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Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice

To deeply engage jews in sustained action that manifests our tradition of working to heal and repair the world and to create a powerful, widely recognized jewish voice championing equality and justice for disenfranchised residents of our nation.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$203k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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 2025.

Civil Rights$15MPublic Benefit$420kEnvironment$403kPhilanthropy$379kCommunity Improvement$326kYouth Development$308kEmployment$288kHuman Services$244kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $815k
  • $50k–250k40 grants · $3.2M
$50,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES CENTER - LA$202,500
ADAMAH$152,500
HAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE$125,000
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$125,000
OIL AND GAS ACTION NETWORK$125,000
PILIPINO WORKERS CENTER$125,000
482FORWARD$125,000
CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING$125,000
MASSCOSH$125,000
UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK$105,000
CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION (CA)$90,500
POWER CALIFORNIA$90,000
CAAAV$90,000
PODER IN ACTION$90,000
DRUM DESIS RISING UP AND MOVING$90,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW MEXICO CAF: $38k → 23%NETWORK OF JEWISH HUMAN SERVICES AGENCIES: $10k → 7%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $15k → 20%TIDES CENTER - SF: $15k → 10%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $38k → 14%URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES: $50k → 21%KOREAN RESOURCE CENTER: $50k → 14%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $38k → 17%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

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NH
MN
IL
MI
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MA
OR
PA
NJ
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CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
MS
GA
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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 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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
3
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
4
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights
5
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
6
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

The Jewish Council on Urban Affair's (JCUA) longstanding mission is to combat poverty, racism and antisemitism working in partnership with diverse communities. JCUA uses a community organizing model to engage the Jewish community in the…

Community Improvement
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
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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10
Bay Area Organizing Committee

A broad based network of local institutions - congregations, synagogues, non-profits and civic associations - that serve as a foundation for public relationships, leadership development and action around issues that affect our communities.

Unclassified
11
The Alliance for Collective Action

The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…

Environment
12
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Commmunity High School of the Bay. 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

87 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. 87 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/87
Grantees still filing
50/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC: $13,900,000 · Public BenefitBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC+4 more: $165,500 · Public BenefitPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $125,000 · Community ImprovementHAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE: $125,000 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc: $90,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER CALIFORNIA: $90,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $53,000 · Community ImprovementGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION: $50,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $54,500 · Community ImprovementUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $105,000 · Civil RightsCommittee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc: $90,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fund: $53,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC: $37,500 · Civil RightsASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $37,500 · Civil RightsMARCH ON MARYLAND: $23,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $18,750 · Civil RightsJOLT INITIATIVE: $18,750 · Civil Rights+6 more: $62,000 · Civil RightsOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK: $125,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentDOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 · EnvironmentNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective: $50,000 · EnvironmentVOICES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: $50,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $37,500 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $30,000 · Environment+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentTIDES CENTER: $217,500 · Human ServicesKorean Resource Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesNM Comunidades En Accion Y De Fe: $37,500 · Human ServicesNEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $37,500 · Human Services+3 more: $31,500 · Human ServicesADAMAH INC: $152,500 · ReligionJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $125,000 · ReligionUNITED CONGREGATIONS OF METRO EAST: $50,000 · ReligionMOVING TRADITIONS: $15,000 · ReligionJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $12,500 · Religion+1 more: $7,500 · Religion482 FORWARD: $125,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $73,500 · EducationVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $53,000 · EducationUNIDOS MINNESOTA EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · EducationTHE SEMILLA PROJECT: $37,500 · EducationPROGRESSIVE MARYLAND EDUCATION FUND INC: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $7,500 · EducationTIDES ADVOCACY: $75,000 · OtherTREEAGE INC: $50,000 · OtherMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 · OtherOakland Kids First: $90,000 · OtherPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE EDUCATION FUND INC: $75,000 · OtherArab American Action Network: $53,000 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $100,500 · OtherA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC: $53,000 · OtherCenter for Third World Organizing: $125,000 · OtherFREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK: $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC: $125,000 · OtherALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $125,000 · OtherMake the Road New York: $53,000 · OtherTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $50,000 · Other+13 more: $329,500 · Other
Public Benefit$14,065,500Community Improvement$637,500Civil Rights$495,500Environment$472,500Human Services$461,500Religion$362,500Education$361,500Other$1,404,000

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 budgetBEND THE ARC JEWISH ACTION INC: $13,900,000 over 7y, 81% of budgetPILIPINO WORKERS CENTER OF SOUTHERN: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH INC: $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHAWAII PEACE AND JUSTICE: $125,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $100,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Kids First: $90,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $90,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE EDUCATION FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNWINDERS AT RISK EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $53,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CIVIC POLICY: $53,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Carolina Climate Justice Collective: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTREEAGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLeague of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE SEMILLA PROJECT: $37,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC: $37,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetINNERCITY STRUGGLE: $37,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS PHILANTHROPY CHARITIES: $37,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOIN FOR JUSTICE INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMoveOn Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Commmunity High School of the Bay: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN NEW YORK SECTION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationNew Venture FundProteus Fund IncThe Ford FoundationFoundation to Promote…Windward FundUnited States Energy …The Edward W Hazen Fo…ImpactassetsincLiberty Hill Foundati…
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC57.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · The Edward W Hazen Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Liberty Hill Foundation

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 Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
24report 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 89 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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