· Public charity
Center for American Progress Action Fund
The CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ACTION FUND's (the action fund) mission is to impact the national debate and transform progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, public education, grassroots organization and advocacy in partnership with american citizens, executive and legislative branch policymakers and…
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.
The 2 grants below total $4,500,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,750,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NRDC ACTION FUND INC | $3,500,000 |
| NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION | $1,000,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.5M 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 INC2× · 2019–2020 · $4.7M · revenue +369%
- CFCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS5× · 2017–2021 · $2.3M · revenue -28%
- MCMoveOnorg Civic Action2× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue -38%
Funded once
- FFFUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INCone grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue -89%
NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +141% · 43% of their budget- TPThe Partnership Project Action Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +59%
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.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
To drive principled solutions through rigorous analysis, reasoned negotiation, and respectful dialogue. to actively promote bipartisanship and work to address the key challenges facing the nation including energy and infrastructure,…
To improve the environment through education and policy work, with an emphasis on pollution, climate change, and energy issues; and how congress and the administration stand on these issues.
FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
Greenlight action mobilizes grassroots power to get more clean energy projects built more quickly across the united states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nrdc Action Fund Inc 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.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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 NRDC ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN CLIMATE ACTION ↗
- Who funds The Partnership Project Action Fund ↗
- Who funds FIRST FIVE ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH FUND ↗
- Who funds FELLOW AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS NOW EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MoveOnorg Civic Action ↗
- Who funds AMERICA WORKS USA ↗
- Who funds Progress Ohio Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Keystone Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE WISCONSIN NOW INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE BORN PROGRESS ↗
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: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Advocacy Action Fund Inc · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Future Forward USA Action
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 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.
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.