How much does Center for Empowered Politics give?

Center for Empowered Politics reported 26 itemized grants totaling $1,421,006, out of $1,645,656 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Center for Empowered Politics fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (39%), Public Benefit (34%), Community Improvement (9%).

Who are Center for Empowered Politics's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rising Voices Action Fund ($627k), Our Future is Black ($316k), Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance ($170k).

Does Center for Empowered Politics fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Empowered Politics?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Advocacy, Tides Foundation, Open Society Action Fund Inc.

Where is Center for Empowered Politics based?

Center for Empowered Politics is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Center for Empowered Politics

Cep specializes in people of color-led grassroots movement building 501(c)(4) organizations taht have been on the cutting edge of c3/c4 innovations, engagement in ethnic communities, campaign consultation, and integrated voter engagement 2.0.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 26
Itemized grants FY2024: 21
Organizations funded FY2022: 86%
First-time grantees FY2022

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $599,969
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 30; FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024: 15
Total assets, FY2024: $9.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 86% of the organizations Center for Empowered Politics funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $751k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	25	$1.4M	68%
FY2022	21	$872k	86%
FY2021	5	$175k	60%
FY2020	30	$564k	100%
FY2019	1	$155k	100%
FY2017	6	$300k	n/a

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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$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.2MCommunity Improvement$336kHealth$178kHuman Services$143kEnvironment$80kCrime & Legal$78kEducation$74kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rising Voices Action Fund	$626,819	1	n/a
Our Future is Black	$315,687	4	n/a
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$170,000	2	n/a
Ncaat in Action	$165,000	2	3%
Chinese Progressive Association	$155,000	1	2%
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc	$150,000	2	3%
One Apia Nevada	$140,000	1	3%
Arizona Wins	$115,000	2	0%
Michigan Action	$115,000	1	n/a
Young Women's Freedom Center	$93,625	3	1%

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All grantees of Center for Empowered Politics by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rising Voices Action Fund	$626,819	1	n/a
Our Future is Black	$315,687	4	n/a
Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance	$170,000	2	n/a
Ncaat in Action	$165,000	2	3%
Chinese Progressive Association	$155,000	1	2%
Asian American Advocacy Fund Inc	$150,000	2	3%
One Apia Nevada	$140,000	1	3%
Arizona Wins	$115,000	2	0%
Michigan Action	$115,000	1	n/a
Young Women's Freedom Center	$93,625	3	1%
All Hands on Deck Network Inc	$75,000	1	8%
Chinese for Affirmative Action	$70,284	1	1%
Asian American Midwest Progressives	$70,000	2	29%
Chinese Progressive Political Action Inc	$70,000	2	27%
One Apia Texas Inc	$65,000	1	n/a
DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc	$50,000	1	3%
Nakasec Action Fund	$50,000	1	6%
Center for Civic Action	$50,000	1	26%
Chicago NORML	$50,000	1	63%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network	$49,946	1	1%
Mississippi Votes Action Fund Corporation	$42,500	1	5%
One Arizona	$40,000	1	0%
Silicon Valley Rising Action	$37,500	1	22%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Bay Rising Committee	$30,000	1	n/a
Data For Black Lives Inc	$30,000	1	2%
Communities for A New California	$25,000	1	72%
Oakland Rising Committee	$25,000	1	n/a
Powerca Action Fka Mobilize the Immigrant Vote Action	$25,000	1	20%
Center for Empowered Politics	$25,000	1	0%
Progressive Era Project	$25,000	1	n/a
Jakara Movement	$23,466	1	1%
St James Infirmary	$23,250	1	1%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$22,875	2	0%
Pilipino Workers Center of Southern	$21,498	1	n/a
Ella Baker Center Action Fund	$20,500	1	7%
Drum Beats	$20,000	1	22%
East Bay Action	$20,000	1	12%
Asian Youth Center	$19,530	1	1%
Florida Now Education Fund Incorporated	$15,750	1	n/a
Red Wine & Blue	$15,000	1	0%
PICO California Action Fund	$15,000	1	1%
Maine People's Alliance	$15,000	1	1%
Dwight Hall at Yale	$15,000	1	1%
Hope Enterprise Corporation	$13,500	1	0%
The Free School	$11,500	2	n/a
Care in Action Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Apano Communities United Fund	$10,000	1	0%
East Bay Action PAC	$10,000	1	n/a
Khmer Girls in Action	$9,032	1	0%
Oaklanders Together - For A Safer Oakland	$8,000	1	1%
One Voice United Inc	$8,000	1	1%
Blkhlth Inc	$7,875	1	n/a
Chicago Torture Justice Center	$7,875	1	n/a
Ryse Inc	$7,875	1	0%
Arizona Coalition for Change	$7,875	1	0%
Society for the Analysis of African American Public Health Issues	$7,875	1	n/a
Essie Justice Group	$7,875	1	0%
Bridges 4 Life	$7,875	1	n/a
Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc	$7,875	1	0%
Catalyst Miami Inc	$7,875	1	0%
True Divine Baptist Church	$7,875	1	n/a
Miami Workers Center Inc	$7,875	1	1%
New Georgia Project Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Education Reform Now Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Faith in Action Alabama	$7,500	1	1%
Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N	$7,500	1	0%
Imagine Black	$7,500	1	4%
Change Today Change Tomorrow	$7,500	1	2%
Takeaction Mn Education Fund	$7,500	1	0%
Workers Center For Racial Just NFP	$7,500	1	0%
Our Revolution	$7,500	1	0%
Black and Pink Inc	$7,125	1	0%
Black Youth Project 100 NFP	$6,375	1	0%
New Life Worship Center	$6,000	1	n/a

Center for Empowered Politics supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 57.

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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.

Tides AdvocacyCA46.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Advocacy · Tides Foundation · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · America Votes · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Chinese Progressive Association · Organize Action

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 Empowered Politics

How much does Center for Empowered Politics give?: Center for Empowered Politics reported 26 itemized grants totaling $1,421,006, out of $1,645,656 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Center for Empowered Politics fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (39%), Public Benefit (34%), Community Improvement (9%).
Who are Center for Empowered Politics's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rising Voices Action Fund ($627k), Our Future is Black ($316k), Asian Pacific Islander Political Al Liance ($170k).
Does Center for Empowered Politics fund new organizations?: In FY2022, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Empowered Politics?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Advocacy, Tides Foundation, Open Society Action Fund Inc.
Where is Center for Empowered Politics based?: Center for Empowered Politics is based in CA.