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Center for Community Change

The mission of community change is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives.

$11M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
59
Itemized grants FY2025
33
Organizations funded FY2024
52%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$9.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 88
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
25
Total assets, FY2025
$48M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Center for Community Change funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving54$8.7M46%
FY202433$2.4M52%
FY202346$3.3M20%
FY202288$6.2M28%
FY202172$4.7M24%
FY202082$4.3M44%
FY201947$2.1M17%
FY201838$1.9M21%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$13MHuman Services$3.4MCommunity Improvement$2.5MPublic Benefit$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MEmployment$1.3MHealth$1.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ohio Organizing Collaborative$1,420,1507n/a
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$1,129,90022%
United We Dream Network Inc$1,000,0001n/a
National Immigration Law Center$1,000,00014%
Center for American Progress$1,000,0001n/a
Maine People's Resource Center$950,75086%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights$903,35071%
Isaiah$827,00084%
Fusion Partnership Inc$821,50083%
Oneamerica$794,31274%
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All grantees of Center for Community Change by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ohio Organizing Collaborative$1,420,1507n/a
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$1,129,90022%
United We Dream Network Inc$1,000,0001n/a
National Immigration Law Center$1,000,00014%
Center for American Progress$1,000,0001n/a
Maine People's Resource Center$950,75086%
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights$903,35071%
Isaiah$827,00084%
Fusion Partnership Inc$821,50083%
Oneamerica$794,31274%
Workers Center For Racial Just NFP$701,000711%
Cornell University$700,00010%
Moses (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength)$671,500726%
Mothering Justice$670,000511%
Center for Community Change Action$624,50034%
Colorado People's Alliance$603,000718%
Washington Interfaith Network$600,000729%
Progressive Multiplier Fund$588,000258%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education$581,25065%
United for a New Economy$570,00058%
Parent Voices Oakland$565,000723%
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund$542,25063%
Kentucky Coalition Inc$508,25063%
United Working Families$500,0001n/a
Blackroots Alliance$444,000431%
Virginia Organizing Inc$440,00052%
New Georgia Project Inc$435,00041%
HousingNOLA$386,500316%
Make the Road New York$355,56250%
Casa Inc$348,95051%
Central Florida Jobs With Justice Corp$335,000411%
Neighborhood Partnerships Inc$335,00041%
Hoosier Action Resource Center Inc$325,000319%
Family Forward Oregon$320,00055%
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network$320,00052%
Working Families Organization Inc$287,00020%
Voces de la Frontera Inc$268,60066%
National Employment Law Project$267,50032%
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition$260,60073%
Michigan Organizing Project$251,75045%
Citizen Impact$250,0001n/a
Colorado Cross Disability Coalition$250,00038%
Comunidades Unidas$238,25068%
Somos Un Pueblo Unido$233,35073%
Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund$229,50045%
New York University$225,00010%
Housing California Inc$223,52542%
The Ole Education Fund$220,00032%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$218,00040%
Equity and Transformation$212,00054%
Freedom Righteous Organizing Collaborative$209,000468%
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance$207,50047%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$200,25061%
La Brega Y Fuerza Fund Inc$200,0001n/a
New Jersey Resource Project Inc$200,000319%
Washington Center for Equitable Growth Inc$194,18221%
Arkansas United$192,012613%
Democracy House Inc$180,0001n/a
Community Partners$177,50050%
Economic Policy Institute$175,00031%
Communities Creating Opportunity$170,00056%
Health Federation of Philadelphia Inc$165,00030%
Black Male Initiative Georgia Inc$165,000210%
Granite State Organizing Project Inc$162,00059%
Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation$160,000210%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative$160,00020%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc$160,00021%
First Up$155,00041%
The Amos Project Inc$150,000224%
State Democracy Project$150,0001n/a
Project Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc$140,50010%
Metro Iaf Inc$140,00033%
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc$137,85051%
National Women's Law Center$137,50020%
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada$136,57863%
Race Forward$135,00011%
Policylink$135,00010%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition$134,31264%
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc$131,25051%
Center for Health Progress$125,0001n/a
Iaje$115,00021%
Center for Law and Social Policy$110,00021%
Sunflower Community Action Inc$106,350513%
Alabama Institute for Social Justice$105,0001n/a
Health Connections Incorporated$100,0001n/a
Greater Cleveland Congregations Inc$100,0001n/a
Workmoney Inc$100,0001n/a
Spirithouse South Inc$100,0001n/a
New America Foundation$100,00010%
Pittsburgh United$100,00022%
Georgetown University$100,00010%
Peoples Food Sovereignty Program$100,0001n/a
Black Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis$100,000123%
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights$98,81240%
