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· 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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Americans for Financial Reform$300,000
Texas Appleseed$40,000
GA Watch$35,000
New Economy Project$25,000
Maine Peoples Alliance$20,000
New Jersey Citizen Action Education$20,000
Woodstock Institute$20,000
Citizen Action Illinois$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Prosperity Indiana: $44k → 16%Prosperity Indiana: $39k → 16%Prosperity Indiana: $20k → 16%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

AK
ME
WA
ND
IL
WI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 19 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
16

Total granted

$2.9M
$451k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+74%

Still filing today

89%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
Community ImprovementPublic BenefitCivil RightsEducationReligionCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    Texas Appleseed
    4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +19%
  • VO
    VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +49%
  • AP
    Alaska Public Interest Research Group
    5× · 2018–2023 · $110k · revenue ×76 · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    Action Center on Race & the Economy Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $225k · revenue +282%
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

1
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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2
Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights
3
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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4
Arkansas Public Policy Panel Inc

Ar public policy panel is a statewide organization dedicated to achieving social and economic justice by organizing citizen groups around the state, educating and supporting them to be more effective and powerful, and linking them with one…

Environment
5
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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6
Progressive Change Institute

The progressive change institute develops and promotes public policy, fosters bottom-up democracy, and educates the public. this includes working to impact the mainstream political discourse and protect democracy.

Public Benefit
7
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
8
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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11
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

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12
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Missouri Faith Voices 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

35 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. 35 of the 37 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
22/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Americans for Financial Reform: $1,500,000 · OtherAmericans for Financial ReformWoodstock Institute: $110,000 · OtherWoodstock InstituteWISPIRG FOUNDATION INC: $74,700 · Other+7 more: $139,500 · Other+7 moreTexas Appleseed: $160,000 · Community ImprovementTexas AppleseedVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $139,500 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZIN…ALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $55,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUS…NEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ECONOMY PROJEC…New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $45,500 · Community ImprovementNew York Communiti…INDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $44,000 · Community ImprovementINDIANA ASSOCIATIO…MAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $40,000 · Community ImprovementMAINE PEOPLE'S ALL…PEOPLE'S ACTION: $22,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $225,000 · Civil RightsAction Cente…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA …SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROLI…+2 more: $20,000 · Civil Rights+2 moreAlaska Public Interest Research Group: $110,000 · Public BenefitAlaska Pub…NEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC: $79,500 · Public BenefitNEW JERSEY…GEORGIA WATCH: $55,000 · Public BenefitGEORGIA WA…VETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC: $40,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS E…ALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $15,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $8,000 · Public BenefitACCE Institute: $95,000 · EducationGrassroots Collaborative: $20,000 · EducationCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationVOICE Education Fund: $94,600 · ReligionTHE CONSENSUS COUNCIL INC: $10,500 · ReligionProsperity Enrichment Inc: $102,000 · Human Services
Other$1,824,200Community Improvement$566,500Civil Rights$360,000Public Benefit$307,500Education$130,000Religion$105,100Human Services$102,000

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 budgetAmericans for Financial Reform: $1,500,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetAction Center on Race & the Economy Institute: $225,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $160,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $139,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAlaska Public Interest Research Group: $110,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetWoodstock Institute: $110,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetProsperity Enrichment Inc: $102,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetACCE Institute: $95,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVOICE Education Fund: $94,600 over 5y, 20% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW JERSEY CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND INC: $79,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWISPIRG FOUNDATION INC: $74,700 over 4y, 87% of budgetGEORGIA WATCH: $55,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc: $45,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetINDIANA ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $44,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetVETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION: $22,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGrassroots Collaborative: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetINDIANA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE: $15,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,500 over 2y, 44% of budgetMissouri Faith Voices Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CONSENSUS COUNCIL INC: $10,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCitizen Action Illinois: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Center for Responsibl…Tides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundAmericans for Financi…Working Families Orga…All Hands on Deck Net…Proteus Fund IncSixteen Thirty FundHopewell FundConsumer Federation o…Communications Worker…
Center for Responsible LendingNC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.

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 37 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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