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Advancement Project Action Fund at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Advancement Project Action Fund

Promotes social welfare by inspiring and supporting national and local movements towards a just democracy.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$195kCrime & Legal$60kHuman Services$50kCivil Rights$45kCommunity Improvement$40kEducation$20k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$721k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA RISING INC$50,000
WORKER'S CENTER FOR RACIAL JUSTICE$25,000
INNER CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK$25,000
EDUCATION JUSTICE$20,000
THE PEOPLES AGENDA$10,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%THE PEOPLES AGENDA: $10k → 13%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

MN
IL
CA
VA
AZ
NC
LA
GA
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 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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Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
2
Center for Racial and Gender E Nfp

Workers Rights

Civil Rights
3
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
Virginia New Majority Education Fund

New Virginia Majority Education Fund is a grassroots organization that engages low income people and people of color in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education through grassroots…

Education
6
Georgia Muslim Voter Project

Georgia Muslim Voter Project(GAMVP)works to strengthen civic participation among Muslims in Georgia via nonpartisan voter engagement,advocacy&grassroots organizing.We strive to increase community presence,develop leadership and ensure…

Civil Rights
7
New Disabled South Inc

To improve the lives of disabled people and build strong disability justice and rights movements in the South through research & knowledge building, advocacy & policy change, non-partisan voter engagement, and coalition building.

Health
8
Black Voters Matter Fund Inc

Our goal is to increase power in our communities through effective voting. We increase voter registration and help develop voting infrastructure and to pursue policies that expands access to the ballot.

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9
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights

VACIR is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.

Human Services
10
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
11
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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12
Rainier Beach Cummunity Empowerment Coalition

Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vote Yes 4 Minneapolis; the most unlike its peers is Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $100,000 · Civil RightsNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITYFLORIDA RISING INC: $65,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INCWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $35,000 · Civil RightsWorkers Center For Racial Just NFPVOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUND: $25,000 · Civil RightsVOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUNDNew Disabled South Rising Inc: $10,000 · Civil RightsNEW FLORIDA VISION PAC: $25,000 · OtherNEW FLORIDA VISIO…EDUCATION JUSTICE ACTION: $20,000 · OtherEDUCATION JUSTICE…FRESH COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · OtherFRESH COMMUNITIESVOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS: $10,000 · OtherVOTE YES 4 MINNEA…TIDES CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $10,000 · Human ServicesGeorgia Coalitio…INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $25,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CIT…MIJENTE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMIJENTECommunity Movement Builders Inc: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Civil Rights$235,000Other$65,000Human Services$60,000Community Improvement$35,000Public Benefit$15,000

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 budgetNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIJENTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Disabled South Rising Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetVOTE YES 4 MINNEAPOLIS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

All Hands on Deck Net…Tides FoundationWorking Families Orga…Open Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyWomen Donors Network …Instructional Telecom…Way to Win Action Fun…Sixteen Thirty FundAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture Fund
All Hands on Deck Network IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · Working Families Organization Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Women Donors Network Action · Instructional Telecommunications Foundation Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture 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 Advancement Project Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Advancement Project Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    How do I get to Advancement Project Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Advancement Project Action Fund 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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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