How much did ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

capture sequestrationoutreachbuildingoppositionearthenvironmental puertooppose carbon

2023

clean energyengagementreductionenvironmental policyfossil fuelsenvironmental protectiontechnology

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k10 grants · $271k
$50k–250k44 grants · $5.9M
$250k+56 grants · $59M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants

CAMPAIGN FOR A SAFE AND HEALTHY CALIFORNIA$10,000,000
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$3,500,000
MONTANANS SECURING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$3,000,000
FUTURE FORWARD USA ACTION$3,000,000
CLIMATE CENTRAL INC$2,025,000
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUTURES INC$2,000,000
AMERICA VOTES$2,000,000
PROJECT 218$2,000,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC$2,000,000
WORKER POWER PAC$2,000,000
FF PAC$1,600,000
MISSOURIANS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM$1,230,000
FF PAC$1,100,000
CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION$1,000,000
ARIZONA FOR ABORTION ACCESS$1,000,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 28 repeat orgs$63M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$27M

$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%

+96%

Still filing today

93%

95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

EARTHJUSTICE
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
AC
AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
NA
NRDC ACTION FUND INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +262%

Funded once

GA
GREEN ADVOCACY PROJECTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue +108% · 90% of their budget
RF
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL
one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -100%
OU
OHIOANS UNITED FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
one grant, 2023 · $1.5M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

National Caucus of Environmental

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education

Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses science, communications, and strategic advocacy to protect forests and our climate future.

Environment

California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment

E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment

Texas Campaign for the Environment

Empowering Texans to fight pollution through sustained grassroots organizing campaigns that shift corporate and governmental policy.

Environment

CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment

The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

Coalition for Green Capital

To halt climate change by accelerating investment in clean energy technologies.

Environment

Cleaner Economy Coalition Inc

To support policies that reduce global emissions and improve u.s. competitiveness.

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350ORG Action Fund

350.org action fund is a campaign dedicated to changing the politics of climate change.

Environment

Center for Environmental Accountability

The Center for Environmental Accountability (CEA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote transparency, excellence, and accountability in environmental policy and fidelity to the rule of law. Its commitment to a clean…

Environment

The Climate Group Inc

Climate group brings together networks of international businesses and governments to shift markets toward the goal of a world of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with greater prosperity for all.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Earthjustice Action and the most unlike its peers is Oceana Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/128

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,437

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

108 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

107/108

Grantees still filing

87/108

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$53,866,631Environment$11,103,429Public Benefit$8,319,200Civil Rights$7,210,500Science & Tech$4,718,000Community Improvement$2,880,500International$2,050,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC40.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Climateworks Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · New Venture Fund · Climate Imperative Foundation · League of Conservation Voters Inc · Energy Action Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TRESTLE MOVEMENT FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 870968313 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TRESTLE MOVEMENT FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Advocacy Action Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Advocacy Action Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

108 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Advocacy Action Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph

ADVOCACY ACTION FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

108 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Advocacy Action Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph