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Campion Advocacy Fund
At campion, we believe in the power of people and place.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $2,544,500 |
| ALASKA WILDERNESS ACTION | $300,000 |
| STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND | $250,000 |
| SENATE MAJORITY PAC | $250,000 |
| HOUSING ACTION FUND | $200,000 |
| DEFEND WASHINGTON | $100,000 |
| KENNEDY FUND | $25,000 |
| TRUMAN FUND | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON HOUSING ACTION FUND | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $660k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LOLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +131%
- WHWashington Housing Alliance Action Fund7× · 2017–2024 · $446k · revenue +88% · 39% of their budget
- TMTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY4× · 2019–2022 · $56k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- AWALASKA WILDERNESS ACTIONone grant, 2017 · $898k
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +37%
- SCSIERRA CLUBone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.
350 Wisconsin Action mobilizes concerned climate voters to push for bold climate action from government and elected officials. We keep the climate crisis at the center of the political conversation, and push for progressive policies that…
Advocate to defeat WA Initiative 2117 and other policies that would threaten climate policy in Washington State
To advocate for legislation and policies that protect the environment.
To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.
The mission of the WRA Action Fund is to advance solutions to climate change and its impacts.
Advocate for tax policy in Washington State
Providing leadership on environmental and conservation issues.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Clean Tomorrow advances policies that reduce climate emissions by turning policy ambition into action. We work to catalyze rapid change that will accelerate the innovation and growth of clean energy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Earthjustice Action and the most unlike its peers is Yes for Vets & Seniors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ACTION ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND ↗
- Who funds Defend Washington ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Partnership Project Action Fund ↗
- Who funds TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Native Peoples Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Balance Our Tax Code ↗
- Who funds WILD MONTANA ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds Yes for Vets & Seniors ↗
- Who funds Yes for Homes Action Fund ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Advocacy Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Nrdc Action Fund Inc · League of Conservation Voters Inc
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 Campion Advocacy 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.
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
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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