· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Black Voters Matter Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds We Vote We Win ↗
- Who funds America Votes ↗
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.
Open a dossier: America Votes · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Black Progressive Action Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Progressive Action Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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