· Public charity
Big Tent Project Fund
Educatingthepubliconcurrenteventsandissuessuchashealthcare,tax,energy,andeducationpolicy.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+6 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER ACTION NOW | $2,950,000 |
| THE THIRD WAY FOUNDATION INC | $1,250,000 |
| NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP | $750,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL IMPACT | $750,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE | $750,000 |
| AZ CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT | $500,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR STRENGTH & SECURITY FUND | $50,000 |
| THE WELCOME PARTY | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
To engage unlikely voters in authentic conversations in order to strengthen democracy and promote justice through the use of deep canvassing.
At C3E, we believe strong, resilient communities start with equitable, effective, and efficient governanceour mission is to empower state and local leaders to drive lasting change through organizational transformation and performance…
The Corporation has been organized to operate for charitable and educational purposes, including, but not limited to, research and educational projects to help citizens, municipalities, state governments, other organizations participate…
The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…
The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…
Improving public sector capacity to reduce the burdens of government.
Citizen Awareness Project exists to educate citizens and public officials on issues of public policy and to give them the tools necessary to make a difference in their community on issues affecting the public at large. Specifically, it…
The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.
CEIR seeks to restore trust in the American election system and promote election procedures that encourage participation while ensuring election integrity and security.
Fund for states is dedicated to building a democracy that works for every voter. we work with state and local election officials and community organizations to educate the public, combat disinformation, and restore trust in the electoral…
To strengthen democracy in the United States through an assessment of US voting systems and US election administration from the perspective of global best practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Empowerment Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Strength and Security Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CENTER ACTION NOW ↗
- Who funds The Third Way Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Social Impact ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Citizens for Strength and Security Fund ↗
- Who funds THE WELCOME PARTY INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Big Tent Project Fund 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.
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.