California · Public charity
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
Cepef operates as a grassroots, community based organization, promoting civic education and engagement, conducting research on the effects of policies on poverty and racial inequity, training and developing leaders for racial injustice, building capacity for community organizations, and empowering lowincome and working class communities…
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $495,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $316k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $1.6M | 86% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $684k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $829k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $121k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese Progressive Association | $653,379 | 4 | 1% |
| Watering Hole Media Action | $495,000 | 1 | 29% |
| Working Partnerships USA | $345,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Anti Police-Terror Project Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Race Forward | $179,218 | 1 | 1% |
| Filipino Advocates for Justice | $114,218 | 3 | 4% |
| East Bay Alliance For A Sustainable Economy | $91,333 | 3 | 3% |
| The Black Organizing Project Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Movement Strategy Center | $71,448 | 1 | 0% |
| Free Migration Project | $69,000 | 2 | 19% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund with peer funders
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About Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
- How much does Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund give?
- Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,575,208, out of $1,614,707 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Civil Rights (24%), Arts & Culture (19%).
- Who are Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Chinese Progressive Association ($653k), Watering Hole Media Action ($495k), Working Partnerships USA ($345k).
- Does Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, New Venture Fund.
- Where is Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund based?
- Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund is based in CA.
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