocacyFlorida Rights Restoration Coalition: $2k → 10%John Lewis Bridge Project: $1k → 14%Black Youth Project 100 NFP: $1k → 14%Tides AdvocacyCommunity Justice Action Fund: $2k → 10%Black Youth Project 100 NFP: $1k → 14%Tides AdvocacyMovement for Black Lives Action Fund: $2k → 10%Dream Defenders: $1k → 10%The Center for Empowered Politics: $1k → 10%Grassroots Law Project: $205k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
2
Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights
3
Liberation in a Generation

Liberation in a generation (libgen) is a movement support organization dedicated to advancing the economic liberation of people of color within one generation. formed in 2019, libgen is dedicated to building the power of people of color to…

Civil Rights
4
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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6
The Black Organizing Project Inc

The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.

Human Services
7
Pushblack

Pushblack is building a mass media network to change the hearts and minds of black americans through empowering narratives and actions that can advance black liberation at a systems-wide level.

Civil Rights
8
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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9
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
10
American Civil Liberties Union

To promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.

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11
Color of Changeorg Education Fund

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.

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repower; the most unlike its peers is The Comedy Resistance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLOROFCHANGEORG: $278,448 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORGGrassroots Law Project: $205,223 · OtherGrassroots Law ProjectTIDES ADVOCACY: $164,074 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYAWARE LA: $73,033 · OtherAWARE LABLACK LIVES MATTER SEATTLE KING COUNTY: $69,966 · OtherBLACK LIVES MATTER SEATTLE KING COUNTYBlack Lives Matter: $30,910 · Other+12 more: $86,762 · Other+12 moreNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $383,097 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE…Black Youth Project 100 NFP: $31,461 · Civil RightsBlack Youth Project 100 NFPUNTIL FREEDOM INC: $18,489 · Civil Rights+4 more: $18,955 · Civil RightsEMERGENCY RELEASE FUND: $10,904 · Crime & LegalMIJENTE: $7,511 · Community ImprovementPENNSYLVANIA STANDS UP INC: $1,525 · Community ImprovementFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $4,732 · EducationREPOWER: $3,263 · Public Benefit
Other$908,416Civil Rights$452,002Crime & Legal$10,904Community Improvement$9,036Education$4,732Public Benefit$3,263

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 AdvocacySixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesTides FoundationProteus Action LeagueOpen Society Action F…All Hands on Deck Net…Way to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …Democracy Fund Voice …Instructional Telecom…Accountable Justice A…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization ActBlue Civics Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from ActBlue Civics Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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