How much did CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND grant in FY2024?

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND reported 2 grants totaling $4,750,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND based?

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND is based in DC.

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND

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· Public charity

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND

To shape the national policy debate and transform progressive concepts into policy.

$4.8M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$3.5M

Largest

01What you fund

0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$7.0MEnvironment$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.4MEducation$419kPublic Benefit$255kSocial Science$5kOther$4.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

corporationorganizedproblemspoliciesactivitiesideasresearch education

2019

advancingeducational

2020

equitableinnovativecampaignsecenextgenfocusesleaders

2021

advancingdedicatededucationalsocialhealth

2022

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2023

americansdigital contentcreatecivicissueseducation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

NRDC ACTION FUND INC$3,500,000
NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION$1,000,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.0M · 3 repeat orgs$8.6M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.0M

$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-28%

+96%

Still filing today

100%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceOther

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

LO
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
2× · 2019–2020 · $4.7M · revenue +388%
CF
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
5× · 2017–2021 · $2.3M · revenue -28%
MC
MOVEONORG CIVIC ACTION
2× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue -35%

Funded once

FF
FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC
one grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue -78%
NEXTGEN AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +103% · 43% of their budget
PP
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT ACTION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +122%

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

04Your field

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.

Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses science, communications, and strategic advocacy to protect forests and our climate future.

Environment

Center for Political Accountability

Public Benefit

Center for American Progress Action Fund

To shape the national policy debate and transform progressive concepts into policy.

Public Benefit

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

United for a Fair Economy Inc

United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.

Social Science

CarbonPlan

We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…

Environment

Institute for Public Accuracy

The Institute for Public Accuracy reaches millions of Americans by arranging radio, TV, print and multimedia interviews for progressive policy analysts, highlighting key issues beneath the surface of the news.

Arts & Culture

California Policy Group

The purpose of the organization is to provide objective, nonpartisan and balanced research analysis and commentary regarding legislation important to the California economy.

Public Benefit

Foreign Policy for America

Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.

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Fdd Action

Advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. national security and defend free nations.

Community Improvement

Bipartisan Policy Center Inc

To advance public interest in resolving critical energy/national security/economic challenges.

Public Benefit

Responsible Innovation Labs Inc

Responsible Innovation Labs is a coalition of leading investors and technology executives who recognize the importance of responsible innovation and the need for a more rigorous approach to tackling the challenges and opportunities of this…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for American Progress and the most unlike its peers is Progress Ohio Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/20

Grantees still filing

14/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$7,035,793Other$4,717,833Environment$1,780,000Community Improvement$1,393,354Education$418,500Public Benefit$255,333Social Science$5,333

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.

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · New Venture Fund · Tides Advocacy · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Tides Foundation · Energy Action Fund · American Federation of State County · Progress Now Inc · Far Star Action Fund · Advocacy Action Fund 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 organisation CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEXTGEN AMERICA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462525580 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NEXTGEN AMERICA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 43% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Center for American Progress Action Fund?

Find your warmest path to Center for American Progress Action Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Center for American Progress Action Fund?

More from the funding graph

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Center for American Progress Action Fund?

More from the funding graph