Win Without War Education Fund$95,00022%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$95,00041%
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice United$88,60046%
Black Alliance for Just Immigration$85,00022%
Causa of Oregon$84,50042%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$80,25013%
Indivisible Civics$80,00021%
Shirley's Kitchen Cabinet$76,7503n/a
Tides Advocacy$75,87120%
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos$75,50055%
Democracy Forward Foundation$75,00011%
Community Voices Heard Inc$75,00022%
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc$75,00021%
Marijuana Justice$74,00039%
Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren)$72,25042%
Third Sector New England Inc$70,00010%
Commonwealth Foundation Inc$70,00036%
MoveOn Education Fund$70,000214%
Penn Immigration & Citizenship Coalition$66,0003n/a
University of California Irvine Foundation$60,00010%
Capaces Leadership Institute$60,00042%
Emancipate NC Inc$59,00032%
Promise Arizona$58,50044%
Decarcerate Inc$57,500313%
Project South Inc$55,00021%
Unidos Minnesota Education Fund$55,00033%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc$55,0002n/a
Active Voices Inc$50,0001n/a
Center on Rural Innovation Inc$50,00011%
American Friends Service Committee$50,0002n/a
All Streets All People - Asap$50,000128%
Arise Chicago$50,0001n/a
National Partnership for Women and Families$50,00010%
The Black Swan Academy Inc$50,0001n/a
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice$50,0001n/a
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice$50,0001n/a
Arizona Center for Empowerment$50,00010%
Ctr for Race Rel Econ Democracy$45,0002n/a
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc$40,91231%
Faith in Action Network$40,00010%
Public Citizen Foundation Inc$40,00010%
Clean Air Coalition of Western New York Inc$40,00027%
Latino Community Fund Inc$40,00021%
Organizing Neighborhoods For Equality Northside$40,00014%
Pure Justice$40,00033%
Living United for Change in Arizona$40,00011%
Workers Defense Project$36,85020%
Institute of the Black World 21st Century$35,000117%
Jackson Metro Sponsoring Committee-Worki D/B/A Working Together Jackson$35,00018%
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest$34,35020%
Maine People's Alliance$33,00021%
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement$31,00021%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund$30,00010%
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights Inc$30,00024%
Center for American Progress$30,00010%
Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation$30,00017%
Florida Philanthropic Network Inc$30,00013%
Grassroots Collaborative$30,00013%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$29,00020%
People's Action$25,00011%
Jobs to Move America$25,00010%
Houston in Action$25,00010%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California$25,00010%
Contact Center Inc$25,000147%
New Jersey Communities United$25,00015%
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative$25,00017%
Action Institute Nc$25,00021%
Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N$25,00011%
Youth Council for Positive Development$25,0001n/a
Arizona Coalition for Change$25,00011%
Good Shepard Home Inc$25,0001n/a
Unemployment Information Center Inc$25,00012%
Christian Church Disciples of Christ Capital Area$24,0001n/a
Clean Water Fund$21,2501n/a
Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project$20,00011%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$20,00010%
Men & Women in Prison Ministries$20,00013%
Families for Justice as Healing Inc$20,00017%
Capital Area Justice Ministry Inc$20,00026%
Panas En Chicago$20,0001n/a
Young West Virginia Power Building Movement$20,0001n/a
Alternate RootsInc$20,00011%
Miami Workers Center Inc$20,00020%
Mi Familia En Accion$20,00010%
Florida Rising Inc$20,00020%
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation$20,00018%
Voices of Florida Fund Inc$19,9001n/a
Florida Rising Together Inc$17,00011%
Junta for Progressive Action Inc$16,75013%
Central American Resource Center$16,00021%
Latin American Coalition$15,60012%
Equal Ground Education Fund Inc$15,00011%
Farmworker Association of Florida Inc$15,00011%
Racial Justice Now$15,0001n/a
Family Action Network Movement Inc$15,00011%
International Rescue Committee INC$15,00010%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$15,00010%
United African Organization$15,00010%
Council on American Islamic Relations of Arizona$15,0001n/a
Progeorgia State Table Inc$15,00010%
Wepower$15,0001n/a
Chinese Community Center Inc$15,00010%
Illinois Venezuelan Alliance$15,00011%
Asian Pacific Community in Action$15,000111%
Urban League of Louisiana$15,00010%
Topeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project$15,00017%
Center for Pan Asian Community Services$15,00010%
Glow Girls Leading Our World Inc$14,0001n/a
Forward Michigan$12,50010%
Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health$10,0001n/a
Flic Votes Inc$10,00011%
Mano Amiga Sm$10,00013%
Proyecto Juan Diego Inc$10,00010%
Community Service Council Inc dba Oklahoma Veterans United$10,00010%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$10,00010%
Uaeyc Ricord$10,0001n/a
Gamaliel Foundation$10,00011%
Faith in Florida Inc$10,00010%
Boat People S O S Inc$10,00010%
Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless$10,00014%
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc$7,5001n/a
