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Black Progressive Action Coalition
The BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION (bpac) is an independent, progressive coalition of individuals and organizations committed to empowering black communities through civic engagement and education, community mobilization, and campaigns that turn our issues into policies, grounded in justice and equality, that change peoples lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK PROG ACTION COAL EDUC FUND | $2,391,950 |
| OHIO BLACK CIVIC ENGAGEMENT COALITION | $1,938,782 |
| VOTE TO LIVE ACTION FUND | $250,000 |
| WE VOTE WE WIN INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
America Votes Education Fund is dedicated to expanding all voters' access to the ballot through a grantmaking program.
All Americans Vote aims to motivate underrepresented Americans to engage in the most patriotic of exercises - voting!
Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions
Aggressively concentrating on giving Black Americans a fundamental base that will help electrify them to vote through our community organizing, voter registration drives, canvassing voters and mobilization.
Voter engagement
To ensure that working class people are educated on their voting rights. The coalition engages in mobilization and educational information sessions to ensure that all workers voices are heard.
Black men vote's sole mission is to meet black men where they are with vital social programs that focus on issues that affect underserved communities of color. black men vote has the unique ability to bridge the cultural divide with…
To engage Black men and encouage them to participate in their civic duties, with the aim of helping them become full citizens.
It is the mission of APIAVote to encourage and promote civic participation of Asian Pacific Islander Americans in the electoral and public processes at the national, state, and local levels. APIAVote also aims to educate and inform Asian…
Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities
The Promise of Democracy Foundation's (PDF) mission is to improve the quality of life in African American and underserved communities, by promoting democratic values, voting rights and electoral participation, through non-partisan voter…
New Virginia Majority Education Fund is a grassroots organization that engages low income people and people of color in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education through grassroots…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vote to Live Action Fund and the most unlike its peers is America Votes. 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. 8 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 NEW GEORGIA PROJECT ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds BLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds OHIO BLACK CIVIC ENGAGEMENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VOTE TO LIVE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds We Vote We Win ↗
- Who funds Black Voters Matter Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds America Votes ↗
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.
Open a dossier: America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation
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 Black Progressive Action Coalition 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.
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