Texas · Public charity
Action Now Inc
ACTION NOW INC.'s philanthropic work tackles some of the most pressing problems in the united states. We focus on correcting systemic failures through evidence-based solutions.
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $237,854
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 38
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 82% of the organizations Action Now Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M 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 | 59 | $18M | 63% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $11M | 82% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $3.5M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $10M | 86% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $1.7M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unite America | $3,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Welcoming Neighbors Network | $2,798,683 | 2 | n/a |
| Patients for Affordable Drugs Now | $1,850,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Farella Braun Martel LLP | $1,779,958 | 4 | n/a |
| Public Private Strategies LLC | $1,395,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative Inc | $1,350,000 | 4 | 98% |
| Committee to Protect Health Care | $1,151,250 | 2 | 25% |
| Families USA Action | $1,150,000 | 2 | 88% |
| Greater Greater Washington | $1,105,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Alaskans for Better Elections | $950,000 | 1 | 59% |
Show all 106 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unite America | $3,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Welcoming Neighbors Network | $2,798,683 | 2 | n/a |
| Patients for Affordable Drugs Now | $1,850,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Farella Braun Martel LLP | $1,779,958 | 4 | n/a |
| Public Private Strategies LLC | $1,395,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative Inc | $1,350,000 | 4 | 98% |
| Committee to Protect Health Care | $1,151,250 | 2 | 25% |
| Families USA Action | $1,150,000 | 2 | 88% |
| Greater Greater Washington | $1,105,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Alaskans for Better Elections | $950,000 | 1 | 59% |
| US Market Institute | $948,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Citizens Climate Lobby | $850,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Othram Inc | $846,895 | 2 | n/a |
| Freedom Virginia Inc | $838,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Clean Energy Buyers Association | $750,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Families Against Mandatory Minimums | $750,000 | 1 | 97% |
| Continuum Health Group LLC | $749,906 | 2 | n/a |
| FairVote Minnesota | $600,000 | 1 | 37% |
| Market Institute LLC | $600,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Stand Together Chamber of Commerce Inc | $590,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United States of Care Action | $561,523 | 2 | 94% |
| Texas Employers for Affordable Healthcare | $531,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Vox Media LLC | $522,044 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Health Purchasers Coalition | $517,500 | 2 | 100% |
| Texans for Housing | $511,500 | 1 | n/a |
| National Taxpayers Union | $502,965 | 2 | 7% |
| Coloradans for Affordable Housing Now | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Due Process Institute | $500,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Open New York Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United States Public Interest Research Group Inc | $475,000 | 2 | 15% |
| World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Abundant Housing MA Inc | $428,800 | 1 | 31% |
| Health Care for All Inc | $427,843 | 2 | 7% |
| Co2efficient LLC | $407,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Fairvote Action | $400,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Urban Phoenix Project Network | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fwdus Inc | $400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vera Action Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Centennial State Prosperity | $387,446 | 1 | n/a |
| Voices of Health Care Action | $380,000 | 2 | 100% |
| Montanans for Election Reform Action Fund | $362,000 | 1 | 89% |
| Bipartisan Policy Center Action Inc | $338,961 | 2 | 4% |
| Neighbors for More Neighbors | $325,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yes on 820 - Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Niskanen Center for Public Policy | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Overdrive Products Inc | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Immigration Forum Action Fund | $300,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Montana Pretrial Services LLC | $299,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud | $299,560 | 1 | n/a |
| Health Action New Mexico | $297,549 | 2 | 42% |
| Producciones El Rastro LLC | $275,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Illinois Prison Project Action Fund | $275,000 | 2 | 100% |
| Vsv Leadership | $272,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Up for Growth Action Inc | $270,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Third Way | $257,970 | 1 | n/a |
| Bipartisan Climate Action | $250,000 | 1 | 88% |
| Yes on Affordable Housing | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Jersey Citizen Action | $250,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 50% |
| Environmental Defense Action Fund | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Shelterjh | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Unify US | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Neighbors for Boise Inc | $245,000 | 1 | 64% |
| Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc | $237,854 | 1 | n/a |
| Be a Hero Action Fund | $220,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Public Citizen Inc | $220,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Oregon Coalition for Affordable Prescriptions | $220,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Takeaction Minnesota | $200,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Securing America's Future Energy Alliance Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 19% |
| The Fairness Project | $200,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Common Cause | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wren Action Group | $200,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries | $190,000 | 1 | 42% |
| Boldly Forward Colorado | $130,000 | 2 | 23% |
| Conservatives For Criminal Justice Initiative Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 100% |
| The Meyer Law Office PC | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York Birth Control Action Fund Inc | $115,000 | 2 | 76% |
| Idaho Contraceptive Education Network | $103,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Safety and Justice Oregon | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Policy Ventures Action Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Institute of Evidence-Based Policymaking | $100,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Climate Solutions Action Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates | $100,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Behavioral Insights (US) Inc | $99,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Idaho Justice Project | $86,000 | 1 | 99% |
| Stand for Children Inc | $85,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Global Health Payment LLC | $75,073 | 1 | n/a |
| Redistricting Partners LLC | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Justice Forward Virginia | $75,000 | 1 | 59% |
| Avitium Partners | $71,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Truleo Inc | $62,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rebuild the Dream | $60,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Inside Higher Ed Inc | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Return Strong | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Infrastrategies LLC | $54,520 | 1 | n/a |
| Ranked Choice Voting for Clark County | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Redistricting Lab LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tangle News LLC | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abundance Network | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Waypoint Strategy Group LLC | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys LLC | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| American Coalition for Affordable Healthcare | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Space City Weather LLC | $28,421 | 1 | n/a |
| Pelican Action Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Better Leaders Stronger Future Inc | $17,500 | 1 | 11% |
| 603 Forward | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Action Now Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · The Just Trust for Action · Article IV · Our American Future Action · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy · American Civil Liberties Union Inc · Democracy Fund Voice Inc · Hopewell Fund · Justice Action Network · Breakthrough Energy Action Inc · Unite America Inc
How this is measured
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About Action Now Inc
- How much does Action Now Inc give?
- Action Now Inc reported 68 grants totaling $17,964,562 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 38 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Action Now Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Public Benefit (19%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Action Now Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Unite America ($3.0M), Welcoming Neighbors Network ($2.8M), Patients for Affordable Drugs Now ($1.9M).
- Does Action Now Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Action Now Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, Open Society Action Fund Inc, The Just Trust for Action.
- Where is Action Now Inc based?
- Action Now Inc is based in TX.
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