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Action Now Inc

ACTION NOW INC.'s philanthropic work tackles some of the most pressing problems in the united states.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$14MPublic Benefit$8.5MHousing & Shelter$7.0MCrime & Legal$4.9MEnvironment$3.8MCivil Rights$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.5MFood & Nutrition$793kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+32 grants · $14M
$237,854
Median grant
21
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS NOW$1,750,000
GREATER GREATER WASHINGTON$945,198
FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS$750,000
US MARKET INSTITUTE$698,000
OTHRAM INC$556,895
FARELLA BRAUN MARTEL LLP$549,477
VOX MEDIA LLC$522,044
OPEN NEW YORK INC$500,000
COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE$495,000
ABUNDANT HOUSING MA INC$412,800
CO2EFFICIENT LLC$407,500
FWD US INC$400,000
URBAN PHOENIX PROJECT NETWORK$400,000
VERA ACTION INC$400,000
CENTENNIAL STATE PROSPERITY$387,446
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%THE MARKET INSTITUTE LLC: $600k → 6%SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY ALLIANCE: $200k → 14%AMERICA IS BETTER: $250k → 14%AMERICA IS BETTER: $50k → 14%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

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
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NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 32 repeat orgs$23M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
37

Total granted

$22M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

72%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MC
    MARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +7% · 98% of their budget
  • CE
    CLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +33%
  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $450k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • UA
    UNITE AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $3.0M
  • AF
    Alaskans for Better Elections
    one grant, 2022 · $950k · revenue -45% · 59% of their budget
  • FM
    FairVote Minnesota
    one grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -48% · 37% of their budget
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.

04Its 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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People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
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Issue One Action

Issue one action is uniting republicans, democrats, and independents to protect our elections and fix our political system. we are committed to free, fair, and secure elections and reducing the influence of well-financed special interests…

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People's Action

People's action is organized to promote economic, racial and social equity through national, regional and local advocacy campaigns.

Community Improvement
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Issue One

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.

Public Benefit
6
Fair Democracy

Fair democracy works to ensure that the roots of american democracy are healthy with strong voting rights and access, an engaged and informed electorate, an open and accountable government and trusted messengers engaging americans in civil…

Civil Rights
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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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Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.

Environment
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Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue. to actively promote bipartisanship and work to address the key challenges facing the nation including energy and infrastructure,…

Public Benefit
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Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
12
RepresentUs

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…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fwdus Inc; the most unlike its peers is Market Institute Llc. 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

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 106 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
23/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITE AMERICA: $3,000,000 · OtherUNITE AMERICAWELCOMING NEIGHBORS NETWORK: $2,798,683 · OtherWELCOMING NEIGHBORS NETWORKPATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS NOW: $1,850,000 · OtherPATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS NOWFARELLA BRAUN MARTEL LLP: $1,779,958 · OtherFARELLA BRAUN MARTEL LLPPUBLIC PRIVATE STRATEGIES LLC: $1,395,000 · OtherFAMILIES USA ACTION: $1,150,000 · Other+64 more: $17,300,954 · Other+64 moreGreater Greater Washington: $1,105,740 · Civil RightsGreater Gr…FairVote Minnesota: $600,000 · Civil RightsFairVote M…FWDUS INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsFWDUS INCCENTENNIAL STATE PROSPERITY: $387,446 · Civil RightsCENTENNIAL…THIRD WAY: $257,970 · Civil RightsTHIRD WAYBIPARTISAN CLIMATE ACTION: $250,000 · Civil RightsBIPARTISAN…UNIFY US: $250,000 · Civil RightsUNIFY USBE A HERO ACTION FUND: $220,000 · Civil RightsBE A HERO …+5 more: $465,000 · Civil Rights+5 moreMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $1,350,000 · HealthMARYLAND …COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE: $1,151,250 · HealthCOMMITTEE…TEXAS EMPLOYERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE: $531,000 · HealthTEXAS EMP…MICHIGAN HEALTH PURCHASERS COALITION: $517,500 · HealthMICHIGAN …HEALTH ACTION NEW MEXICO: $297,549 · HealthHEALTH AC…Alaskans for Better Elections: $950,000 · Public BenefitCITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY: $850,000 · Public BenefitFREEDOM VIRGINIA INC: $838,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $220,000 · Public BenefitTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $200,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $60,000 · Public BenefitCLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION: $750,000 · Community ImprovementBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC: $338,961 · Community ImprovementNISKANEN CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $300,000 · Community ImprovementDUE PROCESS INSTITUTE: $500,000 · Crime & LegalVERA ACTION INC: $400,000 · Crime & LegalILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND: $275,000 · Crime & LegalIdaho Justice Project: $86,000 · Crime & LegalReturn Strong: $55,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN NEW YORK INC: $500,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORS FOR MORE NEIGHBORS: $325,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTERJH: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT: $200,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$29,274,595Civil Rights$3,936,156Health$3,847,299Public Benefit$3,118,000Community Improvement$1,388,961Crime & Legal$1,316,000Housing & Shelter$1,275,000

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 budgetPATIENTS FOR AFFORDABLE DRUGS NOW: $1,850,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMARYLAND CITIZENS' HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $1,350,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE: $1,151,250 over 2y, 25% of budgetFAMILIES USA ACTION: $1,150,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetAlaskans for Better Elections: $950,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY: $850,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetFREEDOM VIRGINIA INC: $838,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCLEAN ENERGY BUYERS ASSOCIATION: $750,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS: $750,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetFairVote Minnesota: $600,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetMARKET INSTITUTE LLC: $600,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetSTAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $590,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES OF CARE ACTION: $561,523 over 2y, 94% of budgetTEXAS EMPLOYERS FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE: $531,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH PURCHASERS COALITION: $517,500 over 2y, 100% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION: $502,965 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetDUE PROCESS INSTITUTE: $500,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetUNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $475,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $450,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAbundant Housing MA Inc: $428,800 over 1y, 31% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC: $427,843 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFAIRVOTE ACTION: $400,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetVERA ACTION INC: $400,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetVoices of Health Care Action: $380,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetMONTANANS FOR ELECTION REFORM ACTION FUND: $362,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER ACTION INC: $338,961 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM ACTION FUND: $300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHEALTH ACTION NEW MEXICO: $297,549 over 2y, 42% of budgetILLINOIS PRISON PROJECT ACTION FUND: $275,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetBIPARTISAN CLIMATE ACTION: $250,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION: $250,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCLEANER ECONOMY COALITION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS FOR BOISE INC: $245,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetBE A HERO ACTION FUND: $220,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $220,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA: $200,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetSECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS PROJECT: $200,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $200,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWREN ACTION GROUP: $200,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetUtahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries: $190,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetBOLDLY FORWARD COLORADO: $130,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetConservatives For Criminal Justice Initiative Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetNEW YORK BIRTH CONTROL ACTION FUND INC: $115,000 over 2y, 76% of budgetAMERICAN POLICY VENTURES ACTION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF EVIDENCE-BASED POLICYMAKING: $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetOREGON RANKED CHOICE VOTING ADVOCATES: $100,000 over 1y, 20% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundOpen Society Action F…The Just Trust for Ac…Article IVOur American Future A…Chan Zuckerberg Initi…American Civil Libert…Democracy Fund Voice …Hopewell FundJustice Action NetworkBreakthrough Energy A…Unite America Inc
Sixteen Thirty FundDC47.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Action Now Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Action Now Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • New Jersey Citizen Action: 37% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
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How do I get to Action Now Inc?

Find your warmest path to Action Now Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 106 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home