How much did Americans for Financial Reform grant in FY2023?

Americans for Financial Reform reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is Americans for Financial Reform based?

Americans for Financial Reform is based in DC.

Americans for Financial Reform

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

Americans for Financial Reform

To lay the foundation for a strong, stable, and ethical financial system.

$100k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Civil Rights$166kPublic Benefit$37kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$51k

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

Demand Progress Education Fund$100,000

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 44% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 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.

New Jersey Citizen Action Education

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit

New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc

New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture

Institute for Public Accuracy

The Institute for Public Accuracy reaches millions of Americans by arranging radio, TV, print and multimedia interviews for progressive policy analysts, highlighting key issues beneath the surface of the news.

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Inc

MASSPIRG is an advocate for the public interest. When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, MASSPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and…

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People's Action Institute

The mission of people's action institute is to advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice by investing in powerful state and local organizations and campaigns that win real change in people's lives.

Community Improvement

Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights

Iowa Citizen Action Network

To promote social, economic and environmental justice

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New Georgia Project Action Fund

New georgia project action find is on a mission to increase the civic participation of the new georgia majority and other historically marginalized communities by building grassroots political power in support of progressive leaders,…

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Dc Policy Center

The d.c. policy center is a non-partisan, independent think tank focused on advancing policies for a vibrant and growing economy in the district of columbia. the d.c. policy center provides objective, targeted, and high-quality data…

Public Benefit

National Policing Institute

To creating excellence in policing through the development, translation, and application of research.

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Center for Political Accountability

Public Benefit

Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To advance public interest in resolving critical energy/national security/economic challenges.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Demand Progress Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Hoosier Action Inc. 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

14 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)

14/14

Grantees still filing

10/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$166,250Other$51,100Public Benefit$37,000Community Improvement$28,500

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.

Americans for Financial Reform Education FundDC22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · New Venture Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Americans for Financial Reform 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.

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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.

04Through 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: Demand Progress Education Fund.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 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 871987049 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 Demand Progress Education 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 10 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
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.

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How do I get to Americans for Financial Reform?

Find your warmest path to Americans for Financial Reform 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.

Americans for Financial Reform

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Americans for Financial Reform?

More from the funding graph

Americans for Financial Reform

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Americans for Financial Reform?

More from the funding graph