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Campion Advocacy Fund

At campion, we believe in the power of people and place.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.3M
$200,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS$2,544,500
ALASKA WILDERNESS ACTION$300,000
SENATE MAJORITY PAC$250,000
STRATEGIC VICTORY FUND$250,000
HOUSING ACTION FUND$200,000
DEFEND WASHINGTON$100,000
TRUMAN FUND$25,000
KENNEDY FUND$25,000
WASHINGTON HOUSING ACTION FUND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $32k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $12k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $12k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
MT
MA
CA
VA
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 4 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against -28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
-28%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $660k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +131%
  • WH
    Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund
    7× · 2017–2024 · $446k · revenue +88% · 39% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $56k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • AW
    ALASKA WILDERNESS ACTION
    one grant, 2017 · $898k
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +37%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

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.

1
Nw Energy Coalition

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…

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2
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

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…

Environment
3
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund

To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.

Environment
4
350 Wisconsin Action Inc

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…

Environment
5
No on 2117 Committee

Advocate to defeat WA Initiative 2117 and other policies that would threaten climate policy in Washington State

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6
Environmental Defense Action Fund

To advocate for legislation and policies that protect the environment.

Environment
7
Clean Future Action Fund Inc

To educate, lobby and advocate for policies that advance clean energy development and deployment.

Environment
8
Wra Action Fund

The mission of the WRA Action Fund is to advance solutions to climate change and its impacts.

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9
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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10
Western Way Action

Providing leadership on environmental and conservation issues.

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11
Washington Forest Law Center

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.

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12
Policy Action for a Clean Tomorrow Inc

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Earthjustice Action; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
8/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $2,924,500 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC+1 more: $30,000 · Civil RightsALASKA WILDERNESS ACTION: $898,164 · OtherALASKA WILDERNESS ACTIONSMP: $250,000 · OtherSMPSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUND: $250,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC VICTORY FUNDDefend Washington: $100,000 · OtherDefend WashingtonSIERRA CLUB: $75,000 · Other+8 more: $158,000 · Other+8 moreALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ACTION: $426,595 · EnvironmentALASKA WI…The Partnership Project Action Fund: $50,000 · EnvironmentThe Partn…+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentWashington Housing Alliance Action Fund: $446,488 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $75,000 · AnimalsTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $56,000 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Civil Rights$2,954,500Other$1,731,164Environment$486,595Housing & Shelter$446,488Animals$75,000Human Services$56,000Crime & Legal$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …Sixteen Thirty FundNrdc Action Fund IncLeague of Conservatio…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Campion Advocacy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Campion Advocacy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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