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Campion Advocacy Fund

At campion, we believe in the power of people and place. We focus on access to housing as a way to end homelessness and conservation of public lands as a solution to the climate crisis.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,544,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$28M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Campion Advocacy Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’23
Civil RightsEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$3.7M67%
FY20233$400k100%
FY20217$242k57%
FY20204$86k50%
FY20193$178k67%
FY20181$33k0%
FY20175$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$5.1MHousing & Shelter$538kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$44kPublic Benefit$20kCommunity Improvement$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
MA
CA
VA
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
League of Conservation Voters Inc$2,924,50032%
Alaska Wilderness Action$898,1641n/a
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund$446,488739%
Alaska Wilderness League Action$426,59542%
Smp$250,0001n/a
Strategic Victory Fund$250,00010%
Defend Washington$100,00012%
National Wildlife Federation$75,00010%
Sierra Club$75,00010%
The Mockingbird Society$56,00042%
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All grantees of Campion Advocacy Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
League of Conservation Voters Inc$2,924,50032%
Alaska Wilderness Action$898,1641n/a
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund$446,488739%
Alaska Wilderness League Action$426,59542%
Smp$250,0001n/a
Strategic Victory Fund$250,00010%
Defend Washington$100,00012%
National Wildlife Federation$75,00010%
Sierra Club$75,00010%
The Mockingbird Society$56,00042%
Columbia Legal Services$50,00011%
Taxpayers for Common Sense$50,00012%
The Partnership Project Action Fund$50,00011%
Native Peoples Action Inc$30,00026%
The Truman Fund$25,0001n/a
Kennedy Fund$25,0001n/a
Balance Our Tax Code$20,000112%
Yes for Homes Action Fund$10,00012%
Yes for Vets & Seniors$10,00014%
Wild Montana Action Fund$10,00013%
Washington Housing Action Fund$10,0001n/a
Third Sector New England Inc$8,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Campion Advocacy Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Inc: $2,924,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWashington Housing Alliance Action Fund: $446,488 over 7y, 39% of budgetAlaska Wilderness League Action: $426,595 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetStrategic Victory Fund: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDefend Washington: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mockingbird Society: $56,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetColumbia Legal Services: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTaxpayers for Common Sense: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Partnership Project Action Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNative Peoples Action Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBalance Our Tax Code: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYes for Homes Action Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYes for Vets & Seniors: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWild Montana Action Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Advocacy Action Fund IncCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Nrdc Action Fund Inc · League of Conservation Voters Inc

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.

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How do I get to Campion Advocacy Fund?

Find your warmest path to Campion Advocacy Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Campion Advocacy Fund

How much does Campion Advocacy Fund give?
Campion Advocacy Fund reported 9 grants totaling $3,704,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Campion Advocacy Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Housing & Shelter (9%), Crime & Legal (1%).
Who are Campion Advocacy Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: League of Conservation Voters Inc ($2.9M), Alaska Wilderness Action ($898k), Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund ($446k).
Does Campion Advocacy Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Campion Advocacy Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Advocacy Action Fund Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Nrdc Action Fund Inc.
Where is Campion Advocacy Fund based?
Campion Advocacy Fund is based in WA.

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 22 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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