North Carolina Fair Share CDC$7,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Center for Community Change supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 176 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVoices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc: $1,129,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMaine People's Resource Center: $950,750 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetIllinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: $903,350 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetIsaiah: $827,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetFusion Partnership Inc: $821,500 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetOneamerica: $794,312 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $701,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetCornell University: $700,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoses (Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength): $671,500 over 7y, 26% of budgetMothering Justice: $670,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCenter for Community Change Action: $624,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetColorado People's Alliance: $603,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetWashington Interfaith Network: $600,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetProgressive Multiplier Fund: $588,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetStrategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education: $581,250 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetUnited for a New Economy: $570,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetParent Voices Oakland: $565,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetTexas Organizing Project Education Fund: $542,250 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetKentucky Coalition Inc: $508,250 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetBlackroots Alliance: $444,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $440,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetNew Georgia Project Inc: $435,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHousingNOLA: $386,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetMake the Road New York: $355,562 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCasa Inc: $348,950 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCentral Florida Jobs With Justice Corp: $335,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetNeighborhood Partnerships Inc: $335,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHoosier Action Resource Center Inc: $325,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetFamily Forward Oregon: $320,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCalifornia Child Care Resource and Referral Network: $320,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWorking Families Organization Inc: $287,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVoces de la Frontera Inc: $268,600 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetNational Employment Law Project: $267,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition: $260,600 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetMichigan Organizing Project: $251,750 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetColorado Cross Disability Coalition: $250,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetComunidades Unidas: $238,250 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetSomos Un Pueblo Unido: $233,350 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetWashington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund: $229,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetNew York University: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHousing California Inc: $223,525 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetThe Ole Education Fund: $220,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $218,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEquity and Transformation: $212,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetFreedom Righteous Organizing Collaborative: $209,000 over 4y, 68% of budgetWashington Low Income Housing Alliance: $207,500 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $200,250 over 6y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 176.

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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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNY91.5× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Windward Fund · Center for Community Change Action · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Casa Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · The Ford Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation

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.

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About Center for Community Change

How much does Center for Community Change give?
Center for Community Change reported 59 itemized grants totaling $9,663,121, out of $10,526,410 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Center for Community Change fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (44%), Human Services (11%), Community Improvement (8%).
Who are Center for Community Change's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ohio Organizing Collaborative ($1.4M), Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc ($1.1M), United We Dream Network Inc ($1.0M).
Does Center for Community Change fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Community Change?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NEO Philanthropy Inc, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund.
Where is Center for Community Change based?
Center for Community Change is based in DC.

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 224 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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