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Alliance for Youth Organizing

The ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING is advancing a new era of democracy that is locally led and publicly engaged.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$3.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Public Benefit$31MCommunity Improvement$1.2MCivil Rights$687kPhilanthropy$230kHuman Services$83kArts & Culture$71kEnvironment$61kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+18 grants · $13M
$100,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND$3,088,553
ENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND$2,186,448
MOVE TEXAS CIVIC FUND$1,309,701
FORWARD MONTANA FOUNDATION (C3)$682,500
PODER IN ACTION$633,490
NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER$532,500
TIDES CENTER$516,367
OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE$500,000
CENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION$478,512
NEW ERA COLORADO FOUNDATION$357,500
FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER$330,000
WASHINGTON BUS EDUCATION FUND$328,990
TIDES FOUNDATION$305,000
MISSISSIPPI VOTES$300,990
VOTER FORMATION PROJECT$250,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $516k → 10%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE INC: $7k → 11%TIDES CENTER: $213k → 10%MIAMI FREEDOM PROJECT FOR DEMOCRACY: $50k → 15%GEORGIA COALITION FOR THE PEOPLES AGENDA: $286k → 13%TIDES CENTER: $135k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $93k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $253k → 10%EL PUEBLO INC: $50k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT: $70k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
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MT
MN
IL
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MI
NY
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OR
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OH
PA
CA
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CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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GA
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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 — 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 30 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
25

Total granted

$19M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
0%

Still filing today

97%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +53%
  • FM
    FORWARD MT FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +491% · 40% of their budget
  • NE
    New Era Colorado Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • LI
    LEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +8%
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -40%
  • MF
    MARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +38%

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.

1
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
2
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
3
Voteamerica

The mission of voteamerica is to strengthen united states democracy by increasing voter turnout.

Civil Rights
4
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
5
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
6
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
7
Commission On Presidential Debates

Organize general election presidential and vice-presidential debates

Civil Rights
8
Democracy Forward

See schedule o.this organization seeks to build collective power to defend and advance a vibrant democracy that benefits all people.

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9
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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10
All Americans Vote

All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!

Civil Rights
11
Progress Arizona

Progress arizona is an arizona nonprofit corporation located in phoenix, arizona. progress arizona is an organization founded in 2018 to educate the public about key policy issues using digital organizing and communications.

Civil Rights
12
Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote

It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rural Arizona Engagement. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Development ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Jewish Community Organizati…Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and Advocacy
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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%26%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/92
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,473

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.

04the grantee network

87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
39/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND INC — $2,186,448 · Civil RightsENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND INCNew Era Colorado Foundation — $1,694,669 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado FoundationChicago Votes — $1,610,724 · Civil RightsChicago VotesMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $1,202,865 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI VOTESThe Washington Bus Education Fund — $1,105,754 · Civil RightsThe Washington Bus Education FundNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER — $1,102,950 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHERFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $560,313 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $478,512 · Civil Rights+24 more — $2,463,097 · Civil Rights+24 moreLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC — $3,088,553 · EducationLEADERS IGNITING …MINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND — $1,671,240 · EducationMINNESOTA YOUTH C…+3 more — $324,264 · Education+3 moreTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $1,814,487 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANI…Poder in Action — $1,416,804 · Public BenefitPoder in ActionLoud Light — $937,585 · Public BenefitLoud LightNEO Philanthropy Inc — $255,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthrop…+4 more — $282,500 · Public Benefit+4 moreLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $500,000 · OtherLEADERS IGNITING …TIDES ADVOCACY — $500,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYENGAGE MIAMI INC — $400,000 · OtherENGAGE MIAMI INCCOLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM — $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $200,000 · OtherOREGON PROGRESS FORUM — $910,542 · OtherOREGON PROGRESS F…TIDES FOUNDATION — $578,545 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION — $400,000 · OtherMARCH FOR OUR LIV…+25 more — $1,546,133 · Other+25 moreMOVE TEXAS CIVIC FUND — $1,309,701 · Community ImprovementASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $716,490 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $400,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $120,000 · Community ImprovementFORWARD MT FOUNDATION — $1,785,509 · HealthTIDES CENTER — $1,210,167 · Human ServicesGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda — $285,500 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AND ADVANCEMENT — $70,000 · Human Services+3 more — $107,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$12,405,332Education$5,084,057Public Benefit$4,706,376Other$5,285,220Community Improvement$2,646,191Health$1,785,509Human Services$1,672,667

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION EDUCATION FUND INC — $3,088,553 over 1y, 64% of budgetENGAGE FLORIDA CIVIC FUND INC — $2,186,448 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $1,814,487 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetFORWARD MT FOUNDATION — $1,785,509 over 7y, 40% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $1,694,669 over 7y, 19% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH COLLECTIVE EDUCATION FUND — $1,671,240 over 7y, 82% of budgetChicago Votes — $1,610,724 over 7y, 47% of budgetPoder in Action — $1,416,804 over 6y, 25% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $1,210,167 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $1,202,865 over 5y, 68% of budgetThe Washington Bus Education Fund — $1,105,754 over 7y, 48% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER — $1,102,950 over 6y, 13% of budgetLoud Light — $937,585 over 6y, 33% of budgetOREGON PROGRESS FORUM — $910,542 over 7y, 37% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $716,490 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $578,545 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $560,313 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR VOTER INFORMATION — $478,512 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $400,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetENGAGE MIAMI INC — $400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGeorgia Coalition for the People's Agenda — $285,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $255,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVOTER FORMATION PROJECT — $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOLORADANS FOR PROTECTING REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM — $250,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ACTION — $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund — $250,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPizza to the Polls — $175,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCOLLECTIVE RENAISSANCE GUILD — $175,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPODER — $175,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetALL HANDS ON DECK NETWORK INC — $160,539 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND — $154,264 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT — $150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW VOTERS ORG — $145,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC — $145,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA SHIFT INC — $126,250 over 3y, 19% of budgetPA Alliance Foundation — $120,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN NATIVE VOICE EDUCATION PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSTATE VOICES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPOWER CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBetter Utah Institute — $95,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
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.

Tides FoundationNew Venture FundNEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…Windward FundAll Hands on Deck Net…Voter Registration Pr…Clean and Prosperous …Proteus Fund IncHopewell FundSilicon Valley Commun…Rockefeller Philanthr…
Tides FoundationCA66.3× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Voter Registration Project · Clean and Prosperous America · Proteus Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

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 organization Alliance for Youth Organizing 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 · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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: 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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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