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Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc

The center for popular democracy action (cpda) and its affiliates know that everyday people have the power to change the world.

$687k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$537k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY ACTION FUND INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $537k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POPULAR DEMOCRACY PAC$537,078
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION$50,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$50,000
ONE PENNSYLVANIA INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $45k → 11%ACCE ACTION: $30k → 14%UNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ACTION: $5k → 10%CASA IN ACTION: $68k → 8%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $20k → 11%ACCE ACTION: $25k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $62k → 11%LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $10k → 11%ACCE ACTION: $10k → 14%CASA IN ACTION: $50k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD PENNSYLVANIA (MTR STATES): $70k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION IN NEVADA: $52k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION IN CONNECTICUT: $31k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD ACTION IN PENNSYLVANIA: $10k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $40k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $30k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $20k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $20k → 20%CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING: $10k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
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MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
WV
MD
DE
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NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 23 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
39

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
-22%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthEducationOther

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

  • CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $920k · revenue +10%
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $635k · revenue +75%
  • NY
    New York Communities For Change Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CL
    CANVASS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $815k
  • VA
    VAMOS4PR ACTION PAC
    one grant, 2018 · $155k
  • PH
    PENNSYLVANIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $141k · revenue -100% · 65% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado People's Action

Colorado people's action (cpa) is a member-driven, racial justice organization dedicated to winning long-lasting progressive public policies in colorado. cpa builds power by mobilizing voters, electing our own people to office, holding…

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2
Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights
3
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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4
Tenants and Workers United

Tenants and workers united is a democratically controlled, grassroots organization committed to winning social and economic justice for all people in northern virginia-latinos, african americans, tenants, immigrants, workers, youth and low…

Arts & Culture
5
Wepower

We activate community power to redesign social systems to be just and equitable for all through (1) developing and supporting leaders and organizations and (2) leading campaigns, coalitions, and innovative initiatives.

Community Improvement
6
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
7
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
8
United Power for Action and Justice Inc

Advocacy for social justice, common good, and housing opportunity.

Community Improvement
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
11
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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Our Revolution

Organizing a progressive political movement powerful enough to make sure our government stands on the side of working people, not the wealthy few.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Womens March Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsYouth Development ServicesPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%31%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%22%5–10yr20%45%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
4/64
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,696

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/54
Grantees still filing
28/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CANVASS LLC — $815,479 · OtherCANVASS LLCTIDES ADVOCACY — $634,592 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYPOPULAR DEMOCRACY PAC — $537,078 · OtherPOPULAR DEMOCRACY PACVAMOS - CONCERTACION CIUDADANA — $451,250 · OtherVAMOS - CONCERTACION CIUDADANAVAMOS4PR ACTION PAC — $155,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP — $141,140 · Other+28 more — $1,021,093 · Other+28 moreNew York Communities For Change Inc — $350,000 · Civil RightsNew York Communiti…MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $238,500 · Civil RightsMAKE THE ROAD ACTI…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $237,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES O…ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA — $145,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZE PENNSYLVA…FLORIDA RISING INC — $90,000 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RISING INC+6 more — $86,000 · Civil Rights+6 moreCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $920,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR POPU…PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC — $52,500 · Public BenefitPUBLIC ACCOUNTA…+1 more — $10,000 · Public BenefitCASA IN ACTION INC — $179,500 · Human ServicesCASA IN A…Make The Road States Inc — $163,000 · Human ServicesMake The …CHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC — $120,000 · Human ServicesCHURCHES …LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $75,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UN…Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $65,000 · Human ServicesAlliance …+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $168,500 · Community ImprovementHOOSIER ACTION INC — $70,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC — $25,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementOrganization United for Respect — $118,000 · EmploymentWEST VIRGINIA HEALTHY KIDS AND FAMILIES COALITION — $33,750 · HealthVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC — $15,000 · Health
Other$3,755,632Civil Rights$1,146,500Public Benefit$982,500Human Services$607,500Community Improvement$328,500Employment$118,000Health$48,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $920,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY — $634,592 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetNew York Communities For Change Inc — $350,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC — $238,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC — $237,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA IN ACTION INC — $179,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC — $168,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $163,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA — $145,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HARM REDUCTION COALITION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP — $141,140 over 1y, 65% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED FOR FAIR HOUSING INC — $120,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCASA INC — $120,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOrganization United for Respect — $118,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetORGANIZE NOW INC DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFLORIDA RISING INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA — $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOOSIER ACTION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetAlliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action — $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC — $52,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetACTION NC — $46,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBUSINESS ACTION FUND — $37,500 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCOLORADO AFL-CIO — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMake the Road New York — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA HEALTHY KIDS AND FAMILIES COALITION — $33,750 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAction Now — $30,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAction Now Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetA STRONG ECONOMY FOR ALL COALITION — $25,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISE UP WV — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited for Respect — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStep Up for Action — $17,193 over 1y, 10% of budgetStand Up Alaska — $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWorking Washington — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKEACTION MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED FOR A NEW ECONOMY ACTION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Center for Popular De…All Hands on Deck Net…Sixteen Thirty FundWorking Families Orga…America VotesOpen Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyCenter for Community …Tides FoundationWay to Win Action Fun…Women Donors Network …State Engagement Fund
Center for Popular Democracy IncNY63.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Center for Popular Democracy Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Center for Community Change Action · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Women Donors Network Action · State Engagement Fund

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 Popular Democracy Action Fund Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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