How much does Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund give?

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund reported 8 grants totaling $399,450 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (58%), Community Improvement (15%), Civil Rights (15%).

Who are Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Americans for Financial Reform ($1.5M), Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute ($225k), Texas Appleseed ($160k).

Does Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center for Responsible Lending, Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund

To create a fair and just financial system that contributes to shared prosperity for all families and communities.

$399k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 8
Grants FY2024: 14
Organizations funded FY2023: 36%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 16; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $7.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	8	$470k	13%
FY2023	14	$517k	36%
FY2022	13	$521k	15%
FY2021	9	$425k	33%
FY2020	12	$448k	33%
FY2019	11	$355k	45%
FY2018	16	$626k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$2.0MCommunity Improvement$512kCivil Rights$500kEducation$269kYouth Development$102kCrime & Legal$40kReligion$11k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Americans for Financial Reform	$1,500,000	7	28%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$225,000	1	11%
Texas Appleseed	$160,000	4	1%
Virginia Organizing Inc	$139,500	6	0%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group	$110,000	5	29%
Woodstock Institute	$110,000	5	2%
Prosperity Enrichment Inc	$102,000	3	14%
ACCE Institute	$95,000	3	1%
VOICE Education Fund	$94,600	5	20%
New Georgia Project Inc	$90,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Americans for Financial Reform	$1,500,000	7	28%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$225,000	1	11%
Texas Appleseed	$160,000	4	1%
Virginia Organizing Inc	$139,500	6	0%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group	$110,000	5	29%
Woodstock Institute	$110,000	5	2%
Prosperity Enrichment Inc	$102,000	3	14%
ACCE Institute	$95,000	3	1%
VOICE Education Fund	$94,600	5	20%
New Georgia Project Inc	$90,000	3	0%
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc	$79,500	5	1%
Wispirg Foundation Inc	$74,700	4	87%
Alliance for a Just Society	$55,000	2	n/a
Georgia Watch	$55,000	2	4%
New Economy Project Inc	$50,000	2	1%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc	$45,500	2	1%
Indiana Association for Community Economic Development Inc	$44,000	2	5%
Veterans Education Success Inc	$40,000	2	2%
Maine People's Alliance	$40,000	2	1%
South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center	$25,000	1	3%
People's Action	$22,500	1	1%
Grassroots Collaborative	$20,000	1	4%
Indiana Community Action Association Inc	$17,500	1	0%
Forward Justice	$15,500	1	1%
Florida Consumer Action Network Inc	$15,500	2	44%
Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Missouri Faith Voices Inc	$12,000	1	4%
The Consensus Council Inc	$10,500	1	3%
Citizen Action Illinois	$10,000	1	2%
Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Florida Action Committee Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Hoosier Action Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group Inc	$8,000	1	3%
Progressive Maryland Education Fund Inc	$5,000	1	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

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Open a dossier: Center for Responsible Lending · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Americans for Financial Reform · Working Families Organization Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hopewell Fund · Consumer Federation of America · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc

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.

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About Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund

How much does Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund give?: Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund reported 8 grants totaling $399,450 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (58%), Community Improvement (15%), Civil Rights (15%).
Who are Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Americans for Financial Reform ($1.5M), Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute ($225k), Texas Appleseed ($160k).
Does Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Center for Responsible Lending, Tides Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund based?: Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund is based in DC.