· Public charity
Center for Civic Action
To advocate for policies that impact the common good and welfare of new mexicans, such as health care, energy, natural resources, the economy and jobs, and voting rights issues.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST WOMENS LAW CENTER | $185,000 |
| ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTME | $105,000 |
| VERDE VOTERS PAC | $48,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NM | $45,000 |
| PROGRESS NOW NM | $35,000 |
| WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION | $20,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB RIO GRANDE CHAPTER | $20,000 |
| SEMILLA ACTION | $17,000 |
| ACT BLUE | $17,000 |
| NMVC ACTION FUND | $10,000 |
| EMERGE NEW MEXICO | $10,000 |
| SPEAKER FUND | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO | $9,000 |
| CINDY NAVA FOR NEW MEXICO | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $335k · revenue +11%
- OIORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT5× · 2018–2025 · $315k · revenue +106%
- SASEMILLA ACTION3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- NCNO CORPORATE COUNCIL MFCone grant, 2022 · $60k
- CACafe Acciongraduatedone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +47%
- ECEL CENTRO PODER Y ACCIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -49%
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.
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.
To advocate for policies that impact the common good and welfare of new mexicans, such as health care, energy, natural resources, the economy and jobs, and voting rights issues. to educate the public about social welfare issues that impact…
NM Voters First (NMVF) was incorporated in 2024 with the mission to support candidates tha believe in empowering and enhancing democracy and encouraging legislators to support fair and equitable elections that expand peoples political…
El centro de igualdad y derechos is a civil rights and workers justice organization based in central new mexico that combines organizing, leadership development, information campaigns, and policy education.
To ensure that government is accountable to the voters and taxpayers.
CAFE is a faith based Non Profit community organization with the purpose of training and organizing low and moderate income families to shape public policy.
Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.
Our Voice Nuestra Voice is a nation-building organization, anchoring ancestry while building Black and Brown solidarity in New Orleans. We remember our shared culture and language, reconnect to the land, and organize our community around…
We are a values-driven advocacy organization committed to defending and expanding consumer protections, corporate and insurance accountability, and access to justice in New Mexico. Our work is led by consumers, survivors of sexual assault,…
To hold elected officials accountable for their environmental votes and to educate voters on conservation issues.
Aclu of nm foundation is the state affiliate of alcu, the nation's premier civil rights and civil liberties organization. our purpose is to protect and advance justice, liberty, and equity.
Somos accion's mission is to build a community that does not discriminate against people based on their national origin, that institutes humane migration policies, and that protects the rights of everyone. somos accion intends to…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZERS IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEMILLA ACTION ↗
- Who funds Cafe Accion ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO PODER Y ACCION ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSNOW NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds ACTBLUE CIVICS INC ↗
- Who funds NM NATIVE VOTE ↗
- Who funds NMVC Action Fund ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: North Fund · America Votes · Grove Action Fund · Energy Action Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Center for Civic Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Civic Action. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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